Date: November 29, 1972
Time: 8:12 pm - 8:20 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Charles W. Colson.
Peter J. Brennan as Labor Secretary announcement
-Reaction
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Frederic V. Malek
-William E. Timmons
-Congress
-Telephone calls to Colson
-Labor, Democrats
-Mickey Gardner
-Political effect
-Television [TV] appearance
-Effectiveness
-Colson’s call to Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin
-Network coverage
-Reaction to anti-black accusation
-Reaction
-David Brinkley
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
-[Building and Construction Trades Councils] attacks on students
-Cambodia incursion
-[Arnold] Eric Sevareid
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Dec.-07)
Conversation No. 34-9 (cont’d)
-Media
-Middle America
-Calls to Colson
-TV appearance
-Reaction
-Wire copy
Labor Department
-Brennan’s forthcoming duties
-Bureaucracy
-Colson’s recent conversation with Brennan
-Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS]
-Geoffrey H. Moore
-George P. Shultz
-Conversation with Colson
-Pierre Rinfret
-W. Allen Wallace, University of Rochester
George D. Webster
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-John D. Ehrlichman interview
-Colson’s forthcoming efforts
-Interest in position
-Salary
-Erwin Griswold correspondence
-Ehrlichman
-Conversation with the President
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Griswold
-Harvard University
-Robert H. Bork
Brennan
-Signal to constituency
-Effect
-The President’s comments
-Quotes
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-Labor
-Hardhats
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Dec.-07)
Conversation No. 34-9 (cont’d)
-Irish Catholics
-Reaction
-George Meany
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Paul Hall
-Statements
Colson, Ehrlichman
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-The President’s schedule
1972 election
-The President’s victory margin
-Absentee ballots
-Votes status
-Communications with secretaries of state
-Clerks
-Illinois
-Colson’s interest