Secret White House Tapes

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393–3
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Charles W. Colson
January 2, 1973
Conversation No. 393-3

Date: January 2, 1973
Time: Unknown time between 3:13 pm and 3:33 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

Harry S. Truman funeral
-Washington memorial service
-The President's attendance
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sept.-08)

Conversation No. 393-3 (cont’d)

-Press coverage
-Gerald L. Warren
-Lyndon B. Johnson’s attendance
-Private funeral in Independence, Missouri
-Dean Francis B. Sayre
-Possible remarks
-Press coverage

Public relations [PR]
-John A. Scali
-Sayre
-Opposition to Vietnam War
-Antiwar sentiment
-Public opinion
-Normalcy
-The President's public image
-John D. Ehrlichman
-1972 campaign
-Richard M. Scammon
-Roberto W. Clemente
-Importance to Americans

US bombing of Vietnam
-Press coverage
-Scali
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Source
-Max Frankel
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-Frankel
-Kissinger
-Scali
-Colson’s reading of article

Vietnam
-Democratic caucus
-End-the-war resolution
-Senate
-New members
-Doves
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sept.-08)

Conversation No. 393-3 (cont’d)

-Andrew J. Young, Jr.
-S. Fletcher Thompson
-Barbara Jordan

Colson left at an unknown time before 3:33 pm.
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