Date: February 8, 1973
Time: 1:50 pm – 2:15 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Charles W. Colson.
Colson’s appearance on National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
-Questions
-Watergate
-Washington Post story
-Colson’s response
-Refusal
-Deposition
-Counselor’s advice
-Amnesty for Vietnam War era draft dodgers
-Colson’s response
-Vindication
-Bill Monroe
-Press relations
-Openness
-Monroe
-The President’s sensitivity to criticism of Vietnam War policy
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-Colson’s response
-Richard (“Dick”) Wilson’s column
-Scorn
Amnesty
-Newspaper stories
-Moral education
-Abraham Lincoln’s policy
-Civil War compared to Vietnam War
-Monroe
Polls
-Request for 1971, 1972 Presidential approval ratings
-Gallup
-Oval Office
Colson talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 1:50 pm and 2:15 pm.
[Conversation No. 409-20B]
[See Conversation No. 43-54]
Colson talked with Richard Howard at an unknown time between 1:50 and 2:15 pm.
[Conversation No. 409-20B]
[See Conversation No. 43-55]
[End of telephone conversation]
Second term reorganization
-Treasury Department
-The President’s conversation with George P. Shultz
-George D. Webster
-The President’s conversation with Colson [?]
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-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Labor Department
-Peter J. Brennan
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Staffing, appointments
-Public appearance
-Staffing
-Frederic V. Malek
-Haldeman
-Shultz
-Donald F. Rodgers
-Cornell University degree
-Shultz
-Competence
-Congress
-Railroad strike
-Brennan’s schedule
-Bureaucracy
-Security
-Staffing of Labor and Treasury Departments
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Shultz
-Use of Under Secretaries
-IRS Commissioner
-Webster
-Lee H. Henkel, Jr.
-Chief Counsel of IRS
-Richard F. Larsen [?]
-Loyalty
-Shultz’s preferences
-Webster
-Chief Counsel of IRS
Watergate investigation
-Senate
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-Hugh Scott
-Extent of Senate investigation
-1968 election
-Campaign practices
-San Francisco action against the President’s campaign
-Paid rioters
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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
John B. Connally
-Party registration
-Texas
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Charles H. Percy
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Charisma
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Colson left at 2:15 pm.