Date: June 5, 1973
Time: 1:22 pm – 1:36 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Charles W. Colson.
[See also Conversation No. 441-13]
Colson’s forthcoming interview with Howard K. Smith
-Timing
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
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-Watergate
-Press attacks on President
Watergate
-Media reaction
-London Times
-International reaction
-David Brinkley
-Popular opinion
-Colson’s attendance at wedding of partner’s son
-Stock market
-Media coverage
-Democrats’ leaders
-Popular opinion
-President’s resignation
-President’s impeachment
-Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.
-National economy
-Possible effect
National economy
-Stock market
-Colson’s conversation with unknown broker
Watergate
-Colson’s forthcoming interview with Smith
-Hugh Scott’s statement, June 5
-Bernard W. Fensterwald quotation
-President’s innocence
-Resignations of H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-President’s cooperation
-President’s papers
-Colson’s meetings with President
-President’s investigation
-John W. Dean, III
-Contacts with President
-Executive privilege
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III hearings
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-Ervin Committee
-President’s telephone call to Colson, May 21
-Special Counsel
-President’s investigation
-Purpose
-President’s telephone call to Colson in Boston, April 12
-Colson’s recommendations to Ehrlichman
-Dean’s visit to United States Attorney
-Immunity
-President’s investigation
-Effects
-President’s meeting with Dean, March 21
-William O. Bittman
-Blackmail
-President’s communication with Attorney General
-Dean’s contacts
-Henry E. Petersen
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-President’s knowledge
-President’s investigation
-President’s call to Colson in Boston, April 12
-Colson’s meeting with Ehrlichman, April 13
-Dean’s meeting with United States attorney, April 14
-Purpose
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Colson’s recommendations
-President’s conversations with Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Dean
-Effect
-President’s knowledge
-President’s meetings with Colson
-Evidence
-Mitchell
-Role
-Colson’s forthcoming interview with Smith
-Dean
-Colson’s testimony
-Dean
-Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s possible statements
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-Attacks on President
-Immunity
-Colson’s forthcoming interview with Smith
-James W. McCord, Jr.
-Fensterwald
-Dean
-Use of information
-Immunity
-Resignation
-Contrasted with Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-President’s remarks on White House staff cooperation
-White House staff involvement
-Dean
-Timing
-Smith’s view of White House position
-Attacks on President
-President’s role
-Colson’s knowledge of first question
-Archibald Cox’s conflict with Ervin Committee
-Attacks on President