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)

-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)

-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

Patrick J. Buchanan article

Articles

Appointments

-Network reaction

-The President’s statements

-Brennan

-Tone

The President’s Schedule

-Florida