37–132

Conversation No. 37-132

Date: March 16, 1973
Time: 7:53 pm-8:12 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

Colson's law firm
-Morale
-Trip to New York
-President's letter to Colson

Press relations
-Ervin's Committee hearings
-President's statement
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Motivation of press
-Mary McGrory
-Carl T. Rowan
-Herbert L. Block
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sept-09)
Conversation No. 37-132 (cont’d)




-Washington Post
-Watergate
-Food prices
-National impact

Watergate
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Hearings of Joseph McCarthy
-Motivations
-Communism in government
-John N. Mitchell

-Maurice H. Stans
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Hugh W. Sloan, Jr.
-Colson's meeting with Warner Communications
-Support of President
-Jews
-President's interest in movie industry
-Colson’s trip to Boston
-National opinion
-1972 election problems
-Republican candidates
-Congressional Republicans
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Meeting with Baker
-Loyalty
-Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
-Liberalism
-Baker
-Joy Baker
-George D. Webster
-Danny [Surname unknown]
-National attention
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sept-09)
Conversation No. 37-132 (cont’d)




-Ervin Committee hearings
-Compared to presidential election
-Media coverage
-Hyperbole
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-POWs
-Food prices
-Compared to International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
scandal
-Peter M. Flanigan

-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Mitchell
-Compared to Sherman Adams
-Bribes
-President's national stature
-Effect of POW return
-Ending war
-President's statement on Watergate
-Questioning of John W. Dean, III
-Cooperation of White House staff
-White House staff cooperation
-Richard L. Wilson
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] questioning
-Grand jury questioning
-Senate cooperation
-Goldwater
-Colson's role
-Edward W. Brooke
-FBI raw files
-White House cooperation
-Compared to Alger Hiss case
-Harry S. Truman
-President's press conference
-L. Patrick Gray, III
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sept-09)
Conversation No. 37-132 (cont’d)




-Compared to J. Edgar Hoover
-FBI raw files
-James O. Eastland
-John C. Stennis
-Instructions for Colson
-Senate
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Webster
-Meeting with President

-Fears discussed