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On May 17, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone at Camp David from 7:49 pm to 8:20 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 131-019 of the White House Tapes. Topics include: Charles W. Colson talked with the President. [See also Conversation No. 190-10] Vietnam - Announcement of blockade - Support - Connecticut delegation - Cuban supporters - Boise (Idaho) and Wichita demonstrations of support - Publicity - Mail response - Demonstrations - Advertisement in New York Times - Polls - Louis P. Harris, Albert E. Sindlinger, Opinion Research Corporation [ORC] - American Broadcasting Company [ABC] - Length - Nash Kestenbaum - Rabbi [Forename unknown] Seidman - Rabbi Abraham (?) Gross - Press campaign - Response to President's announcement of blockade - Detroit Free Press - Des Moines Register - Joseph C. Kraft - Administration program - John A. Volpe - Today show appearance - President's trip to Soviet Union - Importance - Speeches - Robert A. Taft, Jr. - William E. Brock, III - Barry M. Goldwater - Letters to columnists - Robert J. Dole - Brock - Colson's view George C. Wallace - Assassination attempt - Story on Harry S. Truman and Franklin D. Roosevelt parallels - Kenneth W. Clawson - James J. Kilpatrick, Jr. - William S. White - Richard ("Dick") Wilson - Kilpatrick - Liberal media - Birch E. Bayh, Jr. - Gun control legislation - Effect - Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] - Tracing of Arthur H. Bremer weapon US- Soviet Union summit - Previous meeting with John Cardinal Krol - Announcement by Alexander M. Haig, Jr. - US Information Agency [USIA] - Circulation - Domestic impact - John D. Ehrlichman - Haig - Cabinet - Trade - Earl L. Butz, Peter G. Peterson - Significance Wallace - Assassination attempt - Impact on busing issue - Senate and House conferees' proposal - Busing moratorium - Housing bill - Length of meeting - Michigan [Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 11/03/2017. Segment cleared for release.] [Personal Returnable] [131-019- W001] [Duration: 3m 47s] 1972 Election - Michigan - Senator Robert P. Griffin's talk with the President - President's chances - George S. McGovern - Hubert H. Humphrey - Stand on busing - George S. McGovern - Stand on busing - Colson's talk with Frank E. Fitzsimmons - Frank E. Fitzsimmons's response to primary results - Evaluation of Labor support - Hubert H. Humphrey - United Auto Workers (UAW) - Hubert H. Humphrey - Lack of grassroots strength - Rank and file report - Support for the President - Effect of George C. Wallace shooting - Press coverage - Polls in Michigan and Maryland - No effect in Maryland - Republican crossover in Michigan - Washington Post survey - George C. Wallace - Maryland voters - Press coverage - Columnists - Impact - Networks Vietnam - President's previous decision to mine harbors and bomb North Vietnam [blockade] - Press response - The President's view -[Arnold] Eric Sevareid - Marvin L. Kalb - Newspapers - Milton Viorst - Joseph C. Kraft - Administration response - Patrick J. Buchanan - Today show appearance - Statements - The President's view - Columbia University Journalism School Administration media campaigns - Forthcoming memorandum from Colson - Monitoring operation - Harry Reasoner - Network executives - Frank Stanton - Robert W. Sarnoff - The President's view - Mail campaign - Stanton - Vietnam - Media coverage - Colson's view - Compared to Laos and Cambodia - Firebase Bastogne - The President's view - Reason - Effect of President's previous speech announcing blockade - Wallace assassination attempt - Clawson story - Bremer - Political affiliations - Washington Post - Detroit and Chicago papers - Black Panthers - Young Democrats - Chicago Tribune - Democrats' criticisms - The President's view - Colson's office's work - Colson's view - Michael Gravel and Edmund S. Muskie - The President's view - Edward M. Kennedy - Muskie - The President's view [Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 11/03/2017. Segment cleared for release.] [Personal Returnable] [131-019- W002] [Duration: 1m 52s] 1972 election - Maryland primary results - Mayor Sam Yorty - Edmund S. Muskie - The President's turnout results - Michigan primary results - The President's turnout results - Paul McCloskey - Maryland Primary Results - The President's turnout results - Paul McCloskey - John Ashbrook - Republican registrations - President's decision to mine and bomb North Vietnam - Fright - Effect on campaign - Robert J. Dole speech - National Press Club - George S. McGovern position on war - George S. McGovern - Voting record - Cease- Fire Vietnam - Senate vote on cease- Fire - Administration use of results - Taft's speech - McGovern's position on war - Jerry Rubin - Rennie Davis - Abbie Hoffman - Clawson - Democrats' position - The President's view - Harris poll - Cease- Fire amendment - Doves - Michael J. Mansfield - New proposal - President's trip to the Soviet Union - Effect - Dole's statement Senate confirmation hearings - Richard G. Kleindienst - Timing - President's talk with Robert P. Griffin - Senate floor fight - Robert C. Byrd - Party vote - George P. Shultz - Timing - President's talk with Griffin - John B. Connally - Administration actions - John R. ("Tex") McCrary - H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman - Mansfield - The President's view - Position - Timing - President's trip to Soviet Union - Convention recess - Administration actions - Benefits - International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] parallel President's policies - Domestic policy - Foreign policy - Harris - Domestic issues - The President's view - Water pollution - Revenue sharing - Welfare reform - Level of concern nationally - Welfare reform - President's actions - Connally's view - Domestic policy - Drugs - Busing - Effect on voting - Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] analysis - Connection with race, housing - Cardinal Krol's parish - Effect on voting [Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 11/03/2017. Segment cleared for release.] [Personal Returnable] [131-019- W003] [Duration: 2m 44s] "Silent Majority" coalition - Youth - Composition - Middle Americans - Farmers - Workers - Exclusion of the establishment elite - Businessmen - Ivy League college presidents -"The folks" - Cardinal John Krol's support - Farmers - New middle class - White ethnic working men - Teamsters - Catholic concerns - Busing - Housing - Blacks - Traditional Republican vote 1972 Election - Michigan vote - Robert P. Griffin's analysis of youth support - George C. Wallace - George S. McGovern - Martin- Hayden poll - American people - Humanitarian - Robert P. Griffin's analysis - Blacks - Professional liberals - Martin- Hayden Poll - Robert P. Griffin - Youth vote President's Schedule. Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.