Conversation No. 603-1

Date:  October 27, 1971
Time:  9:40 am - 12:22 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule
-Head of State Dinner for Josip Broz Tito
-Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.
-William P. and Adele (Langston) Rogers
-Ambassadors
-Spiro T. and Elinor I. (Judefind) Agnew
-Emil and Patricia (Ryan) Mosbacher
-Yugoslav Chief of Protocol
-Ambassadors
-Secretaries of State
-Chief of Protocol
-Receiving line
				-Mosbacher

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 9:43 am.

-Camp David
	-Tito
-Mosbacher
-Role

Butterfield left at 9:45.

-Previous meeting with Henry A. Kissinger and Rogers

	Kissinger’s recent trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Press relations
	-Kissinger
		-Ronald L. Ziegler
		-Charles W. Colson
	-Reading of Communiqué
		-Ziegler

		-Kissinger
		-Ground rules
		-Kissinger
		-George H. W. Bush
		-Rogers
		-Kissinger
		-Rogers

The President's previous meeting
-John B. Connally
-George P. Shultz
-Peter G. Peterson
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Connally
-Peterson
-Staff
-Peterson
-Connally

International economics
-Convertibility
	-Parity
		-The President’s view
-Europeans efforts
	-Nathaniel Samuels
		-State Department
-Paul W. McCracken
-Peterson
-Arthur F. Burns
-Paul A. Volcker
-Peterson
-Shultz
-The President’s view
-Burns
-Peterson
-Memoranda
-Kissinger

Announcement of Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's trip to Liberia
-Haldeman's conversation with Ziegler
-Timing
-Conflict in scheduling
-Extent of announcement
	-Inaugural

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:45 am.

The President’s schedule
-Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:02 am.

	The President’s forthcoming trip to the PRC
-Kissinger
-Attendance at meeting
-The President's photograph with Mao Tse-tung
-Chou En-lai
	-Meetings
		-The President
	-Rogers
	-Kissinger
	-Rogers
	-Kissinger
	-Mao Tse-Tung
	-Kissinger
	-Negotiating style
		-The President’s view
	-Rogers
-Ziegler

Assignment of administration responsibilities
-Rogers
-Leaks
-State Department

	United Nations [UN] vote on expulsion of Taiwan, Republic of China
	-Announcement
	-Bush
	-Ziegler’s statement
	-Rogers
	-Kissinger
	-The President’s previous meeting with Kissinger and Rogers
		-Press accounts
-UN
-Rogers
-Ronald W. Reagan
-John N. Mitchell
-US policy
	-The President’s view
-Reagan
-Domestic sentiment
	-News summaries
	-PRC
	-Taiwan
-Reagan

Kissinger entered at 10:02 am.

UN
-Kissinger's schedule
	-Bush
-Kissinger's advice
-Bush
-Possible press statements
	-Possible contents
-Kissinger's telephone conversation with Bush

Bush's schedule
-Rogers

Butterfield entered at 10:03 am.

-Possible meeting with the President
	-Photograph
-Rogers
-Ziegler
-Instructions for Bull

Butterfield left at 10:07 am.

The UN vote on Taiwan’s expulsion
	-Kissinger
	-Backgrounder
-The President’s view
-Taiwan
-UN
-Africa
-William F. Buckley, Jr.
-Barry M. Goldwater, Jr.
-Reagan

UN
-Domestic opinion
	-Television
	-News Summaries
	-America's China policy
	-"Two China" policy
-Democrats position
	-Kissinger
	-PRC trip
-News summaries
-The President's previous conversation with Rogers
-Taiwan
-Robert D. Murphy
-UN vote
-Wilbur D. Mills
-George Meany
-State Department
-Timing of UN vote
	-Bush
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-Rogers
				-Kissinger’s role
-Rogers's attitude toward Kissinger's PRC trip
	-Kissinger’s view
-Chou En-lai
-Rogers comments
-Public relations concerning the trip
	-Kissinger’s view
		-Television
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT], Berlin

State Department
-The President's summit meeting with Soviets
-Newsweek magazine
-Aleksei N. Kosygin
-The President's conversation with Rogers
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Summit
-Kosygin
-Canada
-The President's Soviet trip
-The President's PRC trip

The President’s PRC trip
-Chinese
-Kissinger’s view
-Rogers
	-The President’s view
-Washington Star article
-Robert Sherman

State Department
-The President’s view
-Kissinger
-Parade article

Relationship between trips to PRC and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
	-The President’s view
		-US policy
-Rogers
-PRC

The President's position on PRC policy
		-The President’s trip to PRC
			-Staff
				-The President’s approval
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-The President's role in foreign policy
	-Walt W. Rostow
	-Dean Rusk
	-Robert S. McNamara
-Kissinger's briefings
-State Department
-Press
-State Department’s role
-Newsweek article
-Kissinger's proposed telephone call to Henry Hubbard
-The President's Soviet policy
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-State Department
-Kosygin
-Kissinger's proposed telephone call
-Hubbard
-Robert C. Christopher
-Hubbard

The President's forthcoming PRC trip
-Newsweek
-Time magazine

Kissinger
-Speech in Parade
-Sherman
-Article
-Relationship with Kissinger
-Christian Science Monitor
-Harvard University friends
-Attitude toward the President and the Vietnam war

UN vote on Taiwan expulsion

Hubert H. Humphrey
-Position on Taiwan in UN
-Chiang Kai-Shek
-State Department
-Kissinger's position
	-Strategy
-Ireland
					-Landing rights
-Iceland
-Ireland
-Guyana

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	GUYANA

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-Kissinger's advice in March 1971
-Television
-Haig
-Kissinger's trips to PRC
	-Effect
-Kissinger’s view

The President's place in history
-PRC
-US-USSR Summit
-Kissinger’s view
-Brezhnev
-John F. Kennedy
-Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

Rogers
-US-USSR Summit

The President left at an unknown time after 10:07 am.

-Chinese

Press briefing
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Haig
-Content

The President entered at unknown time before 11:13 am.

Kissinger's health

Supreme Court appointments
-The President's speech 
	-Effect
	-Press coverage
-William H. Rehnquist
		-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Robert C. Byrd
-Warren E. Burger
-Press
-The President's nominees
-The President’s view
-Compared with American Bar Association [ABA] committee members
-Compared with Nixon
-Rehnquist
-Stanford Law School
-Robert H. Jackson
-Rehnquist
	-Senate confirmation

The President's conversation with Haldeman
-International monetary concerns
-Connally
-Shultz
-Peterson

The President's work relationships with cabinet officers
-Rogers
-Attitude toward Kissinger's undertakings

Kissinger's trip to PRC
-Accomplishments
	-PRC foreign policy
	-North Vietnam
-US foreign policy
		-Rogers's reactions to Kissinger's first trip to the PRC
	-Rogers view

The President's negotiating ability
	-Kissinger’s view
-Rogers
-Chou En-Lai
-Middle East
-Compared with Nelson A. Rockefeller

The President's trip to PRC
-Rogers
-Kissinger
		-Kissinger
			-Veracity of statements
		-Negotiations
			-Communiqué
-Mao Tse-tung
				-State Department
				-Alfred Les. Jenkins
				-Photographs
		-The President’s previous meeting with Rogers

Tricia Nixon Cox
-Telephone call to the President

US foreign policy
-Reaction to trips by US officials
	-Need for meeting with the President
		-Rogers
-Chinese policy
-Kissinger
-The President’s view
-USSR
-Rogers
-Vietnam peace efforts
-Le Duan
-PRC
-Rogers
	-Canadian Ambassador
		-Black Panthers
			-Chou En-lai
-Huey Newton
-PRC
-Kissinger's PRC trip
-Television coverage
-"Today" show, Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-UN vote to expel Taiwan
-Background interviews
-Timing
-Ziegler
-Taiwan
-UN
-Buckley
-Reagan
-Previous conversation with Mitchell
	-Possible conversation with Kissinger
			-Associates 
-John Birch Society
-Staff
-UN week proclamation
-Connally
-Bush
-Taiwan
	-UN vote
		-Important question
		-Expulsion
-Chou En-lai
-Taiwan
-Background interviews
	-The President’s view
-Announcement
	-Kissinger’s agreement with Chou En-lai

The President's forthcoming PRC trip
-The President's forthcoming meeting with Bush
	-Ziegler’s press briefing
-Kissinger’s press briefing
-Possible substance
	-Kissinger’s trip to Great Wall
	-Logistical issues
-The President's forthcoming meeting with Mao Tse-tung
-UN vote
-Taiwan
-Length of briefing
-Possible date of the President's trip
-Announcement
-Mrs. Nixon
-Composition of group
-Mrs. Rogers
-Mrs. Nixon
-Possible destinations
	-Press coverage
-Kissinger’s recent trip
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Kissinger’s view
		-Kissinger's recent trip
-Chou En-lai's role
-The President's conversation with Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-Kissinger's recent trip
-Chou en-lai's role
	-Crowd reaction
-Transportation modes
-Gen. James D. Hughes
-Mao Tse-tung
-Chou en-lai
-Rogers
-Itinerary
-Cultural exchange
-Taiwan
-Importance
	-US foreign policy
-The President's forthcoming trip to USSR
-Possible Communiqué
-Taiwan
-Mao Tse-tung
-PRC
	-Soviets
-Chou En-lai
-The President
-Rogers
	-Chou En-lai
	-Foreign Minister Chi P’engfei

UN
-Peterson
-Multilateral assistance
-Paul G. Hoffman
-Budget
-United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization [UNESCO]
-PRC
-French
-Otto E. Passman
-Multilateral organizations
-Bryce N. Harlow
-African development fund
-Connally
-Peterson
-Kissinger
-Forthcoming call to Reagan
	-UN appropriations
-Rogers
			-Reagan’s previous call to Kissinger
-PRC
-UN
-Buckley
-Buchanan
-Kissinger's relationship

Administration’s relationship with conservatives
-Michael J. Mansfield amendment
-Anti-ballistic Missile Treaty [ABM]
-Kissinger
-Buckley
-Reagan
-Agnew
-Meeting with the President

Ziegler entered at 11:13 am.

Ziegler's forthcoming press briefing
-UN
-Rogers
-Funding
-The President's position
-Secretary of State
-Conduct of delegates during UN vote
	-Effect in US
		-Public
		-Congress
		-The President
-Foreign aid
-Support in Congress
-Foreign aid bill
	-Possible effect
-Conduct of delegates during UN vote
	-The President’s view
	-The President’s view on vote
-Popular American support for the UN
-PRC
-Recipients of US aid
-UN delegates behavior
-Multinational financial organization
-The president's call for reappraisals
-Congress
-PRC
-Possible action
-Secretary of State
-Multinational financing organizations
-Conduct of delegates during UN vote
-The President's view of the UN
-Secretary of States previous press conference
-Conduct of delegates
-Ziegler’s comments to press
	-Possible language
	-Rogers statement
-PRC
-Multinational financing organizations
-Humphrey
-Conduct of delegates during UN vote
-Ziegler’s statements to press
	-Possible language
	-US public opinion
		-Effect
-Rogers
-Possible questions from press
	-The President's support for UN
-Humphrey
-Conduct of delegates
-The President's reaction to UN vote
	-Ziegler’s statement
		-Possible wording
-Reagan

The President's schedule
-Bush
-Rogers
-Connally

Ziegler's forthcoming press briefing
-UN
-PRC
-The President’s view
	-Rogers previous statement
	-Possible language
	-Possible effect
-UN as an institution
-Conduct of delegates during UN vote
-PRC
-Rogers

Japan
-nobusuke sato
	-No confidence vote in Japan
	-US position
		-Possible comments
-Possible comments
	-Connally

	Atomic Energy Commission [AEC]
-Press conference 
-Amchitka
-Reagan

Amchitka
	-Forthcoming announcement

Ziegler left at an unknown time before 11:38 am.

US foreign relations
-Kissinger
-Chou En-lai
-Soviets
-Foreign aid

Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 11:13 am.

Ziegler’s forthcoming press conference
	-The President’s schedule
	-Bush

Ziegler left at 11:38 am.

US foreign relations
-Foreign aid
	-Kissinger’s view
-Multinational organizations
-Hugh Scott, Gerald R. Ford
-Taiwan
-Amchitka
	-Forthcoming announcement

The President's schedule
-Bush
-Ziegler’s statement
-Rogers
-Mitchell
-Rogers

Haldeman left at 11:42 am.

Defense budget
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer’s memorandum
	-The President’s position
		-Aircraft
		-USSR
		-Increases
-Melvin R. Laird
-Shultz
-Tax increases
-Connally
-Kissinger’s view
	-Increases
	-Conservatives
-Soviets
-Appropriations
	-Military views
-Minutemen
-ABM
-Polaris
-Meeting, October 27, 1971
	-Defense Department personnel
-Connally, Shultz, Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger, Kissinger, Ehrlichman
-The President’s 1972 diplomacy
-Air Force
	-Shultz
-Haig
	-Air defense
-Amount
-Shultz, Weinberger
-The President’s view
-Polaris

The President's schedule
-Breakfast meeting with Rogers and Kissinger

The President's responsibilities
	-Cabinet officers
-Peterson
-Shultz
-Compared with other administrations
-Kissinger
-Haig
-Summit trips
-State Department
-Rogers
-Haldeman

Ziegler entered at 11:48 am.

Ziegler's forthcoming press briefing
-UN
-Conduct of delegates during UN vote
	-Wording
-The President's attitude
-Multinational finance organizations

Haldeman entered at 11:49 am.

Ziegler left at 11:50 am.

The President's schedule
	-Forthcoming meeting
-Ehrlichman
-Purpose
-Value added tax [VAT]
-Connally
-Colson
-Mitchell
-Meetings, October 27, 1971
-Length
-Ehrlichman
-Colson
-Mitchell
-Haig
-Defense budget
-Shultz
-Kissinger
-Meeting October 27, 1971 at 3:00 pm
-Kissinger
-Connally
-Shultz
-Kissinger's schedule
-Ehrlichman
-Edwin L. Harper
-Kenneth R. Cole
-Kissinger's schedule
-Paul W. McCracken
-State Department

The President's enemies

Rogers
-Previous meeting with the President and Kissinger
-Foreign policy challenges
-Mao Tse-tung
-Chou En-lai
-Communiqué

US foreign policy
-Rogers
-Communiqué with PRC
	-Memorandum for Roger
-Kissinger
-Taiwan
-Warsaw Talks
-PRC
-Chou En-lai
-The President’s trip to PRC
	-The President’s view
	-Kissinger’s view
-Connally

Kissinger left at 11:58 am.

The President's schedule
-Connally
-Shultz
-Burns
-Peterson
-McCracken
-Quadriad meeting
-Peterson

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-Peter M. Flanigan
-Peterson
-McCracken
-Tito
-Quadriad meeting, October 28, 1971
	-Josip Broz Tito meeting
-Shultz’s forthcoming meeting with Peterson
-Quadriad
-Connally, Burns
-Tito
-Peterson
-Shultz
-Quadriad
-Flanigan
-Peterson
-Shultz
-Scope of interest
-Shultz
-Connally
-Ehrlichman
-McCracken
-Shultz
-Peterson
-Burns
-Connally

Federal Reserve Board [FRB] candidates
	-Burns
		-Flanigan’s forthcoming conversation with Burns
-Selection compared with process for Supreme Court nominees
-Burger
-Earl Cocke
-American Legion
-Andrew F. Brimmer
-Burns
-Name submissions
-Connally
-Shultz
-Peterson

The President's schedule
-Budget meeting
-Harper
-Cole
-Lewis A. Engman
-Mitchell
-Colson
-Ehrlichman

The President's relationship with Cabinet officers
-Rogers
-Connally
-Kissinger
-Communiqué
-Trip to USSR
-Timing of UN vote
-Kissinger's schedule

US foreign policy
-UN vote to expel Taiwan
-Ziegler
-Rogers
-News coverage
-Football
-Green Bay Packers
-Minnesota Vikings
-Television coverage
-Reagan
-Taiwan
-PRC
-Polls
-Gallup
-Harris
-Opinion Research Corporation [ORC]
-Taiwan
-UN delegates
-PRC
	-The President’s view of vote
-Ziegler’s statement
-UN Delegates
-Ziegler
		-PRC
-Chou En-Lai
-American conservatives
-UN vote
-Buckley
-Ziegler
-Bush
-Schedule

Appointments
-Flanigan
-Rogers
-David M. Kennedy
	-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Kissinger
-Maurice H. Stans
-Mitchell
		-Secretary of Commerce position
	-Stans
	-Peterson
		-Secretary of Agriculture position
	-Ehrlichman
	-Frederic V. Malek
	-Clarence D. Palmby
	-Earl L. Butz
	-Bryce N. Harlow
	-Abilities
		-Benefits

Haldeman left at 12:22 pm.

Conversation No. 603-2

Date:  October 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:22 pm and 12:23 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 13-19]

Conversation No. 603-3

Date:  October 27, 1971
Time:  12:23 pm - 12:52 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

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[The President talked with Tricia Cox between 12:23 pm and 12:36 pm]

[Conversation No. 603-3A]

[See Conversation No. 13-20; two items have been withdrawn from the conversation]

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[End of telephone conversation]

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	Henry A. Kissinger’s trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]

William P. Rogers
-State Department
-Kissinger
-Staff

United Nations [UN vote to expel Taiwan, Republic of China
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-The President's view
-Woods’s view
-Conduct of delegates
-The President's instructions
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Congress
-Charles H. Percy
-New York Times
-Expulsion of members
-Delegates during Taiwan vote

Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule

Woods talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 12:36 pm and 12:52 pm.

[Conversation No. 603-3B]

[See Conversation No. 13-21]

[End of telephone conversation]

Mrs. Nixon's schedule

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Press
-The President’s view
	-The President’s policies
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Helen A. Thomas
-The President's schedule

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An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 12:36 pm.

Ziegler
-Briefing

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:52 pm.

Woods's schedule

The President's photograph
-Wallace F. Bennett
-Francis Bennett
-Mrs. Nixon’s signature
-The President's signature
-Bradford K. Bachrach
-Portrait photographs

Woods left at 12:52 pm.

Conversation No. 603-4

Date:  October 27, 1971
Time:  12:53 pm - 1:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Media reaction to Ziegler's previous press briefing
		-Administration response to United Nations [UN] action on Taiwan, Republic of China
-United Press International [UPI]
-Associated Press [AP]
-Delegate responses
-William P. Rogers previous statement
-Question of US funding for UN
-Congress
-The President's position
-Ziegler’s comments
-Foreign aid
-UN delegates behavior and votes
-Ziegler’s comments
-Peter Lisagor
-UN

-Rogers's previous statement
-Congress
-Lisagor
-Television report of vote
	-Effect
-Football game
-Detroit Lions
-News reports
-American public opinion
-Taiwan
-Ziegler’s view
-The President's People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Conservatives
-Supreme Court appointments
-John Birch Society
-Support for the President’s policies
-Public relations
	-Effect of Ziegler’s statement
-US funding for UN
-Relationship with the President's forthcoming PRC trip
-Henry A. Kissinger forthcoming briefing
-Lisagor
-Rogers

The President's trip to PRC
-Participants
-Lisagor
-The President’s handling
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-Wire services
-Television
-New York Times
-Robert B. Semple, Jr.
-Max Frankel

Ziegler left at 1:10 pm.

Conversation No. 603-5

Date:  October 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:10 pm and 1:13 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Request for meeting with Charles W. Colson

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:13 pm.

Conversation No. 603-6

Date:  October 27, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:10 pm and 1:13 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:13 pm.

Conversation No. 603-7
Date:  October 27, 1971
Time:  1:13 pm - 1:32 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan, Republic of China’s expulsion
	-Ziegler’s comments
		-The President’s position

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 1:13 pm.

Ronald L. Ziegler's schedule

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:14 pm.

UN vote on Taiwan’s expulsion
-Funding
		-Conduct of delegates during vote
		-Wire reports
-Taiwan
-As a domestic issue
	-Conservatives

Ziegler entered at 1:14 pm.

UN vote on Taiwan expulsion
-Conduct of delegates during vote
-Reaction by American people
-Ziegler’s press briefing
	-The President's support of UN
-Congressional action
	-Foreign aid bill
-George H. W. Bush's schedule
-The President
-Possible backgrounder
	-Columnists

	-James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.
-Duration of public issue
-Bush's schedule
-Possible backgrounder
	-William S. White
	-Kilpatrick

Ziegler left at 1:18 pm.

UN vote on Taiwan’s expulsion
	-Bush
		-Colson’s view
-Congressional comments
-Edward W. Brooke
-Charles H. Percy
	-Robert J. Dole
	-Signing of letter
	-Conduct of delegates
	-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
	-William P. Rogers
		-UN
	-Dole
	-The President’s view
		-Coordination
	-Mathias
	-Brooke
	-Senate's reaction
	-Fund raising dinner comments
		-Edward R.F. and Tricia Cox
	-Elliot L. Richardson
-News summary
-Democrats
-Adlai E. Stevenson, III
-Taiwan
-Conservatives
-Feelings toward the administration
-George Meany's comments

Paul W. McCracken
-Forthcoming conversation with Colson
-The President’s view
-John B. Connally
-Herbert Stein

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-Economic indicators
		-Colson’s view

Economy
-Balance of trade
	-Press release
-Import surcharge
-Third quarter
-Retail sales
-Connally's previous conversation with the President 
-Chamber of Commerce poll
-Businessmen
-Wage and price freeze
-Connally's views
-Meany's participation in the President's program
-George P. Shultz
-Wage levels
-Status
-Albert E. Sindlinger's forthcoming press conference
-August 15, 1971 economic action
-Projections for change
	-Consumer psychology
-Louis P. Harris
-Chamber of Commerce
-Views

UN
-The President's attitude
-Conduct of delegates
-Participation of US
-Rogers's statement
-Conduct of delegates
	-Colson’s view
	-Television coverage

Colson left at 1:32 pm.