157–28

Conversation No. 157-28

Date: December 9, 1972
Time: Unknown between 4:00 pm and 6:50 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 235-10]


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Democratic National Committee [DNC]
-Impeachment vote
-Failed
-Jean Westwood
-Resignation
-Robert S. Strauss
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Conversation No. 157-28 (cont’d)

-Vote count
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-John B. Connally
-Second vote
-Radicals
-Charlie Snider
-Support for Westwood
-Supporters of George C. Wallace
-Lawrence O’Brien
-Charles Manatt
-George Mitchell
-Come Home Democrats Coalition
-Advertisements
-Conservative Democrats
-Ben Wattenberg
-Richard M. Scammon
-Possible meeting with the President
-Support for the Republicans

1972 election
-Issues
-Social issues
-May 8, 1972 decision to mine Haiphong Harbor
-Samuel Lubell
-Albert E. Sindlinger
-Soviet Union
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Scammon analysis
-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations
[AFL-CIO]
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Paper about 1972 election
-Richard (“Dick”) Wilson column
-Circulation
-Herbert C. Hoover
-George S. McGovern
-Destruction
-Harriet Vanhorn
-McGovernites
-Power
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Conversation No. 157-28 (cont’d)

-DNC
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s views
-1972 election
-Personal victory
-Little assistance
-Republican National Committee [RNC] analysis
-Michigan
-Counties
-Vote turnout
-Theodore H. White column
-Copy for the President
-RNC
-Centrist coalition

Princeton University
-Mood
-Wendell Bell Colson, II
-Nixon posters
-Campus
-1972 election reaction
-Other campuses
-Harvard University
-Activists
-Support for Nixon
-Apathy
-Tolerance
-Young Republicans
-Yale University
-Columbia University
-Ohio State University
-Kentucky University
-Vanderbilt University
-Tulane University
-Radicals
-Decreasing support for protests

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Conversation No. 157-28 (cont’d)

Vietnam negotiations
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s schedule
-Return for consultation
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Continuation of talks
-Colson’s view
-Settlement agreement
-Announcement
-Presidential speech
-Necessity
-Public opinion
-Public opinion
-Support for the President
-1972 election
-George S. McGovern
-Economy
-Support for the President
-Settlement agreement
-Kissinger
-Progress
-Public opinion
-Normalcy

National economy
-Albert E. Sindlinger
-Consumer Confidence Index
-Stock Market
-Wall Street


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1972 election
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-1968 election
-National confidence
-Key Biscayne
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Conversation No. 157-28 (cont’d)

-Future of Republican Party
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Second term compared
-Public support

Democrats
-Internal conflicts
-Snider
-Report to Colson

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