Date: December 30, 1972
Time: 9:53 am - 10:02 am
Location: Camp David Study Table
The President talked with Charles W. Colson.
[See Conversation No. 237-44]
Vietnam War
-US bombing of North Vietnam
-Demonstration
-Dean Francis B. Sayre
-Response
-Cessation north of 20th Parallel
-Notification of Congress
-William E. Timmons
-Conversations with Colson and Col. Richard T. Kennedy
-Call to Henry A. Kissinger
-Kissinger’s telephone call
-Telephone calls
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-08)
Conversation No. 158-35 (cont’d)
-Hugh Scott
-Kissinger’s telephone calls
-The President’s conversation with Kissinger
-Kennedy
-Congressional relations
-Possible hearings
-William Fulbright
-Dr. Thomas E. (“Doc”) Morgan
-Kissinger, William P. Rogers
-Negotiations
-Colson’s conversation with Timmons
-Cessation north of 20th Parallel
-John A. Scali
-Telephone calls
-Announcement
-Scali
-Colson
-Gerald L. Warren
-Public relations [PR]
-Colson’s possible call to the President
-The President’s possible call to Colson
-Timing
-Scali
-US bombing of North Vietnam
-Congressional relations
-Media relations
-William B. Saxbe’s statements
-Response
-Timmon’s possible call to Saxbe
-Thomas C. Korologos
-Donald E. Lukens
-Compared to Samuel L. Devine
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Statement
-PR
-Albert E. Sindlinger’s poll
-Intensity
-Congressional relations
-Reconvention
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-08)
Conversation No. 158-35 (cont’d)
-Timing
-1972 election
-Humphrey
-Saxbe’s statements
-Previous statements and actions
-G. Harrold Carswell vote
-Letter
-Response
-Hugh Scott
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-Cessation north of 20 Parallel
-Notification of Congress
-Scott
-Possible call from Kissinger
-Kissinger’s telephone calls
-The President’s instructions
-Timmons’s telephone calls
-Timmons’s telephone calls
-Scott
-Kissinger’s telephone calls
-Colson’s conversation with Timmons
-John C. Stennis
-Stennis
-Liberals
-Scott
-Gerald R. Ford
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Stennis
-F. Edward Hebert
-Carl B. Albert
-Leaders
-The President’s decision
-Explanation
-Scali
-The President’s May 8, 1972 decision
-Bombing and mining north of 20th Parallel
-Suspension
-Negotiations
-Tone
-Resumption
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-08)
Conversation No. 158-35 (cont’d)
-Cessation north of 20th Parallel
-Announcement
-Press relations
-Scali’s view
-Wires
-Saigon
-United Press International [UPI] article
-Reaction
-Tone