33–47

Conversation No. 33-47

Date: November 7, 1972
Time: 8:06 pm and 8:20 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.


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1972 election
-Congratulations
-Results
-Landslide victory
-Pollsters
-Colson’s view
-Projections for the President
-Virginia
-Kentucky
-Louie B. Nunn
-Projections
-Georgia
-S. Fletcher Thompson
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-President
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-Projections
-South
-Border states
-Ohio
-West Virginia
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC] projection
-Kentucky
-Nunn
-NBC projection
-Kevin P. Phillips
-Senate races
-Republican losses
-Virginia
-William L. Scott's lead
-John O. (“Jack”) Marsh, Jr.’s reports
-North Carolina
-Jesse M. Helm's lead
-Illinois
-Chicago
-NBC projection
-NBC
-Private projections
-Phillips
-Richard M. Scammon
-Percentages
-Northeast
-West
-South
-West Virginia
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-Phillips
-Ohio
-National vote
-Percentages
-Indiana
-Percentages
-Otis R. Bowen as Governor
-Victory over Matthew E. Welsh
-Illinois
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-Charles H. Percy
-Early returns
-Comparison with the President
-Democrats for the President
-Advertisements [Ads]
-Vito Marzullo's reports
-Cook County
-Northeast
-Maine
-Vermont
-Projections
-New Hampshire
-Projections
-Wesley Powell
-Concord, New Hampshire
-Governor’s race
-Connecticut
-The President’s lead
-Colson’s view
-Media coverage
-Significance
-Illinois
-Ohio
-National pollsters
-Massachusetts
-City machine polls
-The President’s view
-Wisconsin
-Illinois
-CBS projection
-Wisconsin
-Percy
-Comparison with the President
-Virginia
-Scott
-Illinois
-Percy
-Senate races
-Scott
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-Helms
-Nunn
-Kentucky
-Possible defeat
-North Carolina
-Nick Galifianakis
-Lead
-North Carolina
-Percentage
-Florida
-Georgia
-Thompson
-Defeat
-Mail privileges
-Colson’s view
-New Mexico
-Oklahoma
-Dewey F. Bartlett
Kentucky
-Louie Nunn
-Rhode Island
-John H. Chafee
-Defeat
-Polls
-Senate races
-Republican gains
-House of Representatives races
-Republican gains
-Indiana
-Tennessee
-Kentucky
-South
-Colson’s view
-Alabama
-Florida
-Mississippi
-Louisiana
-David C. Treen
-Connecticut
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-Thomas Meskill’s view
-Senate races
-Possible Republican gains and losses
-The President’s campaigning
-Chafee
-Thompson
-Helms
-Kentucky
-Thurston Morton
-Eastern counties
-Michigan
-Robert P. Griffin
-South Dakota
-Losses
-Bartlett
-Pete V. Domenici
-Scott
-Domenici
-Bartlett
-South Dakota, Kentucky
-Helms
-Chafee
-Herbert F. DeSimone
-Vermont governor [Luther F. Haskett]
-The President’s influence
-Maine
-House seat
-Projections
-Bangor mayor, William S. Cohen
-Background
-Margaret Chase Smith
-Projections
-Connecticut
-The President's lead
-Meskill
-New Jersey
-House seats
-Pennsylvania
-House seats
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-New York
-House seats
-House and Senate races
-Colson’s view
-Predictions
-Gerald R. Ford
-Swing votes
-Ticket splitting
-House races

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