35–78

Conversation No. 35-78

Date: January 3, 1973
Time: 8:39 pm and 8:59 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

Congressional relations
-Reconvention
-White House legislative staff morale
-Colson’s recent conversation with Thomas C. Korologos and Richard K.
Cook
-Speeches, statements
-Request for briefings, fact sheets
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-1972 election
-Results

Vietnam War
-Senate Republicans
-Resolution supporting the President on Vietnam
-Unanimity
-Gerald R. Ford
-Rules
-Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.
-Leadership
-Relationship with Colson
-Robert C. (“Bob”) Wilson
-Ford’s probable stance on forthcoming meeting [about Republican
Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman], January 6, 1973

Henry A. Kissinger
-Press relations
-The President’s schedule
-Recent dinner with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Haig’s recent conversation with Colson
-Haig’s conversation with Kissinger
-Puerto Rico
-Haig’s conversations with the President
-Caution
-Haig’s background
-Army
-Haig’s recent conversation with Colson
-Source of stories
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston article

Reston
-Sources in White House
-Kissinger
-Recent article on the President
-2000
-“Reunification” of US
-Influence
-Interview with Chou En-lai
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Media relations
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Herbert G. Klein
-Colson’s conversation with Alexander Lankler
-Lankler’s background
-Washington, DC, Republican lawyer
-Washington Post
-Edward Bennett Williams possible meeting with Colson
-Tone
-Station license challenges
-Timing
-News coverage
-Jacksonville, Florida [WJFC]
-Miami
-News coverage
-News syndicate
-Cancellations
-White House relations with Washington Star
-Colson’s conversation with Neil Freeman
-King Features
-Gannett syndicate, Maine
-Williams’s possible meeting with Colson
-Purpose
-Listening
-Compared to telling
-Colson’s knowledge of license challenges
-William S. Paley
-Lloyd Cutler
-Meeting with Colson [and Shapiro] partner
-Williams’ possible meeting with Colson
-Edith Efron’s book [How CBS Tried to Kill a Book]
-[The News Twisters]
-Theme
-CBS’s alleged effort against The News Twisters
-Forthcoming book
-Analysis of 1972 campaign
-Reviews

William B. Saxbe
-Ohio International Brotherhood of Teamsters
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-Support
-Removal
-Saxbe reaction
-Press relations
-Cincinnati and Columbus newspapers
-Donald D. Clancy
-Samuel L. Devine
-White House relations
-Senate
-Labor, press relations
-White House relations
-Telephone calls
-Effect of criticism

Stock market
-Dow Jones Industrial Average
-Increase
-Volume of trading
-Economic indicators
-Tone
-Vietnam War

Press relations
-Colson recent meeting with Paul L. Martin
-Martin’s indentity
-US News and World Report
-Conservatism
-Loyalty
-Health
-Cataracts
-Congressional relations
-1972 election
-Republicans


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Congressional relations
-1972 election
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-Republican candidates
-Silent Majority

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-Hugh Scott
-Picketing of home by youth, Christmas 1972
-Effect on Scott

Public relations [PR]
-National economy, leadership

Press relations
Smith Hempstone, Jr. article, January 3, 1973
-1972
-Reply to David S. Broder
-The President’s first term accomplishments
-1969
-Cold War
-The President’s trips to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
and Soviet Union
-Election

Congressional relations
-Public opinion
-Washington, DC
-Ronald L. Ziegler statement
-Tone
-Colson’s viewing on television [TV]
-Colson’s recent meeting with Ziegler
-Tone
-Schedule
-Resolutions
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs's funeral
-Harry S. Truman's memorial service
-Bipartisan leadership meeting, January 5, 1973
-Saxbe
-Teamsters’ support
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-Press relations
-Ohio
-Briefings

Thomas W. (“Teddy”) Gleason's statement
-New York
-Support for the President's Southeast Asia policy
-International Longshoremen's Association
-Loading and unloading ships
-US-Australia and US-Italy relations
-Effect
-Press relations
-US foreign policy
-Washington Post
-New York Times
-Reston
-Youth
-W. Ramsey Clark
-North Vietnamese hospital
-US bombing

Clark
-Hue orphanage
-North Vietnamese rocket attack
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-Recent conversation with Colson
-TV statement
-North Vietnam
-South Vietnam

Roberto Clemente Memorial Fund
-Richard A. Moore
-The President's recent meeting with [Daniel M Galbreath, Dave Giusti and Steve
Blass]
-Moore
-The President's contribution
-Ziegler’s statement
-Moore
-Press and media relations
-Press and media relations
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-Emotion
-The President's statement, January 2, 1973
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-Advertisements
-Moore

Congressional relations
-Public opinion
-Republicans
-1972 election
-Charles H. Percy
-Resolution supporting the President on Vietnam
-Norris Cotton


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-Republican leadership
-Cotton
-Senate Republican Conference
-Chairmanship
-Ford
-Wilson
-National Republican Campaign Committee
-Timing
-Republican National Committee [RNC]
-Robert J. Dole
-1972 election
-Recruitment of Republican Candidates for 1974 elections
-Priority

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