385–14

Conversation No. 385-14

Date: December 11, 1972
Time: 5:14 pm - 5:37 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Charles W. Colson.


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The President’s foot

Republican Party
-George H. W. Bush
-Harry S. Dent
-Statement
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Conversation No. 385-14 (cont’d)

-Gerald R. Ford
-Robert J. Dole
-Clark MacGregor
-Public relations [PR]
-Dole
-Speech
-Bush
-Republican National Committee [RNC] Chairman
-Appointment
-Public reaction
-Wire services
-Popularity
-Dole
-Temperment
-John B. Connally
-Democratic National Committee [DNC] Chairman
-Robert S. Strauss
-Democratic Party
-Presidential nomination
-Third party
-Constituency
-Independents, Republicans
-“Nixon Party”
-Republican Party name
-Connotations
-Big business
-Minority party
-Elitism
-Elderly
-Youth
-Switching parties
-Republican Independent Party

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 5:20 pm.

-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-Public statements
-Dent
-Ford
-Hugh Scott
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Conversation No. 385-14 (cont’d)

-MacGregor
-John N. Mitchell
-Press coverage
-Dole
-PR
-Cabinet change
-Party change
-Connally
-New coalition
-Harry F. Byrd, Jr.
-Timing
-Strauss

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Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked with the President between 5:21 pm and 5:29 pm.

[Conversation No. 385-14A]

[See Conversation No. 34-45]

[End of telephone conversation]


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Republican Party
-PR
-Opposition
-Ford
-Secretary of State
-Scott

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Conversation No. 385-14 (cont’d)

Second term reorganization
-Peter J. Brennan
-Under Secretary of Labor
-Work with John D. Ehrlichman
-Labor policy
-Commerce Department
-George P. Shultz
-The President’s decisions
-Shultz
-J[ames] Curtis Counts
-Shultz’s and Colson’s view
-Loyalty
-Labor support
-Issues
-Conversation with Colson
-New York
-Issues
-Business
-Interest in job

Julie Nixon Eisenhower entered at 5:30 pm.

The President's schedule

Julie Nixon Eisenhower left at an unknown time before 5:35 pm.

Second term reorganization
-Under Secretary of Labor
-Brennan
-Colson’s conversation with Shultz
-Michael J. Farrell
-Retention

Colson left at 5:35 pm.

Second term reorganization
-Farrell
-Frederic V. Malek
-John E. Nidecker
-John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
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Conversation No. 385-14 (cont’d)

-Managerial staff
-Farrell
-Conversation with Haldeman
-[Patrick H. Price]
-Under Secretary of Labor
-Counts
-Brennan
-Jews
-Loyalty
-Qualifications
-[Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service]

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 5:37 pm.