829–12

Conversation No. 829-12

Date: January 1, 1973
Time: 9:40 am - 10:40 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

George H. Allen
-Visit to the White House
-Post-game celebration
-Personal style
-“All-American square”
-Reaction of Washington press
-Victory over Green Bay Packers
-Billy Kilmer
-Lifestyle
-University of California–Los Angeles [UCLA]

Henry A. Kissinger's telephone call
-New Years greetings
-Handling of Kissinger
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Haig
-Trip to Saigon
-Relation with Kissinger
-Departure from White House staff
-Need for praise of Kissinger
-Colson’s relationship with Kissinger
-Public opposition to administration's foreign policy

Kissinger
-Log of telephone calls
-Unnamed staffer
-Calls to James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-Billing records
-Max Frankel
-Kissinger's relation
-Sunday editor of New York Times
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-Kissinger's talking with Frankel
-Breakfast
-Relations with journalists

Press relations
-List of friends and enemies
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Rewards and punishments
-New York Times
-George P. Shultz
-Thomas Vail
-Herbert Stein
-Cutoff of access
-National Security Council [NSC]
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Washington Post
-William E. Timmons
-Washington Post article
-David S. Broder
-Compared to Carrol L. Kirkpatrick
-Ambitions
-Hostility to the President
-Man-of-the-Year article
-George C. Wallace
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-Violation of the President's order
-Truman
-Compared to Joseph W. Alsop
-Gerald L. Warren
-Washington Star
-Chicago Sun Times
-Detroit News
-Los Angeles Times
-Compared to Washington Post

Delegations to ceremonies
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-List of attendees
-Need for a broader list
-Recommendations
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-Colson
-Lester Pearson
-Labor leaders
-Kissinger
-[Unintelligible name]
-State Department
-James T. Roosevelt
-Democrats
-Criteria for selection
-Financial contributors
-Maurice H. Stans
-Political reporters
-Editors, publishers
-Paul Miller
-Previous lists
-George R. Bell
-Letters from the President
-White House social invitations
-Updated list
-Business Council invitees
-Stans’s list
-Sam Johnson
-Wisconsin
-David Rockefeller
-Roger Milliken
-Active members
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Colson’s assignment
-Shultz
-Stans’s list
-Business Council members
-Contributors
-Wealth
-Donald McIntosh Kendall
-Recommendations
-Stans’s list

The President’s supporters
-List
-Law firms
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-Flanigan
-Licensing
-Airlines
-Cut off
-Haldeman
-Enforcing orders
-Firings
-Lee White

Invitations to White House
-The President as the Vice President
-Democrats
-The President's supporters
-George S. McGovern

Stans
-Relations with Congress
-Relations with Colson
-Counsel for Colson’s law firm

Lawyers in Colson's law firm
-Jews
-Inclusion of a few
-Blacks
-Exclusion
-Jews
-Antitrust law
-Leonard Garment’s classmate
-Brooklyn Law School
-Columbia Law School
-Political cases
-Clark M. Clifford
-Republican National Committee [RNC] as a client

“Kitchen Cabinet”
-Clark MacGregor
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Richard M. Scammon
-“New Establishment”
-John B. Connally
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-Finances
-Invitations to join

Vietnam settlement
-December 1972 bombings
-Impact on the president
-Kissinger
-Publicity
-US credibility in world
-Nonpolitical approach
-Antiwar opposition
-McGovern supporters
-South Vietnamese reactions
-Impact on North Vietnamese
-December 1972 bombings
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
-Film from Hanoi
-Effect of bombing
-Propaganda
-Civilian coffins
-Congress

Stephen B. Bull [?] entered at an unknown time after 9:40 am.

Instructions
-Photograph

Bull [?] left at an unknown time before 10:40 am.

Press opposition to December 1972 bombing
-New York Times
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-NBC
-North Vietnamese reaction
-Surprise at capitulation
-Doves
-Congress
-Domestic pressure
-Effectiveness of bombing
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The President’s World War II service
-Guam
-Bombs

Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:40 am.

Request for pens for visiting group

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:40 am.

The President's political enemies
-Haldeman
-1972 election
-Establishment
-Strategy toward the President
-Administration's response

Press relations
-Broder
-Benjamin C. Bradlee
-Robert B. Semple, Jr.
-Ambitions
-Career
-Washington Star
-New York Herald Tribune
-New York Times
-Washington Post
-Bradlee
-Colson's plans
-Washington Post
-Richard Scaife
-Lifestyle
-Publishing

Miami television [TV] station
-Federal Communications Commission [FCC] licensing procedures
-Paul McCray
-Harassment
-Washington Post management
-Hiring policy
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-Basis for challenge to license

Washington Post
-Stockholder’s litigation
-Katharine L. Graham

Edward Bennett Williams
-George M. Webster
-File at Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-IRS audit
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Democrats
-1964 presidential campaign
-Barry M. Goldwater
-1960 presidential campaign
-Thoroughness
-Family
-Arrest record
-Farm incident


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Colson’s role
-Haldeman
-George H. W. Bush
-Loyalty
-William E. Brock, III
-Clarence J. (“Bud”) Brown, Jr.

1974 election
-Compared to 1934 election
-Economy

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Vietnam War
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-Impact on public opinion
-Compared to economy
-Albert E. Sindlinger
-Antiwar marcher
-Dean Francis B. Sayre
-Social background
-Racial attitudes of American public
-Asians

Convention of economists
-Hendrick S. Houthakker
-The President’s Vietnam policy
-Support
-The President’s appreciation
-Economic outlook
-Political attitudes
-Social background

Academic community
-Professors
-Poll
-Support for the President
-Poll at Princeton University
-Colson's son
-McGovern
-T. Hardin Jones
-White House intern
-Publication of poll
-Professors’ protest
-Pentagon Papers
-Students of Ivy League schools
-Influence of faculty on students’ attitudes
-Colson's visit to Princeton University
-Support for the President among students
-Princeton University
-Compared to Harvard University
-Colson in college
-Professor's influence
-Joseph P. McCarthy
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Second term objectives
-Left-wing opposition
-Wallace
-“Man-of-the-Year”
-Press coverage after shooting
-1968 election

Press relations
-Mary McGrory article
-1972 election
-Effect on the President
-Broder
-Wallace
-Landslide election
-Campaign tactics of the opposition
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Article
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Opposition to the President
-Avoidance of press after election
-Press conference
-The President’s schedule
-Harry S. Truman’s memorial service
-National opinion

Second term reorganization
-Change
-Personnel
-Frederic V. Malek
-Importance of lower level positions
-Political views
-Director of Census Bureau
-Importance
-Donald B. Moore [?]
-Scammon
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Politician
-Scholars
-Kevin P. Phillips
-Robert Teeter
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-John N. Mitchell
-Haldeman
-Politics
-Social background
-Grosse Point, Michigan
-Busing
-Marijuana
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Capital punishment
-California
-Environment
-Compared to Edwin L. Harper
-Religion
-Catholics
-Christian Scientists
-Ehrlichman
-Background of appointees
-Religion
-Buchanan's advice


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1972 election
-Colson’s meetings
-Detroit News advertisement
-Busing
-Harper
-Opposition
-Martin S. Hayden
-Black vote
-Ethnics
-Impact
-Robert A. Griffin
-Impact on Congressional races
-North Carolina
-Jesse A. Helms
-Virginia
-William L. Scott
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-Harry F. Byrd, Jr.
-Margaret C. Smith
-John H. Chafee
-Secretary of Defense
-Jack R. Miller
-Gordon L. Allott
-J. Caleb Boggs
-Delaware
-Problems of press coverage
-The President’s campaigning
-1952 election
-1956 election
-Kentucky
-Louie B. Nunn
-The President’s campaigning

1974 election
-Candidates
-Senate
-House
-Age
-Senate
-Age
-Age of candidates
-Leadership positions

Congressional leadership
-Age
-Robert C. (“Bob”) Wilson
-William B. Widnall
-New Jersey
-Norris Cotton
-Leslie Arends
-Lifestyle
-Arends
-Political future
-George D. Aiken
-Political future

Congressional candidates
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-Young liberals
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Robert H. Finch
-Liberal leanings
-Political appeal
-Finch
-Organization
-Rumsfeld
-Anti-Establishment

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Press relations
-Broder
-Man-of-the-Year
-Time
-Selection
-Reasons
-Kissinger
-Letters supporting the President
-New York Times
-Past coverage of the President
-Columnists
-Election predictions
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Polls
-Louis P. Harris
-Vietnam War
-Bombing

Truman memorial
-Bull
-Qualities
-Dean Sayre
-Avoidance
-Excuses
-Trip to California
-Trip to Independence
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-Kissinger’s trip to Paris
-Camp David

McGrory article
-The President's behavior during Vietnam bombing
-Dancing with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-The President's not talking to public
-Feelings toward the President

Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:40 am.

George H. Allen and family
-Photographs in Rose Garden
-Warren
-Henrietta (“Etty”) Allen
-Sons
-Jennifer Allen
-Mr. and Mrs. Felix Lumbroso
-Tunisia
-Tour of White House
-Christmas decorations
-Previous tour

Roberto W. Clemente
-Airplane crash
-Puerto Rico
-Managua, Nicaragua
-Death

Photographs
-Signing
-Arrangements

Bull and Colson left at 10:40 am.
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