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Start Date: 9-Dec-1972 4:00 PM

End Date: 9-Dec-1972 6:50 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Colson, Charles W.

Recording Device: Camp David Study Table

157-028.mp3

NARA Description:

On December 9, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone at Camp David at an unknown time between 4:00 pm and 6:50 pm. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 157-028 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 157-28

Date: December 9, 1972
Time: Unknown between 4:00 pm and 6:50 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 235-10]


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       Democratic National Committee [DNC]
           -Impeachment vote
                  -Failed
                  -Jean Westwood
                        -Resignation
           -Robert S. Strauss
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           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                              Tape Subject Log
                                (rev. Apr.-08)

                                                        Conversation No. 157-28 (cont’d)

     -Vote count
     -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
     -John B. Connally
           -Second vote
                 -Radicals
     -Charlie Snider
           -Support for Westwood
           -Supporters of George C. Wallace
     -Lawrence O’Brien
     -Charles Manatt
     -George Mitchell
     -Come Home Democrats Coalition
           -Advertisements
     -Conservative Democrats
           -Ben Wattenberg
           -Richard M. Scammon
                 -Possible meeting with the President
                 -Support for the Republicans

1972 election
     -Issues
            -Social issues
            -May 8, 1972 decision to mine Haiphong Harbor
                  -Samuel Lubell
                  -Albert E. Sindlinger
            -Soviet Union
            -People’s Republic of China [PRC]
            -Scammon analysis
                  -American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations
                   [AFL-CIO]
            -Patrick J. Buchanan
                  -Paper about 1972 election
            -Richard (“Dick”) Wilson column
                  -Circulation
            -Herbert C. Hoover
     -George S. McGovern
            -Destruction
                  -Harriet Vanhorn
                  -McGovernites
                         -Power
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                 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                   Tape Subject Log
                                     (rev. Apr.-08)

                                                           Conversation No. 157-28 (cont’d)

                  -DNC
           -Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s views
                  -1972 election
                        -Personal victory
                              -Little assistance
           -Republican National Committee [RNC] analysis
                  -Michigan
                        -Counties
                              -Vote turnout
           -Theodore H. White column
                  -Copy for the President
                  -RNC
                  -Centrist coalition

      Princeton University
            -Mood
            -Wendell Bell Colson, II
                 -Nixon posters
            -Campus
                 -1972 election reaction
                       -Other campuses
                             -Harvard University
                                   -Activists
                                         -Support for Nixon
                                         -Apathy
                                         -Tolerance
                                               -Young Republicans
                             -Yale University
                             -Columbia University
                             -Ohio State University
                             -Kentucky University
                             -Vanderbilt University
                             -Tulane University
                       -Radicals
                             -Decreasing support for protests

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                 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                   Tape Subject Log
                                     (rev. Apr.-08)

                                                      Conversation No. 157-28 (cont’d)

      Vietnam negotiations
           -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s schedule
                  -Return for consultation
           -Henry A. Kissinger
                  -Continuation of talks
           -Colson’s view
           -Settlement agreement
           -Announcement
                  -Presidential speech
                        -Necessity
                              -Public opinion
           -Public opinion
                  -Support for the President
                        -1972 election
                              -George S. McGovern
                  -Economy
                  -Support for the President
           -Settlement agreement
                  -Kissinger
                  -Progress
           -Public opinion
                  -Normalcy

      National economy
           -Albert E. Sindlinger
                 -Consumer Confidence Index
           -Stock Market
                 -Wall Street


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      1972 election
           -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
           -Tricia Nixon Cox
           -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
                  -1968 election
           -National confidence
           -Key Biscayne
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                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Apr.-08)

                                                        Conversation No. 157-28 (cont’d)

                  -Future of Republican Party
            -Dwight D. Eisenhower
                  -Second term compared
            -Public support

       Democrats
           -Internal conflicts
           -Snider
                 -Report to Colson

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