Conversation No. 158-47

Date: December 30, 1972
Time: 12:06 pm - 12:15 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 238-9]

       Vietnam War
            -Cessation of US bombing north of 20th Parallel
                 -Announcement
                        -Henry A. Kissinger’s view
                              -John A. Scali
                 -Kissinger’s telephone calls
                        -John C. Stennis
                        -Hugh Scott
                              -Negotiations
                        -Gerald R. Ford
                 -Congressional relations
                        -Telephone calls
                              -William E. Timmons and Thomas C. Korologos
                              -Colson
                              -Scali
                              -Charles H. Percy
                              -Robert A. Taft, Jr.
                                     -The President’s 1952 “secret fund” controversy
                                           -Robert A. Taft, Sr.
                                     -William B. Saxbe
                        -Saxbe’s statements
                              -Response
                                     -Clark MacGregor
                                           -Ohio
                                     -Request for apology
                                     -Columbus Dispatch
                                           -Preston Wolfe
                                           -Editor, Carl DeBlum
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                                          Conversation No. 158-47 (cont’d)

                               -Editorials
                               -Possible call from Herbert G. Klein
                               -Possible call from Kenneth W. Clawson
                  -Expression of regret
                  -Newsman
                  -Samuel L. Devine
                         -Compared to Donald E. Lukens
                  -Clarence J. (“Bud”) Brown, Jr.
                  -Robert Taft, Sr.
                  -Timing
      -Telephone calls
             -Korologos
             -Democrats
-The President’s call to Kissinger
      -Timing
-Announcement
      -Kissinger’s view
-Telephone calls
      -Opinion makers
             -Howard K. Smith
                  -Scali
      -The President’s conversation with Scali
-Press relations
      -Criticism of US bombing of North Vietnam
             -Washington Star editorial page
                  -Crosby S. Noyes
                  -Blacks
                  -Washington Post
                  -The President’s interview with Garnett D. (“Jack”)
                   Horner, November 5, 1972
                  -Smith Hempstone
                  -Noyes’s conversation with Scali
                  -Timing
-Saxbe’s statements
-Harvard University
      -Kissinger
-Colson’s call to Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-The President’s call to Colson
      -Timing
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