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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Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-08)
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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