Date: December 30, 1972
Time: 1:04 pm - 1:16 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table
The President talked with Charles W. Colson.
[See Conversation No. 238-20]
Vietnam War
-Cessation of US bombing north of 20th Parallel
-Colson’s telephone calls
-Schedules
-Football games
-Robert A. Taft, Jr.’s location
-Nassau
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-US bombing of North Vietnam
-Support for the President
-The President’s burden
-Note for the President
-Location
-Cambridge, Massachusetts
-John B. Connally
-US bombing of North Vietnam
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-08)
Conversation No. 158-57 (cont’d)
-Apprehension
-World reaction
-Concern, skepticism
-Support for the President
-Connally’s schedule
-John A. Scali’s telephone calls
-Press relations
-William L. White
-Crosby S. Noyes
-Stewart T. O. Alsop
-Time
-Newsweek
-Alsop
-Frank Cormier
-Wire services
-Networks
-Noyes, White
-US bombing of North Vietnam
-Washington Star editorial
-Criticism of the President’s policies
-Resumption of negotiations
-Retraction
-Scali’s conversation with Noyes
-Newbold (“Newby”) Noyes, Jr.
-Congressional relations
-Thomas C. Korologos’s report
-William B. Saxbe’s statement
-Response
-Clark MacGregor
-George Sherman
-Scali
-Columbus Dispatch
-Carl DeBlum
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-Media relations
-Henry A. Kissinger’s conversation with Howard K. Smith
-Smith’s commentary on television [TV]
-Public reaction
-Telegrams
-Public relations [PR]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-08)
Conversation No. 158-57 (cont’d)
-Michael P. Balzano, Jr.
-Calls from Pittsburgh
-US bombing of North Vietnam
-US bombing of North Vietnam
-Washington Star
-1972 election
-Management
-US bombing of North Vietnam
-Washington Post
-New York Times
-Possible articles
-US bombing of Norht Vietnam
-The President’s decision
-Difficulty
-Compared to the President’s May 8, 1972 decision
-Scali’s view
-1972 election
-1973 Inauguartion
-Press relations
-Scali’s view
-Kissinger
-Demonstrations
-Media relations
-Kissinger
-Scali
-Resumption of US bombing north of 20th Parallel
-Colson’s conversation with Moynihan
-US bombing of North Vietnam
-William B. Saxbe’s statements
-Response from Ohio
-Samuel L. Devine