160–2

Conversation No. 160-2

Date: January 5, 1973
Time: 7:38 pm – 7:58 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 239-1]

Colson’s activities

Vietnam negotiations
-The President’s statement
-William E. Timmons
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Press coverage
-Ziegler’s press briefing
-Washington Star
-Colson’s view
-Wire services
-Ziegler
-Washington Star
-Colson’s view
-Ziegler
-Senate action
-Aid funding
-The President’s view
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Public relations [PR]
-John A. Scali
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] material
-William A. Gill, Jr.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-08)

Conversation No. 160-2 (cont’d)

-Press relations
-White House Staff
-Congress
-Timmons
-Colson's call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Hugh Scott
-Gerald R. Ford
-Democrats
-The President’s view
-Colson's call to Jay Lovestone
-Albert E. Sindlinger
-W. Richard Howard
-Discussion of rationale for Congressional vote
-Administration’s Congressional relations efforts
-The President’s view
-Colson’s staff
-Campaign unit
-Post-election dismantlement
-Personnel
-Kenneth W. Clawson, Jr.
-Scali
-Desmond J. Barker, Jr.
-S. Steven Karalekas
-The President's previous conversation with Haldeman
-Election activities
-Colson’s activities
-Herbert R. (“Chief”) Rainwater
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-Joseph L. Vicides
-Patrick E. Carr
-Robert P. Griffin
-The President’s view

Public relations [PR] efforts
-White House Staff
-The President’s view
-Colson
-Instruction for Colson to talk with Haldeman
-The President's conversation with Haldeman
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Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 160-2 (cont’d)

-Bipartisan Congressional leaders breakfast
-Ziegler
-Statements to press
-Quality
-Colson's schedule
-Pre-election activities
-Colson
-George S. McGovern
-Congressional Democrats
-The President’s view
-Ford
-William J. Baroody, Jr.
-Colson
-Clawson
-White House strategy sessions
-Clawson
-Barker
-Haldeman
-The President’s view
-John D. Ehrlichman
-George P. Shultz
-Kissinger
-Ehrlichman
-Colson’s view
-Kissinger
-Scali
-Kissinger
-White House staff reorganization
-Colson’s view
-Herbert G. Klein
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Shultz, Roy L.Ash, Kissinger
-Baroody, Clawson
-Ziegler
-Howard
-Colson’s view
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Buchanan
-Writing
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-08)

Conversation No. 160-2 (cont’d)

-Efforts in campaign
-Price
-Strategy
-Haldeman
-Baroody
-Buchanan
-Staff needs
-Purpose
-Colson’s view

Senate action on cut off of funds for Vietnam
-Lovestone’s comments
-George Meany
-Lovestone’s view

Administration objectives
-Colson’s view

Vietnam settlement
-Efforts to end the war
-The President's statement at bipartisan Congressional leaders breakfast
-Colson’s view
-Timmons
-Ziegler
-Statement to press
-The President’s view

Haldeman's duties
-Reorganization
-Appointments
-1973 Inauguration activities
-Public relations need
-The President’s view
-1972 campaign
-Relationship with Congress
-Ford
-Jack R. Miller
-Public relations efforts
-Colson's duties during the campaign
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-08)

Conversation No. 160-2 (cont’d)

-Rainwater
-Vicides
-Carr
-Scott
-Colson’s view
-White House staff
-Need for public relations
-Military aides
-Secret Service
-The President’s conversation with Haldeman

Vietnam settlement
-Negotiations
-PR
-Kissinger
-Washington Star
-Ziegler
-Headline
-The President’s view

[The following portion of the conversation is included in RG 460,WSPF; there are no transcripts
available.]

Logs on telephone calls
-Kissinger
-Results
-Rowland Evans
-Joseph C. Kraft
-Jerrold L. Schecter
-Kraft
-Conversation with Kissinger
-New York Times column
-Instructions for Colson
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Kraft
-Kissinger’s conversation with Colson
-Column
-Colson
-Schedule
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. August-08)

Conversation No. 160-2 (cont’d)

-Trip to Paris
-Telephone call to Kraft
-Outgoing calls
-Haldeman

[RG 460 portion ends]

PR
-Vietnam war
-Possible settlement
-The President’s view
-Lovestone