34–92

Conversation No. 34-92

Date: December 15, 1972
Time: Between 5:55 and 6:23 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

George D. Webster
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Violations
-John W. Dean, III report
-William J. Casey
-Audit
-1967, 1966
-Administration support
-Colson’s relationship with Webster
-Law firm
-[Marmet & Webster]
-George P. Shultz
-Audit
-Democrats
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Lawyers for Nixon
-Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr.
-G. Harrold Carswell
-John H. Alexander
-Webster’s publications
-Tax law
-Conferences
-Background
-Tennessee
-Harvard Law School
-Cravath, Swain & Moore
-[Marmet & Webster]
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David E. Bradshaw
-Illinois
-Conversation with the President
-Key Biscayne
-Federal Communications Commission [FCC]
-Colson’s conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D.
Ehrlichman
-Dean Burch
-Arizona Senate race
-Views on networks
-Finances
-Nicholas Johnson
-Timing
-Burch


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The President’s health

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White House social affairs
-Reception for 1972 election supporters, December 15, 1972
-Guests
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Tricia Nixon Cox, Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-John McCarroll
-Refreshments
-Music
-Decorations
-Mrs. Nixon
-Administration supporters
-Blair House, December 14, 1972

Republicans
-Complaints
-Administration labor policy
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-Golf
-George Meany
-Business people

Labor relations
-White House reception, December 14, 1972
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Joseph (“Joe T.”) Trerotola
-[International Brotherhood of Teamsters]
-Harold J. Gibbons
-Peter J. Brennan
-Labor Department
-Photographs of the President
-Comment to the President in reception line
-George P. Shultz and James D. Hodgson
-Brennan order
-Robert F. Armao
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Hodgson
-US flags
-Shultz, Hodgson
-Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS]
-Geoffrey H. Moore
-William J. Usery, Jr.
-J[ames] Curtis Counts
-John F. Kennedy pictures
-Mood
-White House dinners
-White House dinners


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-Mrs. Nixon
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

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White House social affairs
-Receptions
-Identification with the President, Mrs. Nixon, Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Mrs. Fred Gualtieri
-Reaction to the President, December 13, 1972
-Press relations
-Invitations list
-Andrew Jackson analogy
-New Majority
-Helen Thomas
-Newsweek
-Neal Ball
-Invitations list
-Blacks
-Washington Post
-New York Times
-Beautiful people
-Kennedy era
-McCarroll
-United Auto Workers [UAW]
-Telephone call from the President
-The President’s speech
-Labor relations
-Fitzsimmons
-Comments about Gibbons
-Colson
-Trerotola
-Teamsters
-Membership

1972 election
-Victory margin
-The President’s conversation with Colson, December 14, 1972
-Arizona
-Richard M. Scammon
-White House church service
-Missouri
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-West Virginia
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-Arizona
-Scammon

White House social affairs
-Receptions
-1972 election strategy
-Flag wearing
-John A. Volpe
-Brennan

John A. Scali
-Washington Star
-Italian-Americans
-Blair House
-United Nations [UN] ambassadorship
-Cabinet status
-The President’s conversation with Scali

Mitchell Kobelinski
-Polish-Americans
-White House reception, December 15, 1972
-Immigration and Naturalization Service [INS]
-Unknown person from Chicago

Media relations

William S. Paley
-Conversation with Colson, December 14, 1972
-Herbert G. Klein
-Forthcoming meeting with Colson
-Balance
-Dan Rather
-Robert Pierpont
-[Arnold] Eric Severeid
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-Daniel L. Schorr
-Klein
-Meeting with Colson
-Klein
-Balance
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Edward M. Kennedy speech
-Colson’s conversation with Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo, December 15, 1972
-Tone
-W[illiam] Averell Harriman
-Presidential popularity
-Kennedy’s relations with administration
-Future

Media relations
-Paley’s forthcoming meeting with Colson
-1972 election
-Garnett D. (“Jack”) Horner’s interview with President
-Colson’s recent speech
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Washington Star leaks
-Clay T. (“Tom”) Whitehead
-Forthcoming speech

Webster
-Administration support
-Confirmation
-Audit
-Possible reason
-Republican activism
-William E. Brock, III
-Possible telephone call from Colson


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Health

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Vietnam negotiations
-Henry A. Kissinger briefing, December 16, 1972
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Conversation No. 34-92 (cont’d)

-Tone
-US bombing
-Timing
-Colson’s recent conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Public relations [PR]
-Kissinger’s briefing
-The President’s comments at December 14, 1972 meeting
-US bombing
-PR
-Peace with honor
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s conversation with the President
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-American Legion
-Hardhats
-Meany
-Kissinger
-Catholicism
-Judaism
-Marvin L. Kalb’s possible reaction

Media relations
-White House receptions
-Middle America

1972 election
-Victory margin
-Colson and Scammon