36–18

Conversation No. 36-18

Date: January 20, 1973
Time: 1:04 am - 1:46 am
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

1973 Inaugural concerts
-American heritage concert
-Symphony
-Pyotr Tchaikovsky
-1812 Overture
-Eugene Ormandy
-Edvard Grieg


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-The President’s view
-The President’s early piano instructions

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-American heritage concert
-Patricia Colson
-Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
-Performance
-Roger Williams
-Vicki Carr
-Length
-Philadelphia Orchestra
-Ormandy National
-Washington Symphony
-Antal Dorati
-Compared to previous inaugurations
-Ormandy
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Conversation No. 36-18 (cont’d)

-Cliburn
-Orica
-1812 Overture
-Los Angeles Chorus
-Valley Forge Military Band
-Colson’s attendance
-Frank F. Fitzsimmons
-Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW)
-Peter J. Brennan

1973 Inauguration
-Supporters’ attendance
-Relatives
-“New Majority”
-Frank L. Rizzo
-Brennan
-Labor reception
-Attendance
-Corcoran Gallery event
-Ethnic concert
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Tricia Nixon Cox
-Youth concert
-American heritage concert
-Labor events
-George Meany
-Brennan, Fitzsimmons
-Paul Hall
-Parade
-Labor union leaders
-Viewing stand
-Photographs
-VFW New Orleans
-Patrick E. Carr
-Review of bands
-Veterans leaders
-“New Majority”

Public opinion
-Crosby S. Noyes
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Conversation No. 36-18 (cont’d)

-Newbold (“Newby”) Noyes, Jr.
-The President’s view
-Colson’s conversation with Richard M. Scammon
-Potential leadership
-Bombing

Vietnam settlement
-Peace agreement
-Bombing
-Duration
-Negotiations
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Negotiation efforts
-Mood of the nation
-Colson’s view
-Hugh Scott
-Statement of support
-Democrats
-Colson’s role
-Thieu
-Return of Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Cease-fire
-Survival of Thieu government
-Peace and honor

The Washington Post report
-Mood of country

1973 Inauguration events
-Youth concert
-Mike Curb’s statement
-Vice President’s reception
-Colson’s attendance
-Parade
-Supporters meeting with the President
-Stephen B. Bull
-Brennan

Brennan
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Conversation No. 36-18 (cont’d)

-Senate confirmation hearings
-The President’s view
-Albert E. Sindlinger
-Harold E. Hughes
-Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Cabinet
-James Durkin
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Robert F. (“Bobby”) Kennedy
-Minority hearing
-Press stories
-Colson’s view
-Harold L. Ickes

The President’s 1973 Inaugural speech
-The President’s philosophy
-Foreign policy
-Domestic policy
-Newbold Noyes’s views
-Government policy
-Nixon Doctrine
-Colson’s view
-Scammon’s view
-Sindlinger
-Economy

Vietnam settlement
-Bombing
-The President’s view
-Media
-Negotiations
-Colson’s view
-The President’s accomplishment
-Kissinger

Polls
-North Vietnam
-Bombing
-Louis P. Harris
-Sindlinger
-Related questions
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Conversation No. 36-18 (cont’d)

-Timing of release
-Colson’s conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
-Bombing results
-Effect on negotiations
-Thieu
-Prospects for future
-Kissinger

Vietnam settlement
-National mood
-Charles McC Mathias, Jr.
-William B. Saxbe
-The President’s opponents
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-Bombing
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] news
-Hospitals
-Gary Hart
-W. Ramsey Clark
-World War II bombing
-Harry S. Truman
-Atomic bomb
-Korean War bombing
-Colson’s staff
-Morale
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-William J. Baroody, Jr.
-Patrick J. Buchanan

Buchanan’s book
-Colson’s view

Demonstrators
-Hall
-Teamsters
-Jay Lovestone
-[First name unknown] Kramer

Scammon
-National economy
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Conversation No. 36-18 (cont’d)

-The President’s opponents
-Blacks, poor
-New Left
-Intellectuals
-Homosexuals

Rizzo
-Participation at 1973 Inauguration events
-Colson’s view
-John B. Connally
-Support for bombing

Vietnam settlement
-Bombing
-Labor union support
-Thomas W. (“Teddy”) Gleason
-Australia
-Ship boycott
-Australian Prime Minister
-[Edward] Gough Whitlam
-Support for American policies
-Canada, Sweden
-Brennan
-Statements by Barry M. Goldwater, John C. Stennis
-Thieu
-Bombing
-The President’s May 8, 1972 speech
-Vietnam settlement
-The President’s speech, January 25, 1972
-Reaction
-The President’s opponents
-Colson’s view
-The President’s view
-Treasonable

Busing court order
-Prince George’s County, Maryland
-Reaction
-Gilbert Gude
-Montgomery County, Maryland
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Conversation No. 36-18 (cont’d)

-Left-wing Jews
-Lawrence J. Hogan and Marjorie Holt

National economy
-Stock prices
-Washington Post

1973 Inaugural parade
-Colson’s role
-Participant’s to reviewing stand

1973 Inaugural speech
-Colson’s view
-Length of speech