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Conversation No. 394-7

Date: January 5, 1973
Time: Unknown between 12:36 pm and 1:02 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

Telephone call
-Ronald L. Ziegler’s schedule
-Press conference
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Conversation No. 394-7 (cont’d)


The President talked with Stephen B. Bull between 12:37 pm and 12:38 pm.

[Conversation No. 394-7A]

[See Conversation No. 35-95]

Congressional relations
-Colson's recent conversations with William E. Timmons
-Tone
-The President’s bipartisan leadership meeting
-George H. Mahon
-Standing ovation
-Democrats, Republicans
-Hugh Scott
-Gerald R. Ford
-Henry A. Kissinger’s meeting with Scott and Ford
-Kissinger meeting with Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-Timmon’s schedule
-[Freshmen Congressmen and bipartisan leadership reception]

Colson take with the White House operator at an unknown time between 12:38 pm and 1:02 pm.

[See Conversation No. 35-96]

Colson talked with Timmons at an unknown time between 12:38 pm and 1:02 pm.

[See Conversation No. 35-96]

Congressional relations
-Mansfield
-Possibility of leaks
-Timmons’s schedule
-Meeting with Scott, Ford
-Timmons
-Personality
-Enthusiasm
-Overstatements
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Scott, Ford
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Conversation No. 394-7 (cont’d)


Unemployment
-Statistics
-Lack of change
-Herbert Stein’s view
-Revisions
-January 1973, December, November, October 1972

Stock market
-Status
-Press relations
-Associated Press [AP]
-Washington Star
-AP
-Wire service reports
-Wall Street

Roberto Clemente fund
-Daniel M. Galbreath’s statement
-The President’s meeting with Galbreath, Dave Giusti [and Steve Blass]
-“Sports city”
-The President’s message and contribution

Press relations
-The President’s schedule
-January 1, 1973
-Roger H. Mudd
-Frank Cormier’s AP article
-Timing
-Oval Office
-[Lock on door]
-New York Daily News
-Second term reorganization
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Swearing in as Army Vice Chief of Staff
-Distinguished Service Medal
-The President’s presentation
-Washington Star
-AP
-Harry S. Truman’s memorial service
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Conversation No. 394-7 (cont’d)

-The President’s attendance
-Mary McGrory
-The President’s telephone call to Lyndon B. Johnson
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Public relations
-Independence, Missouri
-John A. Scali
-Funeral
-Television [TV]
-Middle America
-Archie Bunker
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Washingtonian magazine article
-Liberal orientation
-New Yorker
-[Nancy Clinch]
-Background
-Psychology
-Kennedy Family
-Presidency
-Assassination fears
-Expectations
-Harvard University
-Rugby match, 1954
-Women
-Drinking
-Driving
-Chappaquiddick
-Colson’s conversation with the President
-Agnew
-Amanda Burden

Watergate
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, Colson
-Cover-up
-Possible revelation
-Knowledge
-Ronald L. Ziegler’s possible statement
-John N. Mitchell
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Conversation No. 394-7 (cont’d)

-Order
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Hearsay
-Magruder
-Work with Colson
-Haldeman
-Role
-Approval
-Hearsay
-Decisions
-Decisions
-Mitchell
-Indirect approval
-Loss of memory
-Colson’s view
-Personality
-February – April 1972
-Preoccupation
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Lack of fears
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-The President’s trip to the People’s Republic of China
[PRC]
-The President’s May 8, 1972 decision
-1972 election

Congressional relations
-Tone
-White House Staff
-The President’s meeting with Haldeman
-The President’s previous crises
-Ehrlichman
-Meeting with Congressional leaders
-The President’s role compared to White House Staff role
-Ehrlichman, Haldeman, Clarke MaGregor, Colson

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with President of Israel [S. Zalman Shazar]
-Freshman Congressman reception
-Handshaking
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Conversation No. 394-7 (cont’d)

-Camp David

Congressional relations
-Vietnam negotiations
-The President’s meeting with Haldeman and Henry A. Kissinger
-Treason charge
-Colson
-US bombing of North Vietnam
-Kissinger’s return to Paris
-The President’s bipartisan leadership meeting
-Instructions for Scali
-Transcript
-Ziegler’s press conference
-US bombing of North Vietnam
-White House
-Chronology

Press relations
-Scali
-Meeting with the President
-White House
-The President’s bipartisan leadership meeting
-The President’s remarks

Colson left at 1:02 pm.