Date: November 7, 1972
Time: 9:29 pm – 9:40 pm
Location: White House Telephone
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The President talked with Charles W. Colson.
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1972 election
-Overall view
-Massachusetts
-Percentages
-Suffolk County
-Blue collar areas
-Connecticut
-Colson’s recent conversation with Thomas Meskill
-The President’s lead
-Congressional races
-The President’s coat tails
-“Penance vote” [Ticket splitting]
-New Jersey
-House of Representatives seat
-New York
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-Columbia Broadcasting Company [CBS]
-“Penance vote”
-Rhode Island
-Colson’s recent conversation with Herbert De Simone
-Turnout
-John H. Chafee
-Senate races
-Harry F. Byrd, Jr.
-Jesse M. Helms
-North Carolina
-The President’s lead
-William L. Scott
-J. Caleb Boggs
-Delaware
-The President’s lead
-Michigan
-The President’s lead
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-Busing advertisement [ad]
-George C. Wallace team
-Illinois
-Colson’s recent conversation with David E. Bradshaw
-Chicago
-Richard J. Daley
-Charles H. Percy
-Richard B. Ogilvie
-Lead
-The President’s coattails
-Downstate
-Chicago
-West Virginia
-Arch A. Moore, Jr.
-Louie B. Nunn
-Defeat
-Colson’s view
-Sales tax
-Walter Huddleston repeal
-Delaware
-Boggs
-The President’s lead
-Boggs
-The President’s efforts
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-De Simone
-The President’s campaign trips
-Effectiveness
-Kentucky
-Ticket splitting
-Colson’s view
-Connecticut
-George S. McGovern
-Statement
-Jean Westwood
-Incumbency
-Texas
-John G. Tower victory
-The President’s lead
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-Percentage
-National results
-New York, California
-Michigan
-Wisconsin
-Mountain states
-The President’s view
-Oklahoma
-The President’s lead
-Kansas
-Network coverage
-Jim Schurz
-NBC
-David Brinkley
-Voter turnout
-John Chancellor
-Landslide prediction
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-CBS
-Labor unions
-Effect
-Connecticut
-Colson’s recent conversation with Meskill
-Blue-collar workers, Catholics
-Rhode Island
-De Simone
-The President’s lead
-Chafee
-Boggs
-New Hampshire
-Powell
-Concord
-Manchester
-Maine
-Margaret Chase Smith
-South Dakota
-[Robert W. Hirsch]
-The President’s lead
-Maine
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-South Dakota
-Hirsch
-Senate races
-Possible Republican gains and losses
-Kentucky
-South Dakota
-Delaware
-New Hampshire
-Virginia
-North Carolina
-Oklahoma
-Rhode Island
-New Mexico
-Delaware
-South Dakota
-Ticket splitting
-Colson’s view
-South Dakota
-Hirsch
-Campaign
-Dewey F. Bartlett
-Pete V. Domenici
-Kentucky
-Nunn
-The President’s trip
-Louisville
-Ticket splitting
-Colson’s view
-“Brass collar” Democrats
Tricia Nixon Cox entered at an unknown time after 9:29 pm.
The President’s schedule
1972 election results
-Ticket splitting
-Democrats
-Kentucky
-Tax issue
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-The President’s lead
-Network projections
-NBC
-Kevin P. Phillips
-New York
-Connecticut
-Illinois
-New York -Ohio
-Michigan
-South
-California
-Final results
-Timing
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