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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-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