Date: December 9, 1972

Time: Unknown between 4:00 pm and 6:50 pm

Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 235-10]

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Democratic National Committee [DNC]

-Impeachment vote

-Failed

-Jean Westwood

-Resignation

-Robert S. Strauss

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log

(rev. Apr.-08)

-Vote count

-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

-John B. Connally

-Second vote

-Radicals

-Charlie Snider

-Support for Westwood

-Supporters of George C. Wallace

-Lawrence O’Brien

-Charles Manatt

-George Mitchell

-Come Home Democrats Coalition

-Advertisements

-Conservative Democrats

-Ben Wattenberg

-Richard M. Scammon

-Possible meeting with the President

-Support for the Republicans

1972 election

-Issues

-Social issues

-May 8, 1972 decision to mine Haiphong Harbor

-Samuel Lubell

-Albert E. Sindlinger

-Soviet Union

-People’s Republic of China [PRC]

-Scammon analysis

-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations

[AFL-CIO]

-Patrick J. Buchanan

-Paper about 1972 election

-Richard (“Dick”) Wilson column

-Circulation

-Herbert C. Hoover

-George S. McGovern

-Destruction

-Harriet Vanhorn

-McGovernites

-Power

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Tape Subject Log

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-DNC

-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s views

-1972 election

-Personal victory

-Little assistance

-Republican National Committee [RNC] analysis

-Michigan

-Counties

-Vote turnout

-Theodore H. White column

-Copy for the President

-RNC

-Centrist coalition

Princeton University

-Mood

-Wendell Bell Colson, II

-Nixon posters

-Campus

-1972 election reaction

-Other campuses

-Harvard University

-Activists

-Support for Nixon

-Apathy

-Tolerance

-Young Republicans

-Yale University

-Columbia University

-Ohio State University

-Kentucky University

-Vanderbilt University

-Tulane University

-Radicals

-Decreasing support for protests

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log

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Vietnam negotiations

-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s schedule

-Return for consultation

-Henry A. Kissinger

-Continuation of talks

-Colson’s view

-Settlement agreement

-Announcement

-Presidential speech

-Necessity

-Public opinion

-Public opinion

-Support for the President

-1972 election

-George S. McGovern

-Economy

-Support for the President

-Settlement agreement

-Kissinger

-Progress

-Public opinion

-Normalcy

National economy

-Albert E. Sindlinger

-Consumer Confidence Index

-Stock Market

-Wall Street

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1972 election

-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

-Tricia Nixon Cox

-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

-1968 election

-National confidence

-Key Biscayne

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Tape Subject Log

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-Future of Republican Party

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

-Second term compared

-Public support

Democrats

-Internal conflicts

-Snider

-Report to Colson

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