Date: February 3, 1973
Time: 1:32 pm – 1:57 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Charles W. Colson.
Editorial comments on Vietnam settlement
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
Henry A. Kissinger
-Meeting with the President
-Colson’s encounter with Kissinger
-Meeting with Joseph C. Kraft
-Kissinger’s response
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
The President talked with Claudia A. (“Lady Bird”) Johnson between 1:33 pm and 1:38 pm.
[Conversation No. 840-19A]
[See Conversation No. 43-22]
[End of telephone conversation]
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Colson’s conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
-Kraft’s call to Kissinger
-Telephone records
-Colson’s conversation with Kraft
-Kraft’s possible reaction
-Reston
-Colson’s conversation with Kraft
-Kissinger as source of story
Helmut (“Hal”) Sonnenfeldt
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Conversation with Colson
-View of Kissinger
-The President’s view
-Hawkish views
-Conversation with Colson
-Colson’s op-ed
-Effect on Kraft and Reston
-View of Kissinger
-Behavior
-Loyalty
-Transfer
-Note to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Intelligence
-Haig
John A. Scali
-Nicholas P. Timmesch
-Kissinger
-Appointment to United Nations [UN]
Cabinet
-Democrats
-Peter J. Brennan
-Scali
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-Italian-American
-Woman
-Southerner
-Support for the President
-Frederick B. Dent
-Claude S. Brinegar
-James T. Lynn
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Confirmation hearings
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-Reorganization
-Strengths
-Robert H. Finch
-Loyalty
-Roy L. Ash
-Edmund S. Muskie’s questions
Congressional relations
-1972 election
-Vietnam settlement
-The President’s success
Kissinger
-Press relations
-Marvin L. Kalb
-Handling of bombing question
-Haig
-Bill Maritta [?]
-Value
-Middle East negotiations
-The President’s control
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:38 pm.
Committee for the study of Foreign Policy
-Haldeman
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-George H. W. Bush
-Colson
Bull left at an unknown time before 1:57 pm.
Nominees to the Committee for the study of Foreign Policy
-David M. Abshire
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Strengths
-Robert D. Murphy
-Age
-Leo Cherne
-Strengths
-Adrian Lee
-Journalists
-Kissinger
-John C. McCloy
Foreign policy
-Changes by the President
-Colson’s “Charles Evan Hughes” lecture at Brown University
-Kissinger
-Possible content
-The President’s accomplishments
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Vietnam settlement
-Soviet Union
-Arms control
-Middle East truce
Vietnam settlement
-Impact on foreign policy
-Future wars
Kissinger
-Relations with Colson
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-Telephone calls to Los Angeles
-Scali
-Sonnenfeldt
-Loyalty to the President
-Reston
-Place in history
-Pandering to the left
-Interview with Kalb
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Howard K. Smith
-Ratings
-New York and Los Angeles
-Compared to other shows
-“Ironsides”
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-“Kung Fu”
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Haldeman
-Los Angeles rating
-“Kung Fu”
-Public reaction
-Washington Post
-Haig
-Conversation with Colson
-Ego
The President and Colson left at 1:57 pm.