Date: December 10, 1972

Time: 9:55 am – 10:02 am

Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

-Colson’s schedule

-Trip to Princeton University

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-Election of Robert S. Strauss

-Implications

-John B. Connally

-Future plans

-Support for Strauss

-Charles S. Snider

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Tape Subject Log

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-Opposition to Strauss

-Vote totals

-Jean Westwood

-South

-Connally

-Support for party reforms

-Labor support

Labor

-Support for the President

-George Meany

-Peter J. Brennan

-Leonard Woodcock

-Frank E. Fitzsimmons

-Paul Hall

-Meany

-Brennan

-Accommodation

Democratic chairmanship

-Election of Strauss

-Left wing press reaction

-Unification of Democratic Party

-Remaining divisions

-Problem for Connally

The President’s successor

-Alternatives to Connally

-William E. Brock, III

-Charles H. Percy

-Edward W. Brooke

-Nelson A. Rockefeller

-Age

-Ronald W. Reagan

-Age

-Potential

-Colson’s possible conversation with Connally

-Labor support

-Democratic party

-Left wing desire to keep Connally in the party

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-Mary Lasker

-William Benton

-Henry M. Jackson

-Hubert H. Humphrey

-Edward M. Kennedy

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