Date: December 14, 1972
Time: 2:15 pm – 3:24 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Charles W. Colson.
Colson’s schedule
-Reception for 1972 election supporters
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Reception for 1972 election supporters
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Maurice H. Stans
-Atmosphere
-Mrs. Fred Gualtieri
-Admiration for the President
-Blair House dinner
-Peter J. Brennan
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-Wife
-Speech
-Description of the President
-Reaction
-Martin J. Ward
-Support for the Democratic Party
-United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and
Pipe Fitting Industry
-Chicago
-Patricia Colson
-Frank L. Rizzo
-Invitations
-John Madigan
-Charles Snider
-George C. Wallace
-Traits
-Background
-Construction business
-Wallace
-New Majority
-New political party
-John B. Connally
-The President’s schedule
-Ray Mosley
-Brennan
-Loyalty
-Joseph Staozak
-Maryland
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
-Republican Party
-Handshake
Republican Party
-George H. W. Bush
-William E. Brock, III
-Clarence J. (“Bud”) Brown, Jr.
-Candidate recruitment
-Age
-Young Republicans
-Attitude
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-Complaints
-Labor
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Henry A. Kissinger and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. entered at 2:30 pm.
Vietnam negotiations
-North Vietnamese delays
-Congressional relations
-US aid cut off
-1972 election
-Peace expectations
-Le Duc Tho
-Breakdown in talks
-North Vietnam’s position
-Cease-fire
-Supervision
-New invasion
-Imposition of Communist government in South Vietnam
-Tactics
-Effect
-US position
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Total victory
-Cease-fire
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Elections
-Settlement agreement
-US public opinion
-Enforcement
-Thieu
-Press relations
-Liberals
-Breakdown in talks
-North Vietnam’s position
-Settlement agreement
-Timing
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-Exchange of messages
-The President
-Christmas
-1973 Inauguration
-Congressional reconvention
-Peace
-US military action
-Settlement agreement
-Explanation of status, terms
-Tone
-US mining and bombing north of 20 Parallel
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-October 26, 1972 cessation
-Reason
-Settlement agreement
-Signing
-Lack of announcement
-Reseeding of mines
-Reconnaissance
-Hanoi
-Targets
-Power plants, marshaling yards, communications
-Duration
-Congressional reconvention
-US public opinion
-Congressional relations
-Michael J. Mansfield amendment
-The President’s meeting with Hugh Scott and William E.
Timmons
-US withdrawal
-Timing
-POWs
-Vietnamization
-Settlement agreement
-US aid to South Vietnam
-Cessation of US bombing, mining, US withdrawal
-POWs
-Thieu’s tenure
-Communist government
-1972 election
-Peace with honor
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-George S. McGovern
-Continuation of bombing
-POWs
-Amendments
-Senate, House of Representatives
-US public opinion
-Peace expectations
-North Vietnam
-Draft
-College campuses
-Colson’s trip to Princeton University
-Parties
-Harvard University
-Brown University
-Louis P. Harris poll
-Syracuse, New York
-1972 election
-POWs
-North Vietnam-South Vietnam fighting
-Taxes
-Draft
-US pilots
-The President’s May 8, 1972 decision
-Effect
-Peace with honor
-The President’s possible statement
-Nuclear war
-“Doves”
-“Hawks”
-Antiwar sentiment
-McGovern
Colson left at 2:45 pm.
-Planning
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Melvin R. Laird
-[David] Kenneth Rush, Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Meeting with the President
-Camp David
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-B-52s
-Number
-The President’s schedule
-Europe
-Duration
-North Vietnam’s tactics
-Kissinger’s meetings
-Record
-POWs protocol
-Civilian detainees
-National Council of National Reconciliation and Concord
[NCRC]
-Kissinger’s press conference
-The President’s meeting with Kissinger
-Timing
-William P. Rogers
-Moorer
-Reception
-Location
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Timing
-Congressional relations
-Scott
-Congressional reconvention
-Vietnamization
-North Vietnam-South Vietnam relations
-US-South Vietnam relations
-Communists-North Vietnam relations
-US withdrawal
-Cessation of US bombing, mining
-POWs
-Timing
-Mansfield Amendment
-Scott
-Mansfield Amendment
-US military activities
-Cut off of funds
-Nixon Doctorine
-The President’s possible statement
-Tone
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-Public opinion
-Republican, Democrats
-Timing
-Duration
-1972 election
-Effect of the President’s May 8, 1972 decision
-The President’s November 3, 1969 speech
-Public opinion
-Colson’s view
-Pre-election proposals
-Allies
-POWs
-Rejection
-Kissinger’s press conference, October 26, 1972
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Timing
-Cease-fire
-Coalition government
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham’s conversation with [Shah of Iran] Mohammed Reza
Pahlavi
-October 1972
-Kissinger’s efforts
-Settlement agreement
-Protocols
-Duration and violations
-US bombing, mining north of 20 Parallel
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-The President’s May 8, 1972 decision
-US-Soviet Union summit
-US bombing, mining north of 20 Parallel
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-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Soviet Union
-Kissinger’s press conference
-Peace with honor
-North Vietnam’s position
-US bombing, mining north of 20 Parallel
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-Haig mission
-Timing
-Thieu
-Settlement agreement
-Enforcement
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-Continuation of war
-US aid
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