Date: November 8, 1972
Time: 12:03 pm – 12:12 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Charles W. Colson.
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Greetings
1972 election
-The President’s call
-Colson’s thanks
-Colson’s work for the President
-Results
-Congressional races
-Candidates
-Quality
-Margaret Chase Smith
-Gordon L. Allott
-Jack R. Miller
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-Louie B. Nunn
-Tax problem
-J. Caleb Boggs
-Pete V. Domenici
-Herbert F. DeSimone
-Defeat
-John H. Chafee
-Rhode Island
-States won
-Compared to Lyndon B. Johnson
-Criticism of the President
-Margin of victory
-Johnson
-Total vote
-Turnout
-Blacks
-Youth
-Reasons
-Polls
-George H. Gallup
Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 12:05 pm.
Press conference
-The President’s activities
-Telephone calls
-Wires
-Rose Mary Woods
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-The President’s schedule
-Trip to Florida
-Telephone calls
-Number
-Timing
-Cabinet meeting
Ziegler left at 12:06 pm.
1972 election
-Results
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-Donald F. Rodgers’s comment
-Figures
-Percentages
-Third party impact
-John Birch Society [John G. Schmitz]
-Number of votes
-Percentages of precincts
-1964 election
-Johnson
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Percentage spread
-Schmitz
-Rural areas
-Arizona
-Washington state
-West Virigina
-Texas
-Rural areas
-[George S. McGovern]
-Landslide
-Press handling
-Congressional races
-Press handling
-The President’s victory
-New Majority
-Repudiation of McGovern
-Party labels
-Irrelevancy
-Rodgers’s comments
-Old style Republicans defeated
-Miller
-Allott
-Boggs
-Smith
-New Republicans
-James L. Buckley
-Michael P. Balzano
-DeSimone
-Domenici
-Thomas J. Meskill
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-“Wave of the future”
-Recruitment to the Republican Party
-Rodgers’s comments
-Bronx Democrats
-Boggs
-Miller
Lawrence M. Higby entered at 12:10 pm.
1972 election
-Briefcase
-Timing
-Results
-Senate races
-House of Representatives races
-Latest figures
-Net gains
-Maine
-Massachusetts
-California
-Orange county
-National figures
-Colson’s figures
-California
-State totals
Higby left at 12:12 pm.
1972 election
-Significance
-Rodgers’s comments
-New Majority
-The President’s creation
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The President and Colson left at 12:12 pm.
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Conversations No. 813-29
Date: November 8, 1972
Time: Unknown between 12:15 pm and 11:59 pm
Location: Oval Office
Unknown people [Secret Service agents] met.
The President’s location
Dale [last name unknown]
The President’s location
An unknown agent talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 12:15 pm and
12:59 pm.
[Conversation No. 813-29A]
The President’s location
[End of telephone conversation]
The President’s location
An unknown agent talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 12:15 pm and
12:59 pm.
[Conversation No. 813-29B]
The President’s location
[End of telephone conversation]
The President’s location
-Departure time
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