131–13

Conversation No. 131-13

Date: May 17, 1972
Time: 3:02 pm - 3:16 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with John N. Mitchell.

[See also Conversation No. 189-25]


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American society
-Age of violence
-The President’s view
-Vietnam war
-Theodore Roosevelt
-William McKinley
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Anton Cermak
-Harry S. Truman
-House of Representatives
-Price of free society
-1972 compared to 1967 and 1968
-Mitchell’s view
-Wallace
-Responsibility
-Verbal attacks
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Edmund S. Muskie
-George S. McGovern
-Shooting
-Assailant [Arhtur H. Bremer]
-Motive
-The President’s view
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] investigation
-Mitchell’s view

Soviet summit
-Possible cancellation
-Mitchell, John B. Connally predictions
-President's position

Vietnam
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-President's decision to bomb North Vietnam, mine harbors [blockade]
-Importance
-Compared with Soviet Union summit
-President's talk with Mitchell
-Mitchell’s view
-Effects
-Options
-Effects
-Morale of US
-Committee to Reelect the President [CRP] support
-Efforts
-Morale of South Vietnamese troops and people
-Morale of North Vietnam
-Democratic critics
-The President’s view
-Military situation
-Kontum
-Henry A. Kissinger
-South Vietnamese performance
-Firebase bastogne
-I Corps attacks
-An loc
-Kontum
-Importance
-Blockade
-Effect
-Comparison with 1968 situation
-Sihanoukville
-Cambodian supply lines
-Sea lanes
-Bombing
-Time
-North Vietnam oil reserves
-Time
-US military's position
-Mitchell’s view
-Central Intelligence Agency's [CIA] position
-The President’s view
-Previous experience
-Differences
-Mechanized compared with guerilla war
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Conv. No. 131-13 (cont.)


-Cambodian supplies
-Intensity
-Comparison with previous experience
-Effect
-Editorial critics
-The President’s view

Mitchell
-President's trip to Soviet Union
-Work at CRP
-President's appreciation