131–19

Conversation No. 131-19

Date: May 17, 1972
Time: 7:49 pm - 8:20 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table

Charles W. Colson talked with the President.

[See also Conversation No. 190-10]

Vietnam
-Announcement of blockade
-Support
-Connecticut delegation
-Cuban supporters
-Boise (Idaho) and Wichita demonstrations of support
-Publicity
-Mail response
-Demonstrations
-Advertisement in New York Times
-Polls
-Louis P. Harris, Albert E. Sindlinger, Opinion Research Corporation
[ORC]
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-Length
-Nash Kestenbaum
-Rabbi [Forename unknown] Seidman
-Rabbi Abraham (?) Gross
-Press campaign
-Response to President’s announcement of blockade
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-Detroit Free Press
-Des Moines Register
-Joseph C. Kraft
-Administration program
-John A. Volpe
-Today show appearance
-President's trip to Soviet Union
-Importance
-Speeches
-Robert A. Taft, Jr.
-William E. Brock, III
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Letters to columnists
-Robert J. Dole
-Brock
-Colson’s view

George C. Wallace
-Assassination attempt
-Story on Harry S. Truman and Franklin D. Roosevelt parallels
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.
-William S. White
-Richard (“Dick”) Wilson
-Kilpatrick
-Liberal media
-Birch E. Bayh, Jr.
-Gun control legislation
-Effect
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Tracing of Arthur H. Bremer weapon

US-Soviet Union summit
-Previous meeting with John Cardinal Krol
-Announcement by Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-US Information Agency [USIA]
-Circulation
-Domestic impact
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Haig
-Cabinet
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-Trade
-Earl L. Butz, Peter G. Peterson
-Significance

Wallace
-Assassination attempt
-Impact on busing issue
-Senate and House conferees' proposal
-Busing moratorium
-Housing bill
-Length of meeting
-Michigan


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Vietnam
-President's previous decision to mine harbors and bomb North Vietnam [blockade]
-Press response
-The President’s view
-[Arnold] Eric Sevareid
-Marvin L. Kalb
-Newspapers
-Milton Viorst
-Joseph C. Kraft
-Administration response
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Today show appearance
-Statements
-The President’s view
-Columbia University Journalism School
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Administration media campaigns
-Forthcoming memorandum from Colson
-Monitoring operation
-Harry Reasoner
-Network executives
-Frank Stanton
-Robert W. Sarnoff
-The President’s view
-Mail campaign
-Stanton
-Vietnam
-Media coverage
-Colson’s view
-Compared to Laos and Cambodia
-Firebase Bastogne
-The President’s view
-Reason
-Effect of President's previous speech announcing blockade
-Wallace assassination attempt
-Clawson story
-Bremer
-Political affiliations
-Washington Post
-Detroit and Chicago papers
-Black Panthers
-Young Democrats
-Chicago Tribune
-Democrats' criticisms
-The President’s view
-Colson's office's work
-Colson’s view
-Michael Gravel and Edmund S. Muskie
-The President’s view
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Muskie
-The President’s view


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Vietnam
-Senate vote on cease-fire
-Administration use of results
-Taft's speech
-McGovern's position on war
-Jerry Rubin
-Rennie Davis
-Abbie Hoffman
-Clawson
-Democrats' position
-The President’s view
-Harris poll
-Cease-fire amendment
-Doves
-Michael J. Mansfield
-New proposal
-President's trip to the Soviet Union
-Effect
-Dole’s statement

Senate confirmation hearings
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Timing
-President's talk with Robert P. Griffin
-Senate floor fight
-Robert C. Byrd
-Party vote
-George P. Shultz
-Timing
-President's talk with Griffin
-John B. Connally
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-Administration actions
-John R. (“Tex”) McCrary
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Mansfield
-The President’s view
-Position
-Timing
-President's trip to Soviet Union
-Convention recess
-Administration actions
-Benefits
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] parallel

President's policies
-Domestic policy
-Foreign policy
-Harris
-Domestic issues
-The President’s view
-Water pollution
-Revenue sharing
-Welfare reform
-Level of concern nationally
-Welfare reform
-President's actions
-Connally’s view
-Domestic policy
-Drugs
-Busing
-Effect on voting
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] analysis
-Connection with race, housing
-Cardinal Krol's parish
-Effect on voting


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