148–6

Conversation No. 148-6

Date: October 10, 1972
Time: 8:24 pm - 8:44 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 219-8]

The President's schedule
-The President's attempt to call Wilbur D. Mills

Spending ceiling
-House of Representatives
-Vote passage
-Margin
-Senate
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-Meeting with Senators
-Timing
-Senate
-Public perception
-Taxes
-Public relations

1972 election
-George S. McGovern’s foreign policy speech, October 10, 1972
-R. Sargent Shriver
-Possible trip to Hanoi
-The President's response
-Vietnam War
-South Vietnam
-Communists
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Amnesty
-Peace Corps
-Number of draftees, dead
-Union response
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Thomas W. (\"Teddy\") Gleason
-Kenneth R. Lyons
-Jesse M. Calhoon
-Opinions on McGovern
-Gleason’s view
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Negotiations
-Paris
-Labor leaders' views of McGovern
-Media coverage
-Lyons
-Gleason
-Gleason
-Vladimir I. Lenin Peace Prize
-Jane Fonda
-McGovern as President
-US Army
-South Vietnam
-Colson’s view
-Production values
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-Hanoi
-US bombing
-North Vietnamese armored divisions
-The President’s instructions
-Domestic Council
-Vietnam War
-Louis P. Harris
-Jews
-Hanoi
-Cambodia, Laos
-Hanoi
-Recent visit from Shriver
-Thailand
-South Vietnamese
-Hugh Scott’s statement
-North Vietnamese
-Pierre Mendes-France
-Comparisons from McGovern
-France
-Importance of issue
-Communists
-POWs
-French ethnics
-Upcoming speech by Melvin R. Laird
-Return of ethnic POWs
-Comparison
-Filipino
-American
-South Vietnamese
-North Vietnamese
-Frenchmen

Laird’s schedule
-Colson’s previous conversation with William J. Baroody, Jr.
-Speech
-Amnesty
-POWs
-Exploitation by North Vietnam
-South Vietnam
-Communists
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Issues
-McGovern’s recent foreign policy speech
-Amnesty
-POWs
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-Soldiers serving in Vietnam
-Number
-Calhoon
-Reference to McGovern’s areas of strength
-Canada
-Sweden
-North Vietnam
-Jay Lovestone
-George Meany
-Statement on Vietnam
-Gleason
-Calhoon
-Paul Hall
-Possible statement
-Colson’s request
-Fitzsimmons
-POWs

Political activities of Frank L. Rizzo
-Philadelphia
-Democrats
-Fundraising violations
-Media coverage
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-McGovern
-Refund of money

1972 election
-Media coverage
-Washington Post
-Television networks
-Daniel L. Schorr


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McGovern’s recent foreign policy speech
-Vietnam War
-Shriver
-Hanoi
-Originality of comments