376–1

Conversation No. 378-15/376-1

Date: October 31, 1972
Time: Unknown between 4:10 pm and 5:34 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

[An unknown portion of this conversation was not recorded while the tape was changed.]


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Issues
-Richard M. Scammon’s view
-Canada
-Welfare
-University of Toronto
-Economy
-Race
-Vietnam
-Conservatives
-Vietnam
-Henry A. Kissinger
-\"Peace is at hand\"
-The President’s view
-Negotiated settlement
-Timing
-Relative to 1972 election
-Interpretation
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-Colson’s view
-Press coverage
-News summary
-George Meany, Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Unhappiness with the settlement
-Colson's recent conversation with Jay Lovestone
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Lovestone
-Lovestone’s reaction
-Coalition government in South Vietnam
-National Council of National Reconciliation and Concord

An unknown person talked with the President at an unknown time between 4:10 pm and 5:34
pm.

[Conversation No. 378-15/376-1A]

The President's schedule
-Telephone call

[End of telephone conversation]


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Issues
-Vietnam
-Corruption
-Administration handling
-Lawsuit
-Dwight C. Chapin
-“Wait and see”

Post-1972 election strategy
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-Television [TV] media
-License renewals
-Washington DC, Jacksonville, Miami
-Challenges
-Federal Communications Commission [FCC] action
-FCC
-Dean Burch
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Primetime access rules
-Statement
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC], CBS
-American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC]
Requests to see Colson
-CBS re-runs
-Morning segment
-Length
-William S. Paley
-New York trip
-Significance
-Networks
-CBS, NBC, ABC,
-Equal time
-Mood of the country
-Morality
-Press, Professors, “Jet Set”
-George S. McGovern
-Feeling toward Administration
-Importance of issues


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Campaign practices
-McGovern and R. Sargent Shriver
-Italian-Americans
-Labor leaders
-Dayton
-Walter Cronkite, Jr.
-CBS Evening News
-Organization of demonstrators, name-calling
-Shriver’s October 29, 172 appearance in Albuquerque
-Eunice (Kennedy) Shriver


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Colson left at 5:34 pm.