Date: October 10, 1972
Time: 9:44 pm - 9:53 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table
The President talked with Charles W. Colson.
[See Conversation No. 219-16]
1972 election
-Melvin R. Laird’s response
-George S. McGovern's foreign policy speech
-Vietnam War
-Description of North Vietnamese forces
-“Peasant guerillas”
-Armored divisions
-Network appearances
-John B. Connally
-Expenses
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
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-Washington, DC
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-Connally's foreign policy broadcast
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Number of viewers
-Colson’s previous conversation with Albert E. Sindlinger
-The President's conversation with Tricia Nixon Cox
-McGovern
-Speaking voice
-Issues
-Prisoners of war [POWs], amnesty, communism, “peasant guerillas”
-Cambodia
-Numbers of North Vietnamese
-Speech by Laird
-Laos
-Speech by William P. Rogers
-Timing
-Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Robert J. Dole
-Statement
-Hugh Scott
-Statement
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Connally
-Agnew
-Possible reply
-POWs
-Amnesty
-Cambodia
-Laos
-McGovern’s recent foreign policy speech
-Colson’s conversation with Sindlinger
-Vietnam
-Administration’s stance on McGovern’s views
-McGovern’s qualifications to be President
-Vietnam
-McGovern’s World War II experience
-Fascism compared to communism
-Speech viewership
-Sindlinger
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-Prime time
-Edmund S. Muskie’s speech of January 1972
-Vietnam negotiations