154–5

Conversation No. 154-5

Date: September 23, 1972
Time: 5:32 pm - 5:59 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table


The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation no. 213-10]


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Issues
-Foreign policy and amnesty
-The President’s positions

1972 campaign
-George S. McGovern
-Position on amnesty and foreign policies
-Colson's analysis
-Possible air time purchase
-Defense
-Edmund S. Muskie type speech by McGovern
-Peace Corps
-Schools


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Issues
-McGovern's campaign
-Marijuana issue
-Observation by Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Legalization of marijuana
-Similarity to legality of alcohol
-Earlier Playboy Magazine interview
-George Meany
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-Penalty for possession of marijuana
-Reduction
-Knowledge of legal terms by man on street
-Reduction
-Marijuana issue
-Reduction of penalty
-McGovern and marijuana issue
-Impression
-Television coverage on this issue
-The President’s September 22, 1972 and September 18, 1972
statements
-Drug issue during campaign
-The President's position
-Television coverage
-Myles J. Ambrose
-Press coverage on drug issue, amnesty issue
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Amnesty issue
-Desertion and penalty
-Abraham Lincoln
-Interviews in Canada
-Absentee ballot for McGovern
-Citizenship status
-Speech by Barry M. Goldwater
-Statement by Kleindienst
-Statement by Lowell P. Weiker, Jr.
-Tour of Connecticut
-Response from crowd
-Possible legislative action


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