19–155

Conversation No. 19-155

Date: January 28, 1972
Time: 5:49 pm - 6:08 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

Vietnam
-The President's opponents
-Hugh Scott's statement
-Silence
-“Doves”
-Brad Morris, Charles W. Whalen, Jr., Charles McC. Mathias, John Sherman
Cooper
-Possible statement or resolution
-Scott's statement
-Vietnam War alternatives
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-Vietnamization
-Negotiation
-Surrender

Scott
-Position in Congress

The President's memorandum

The President's January 25, 1972 speech on Vietnam
-William P. Rogers's messages to US posts abroad
-Reaction in foreign countries
-Reaction
-Rogers’s possible press conference
-Timing
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Italy
-Laird
-Forthcoming appearance on “Meet the Press”
-Agnew
-Colson’s view
-Moderates
-National unity
-Points made
-Positivity
-The President's statements in 1968 about candidate's responsibility
-Comments on Vietnam negotiations
-Editorial writers
-Question and answer [Q & A] session
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-The President’s 1968 comments
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Polls
-Albert E. Sindlinger
-Colson's conversation with Frank Stanton
-Conversation with Colson
-Vietnam
-Use of poll results by Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]

Stanton
-Conversation with Colson
-The President's previous conversation with Stanton
-Sindlinger
-CBS
-Technical performance

Media relations
-Dan Rather
-John A. Scali's activities
-David Brinkley
-Marvin L. Kalb
-Murrey Marder

The press
-Tone
-News summary
-Kissinger's concerns
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston, Joseph C. Kraft
-New York Times
-The President's use of the news summary
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West coast dock strike
-James D. Hodgson's statement on January 28, 1972 concerning Congress

Labor leaders
-American flag pins
-John H. (“Jack”) Lyons
-Identification with the President
-The President January 27, 1972 call to George Meany
-Colson's January 28, 1972 conversation with Jay Lovestone
-Colson's conversation with Lovestone
-Meany
-Reaction to article by Andrew J. Biemiller and Alexander E. Barkan
-1972 campaign


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National economy
-Stock market
-Factors
-Retail sales figures, leading indicators
-Insured unemployment claims
-Colson's forthcoming conversation with Herbert Stein
-Teenage and full-time labor employment
-Labor surplus areas
-West Coast
-Hodgson
-Congress

Haldeman's poll transmittal