32–65

Conversation No. 32-65

Date: October 26, 1972
Time: 11:53 pm - 12:21 am
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

Vietnam
-Peace settlement publicity
-The President’s previous trip to Kentucky and West Virginia
-Henry A. Kissinger's briefing
-Colson's analysis
-Effect on Watergate news story
-Peace settlement
-Public hopes
-Remaining differences
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-North Vietnam
-Resolution
-North Vietnamese release
-The President’s position
-Advantages
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-George S. McGovern's response
-Colson’s view
-Responses
-George P. Shultz
-Boston
-Chicago
-David E. Bradshaw
-Public reaction
-Watergate
-Impact
-The President’s view
-Affected groups
-Public reaction
-Kissinger's briefing
-Television coverage
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Length
-Panel
-Martin Z. Agronsky
-Hugh S. Sidey
-Carl T. Rowan
-David Kraslow
-Washington Star
-Sidey's comments
-Rowan and Agronsky
-Peter Lisagor
-Comments
-Rowan
-Comments on McGovern
-The President's comments in Kentucky
-Wording
-Crowd response
-Television news coverage
-Huntington, West Virginia
-Arch A. Moore
-Crowd response
-Rally
-Size
-Reaction in Ohio and Chicago
-Possible forthcoming criticism
-Public response
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-Kissinger's briefing
-May 8, 1972
-Colson’s view
-Television news coverage
-John A. Scali
-Possible prisoners of war [POW’s] release
-Response
-Public responses
-Press responses
-Sidey
-Comments
-Impact on McGovern
-Colson’s view

1972 election
-McGovern
-Watergate issue
-Peace settlement
-Public reaction
-Chicago
-Shultz's report
-Edward Hirsch Levi’s reaction to Democratic criticism
-University of Chicago
-Editor of Barron's
-Article on Democrats
-Wall Street Journal
-Editorial
-Criticism of Democrats
-Watergate
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Media coverage
-The President’s view
-Robert J. Dole
-Publicity compared with Vietnam settlement news
-Timing of McGovern’s statement with network news
-Washington Post article
-McGovern
-Dole criticism
-Newspaper stories
-Washington Post stories
-Stories on Haldeman
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-Possible discovery of memoranda
-Future strategy
-Domestic economy
-Advertisements
-The President's campaign
-The President’s view
-Negative advertisements
-Radio advertisements
-Defense cuts
-California
-Colson’s fund-raising
-Criticism of McGovern
-Relentlessness
-The President’s popularity
-Vietnam settlement
-Kissinger's role
-John B. Connally
-Compared with the President's role
-Letter
-Announcement
-Public reception
-Kissinger’s image
-Briefing
-Network coverage
-Credit
-Call from James L. Buckley
-Kissinger's call to William F. Buckley, Jr.
-Organized labor
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Paul Hall
-Work in San Francisco
-Issue of a coalition government
-POWs
-Reaction
-POWs
-Support for the President
-Fitzsimmons
-George Meany
-Jay Lovestone
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr. contact
-Louis P. Harris
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-Kissinger’s briefing
-October 8, 1972
-Delivery of October 6, 1972 poll results to Kissinger
-Reaction to settlement
-Impact on election
-Call to Colson
-Optimism


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Parochial school aid statement
-News accounts
-Los Angeles
-Hispanic Catholics
-Polls
-Rev. C. Albert Koob’s statement

Foreign policy issues
-John Cardinal Krol
-Trip to Poland
-Meeting with the President
-William P. Rogers’s attendance
-Vietnam
-Cardinal Krol’s efforts
-Conflicts with Council of Bishops
-Press conference


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-Democrats for Nixon
-Briefing for Connally
-Television appearance
-George E. Christian
-Call from Colson
-Connally
-Call from Henry A. Kissinger
-Haldeman
-The President’s instructions
-Christian
-Call from Colson
-Vietnam settlement
-News coverage
-Interpretation
-Colson’s view