407–18

Conversation No. 407-18

Date: January 23, 1973
Time: Between 6:22 pm and 7:23 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

Vietnam settlement
-Campaign against the President's opponents
-Colson's office's role
-Barry M. Goldwater's role
-Political left
-Response
-White House response
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.’s comment
-Washington Post editorial
-Effect of bombing and mining
-Effect on country, Congress, youth
-Divisiveness
-Goldwater's role
-Tenuousness
-Cease-fire violations
-Press coverage
-Phnom Penh
-The President's statements
-1972 election
-Colson's plan
-Congressional relations
-Labor leaders
-George Meany
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Statement
-Ronald L. Ziegler
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-Apology from President's critics
-Delay in peace process by critics
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Haldeman
-Public opinion
-The President's critics
-Bombing
-Cambodia
-Laos
-November 3, 1969 speech
-Demonstrations
-May 8, 1972 decision
-World War II
-Peter J. Brennan
-Congress
-Possible statement
-Effect on news reporting
-William P. Rogers
-Congress
-Briefings
-Congressional leaders
-Press
-The President's speech
-Briefings
-Kissinger
-Press relations
-New York Times, Time
-The President's talk with Ziegler on White House staff contacts

Colson's lawsuit against Time
-Colson's lawyer's meeting with Time
-Retraction
-Purpose of Time story
-Malice
-Subsciptions
-Sensational stories
-Saturday Evening Post, Look, Life examples
-Story on Marlon Brando
-Patrick J. Buchanan
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Supreme Court decision on abortion
-Roe v. Wade
-Two dissenting justices
-Effects
-Conservatives
-State laws
-Teenage girls
-3-month rule
-Interracial cases
-Rape cases
-Effects
-Social consequences
-Permissiveness
-Family
-Two dissenting justices
-William H. Rehnquist, Lewis F. Powell
-Rehnquist, Byron R. (“Whizzer”) White
-Writing of decisions

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 6:35 pm.

Vietnam settlement
-Congratulations
-Croix de Guerre
-The President's opponents
-Colson's plan

Colson left at 6:36 pm.

Vietnam settlement
-The President's forthcoming speech
-Revisions
-Wording
-Advance distribution
-Price's and President's work
-President's opponents
-Revisions
-Vietnamese translation
-Text copy
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Conversation No. 407-18 (cont’d)

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 6:36 pm and
6:38 pm.

[Conversation No. 407-18A]

[See Conversation No. 36-88]

[End of telephone conversation.]

Vietnam settlement
-The President’s and Kissinger’s predictions
-Nguyen Van Thieu

The President talked with Ziegler between 6:38 pm and 6:40 pm

[Conversation No. 407-18B]

[See Conversation No. 36-89

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam settlement
-White House public relations [PR] effort [?]
-Price,
-Alexander M. Haig’s trip
-The President's speech
-Location
-Bella Abzug, George S. McGovern
-Ziegler
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Haig
-Cease-fire [?]
-William P. Rogers
-The President’s speech [?]
-Wording [?]
-Paragraphs
-Agnew

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 6:40 pm.
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Refreshment order

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 7:23 pm.

Vietnam settlement
-Saigon [?]
-Rogers
-Thieu [?]
-Meeting with Haig [?]
-Bombing
-Future of South Vietnam
-Government [?]
-Sacrifices [?]
-The President's schedule
-Congressional leaders meeting
-Camp David [?]
-Congress [?]
-South Vietnamese
-Thieu
-North Vietnam
-Bombing
-Cambodia
-Soviet Union, People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-North Vietnam
-Cease-fire
-Laos
-South Vietnam
-Rogers [?]

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 6:40 pm.

PRC

Kissinger and Sanchez left at 7:23 pm.
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