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Conversation No. 656-7

Date: January 26, 1972
Time: 7:52 am - 8:03 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

[The President talked with Rose Mary Woods between 7:52 am and 7:53 am.]

[Conversation No. 656-7A]

[See Conversation No. 19-91; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

Newspaper stories concerning reaction to the President’s Vietnam peace proposal speech,
January 25, 1972
-News summary
-Washington Post
-New York Times
-Washington Post
-Richard (“Dick”) Lyons
-Accuracy
-Effect
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Conv. No. 656-7 (cont.)


-Administration reaction
-Herbert G. Klein

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 7:57 am.

-The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming congressional leaders meeting
-Talks with Haldeman and Colson, January 25, 1972
-Administration’s handling
-Truth
-Lyons
-John Sherman Cooper
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Philip A. Hart [?]
-F. Bradford Morse
-Administration handling
-Klein
-Need to challenge stories
-Positive information
-Nature of stories
-Tone
-Sander Vanocur
-Administration handling
-Friendly journalists
-Need to attack
-Publishers
-Compared to the President’s November 3, 1969 speech
-Public perception
-Polls
-Press releases
-Ronald L. Ziegler

Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 8:03 am.
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