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742–11

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742–11
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • HENRY CABOT LODGE
  • Charles W. Colson
  • Henry A. Kissinger
June 26, 1972
Conversation No. 742-11

Date: June 26, 1972
Time: 11:07 am -11:30 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry Cabot Lodge and Charles W. Colson.

The President’s schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Press photograph

The President's statement on return from trip to the Soviet Union
-Lodge’s view
-US News and World Report article

Henry A. Kissinger entered at an unknown time after 11:07 am.

Washington Post article comparing George S. McGovern's national
security policy with Dwight D. Eisenhower's
-The President’s view

Photograph opportunity

Vatican
-Lodge’s previous visit
-Frank Stevenson from the State Department
-Giovanni Battista Motini [Pope Paul VI]
-Feelings toward the President
-Lodge’s assessment
-American bishops
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-Structure of Lodge's office
-Archbishop Spinnelli (?)
-Foreign service officer's role in Pope's attitude toward Joseph Cardinal
Mindszenty
-US embassy in Rome
-Lodge's schedule
-Kissinger’s view
-Oral Roberts
-Vietnam
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Staffing
-Lodge's title
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Pope's brother
-Visitors to Vatican
-Terrance Cardinal Cooke
-John Cardinal Krol
-Support for the President
-Timothy Cardinal Manning
-James F.A. Cardinal McIntyre
-John Cardinal Cody
-Cardinal in St. Louis
-Cardinal in Detroit
-White House efforts
-Cardinals
-Cardinal Cooke
-Lodge's visit
-Cardinal Manning
-Colson’s role
-Lodge's visits
-Aid to education bill


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Lodge's official roles
-Diplomatic appointments
-Lodge's family
-Paris
-Diplomatic assignments
-Spain
-George Lodge's family
-Lodge
-Possible appointees
-Robert C. Hill
-Horatio Rivero
-John D. Lodge
-Political future
-Argentina
-John Lodge
-Gen. Francisco Franco
-Lopez Bravo
-Current Vice President of Spain
-Linguistic ability
-Lodge
-Germany
-State Department
-Relationship with Pope
-Maltese ambassador

Lodge's family

Washington Post article
-Colson

Lodge, et al., left at 11:31 am.
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