Conversation No. 148-14

Date: October 10, 1972
Time: 9:44 pm - 9:53 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 219-16]

        1972 election
            -Melvin R. Laird’s response
            -George S. McGovern's foreign policy speech
                -Vietnam War
                     -Description of North Vietnamese forces
                         -“Peasant guerillas”
                         -Armored divisions
                -Network appearances
                     -John B. Connally
                     -Expenses
                         -Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
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                          (rev. Oct-06)

                 -Washington, DC
                      -National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
             -Connally's foreign policy broadcast
                 -H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
   -Number of viewers
        -Colson’s previous conversation with Albert E. Sindlinger
   -The President's conversation with Tricia Nixon Cox
-McGovern
   -Speaking voice
   -Issues
        -Prisoners of war [POWs], amnesty, communism, “peasant guerillas”
        -Cambodia
             -Numbers of North Vietnamese
                 -Speech by Laird
                      -Laos
             -Speech by William P. Rogers
                 -Timing
        -Vietnam
             -Negotiations
                 -Robert J. Dole
                      -Statement
                 -Hugh Scott
                      -Statement
                 -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
                 -Connally
             -Agnew
                 -Possible reply
                      -POWs
                      -Amnesty
                      -Cambodia
                      -Laos
-McGovern’s recent foreign policy speech
   -Colson’s conversation with Sindlinger
        -Vietnam
   -Administration’s stance on McGovern’s views
        -McGovern’s qualifications to be President
   -Vietnam
        -McGovern’s World War II experience
        -Fascism compared to communism
   -Speech viewership
        -Sindlinger
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                                       (rev. Oct-06)

                     -Prime time
                 -Edmund S. Muskie’s speech of January 1972
                 -Vietnam negotiations