379–15

Conversation No. 379-15

Date: November 1, 1972
Time: Unknown between 10:46 am and 11:15 am
Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

The President's forthcoming radio and television speech, “Look to the Future”

Vietnam, negotiations
-Status
-Public relations [PR]
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-George S. McGovern [?]
-Right
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Conversation No. 379-15 (cont’d)

-Jay Lovestone

The President’s forthcoming speech, “Look to the Future”
-The President’s work with Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Vietnam War
-Settlement agreement
-1972 election
-Progress
-Coalition government
-Completion
-Timing
-Kissinger’s forthcoming conversation with Price
-The President’s role
-Kissinger’s forthcoming conversation with Price
-Kissinger’s memorandum
-Final draft
-The President’s work with Kissinger
-Kissinger’s health
-The President’s schedule
-Domestic policy radio speeches
-Vietnam War
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-William F. Buckley, Jr.

Kissinger’s schedule
-Dr. William O. Chase

[End of telephone conversation]

Charles W. Colson entered at an unknown time after 10:46 am.

1972 campaign
-Violent demonstrators
-Demonstrators in Boston
-McGovern
-The President's recent conversation with Patrick J. Buchanan
-Public relations [PR]
-PR
-1960 campaign
-Press and media relations
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-Colson’s conversation with William S. Paley
-Double standard


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1972 campaign
-Chants
-Media coverage
-Favoritism
-McGovern trailing
-Media support for demonstrators
-Public sentiment
-Polls
-San Fernando Valley
-Interviews by Oliver Quayle
-Middle Class
-Democratic leanings
-Results
-Edmund G. (“Pat”) Brown
-McGovern
-Compared to the President
-1968 election
-Oliver Quayle
-Issues
-Opposition to McGovern
-Ideology
-Defense
-Welfare
-Taxation
-Boston
-John F. Collins

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The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:46 am and
11:15 am.
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[Conversation No. 379-15A]

[See Conversation No. 32-115]

[End of telephone conversation]

1972 campaign
-Demonstrators in Boston
-Participants
-Number
-Activities
-Car burnings
-Press coverage
-Boston Globe
-Effect on Boston
-Compared to San Jose incident, October 29, 1970
-Working class
-Response
-Clark MacGregor statement
-Tone
-Demands of McGovern
-John B. Connally
-Recent conversation with Colson
-Forthcoming press conference
-Washington, D.C., press corps
-Effect
-McGovern


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1972 campaign
-Polls
-Point spread
-Question
-Wording
-Outcome
-Point spread
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-Independents
-Vietnam War
-Impact
-McGovern
-Media strategy
-Networks
-Peace settlement
-“Firm hand”
-Cease-fire
-Freedom in South Vietnam
-McGovern
-John B. Connally
-Pressure from the President’s campaign
-The President’s supporters
-Sympathy from public
-News summary
-Attacks on the President
-Counterattack strategy
-McGovern’s purpose
-Number of attacks
-Radio speeches
-Advantages
-Price
-National and local coverage
-Radio, television [TV]
-Polls
-Albert E. Sindlinger
-Louis P. Harris
-Clark MacGregor
-The President’s allies
-McGovern
-National and local press
-Colson’s telephone call to Boston

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Colson talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:46 am and 11:15
am
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Conversation No. 379-15 (cont’d)


[Conversation No. 379-15B]

[See Conversation Nos. 32-116 and 32-117]

[End of telephone conversation]


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1972 campaign
-Hecklers in Boston
-Public response
-Irish Americans
-Collins
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-McGovern
-Vulnerability

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1972 campaign in Boston
-Hecklers
-Response
-McGovern
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Hecklers
-Mrs. Nixon
-McGovern
-Car burnings
-Press and media relations
-Hugh W. Sloan, Jr.
-Watergate
-Leo Cherne


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Conversation No. 379-15 (cont’d)

[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]

1972 campaign
-Busing issue
-Collins
-Connecticut
-Paul Hall
-Vietnam War issue
-Antiwar opposition
-McGovern campaign
-Voters
-Boston
-Radio speech

The White House operator talked with Colson at an unknown time between 10:46 am and 11:15
am.

[Conversation No. 379 – 15C]

[Conversation No. 32-118]

[End of telephone conversation]

1972 campaign
-Demonstrators in Boston
-Collins
-Mrs. Nixon
-Apology
-Democrats for Nixon

The President’s schedule

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Colson left at 11:15 am.
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