Date: August 12, 1972

Time: 10:35 am – 11:11 am

Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 201-13]

Press relations

-William P. Rogers

-Newspaper and television coverage

R. Sargent Shriver

-Melvin R. Laird

-Platform committee testimony

-Laird’s previous briefing of Shriver

-Vietnamization

-Credibility

-Statement

-Henry A. Kissinger

-Rogers’s opinion

-Rogers’s talk with Colson, August 11, 1972

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Press coverage of Watergate

-Lawsuit

-Washington Post

-1701 [Pennsylvania Avenue, Republican National Committee headquarters]

story

-New York Times

-Wire services

-Washington Post

-Edward Bennett Williams

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Public relations

-Laird

-Shriver

-War issue

-George S. McGovern

-Defense expenditures

-Draft

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-Vietnam

-Volunteer army

-Young voters

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