Date: October 6, 1972
Time: 2:28 pm – 2:32 pm
Location: White House Telephone
Melvin R. Laird talked with the President.
[See Conversation No. 354-29]
Foreign policy issues
-George S. McGovern’s Vietnam peace plan statements
-Possible Administration response
-Laird’s schedule
-Administration record on Vietnam war
-The President’s view
-Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu
-Possibility of Communist government in South
Vietnam
-US public opinion
-Possible response
-Laird’s schedule
-Foreign policy and national defense issues
-Public opinion polls
-Advantages for the Administration
-National defense
-McGovern’s budget proposals
-US role in world