Date: October 16, 1972

Time: 5:04 pm – 5:08 pm

Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with William R. Hearst.

[See Conversation No. 800-2A]

1972 campaign

-Support for the President from Hearst’s newspapers

-Foreign policy issues

-Lead editorials

Lyndon B. Johnson

-Hearst’s visit to the Johnson ranch

-Hearst’s writing

-Perspective on the presidency

-International affairs

1972 campaign

-John B. Connally’s forthcoming broadcast on foreign

policy

-Democrats for Nixon

Johnson

-View of the President

-Perspective on the presidency

-George S. McGovern

-Hearst’s column on visit to Johnson ranch

-Vietnam War

-Use of bombing during Johnson’s administration

-The President’s policies

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-J. William Fulbright, McGovern’s actions

-Effect on length of war

Prisoners of war [POW] wives

Expression of regards to Mrs. William R. Hearst and

Richard E. Berlin