Date: November 1, 1972

Time: Unknown between 7:42 pm and 8:08 pm

Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

1972 election

-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew’s speech in San Diego

-Hecklers

-George S. McGovern supporters

-Committee to Reelect the President [CRP] headquarters

-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] coverage

-Hecklers

-McGovern supporters

-Agnew’s response to hecklers

-Supporters

-Compared with Peter J. Brennan

-Assault on hecklers

-Public reaction

-Colson’s view

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Vietnam peace settlement

-Public reaction

-Nguyen Van Thieu’s statement

-Hawks

-Fear of McGovern

-Public mood

-CBS coverage

-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr. comments

-New York Times

-Publicity

-Henry A. Kissinger’s efforts

-Albert E. Sindlinger

-The President’s strategy

-Negotiations

-Public confusion

-Kissinger’s build-up

Campaign practices

-Hecklers in Boston

-Clark MacGregor’s statement

-Wire services

-Networks

-Publicity

-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]

-Boston

-Local reaction

-Police chief

-John F. Collins advertisement

-John F. Becker

-Polling

-Public reaction

-Joseph L. Tauro

-Public reaction

-Public reaction

-MacGregor statement

-Today Show coverage

-[Patricia Colson]

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-Agnew’s speech in San Diego

-Heckling of McGovern

-Colson’s view

-McGovern’s campaign

-Colson’s view

-Fund violations

-Robert J. Dole

-News summary

-Self-righteousness and rhetoric

-Statements

-Extremism

-Philadelphia Inquirer editorial

-Vietnam

-Corruption

Vietnam

-The President’s strategy

-Impact

-New York Daily News poll

-Louis P. Harris poll

-Changes in public attitudes

-North Vietnamese action

-Possibility

-Possible impact

-Public mood

-Colson’s talk with Kissinger

-Impact of election

-McGovern’s statements

-Thieu

-R. Sargent Shriver statements

-CBS comments

-Tone

-The President’s view

-Colson letter to William S. Paley

CBS

-Possible International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) strike

1972 election issues

-Vietnam settlement

-Impact

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-McGovern’s campaign

-Corruption issue

-Vote of confidence for the President

-John B. Connally’s forthcoming appearance

-Troop withdrawals

-Dealings with Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China [PRC]

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Wholesale prices

-Latest reports

-Wage and price controls

-Timing

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