Date: November 4, 1972

Time: 8:40 am-8:45 am

Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

[See Conversation No. 389-2]

Henry A. Kissinger

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Ziegler’s location

1972 election

-Vietnam War

-George S. McGovern’s charges

-Deception

-Nguyen Van Thieu’s delays

-The President’s position

-Kissinger’s rebuttal

-Washington Post quotation

-Foreign students

-Confidence

-Rebuttal

-William P. Rogers

-Melvin R. Laird

-Necessity

-The President’s foreign policy speech

-Patience

-Begging for peace

-Hanoi propaganda

-Cease-fire provisions

-Enforcement

-Elections

-Kissinger’s responses

-Restraint

-The President’s trip

-President’s posture

-November 3, 1972

-Press and media coverage

-New York Times, Washington Post

-Television

-Vietnam

-Wires, radio

-Press coverage

-Robert B. Semple, Jr.

-View of crowds

-New job [at New York Times]

-Chicago

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-Adequacy