Date: September 23, 1972

Time: 5:32 pm – 5:59 pm

Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation no. 213-10]

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Issues

-Foreign policy and amnesty

-The President’s positions

1972 campaign

-George S. McGovern

-Position on amnesty and foreign policies

-Colson’s analysis

-Possible air time purchase

-Defense

-Edmund S. Muskie type speech by McGovern

-Peace Corps

-Schools

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Issues

-McGovern’s campaign

-Marijuana issue

-Observation by Julie Nixon Eisenhower

-Legalization of marijuana

-Similarity to legality of alcohol

-Earlier Playboy Magazine interview

-George Meany

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-Penalty for possession of marijuana

-Reduction

-Knowledge of legal terms by man on street

-Reduction

-Marijuana issue

-Reduction of penalty

-McGovern and marijuana issue

-Impression

-Television coverage on this issue

-The President’s September 22, 1972 and September 18, 1972

statements

-Drug issue during campaign

-The President’s position

-Television coverage

-Myles J. Ambrose

-Press coverage on drug issue, amnesty issue

-Richard G. Kleindienst

-Amnesty issue

-Desertion and penalty

-Abraham Lincoln

-Interviews in Canada

-Absentee ballot for McGovern

-Citizenship status

-Speech by Barry M. Goldwater

-Statement by Kleindienst

-Statement by Lowell P. Weiker, Jr.

-Tour of Connecticut

-Response from crowd

-Possible legislative action

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