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
45
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)
-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