Date: January 30, 1973

Time: 8:21 pm – 8:57 pm

Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 406-36]

Reaction to the President’s announcement on Vietnam settlement

-Colson’s efforts

-Morale

-Public relations [PR]

-The President’s opponents

-Editorials

-Public Reaction

-Columnists

-Television [TV]

-John B. Connally

-Today Show

-Announcement

-Algeria

-Peter Lisagor

-Chicago Daily News

-Washington press corps

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-New York Times

-Colson’s op-ed article

-Ronald L. Ziegler

-Time magazine

-Hugh S. Sidey

-Colson’s libel lawsuit

-The President’s view

-Issue featuring Marlon Brando

-Sidey, Jerrold L. Schecter

-Watergate story

-Sidey interview

-Connally, Peter J. Brennan, Elliot L. Richardson

-Sonny Metz

-Hartford

-The President’s courage

Press relations

-The President’s view

-George S. McGovern, Jane Fonda

-Washington Post

-Administration’s treatment

-License challenges

-Libel suit

-Time and Newsweek

-TV networks

-Cable TV

-Movie industry

-Henry A. Kissinger

-Interview with Newsweek

-Schecter

John A. Scali

-Senate conformation hearing

-Background interviews

-Stewart M. Hensley

-Time

Press relations

-Editorials

-TV coverage

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-Church service

-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]

-Rating

-Philip Hoffman [?]

-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon, Julie Nixon Eisenhower

-Widow of Col. William B. Nolde

-Prisoners of War [POWs] wives

-Ronald L. Ziegler briefing

-Kissinger-Nixon relations

-Colson’s article

-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston

-Joseph Kraft

-Kissinger

-Dan Rather

-Thomas W. Braden

-John F. Osborne

-Reston and Kraft

-National Security Council [NSC] staff

-Kissinger’s schedule

-TV interviews

-PR efforts

-Bombing

-Liberal reaction

-Scali

-Kenneth W. Clawson’s opinion

-The President’s accomplishments

-People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip

-1972 Moscow summit

-May 8, 1972 decision

-Herman Kahn, Sir Robert Thompson

-Henry Cabot Lodge

-Interview

-New York Times

-Dr. David K. E. Bruce

-William J. Baroody, Sr.

-Henry H. (“Joe”) Fowler

-News coverage

-PR efforts

-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

-Possible interviews

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-Kissinger

-Connally

-December 1972 bombing

-Meeting with Colson

-Political party switch

-Today Show

-The President’s policies

-Brennan

-Attacks on “Establishment”

-Elitists

-Reston’s article

-Georgetown

-Harvard crowd

-Kissinger

-New York Times

-Bernard Gewirtzman

-The President’s view

-Colson’s view

-Daniel P. Moynihan

-Intellectuals

-Colson’s view

-Colson’s article

-Response

-Reston and Kraft

-Ziegler briefing

-New York Times

-Circulation

-Buffalo newspaper

-Patrick J. Buchanan

-Barry M. Goldwater

-Support for the President

-Letters

-Bombing

-Donald McI. Kendall

-Safeway, Giant advertisements

-Louis P. Harris and Albert E. Sindlinger polls

Vietnam settlement

-Cease-fire violations

-Middle East

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-Israelis

-Syrians

-Press coverage

-POW wives

-Missing in Action [MIA] wives

-Carol Hanson

-POW list from Laos

-Negotiations

Press relations

-Nicholas P. Thimmisch

-Smith Hempstone, Jr.

-Kissinger’s schedule

-Stewart J. O. Alsop

-Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak

-Opposition to the President

-Michael J. Mansfield

-Domestic priorities

-“Slums”

-Reaction to Vietnam settlement

-Buchanan

-White House press corps

-Congressional “Doves”

-Victor Lasky

-Youngstown Vindicator

-Manchester Union Leader