News stories from Sunday October 22, 1972
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- In his second nationwide radio speech of the weekend, President Nixon used a Veterans Day theme to praise "the young Americans who have served in Vietnam" and to outline his administration's achievements in their behalf. [New York Times]
- A question reportedly submitted by the White House confronted Senator George McGovern when he appeared on a nationally televised interview program. The Democratic nominee, who has repeatedly challenged President Nixon to debate him, expressed surprise when he was told a question had been submitted by a White House official, but he answered it. He denied the question's premise that he had likened President Nixon to Adolf Hitler, but he said he stood by the characterization of the Vietnam bombing as "the most barbaric thing that has happened . . . since the Nazis were in power." "And I believe that," Senator McGovern said, adding, "I don't retract that for one minute." [New York Times]
- George McGovern's presidential campaign headquarters in Washington has tightened its security precautions, including daily checks for telephone taps and room listening devices, since the alleged bugging of the Democrats' Watergate offices in June, according to members of Senator McGovern's campaign staff. [New York Times]
- As Henry Kissinger continued to seek President Thieu's support of a peace settlement that would be acceptable to Washington, Hanoi and Saigon, comments by officials in all three capitals today seemed to indicate that agreement was close on the terms for a cease-fire as the first stage of settlement. But Hanoi and Saigon seemed far apart on the kind of political alignment that would emerge in South Vietnam once the fighting stopped. [New York Times]