Date: September 18, 1972
Time: 2:30 pm – 3:15 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Charles W. Colson.
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Public relations
-Earl L. Butz
-The President’s conversation with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Public statements
-Selling grain to various foreign countries
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Japan
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-Soviet Union
-The President’s policies
-Exporting grain
-Butz’s statements
-Effect on farmers
-George S. McGovern’s position
-Administration policy
-Peter G. Peterson
-Statistics
-Cambodia
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Defense Department
1972 campaign
-The President’s campaign compared with McGovern’s campaign
-Issues
-Food prices
-Albert E. Sindlinger
-Wage and price controls
-William Proxmire
-Public statement
-McGovern
-Hugh Scott
-European compared with Pacific theatre
-Proxmire
-George P. Shultz
-Scott’s press conference
-John Sherman Cooper
-George H. Gallup polls
-Effect
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Arthur F. Burns
-William L. Safire
-Jewish vote
-Question of Jewish holidays
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US foreign policies
-The President’s conversation with Henry M. (“Scoop”)
Jackson
-Arms control
-1972 election
Campaign strategy on domestic issues
-Milton Friedman’s view
-Cabinet officers’ role
-McGovern welfare plan
-Wage and price controls
-Campaign financing
The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 2:30 pm and 3:15
pm.
[Conversation No. 358-12B]
Request for a call to Stephen B. Bull
[End of telephone conversation]
1972 campaign
-Friedman
-Television coverage of campaign
-Grain deal
-Opposing policies of McGovern
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] coverage
Bull talked with the President at an unknown time between 2:30 pm and 3:15 pm.
[Conversation No. 358-12A]
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The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting
[End of telephone conversation]
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Labor unions
-Colson’s conversation with Frank E. Fitzsimmons and George Meany
-Future relations between labor and White House
-Ambassadorial appointments
-Labor expertise
-Maurice A. Hutcheson
Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Release of three on September 17, 1972
-Political exploitation
-Bombing in Hanoi
-Effect on election
-Colson’s view
-Comparison to Korean War
-McGovern’s position
-Communism
-Meany’s support
-Speech for the President
-Inclusion of topics
-North Vietnam
1972 campaign
-Meany
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-Forthcoming steelworkers speech in Las Vegas
-Brochure
-Topic
-McGovern’s 1948 letter about Henry A. Wallace
-Northwestern University
-Mitchell [Daily Republic]
-Soviet Union
-John B. Connally
-Communism
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Watergate
-Washington, DC area press reactions
-Colson’s view
-Washington Post
-Washington Evening Star
-New York Times
-Cover-up
-Grand jury
-Public perception
-Indictments
-Alfred C. Baldwin, III
-Public reactions to the question of the President’s involvement
-Daniel Yankelovich’s poll
-Time
-Committee to Re-elect the President
-Robert J. Dole
The President and Colson left at 3:15 pm.