Date: October 7, 1972
Time: 1:03 pm – 1:10 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table
The President talked with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
[See Conversation No. 217-26]
Radio speech on Federal spending, October 7, 1972
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Charles W. Colson
-Possibility of additional speeches for radio
-Preparation
-Assessment
-Draft text
-Congress
-John D. Ehrlichman’s contribution to speech
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Comparison to Fireside Chat
-Use of family analogy
-The President’s instructions
-Farm speech
-Farm exports
-Chicago
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)
-Special interest groups
-Aid to private schools
-Impact of speech
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-The President’s goals for the US
-Intellectuals
-Welfare
-Budget
-Taxes
-Property tax relief
-Speech team
-George S. McGovern
-Speeches to live audiences
-Radio speeches
-Compared to live audiences
-Atlanta
-Possible numbers of radio listeners
-Price
-National defense
-Importance of issue
-Colson
Republican advertisements for television
-Vietnam
-Amnesty
-Vietnam
-McGovern’s proposals and strategy
-Communists, amnesty, Administration delay in ending war
-Possible response by the Administration
-Speeches
-Colson
-Timing