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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Aug-03)
Date: October 14, 1972
Time: 1:40 pm – 2:30 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Charles W. Colson and Manolo Sanchez.
The President’s schedule
-Congressional schedule
-Camp David
-Transportation
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:30 pm.
-Speech
-Photograph session
-Congress
Congressional relations
-Water bill
-Veto
-Federal spending
-The President’s Atlanta speech, October 12, 1972
-Moral values
-Taxes
-Social Security bill
-Veto
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Water bill
-Possible veto override
-Congressional schedule
-Watergate
-Edward M. Kennedy
-James O. Eastland
-Senate Judiciary Committee
-Wright Patman
1972 campaign issues
-Corruption charges, Watergate, sabotage
-Possible effect
-George S. McGovern’s Seattle speech, October 13, 1972
-National defense
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Aug-03)
-Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Audience
-Lawyers
-McGovern’s forthcoming television [TV] speech
-Vietnam
-McGovern
-Use of tape of alleged Vietnam veteran
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-Authenticity
-Jerry Williams
-ABC
-Boston
-Federal Communications Commission [FCC] investigation
-Possible conspiracy charge
-Comparison to Joseph McCarthy
-Composite photograph of Miller Tydings [and Earl Browder]
-Charges of corruption
-Richard (“Dick”) Tuck
-Peter Lisagor
-Albert E. Sindlinger poll
-Sindlinger’s syndicate
Southern trip by the President
-Atlanta
-The President’s speech
-News coverage
-Colson’s conversation with Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin
-News summary
John B. Connally
-TV speech
-Colson’s recent
Issues
-McGovern’s trustworthiness
-Economic issue
-McGovern’s welfare proposal
-Foreign policy
-Nelson A. Rockefeller’s forthcoming National Press Club
speech
-Rogers
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Aug-03)
-Connally’s TV speech
-Vietnam
-As US ally
-McGovern’s recent speech
-Press reaction
-New York Daily News editorial
-Right
-Joseph C. Kraft, James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-George Meany’s statement
Press relations
-Use of terms “Republican”, “Democrat”
-Time
-Democrats for Nixon
-New York Times editorial
-National defense
-McGovern
-Op-ed article
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Adlai E. Stevenson, III
-Connally’s TV speech
1972 campaign
-Colson’s conversation with George Shultz, October 13, 1972
-George Meany
-John F. Henning
-California
-Speeches
-The President
-Connally
-California, Colorado
-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial
Organizations [AFL-CIO]
-Paul Hall
-Post 1972 election
-Unknown magazine [The American Federationist] [?]
-McGovern
-Labor
-The President’s recent conversation with John D. Ehrlichman and Raymond
K. Price, Jr.
-Peter Lisagor
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Aug-03)
-Big business
-The American Federationist [?]
-Readership
-Politicians
-Business community
-Photograph sessions
-Suburbanites
-White Plains, New York, Pasadena, California
-View of Meany, Italian-Americans
-View of blacks
-John V. Lindsay
Ethnic groups
-Italian-American Catholics
-Unknown organization
-Carl Lozano [?] [sp?]
-Democrats
-Building trades
-1968 campaign
-International Brotherhood of Teamsters
-Communists
-Thomas J. Houser
-Polish-Americans
-Ohio Polish Congress
-Republicans
Political strategy
-South
-“Solid South”
-Texas
Polls
-Ohio
-Possible trends
-George C. Wallace
-Michigan
-Detroit News
-Michigan
-McGovern
-Detroit News
-George W. Romney
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Aug-03)
-1966 election
-Busing
-Standard ballot
-Wallace
-Sindlinger, George H. Gallup, Richard M. Scammon, Louis P. Harris
-Effect of the President’s May 8, 1972 decision
-Patriotism
-Daniel Yankelovich, Scammon, Gallup, Harris, Sindlinger,
Samuel Lubell
-Vietnam War
1972 campaign
-McGovern
-Connally, Wallace
-Public appearances
-Corruption charges
-Evidence
-Joseph McCarthy
-Campaign practices
-Tone
-R. Sargent Shriver
-Lisegor
-Press relations
-Catherine Mackin
-McGovern rhetoric
-Congressional schedule
-William S. White
-Vietnam
-McGovern’s charges and claims
-Attacks on institution of Presidency
-Response
-Robert J. Dole
-Clark MacGregor
-Attacks on Republican headquarters
-Response
-List publication
-News coverage
-News summary
-Washington Post
-New York Times
-McGovern
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Aug-03)
-Lawrence F. O’Brien, Jr.
-Dole’s TV appearance
-Comments
-Youth
-Joseph McCarthy
-Financial statements
-Lawrence O’Brien
The President talked with Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 1:40 pm and 2:30 pm.
[Conversation No. 366-9A]
Congressioanl relations
-Legislation
-William E. Timmons
-Federal spending cuts
-Defense
-House Resolution [HR] 1
[End of telephone conversation]
Corruption issue
-Harris poll
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 1:40 pm.
The president’s schedule
-Item for helicopter
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 2:30 pm.
Corruption issue
-Harris poll results
-Campaign contributions
-Campaign practices
-Democrats
-Watergate
-Civil liberties
-Importance
-Involvement of the President and aides
-Cynicism
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Aug-03)
-Campaign practices
-Public expectations
-Bombing, violence
-Morality
-Proximity to 1972 election
-McGovern
-1956 campaign
-Adlai Stevenson, II’s charge
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-The president’s experience as vice president
-Reaction
-John B. Connally’s TV speech
-Tone
The President’s schedule
-The President’s speeches
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Radio Address on Crime and Drug Abuse, October 15, 1972
-Radio Address on the Philosophy of Government, October 21, 1972
-Radio Address on the American Veteran, October 22, 1972
-Veteran’s Day
-New York
-Education
-Price
-Aid to parochial schools
-Advertising
The President talked with Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 1:40 pm and 2:30 pm.
[Conversation No. 366-9B]
Speech drafts
-Aid to parochial schools
-Price
-Taxes
-Timing
-Camp David
-Price
[End of telephone conversation]
The President’s administration
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Aug-03)
-McGovern
-Spokesmen
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Shultz’s activities
Speech
-Tax policies
-Property taxes
-Senior citizens
-Timing
-Aid to parochial schools
Colson left at 2:30 pm.