Date: October 16, 1972

Time: 5:16 pm – 5:21 pm

Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Martin S. Hayden.

[See Conversation No. 800-2D]

Hayden

-Newspaper subscription

-Support for the President

-Endorsement in campaign

-Editorials on national security in the Detroit News

-Washington Post, New York Times

-Hayden’s speech

-The President’s view

1972 campaign

-Press reaction

-George S. McGovern’s speech on Vietnam

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Tape Subject Log

(rev. Oct-06)

-Effect on polls

-Recent Minnesota poll

-Detroit News poll

-Michigan

-Predicted outcome

-Dwight D. Eisenhower’s 1956 results

-The President’s efforts in Michigan

-Robert P. Griffin

-Frank J. Kelly

-McGovern

-McGovern speeches on issues

-Responses of the President’s Cabinet members

-Lack of press coverage

-The President’s role in campaign

The President’s activities

-Congressional action

-Budget

-The President’s forthcoming veto

-Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972