Date: September 25, 1972
Time: 5:16 pm – 6:10 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Charles Colson and Patrick J. Buchanan.
Greetings
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[Duration: 11m 57s ]
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Administration’s accomplishments
-Supreme Court appointments
-Vietnam issue
-Poll
-The President’s speeches
-Reports received
-National Security Council [NSC] staff
-Henry A. Kissinger, Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
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Tape Subject Log
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-National attitude
-Blacks
-Mexicans
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Appointments
-Ethnics
-Blacks, Jews
-Kissinger and Herbert Stein on the President’s staff
-Italians and Irish
-William H. Mulligan
-Fordham University
-Supreme Court
-Supreme Court
-The President’s conversation with Maurice H. Stans [?]
-Catholics
-Italians
-Benjamin Cardozo
-Robert J. Brown
-Cleveland Browns
-Jim Brown
-Upper middle class
-Appeal to voter blocs
-Blacks, Jews
-Republican efforts
-Thomas W. (“Teddy”) Gleason
-White Anglo-Saxon Protestants [WASPs]
-Domestic economic policies
-Buchanan’s view
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-Working class
-Middle class
-Parochial school aid
-Property tax as issue
The President as a speaker
-Work ethic appeal
-The President’s speech at Rio Grande, Texas, September 22, 1972
-The President’s Labor Day speech
-Effect
-Washington Post, Washington Star
-Story about fireman
-Press relations
-Qualities
-Appeal to labor, working people
-Gleason
-Roger M. Blough
-Education
-Speaking ability
-Working class
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George S. McGovern’s campaign practices
-Supporters and demonstration
-San Francisco
-White House public relations
-Robert J. Dole
-Clark MacGregor
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Tape Subject Log
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-George C. Wallace assassination attempt
-McGovern’s association with demonstrators
-White House public relations
-Location of demonstrations
-Los Angeles
-San Francisco
Colson talked with W. Richard Howard at an unknown time between 5:16 pm and 6:10 pm.
[Conversation No. 356-15A]
[See Conversation No. 30-24]
[End of telephone conversation]
Campaign practices
-Demonstrators
-Democratic National Convention
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Watergate as a campaign issue
-The President’s involvement
-Understanding of the situation by the public
-Cubans
-John W. Dean, III
-Handling
-McGovern
-Unknown person
-Lawrence F. (“Larry”) O’Brien, Jr.
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-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] involvement
-Cloak and dagger activities
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Colson and Buchanan left at 6:10 pm.