Date: September 16, 1972
Time: Unknown between 1:15 pm and 1:32 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Charles W. Colson.
Watergate break-in
-Cubans
-Press story
-George S. McGovern
Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked with the President between 1:23 pm and 1:24 pm.
[Conversation No. 359-18A]
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[Duration: 3m 54s ]
[End of telephone conversation]
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US foreign policies
-The President’s conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
-Relations with the Soviet Union
-Trade
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] II
-European Security Conference
-Timing of announcements
US economy
-Herbert Stein
-Wage and Price Commission
-McGovern
-Guidelines
Washington Post headline
-John F. Kennedy
-Pardon of Matthew J. Connelly
-Kenneth W. Clawson’s recent conversation with Howard Simons
-Stephen Rosenfeld
-Connelly
-Background
-Massachusetts
-[Appointments] Secretary to Harry S. Truman
-Fund raising
-Photograph
-Allen J. Ellender[?]
-McGovern
-Lyndon B. Johnson’s programs
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Stein
-Johnson
-High food prices
-George P. Shultz
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McGovern’s programs
-Increases
-Taxes
-Prices
-Welfare
-Telephone call to Colson from Albert E. Sindlinger
-George H. Gallup poll on wage and price controls
-Voluntary controls
-Pierre Rinfret
-Arthur F. Burns
-John B. Connally
Issues
-Knowledge of grain deal actions impact
-Export subsidy
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CBS
-Colson’s meeting
-Coverage
-Colson’s view
-Colson
-Train travel between New York and Washington
-Metroliner
-Comparison with air travel
-Fiorello H. LaGuardia airport
-Frank Stanton’s comments
-CBS rating
-William S. Paley
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-News coverage
-Press conference by the President
-Vietnam, national security
-Telephone call to Colson
-Paley
-CBS coverage
-Effect of Colson’s conversations with CBS officials
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[Duration: 3m 51s ]
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Colson and the President left at 1:32 pm.