Date: October 13, 1972
Time: 12:45 pm – unknown before 3:00 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Charles W. Colson.
The President’s schedule
-October 13, 1972 meeting with Claire (Hodgson) Ruth, Ralph Branca, Bobby
Thompson
-Sports celebrities
-Joe Namath
-Tom Seaver
-Black athletes
-R. Sargent Shriver
-Buttons
-Ivan Bell
-Harry O’Donnell
-Press secretary for Thomas E. Dewey
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
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Campaign practices
-Republican response
-Barry M. Goldwater
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-Media response
-[Arnold] Eric Sevareid
-Sabotage
-Colson’s conversation with Dole
-Democrats tactics characterized
-Dick Tuck
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Violent demonstrations against the President
-San Francisco
-Destruction of Phoenix campaign headquarters
office
-Washington Post and Washington Star
-Press coverage
-Washington Post
-Story about Robert Mardian
-Justice Department link
-News summary
-Representation of the US
-The President’s substitution of the White House
news summary
-Washington Star
-Kenneth W. Clawson theory
-Black liberals
-Access to the White House
-Carroll Kilpatrick
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-New York Times
-Robert B. Semple, Jr.
-Edward Dale
-Actions in the Pentagon Papers case
-Henry A. Kissinger
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Vietnam War
-George S. McGovern’s October 10, 1972, speech and proposals
-Washington Star article
-Negotiations
-J. William Fulbright
Campaign practices
-McGovern’s campaign
-Audio tape ban by McGovern [at University of Minnesota,
October 12, 1972
-McGovern’s Vietnam speech
-Colson’s talk with [Wendell B. Colson, III]
-Princeton University
-Radio program
-Veracity
-Source
-Colson’s view
-Harvard College student
-Unknown person
-Radio interview
-Relationship with Colson
-1960
-Colson’s view
-Anonymous telephone call
-Network coverage
-“Double standard”
-McGovern
-John D. Ehrlichman
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Issues
-Unknown man
-Vietnam War
-McGovern’s positions characterized
-Espionage
-The economy
-Consumer confidence
-Alfred E. Sindlinger
-Stock market
-As reflection of nation’s attitude
-Polls
-Gross National Product [GNP] figures
-Possible apprehension by the public
-Election
-Vietnam War
-National defense
-Welfare
-Costs
-$1000 per person proposal
-Marvin L. Kalb story
-Effectiveness as issue
-Democrats
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Colson left at an unknown time before 3:00 pm.