359–15

Conversation No. 359-15

Date: September 14, 1972
Time: 2:50 pm - 3:41 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Charles W. Colson.


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Grain deal and foreign trade
-Earl L. Butz
-Public relations efforts
-George S. McGovern’s statements
-Butz
-Colson’s view
-Butz’s statements
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Forthcoming statement
-McGovern’s statement
-Negotiations
-Relations between US and Soviet Union

Wright Patman’s Committee hearings
-Maurice H. Stans testimony
-Colson’s view
-Margaret M. (“Peggy”) Heckler
-Support of the President
-News summary
-Television

Campaign charges
-McGovern
-Attacks on administration officials
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Ehrlichman
-Butz
-Colson
-Clark MacGregor


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Public relations
-Campaign contributions
-George Meany’s actions
-McGovern
-Meany’s views on policies
-Effect
-United Auto Workers [UAW]
-Jay Lovestone
-Newsweek
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons

William L. Taub
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Herbert G. Klein
-Kissinger
-Conversation with Colson
-San Clemente
-Alleged associates
-Ronald L. Ziegler

News coverage and media relations
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Colson's call to William S. Paley
-Watergate coverage
-McGovern
-Chicago aldermen
-Vito Marzullo, James D.S. Coleman
-Watergate coverage
-Stans testimony
-Surrogate response to McGovern
-Frank F. Mankiewicz
-George W. Romney
-Virginia H. Knauer
-Robert H. Finch
-Washington Post
-Pre-election activities
-Colson's actions
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-Stock acquisition
-[Katharine L. Graham]
-Graham
-WTOP radio station license renewal
-Colson’s conversation with William J. Casey
-CBS
-Power
-Recent and forthcoming coverage
-McGovern
-Stans
-1968 campaign coverage
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-Time of election report
-Idea of competition
-Administration action
-Colson's call to Paley
-Richard S. Salant
-Colson’s view
-Businessmen
-Howard K. Smith

Watergate
-Indictments
-Response
-David Brinkley’s commentary
-Response
-MacGregor
-[Joseph R.] McCarthyism
-Civil suit
-Countersuit
-Press


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Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 2:50 pm.

Stephen B. Bull
-The President's location
-Oval Office
-Time

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:41 pm.


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The President and Colson left at 3:41 pm.