365–5

Conversation No. 365-5

Date: October 9, 1972
Time: 1:38 pm - 3:05 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
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The President met with Charles W. Colson.


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Campaign practices
-George S. McGovern campaign
-Albert E. Sindlinger's October 9, 1972 telephone call to
Colson
-Public reaction
-George S. McGovern's descriptions of the President
-Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Harry s. Truman
-Chicago Tribune article attacking Franklin D. Roosevelt
-McGovern’s attacks
-Tone
-Press view
-McGovern
-The President’s view
-Ku Klux Klan [KKK]
-Campaign Fair Practices Committee
-Common Cause
-[John W. Gardner]
-Joseph McCarthy
-Alger Hiss case
-The President's role
-Charges filed with campaign fair practices committee
-Report
-News summary
-McGovern's campaign
-Need for Republican charges and responses
-Robert J. Dole
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-Clark MacGregor
-New York Times article
-Dole
-Letter
-Charles H. Percy
-KKK charges
-1976 campaign
-Edward W. Brooke
-KKK charges
-Adolf Hitler analogy
-Witch hunt, Jews
-The President’s view
-Media
-Sindlinger
-US public reaction
-Thomas F. Eagleton
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-North Vietnamese exploitation
-POW statement
-Sindlinger, Louis P. Harris, George H. Gallup
polls
-Conservatives
-Questioning McGovern’s tactics, not motives
-The President’s recent press conference
-New York Times
-KKK, Republican Party comparison by McGovern
-Descriptions of the President
-The President’s trips to Peking, Moscow
-Vietnam
-US troop withdrawal, troop reduction
-Extremism
-Republican response
-R. Sargent Shriver’s and McGovern’s statements
-Fact sheet
-Richard M. Scammon's analysis
-Extremists
-Immorality
-Hitler’s final remarks
-McGovern
-California
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Poll
-Harris
-Number of percentage points


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Events
-News value
-US-Soviet Union trade agreement
-Maritime agreement
-Revenue sharing
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT] II agreement
-European Security Conference
-Economy
-Prices
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Radio addresses

The President’s schedule
-Philadelphia

The President talked with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman at an unknown time between 1:38 pm and
2:20 pm.

[Conversation No. 365-5A]

Requested that Haldeman join the meeting

[End of telephone conversation]
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Colson talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:38 pm and 2:20 pm.

Colson talked with Joan Hall at an unknown time between 1:38 pm and 2:20 pm.

[Conversation No. 365-5B]

[See Conversation no. 31-27]

[End of telephone conversation]

Haldeman entered at 2:20 pm.


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1972 campaign
-Corruption charges
-Press coverage
-Washington Post story
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-William E. Timmons
-Alfred C. Baldwin, III
-John J. Sirica
-Jack N. Anderson
-Baldwin
-Confidential memoranda delivery
-Veracity
-Response
-Denial
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Robert J. Dole
-Washington Post
-Public interest
-Thomas W. Braden
-Henry A. Kissinger
-White House staff and Cabinet officials

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:38 pm.

The President’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:05 pm.

-Culpability
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Robert C. (“Bob”) Wilson
-Conservatives
-US-Soviet Union grain deal
-Clarence D. Palmby
-July 8, 1972 announcement
-Soviet action
-Clifford H. Hardin, Palmby
-The President’s role in the deal
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-The President’s previous trip to the Soviet Union
-Knowledge
-Earl L. Butz
-Peter G. Peterson
-July 8, 1972 announcement
-Palmby
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-Administration
-Comparison to Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1936
campaign

Schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Samuel I. Newhouse

Haldeman and Colson left at 3:05 pm.