787–16

Conversation No. 787-16

Date: September 26, 1972
Time: 12:45 pm - 1:31 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

1972 election
-Demonstrations
-Response to George S. McGovern supporters
-The President's forthcoming trip to California
-News summary
-Advertisements
-Robert J. Dole
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Charles W. Colson
-Clark MacGregor
-McGovern campaign
-$1,000,000 bond
-Security at dinner and hotel
-Dole
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-California election headquarters staffer [Gordon
Luce]
-McGovern campaign response
-Compared to Watergate
-Telephone from McGovern headquarters
-Press coverage
-Bond
-Troops
-Haldeman’s strategy
-Mobilized numbers
-San Francisco
-Evidence of McGovern involvement

Charles W. Colson entered at 12:47 pm.

-Image conveyed
-The President’s supporters
-Tactics
-Billings, Montana
-Signs
-Reaction from McGovern supporters
-Reporter inquiry
-McGovern campaign
-Factory tours
-Columbus, Ohio
-News summary
-Nichols-Seymour [?][sp?]
-Tactics
-Signs
-Shouting, heckling


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1972 election
-Aerospace industry
-Orr Kelly article
-Colson’s conversation with the Defense Department
-Thomas V. Jones
-Forthcoming conversation with Haldeman
-Willard F. Rockwell, Jr.
-Forthcoming conversation with Haldeman
-Plant manager
-Union man quote
-Lockheed
-Business support for Republicans
-Unions
-Tom Jones
-Reason for support
-McGovern
-Political sophistication
-Federal aid
-Building trades presidents
-Thomas W. (\"Teddy\") Gleason
-Letters of support
-Grumman president’s 1968 letter to supervisors
-Jones
-Melvin R. Laird
-Press inquiries
-Handling
-North American Rockwell official [Dana Williams?]
-Political affiliation
-Quote
-Congress
-North American Rockwell
-B-1
-Congressional fight
-Kelly article
-[Williams?]
-Harvard University School of Business

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1972 election
-Labor
-Legislation
-Policies
-Pro-labor
-George P. Shultz
-National defense
-John G. Tower
-James J. Davis-Robert L. Bacon Act
-Right to work supporters
-Shultz’s recent meeting
-President’s role
-Analogy to blacks


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1972 election
-Demonstrations
-The President's forthcoming trip to California
-News coverage
-Handling of demonstrators
-San Francisco police
-McGovern supporters
-Telephone calls from McGovern headquarters
-Los Angeles Times reporter inquiry
-Unknown person
-Democratic operation
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-Shutdown and move
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Gordon Luce
-McGovern supporters
-Evidence
-Dinner
-Reagan
-Leslie T (“Bob”) Hope
-Handling demonstrators
-Los Angeles police
-Republican National Convention
-Louis P. Harris poll
-Disruptions
-The President’s supporters


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1972 election
-Support for the President
-Compared to Lyndon B. Johnson
-Accomplishments
-Successor to John F. Kennedy
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Majority Leader in Senate
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Interviews
-Hamtramck, Michigan
-International relations
-The Soviet Union the People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Joseph P. Tonelli
-View of communism
-Kakuei Tanaka's trip to Peking
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-Chou En-Lai
-Relation to the President's PRC visit
-Protocol similarity
-The President’s view
-US public interest
-Images
-Relation to the President’s PRC visit
-Publicity
-Timing


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Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 1:24 pm.

Correspondence

Butterfield left at 1:25 p.m.


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The President, Haldeman and Colson left at 1:31 pm.
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