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Conversation No. 794-6

Date: October 9, 1972
Time: 12:13 pm - 12:36 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Sharon McLarty, Mr. and Mrs. I.W. McLarty, Tony McLarty, Mr. and
Mrs. Edward Shaffer, Eastland, and John E. Nidecker; the White House photographer and
members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.
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Introductions and greetings

William E. Timmons entered and Nidecker left at 12:15 pm.

Miss National Teenage America
-Amory, Mississippi
-[Photograph session]
-Sharon McLarty's statement
-Sharon McLarty's background
-Education
-Scholarship
-[Photograph session]
-Arrangements
-Eastland
-Support
-Haiphong harbor mining
-Mississippi citizens
-The President’s previous visit
-Motto
-Gift presentations
-President’s seal
-Pins
-Cuff links
-Scouting
-Harold [?] Nixon
-Jamborees
-The President as Vice President
-Mayor Billy Glasgow of Amory, Mississippi
-Photograph

White House grounds
-Magnolia
-Andrew Jackson

Everyone but Eastland and Timmons left at 12:22 pm.

1972 campaign
-[Mississippi]
-[Gilbert Carmichael]
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
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-Tricia Nixon Cox
-John B. Connally
-[Mississippi]
-[Arkansas]
-John L. McClellan
-Opponent [Wayne H. Bobbitt]
-Winthrop Rockefeller
-Agnew
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Mississippi
-John N. Mitchell’s recent visit
-Alabama
-John J. Sparkman
-Support on national defense issues
-Winton M. (“Red”) Blount
-The President's endorsement
-The President’s schedule
-The President's writing of letters to Congressional candidates
-South
-North
-Media support for George S. McGovern
-New York Times
-Washington Post
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC]
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
-Time
-Newsweek
-Issues
-Amnesty
-Pot
-Defense cut
-The President's schedule
-Atlanta motorcade
-Connally
-Mitchell
-Security
-Rally
-Motorcade
-John F. Kennedy
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-Hotel meetings
-Agnew
-George C. Wallace
-Montgomery, Alabama
-Jackson, Mississippi
-Unknown person
-Forthcoming meeting with Agnew
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Stance

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 12:22 pm.

Refreshment

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:36 pm.

1972 campaign
-The President’s upcoming radio addresses
-California
-Support for the President
-Orange County
-Los Angeles County
-Tennessee
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Busing issue
-Judge
-Memphis newspaper
-James H. (“Jimmy”) Quillen
-Nashville Banner
-Conversation with Eastland
-Relationship with Baker
-Chances for Republican victory
-A history of support for the President
-Alabama
-Mississippi
-Georgia
-Louisiana
-Arkansas
-Connally
-Previous conversation with the President
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-Democratic Party
-“McGovernites”
-Connally, Richard J. Daley
-Party loyalty
-The President's past position vis-à-vis Eastland, Richard B. Russell, Sparkman,
McClellan, John C. Stennis
-Voting record
-American Bar Association [ABA]
-McGovern
-Republicans
-The President’s Radio Address on Federal Spending, October 7, 1972
-Russell B. Long, Wilbur D. Mills
-Bipartisan responsibility for big spending
-Charles W. Colson
-Charles H. Percy
-Consumers, domestic issues

Senate recess
-Timing

Watergate
-Samuel J. Ervin’s possible investigation
-Subcommittee of Judiciary Committee
-Court
-Timing
-Conversation with Eastland
-Previous matter
-Steel company records
-Subpoena
-McClellan
-Eastland
-Judiciary committee
-Subpoena
-The President's comments on court cases
-Charles Manson
-The President's schedule
-Denver, Colorado
-California
-Indictment
-Alger Hiss case
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-The President’s recent press conference
-Single standard
-Senate Judiciary Committee
-The President’s view

Eastland and Timmons left at 12:36 pm.