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Conversation No. 803-13

Date: October 18, 1972
Time: Unknown between 12:09 pm and 1:27 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with surrogates
-Helen D. Bentley, Mary T. Brooks
-Recent meeting
-Stephen B. Bull
-Roosevelt Room

Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:09 pm.

The President's schedule
-Recent meeting with women surrogates
-Report from women surrogates

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:15 pm.

President’s schedule
-New York
-Meeting with Bob Lilly, Dallas Cowboys
-Meeting with athletes
-1972 election
-Meeting with maritime labor leaders
-Cabinet Room
-Maritime agreement
-Charles W. Colson
-Signing of convention on narcotic drugs
-Ceremony
-Lobbying
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
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-Photographic sessions
-Meeting with Port Authority officials
-East Coast, Gulf of Mexico, Great Lakes
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Meeting with businessmen
-Ethnic editors and publishers

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 12:15 pm.

The President's schedule
-Meetings with ethnic editors and publishers
-Recommendation by Michael P. Balzano, Jr., Colson, Herbert G. Klein
-Signing of convention on narcotic drugs
-Germany
-The President’s previous efforts
-Red Room
-US-Soviet Union trade agreement
-Effectiveness of events

Butterfield left at 12:16 pm.

The President's schedule
-The President's previous meeting on drug abuse and narcotics detection
-The President’s crime speech, October 15, 1972
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT] signings

Campaign practices
-Dick Tuck
-Plans for John B. Connally's dinner for the President
-Possible disruption
-Truck rental
-Democrats

Haldeman’s conversations with Colson, John D. Ehrlichman

Presidential campaign activities
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Kentucky
-Forthcoming trip to Michigan
-Muskegon
-Water bill
-Ehrlichman’s view
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)

-Colson’s view
-Taxes
-Water bill
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Colson’s view
-Avoidance of fanfare crowds
-Serious speech in prestigious forum
-Media coverage
-White House
-Boston
-Kentucky
-Chicago, Ohio
-Impact of national television [TV]
-Boston
-Wisconsin
-Colson's recommendations
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Campaign momentum
-George S. McGovern
-New York
-Campaign momentum
-McGovern
-Buchanan’s view
-Speeches
-Targeting of audiences
-Future Farmers of America
-Compared to the Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Colson’s view
-Clark MacGregor, Ehrlichman
-Travel
-McGovern
-Use of national TV
-Prestigious forums
-Ehrlichman
-Muskegon
-Colson’s view
-Cabinet Room
-Presentation of legislative proposals on budget and spending issues in Press
Room
-Questions
-Ehrlichman
-Cost of Living Council [COLC] and Price Commission meetings
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)

-Television
-Previous drug meeting
-Meeting with Secretary of Defense, Chairman of the JCS, service secretaries,
officials on defense budget issues
-Briefing by Melvin R. Laird
-Colson's judgment
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan, Elliot L. Richardson
-Welfare proposals
-Veterans legislation signing ceremony
-Audience
-Trip to Kentucky
-Ohio
-Media coverage
-John N. Mitchell, MacGregor
-Peter H. Dominick
-Telephone call to Louie B. Nunn
-West Virginia
-Transportation

-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew’s schedule
-The President's family’s schedule
-Serious speech in prestigious forum
-Appeal
-John F. Osborne, Hugh S. Sidey
-Radio speeches
-Changes in style of campaigning
-Detroit Economic Club
-Colson’s view
-Non-political compared to political events
-Buchanan's judgment
-Press
-Kansas City
-Press conference
-Chicago event
-Regional meeting
-Denver
-Example
-National Secretaries Association
-Proposed events
-Cabinet meeting
-Cabinet members
-Role as campaign surrogates
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)

-JCS meeting
-Credibility
-Muskegon water plant
-Veterans bill signing
-Travel
-Helicopter
-Speeches
-Nassau County speech by the President
-Time
-Tax policy
-Colson's evaluation
-Frequency of appearances
-Interpretation by opponents
-Appeal to voters
-Effect on Albert E. Sindlinger's analysis of voters not supporting
McGovern
-Voter turnout
-Buchanan’s view
-Image of the President as campaigner
-Number and frequency of events
-Motorcades
-Compared to helicopter travel
-Ohio, Westchester, Chicago, Atlanta
-Proposed itinerary
-Colson’s view
-Charge of “hiding” in the White House
-Media
-Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, Ohio, Denver, Los Angeles
-Use of radio and TV
-Presentation of issues
-Connally’s speech
-Bipartisanship
-National television speech
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Remaining in Washington, DC
-Bills
-Possible meeting
-Signings
-Ehrlichman
-Enrollment
-Colson's analyses of schedule recommendations
-MacGregor
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)

-Connally
-Mitchell
-Ehrlichman
-Number and frequency of events

US-Soviet Union trade agreement
-Possible statement
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr., William P. Rogers
-Colson, Peter M. Flanigan
-Ehrlichman
-Poll results
-Public reaction
-Jobs
-Rogers, Haig
-Meeting with James O. Eastland
-Rogers briefing
-Presentation of administration accomplishments
-The President's role
-Jobs
-Rogers
-Connally's recommendation

Presidential campaign activities
-Television
-The President's forthcoming appearance
-Colson
-Ehrlichman
-The President's recent appearance before prisoner of war [POW] families
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Radio coverage
-Overexposure
-Colson, Ehrlichman, Flanigan
-Recommendations
-Signing ceremonies
-News value
-Henry A. Kissinger's schedule
-Story
-Remaining in Washington, DC
-Bills
-Congressional adjournment
-Proposed meetings
-Cabinet
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)

-COLC
-Significance
-Colson’s view
-Cabinet
-Defeat of spending ceiling limitation
-Press room
-Questions
-Possible statement
-Briefing by another person
-New Congress
-Taxes
-Discussion of budget issues
-Presentation
-Position on tax increases
-Press conferences
-Timing
-Possible questions
-Vietnam
-Campaign
-McGovern
-Campaign practices
-Donald H. Segretti
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Limitation of subjects
-MacGregor's statement
-Press coverage
-News summary
-Washington Post
-Press relations
-New York Times
-Washington Post
-McGovern
-POW families meeting
-Events
-Press coverage
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Colson’s view
-Gerald L. Warren's news releases
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] and National
Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-National TV appearance
-Frequency of appearances
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)

-Ehrlichman’s view
-Colson
-Oklahoma
-Denver
-Seattle
-Los Angeles
-The President's role as the President
-Press coverage
-Purpose of suggested schedule events
-Press and media coverage
-Motorcades
-Rallies
-Nassau
-Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis
-Itinerary
-Kentucky
-Ohio
-The South
-1960, 1968 elections
-Rally
-Lexington, Louisville
-West Virginia
-Nunn's conversations with Chapin
-Michigan
-New England
-New York
-New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Tennessee, North Carolina, Michigan, Missouri
-The South
-Use of helicopter
- [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson's birthplace in Virginia
-New Jersey governorship
-Foreign policy speech
-Virginia
-New Majority support for the President
-Transportation
-John O. (“Jack”) Marsh, Jr.'s suggestion
-Foreign policy speech
-Tie-in to Connally's speech
-Use of TV
-National coordination of campaign organizations
-Corporate practice
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)

-Timing
-Cost
-McGregor
-Advance knowledge of Connally's speech's content
-Use of Hubert H. Humphrey's, Henry M.
(“Scoop”) Jackson's names
-McGovern reaction
-Marsh
-Another speech
-Timing
-Vietnam War issue
-Discussion with Buchanan
-President's recent appearance before POW families
-Presentation of POW/missing in action [MIA]
bracelet to the President


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-Possible rally
-Kentucky
-Nunn
-Winton M. Blount
-Dewey F. Bartlett
-Blount, Nunn
-Electoral chances
-Poll
-Ohio
-New England
-Types of possible events
-Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine
-Massachusetts
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)

-Tri-State event
-Michigan
-Minnesota
-Duluth
-Superior, Wisconsin
-Iron Mountain
-Alpena, Michigan
-1956 campaign
-Television appearance
-Possible radio talk
-Announcement of schedule
-Regional appearances
-Midwest, mountain states, California
-National television appearances
-Radio talk
-Theme
-Religious value
-Recommendations on use of time
-MacGregor, Mitchell, Connally
-Open time
-Cabinet, COLC, JCS meetings
-Issues
-Vietnam
-Press
-Timing in campaign
-Television appearances
-Motorcades, rallies
-Denver
-Chicago, Atlanta
-As contrast to McGovern
-Type of event
-Rally
-Timing
-Radio address to the nation
-Kentucky
-Support for Nunn
-Other candidates
-Springfield, Missouri
-The President's efforts
-Statements
-Louisville
-Ashland
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(rev. Nov-03)

-Tri-state
-West Virginia, Ohio
-Possible presidential statement on Appalachia
-Instruction to Price
-Night visit
-News value
-Motorcade
-Radio speech
-Speech
-Nassau
-New York
-Appalachia statement
-Fund raisers
-Duration
-Nature of support for the President
-Nunn
-Compared to Massachusetts, Michigan
-Ohio night visit
-John H. Shaffer
-Airport
-Other states
-North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Maryland
-Press
-TV appearance
-Timing
-Football game
-Halloween
-Frequency
-Kentucky
-John Sherman Cooper tribute
-Nunn

Haldeman left at 1:27 pm.