310–17

Conversation No. 310-17

Date: December 23, 1971
Time: 1:40 pm - 2:40 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Charles W. Colson.
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Christmas

Government holiday, December 24th
-Unknown store’s hours of operation

[Unintelligible]

George Meany [?]
-Potential labor problems [?]

Murderers

Vietnam
-Escapes

Meany [?]
-Network coverage
-Sympathetic
-Eugenia Meany [?]
-Illness

Unknown person’s meeting with Colson
-Timing

Vice-President's speeches
-Strength

Budget

Joseph C. Kraft
-Previous conversation with Colson

Amnesty/pardon

John W. Chancellor interview [?]
-Reactions
-President’s style
-Unknown person’s assessment of the President’s interview

Republican National Committee [RNC]
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Colson talked with the White House operator and with Joan Hall [?] at an unknown time
between 1:40 pm and 2:40 pm.

[Conversation No. 310-17A]

[See Conversation No. 17-3]

[End of telephone conversation]


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-Edward M. Kennedy
-President’s previous correspondence
-President's ceremony for signing the National Cancer Act of 1971
-Colson's conversation with unknown man
-Kennedy
-Colson's project
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-Status
-Response


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Spiro T. Agnew
-Working style
-Changes in last two months
-Attitude
-Presidential assignment during Christmas
-Cabinet meeting
-John A. Scali


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Watergate
-Finance
-Democrat candidates
-Postcard mailing to Democrats
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-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

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An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 1:40 pm.

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 2:40 pm.


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Watergate
-Letter concerning Edmund S. Muskie and Meany
-Labor
-New York
-Literature

President's accomplishments
-Strategy
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] Summit
-Polls
-George H. Gallup
-Harry S Truman [?]
-Comparisons [?]


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1972 Presidential campaign
-Kennedy
-Chappaquiddick
-Strategy
-Cabinet officers
-Press
-Press conferences
-Washington newspapers
-Calls to radio station
-Number


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-Strategy
-Cabinet officials
-Radio news programs
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]

Press
-Haldeman [?]
-Washington Star
-Economic news
-Lee Cohn
-New York Times
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Economy
-Christmas sales
-Sale of expensive items
-American public opinion

Colson left at 2:40 pm.