351–9

Conversation No. 351-9

Date: July 27, 1972
Time: 4:57 pm - 5:50 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Charles W. Colson, Kenneth W. Clawson, and John A. Scali.

The President’s schedule
-Senators

Press contacts
-Evaluation by Scali and Clawson
-Handling by administration
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-Thomas F. Eagleton withdrawal
-Contacts with Harry Reasoner, Frank Reynolds, and Howard K. Smith
-Reactions to George S. McGovern by press
-Reasoner's analysis

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:57 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:50 pm.


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Issues
-Controversy over residual force in Thailand
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-McGovern’s comments
-Thais' reaction
-News summary
-Treaty with Thailand
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Japanese
-Israelis
-Press reactions
-Middle East policy
-Aid to Greece
-NATO
-Henry A. Kissinger's meeting in New York City
-Staging area
-Lebanon, Jordan
-Cyprus
-Yitzhak Rabin
-Jewish Communities
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-Talk with Clawson
-Golda Meir
-Meir
-The President's July 26, 1972 telephone conversation


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Media relations
-Second administration
-Reaction to McGovern
-Sense of resignation
-Neutrality
-Success of the President's foreign policy
-Reaction to the President's foreign policy
-Sympathy
-People's Republic of China [PRC], Soviet Union
-Anwar el-Sadat's expulsion of Soviet advisers
-Greek-Turkish aid program after World War II
-The President’s recent press relations
-Henry A. Wallace
-Compared to McGovern campaign
-New York Times
-Television
-John W. Chancellor
-Scali
-Call to Colson
-Fairness
-Miami
-Unfair stories
-Air time
-Media staff
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
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Leaders
-Abraham Lincoln
-Mental problems
-Julius Caesar, [Napoleon, King of France] Napoleon [Bonaparte]
-Power of president
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-International
-Gen. Charles A.J.M. DeGaulle
-Konrad Adenauer, Nikita S. Khrushchev
-Johnson
-Consultants
-Marianne H. Means
-Everett M. Dirksen anecdote about Johnson during Dominican Crisis, 1965
-US embassy
-Ambassador [W. Tapley Bennett, Jr.]
-US Marines

Liquor and performance of job duties
-Consumption
-Dwight E. Eisenhower
-Winston S. Churchill
-Speeches
-The President
-Speeches
-Reporters
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-Decision-making, speech-making
-The President
-Toasts
-Scali [?]
-The President

The President’s schedule
-Sequoia

Press relations
-Scali and Clawson
-Agnew
-Agnew
-Appearances on television shows
-Statements
-“New Agnew”
-American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC] news
-Rhetoric
-Tone
-McGovern

Colson et al. left at 5:50 pm.