355–14

Conversation No. 355-14

Date: October 3, 1972
Time: 2:15 pm - 3:15 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

The President's schedule
-Camp David


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Campaign practices
-George S. McGovern’s accusations
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-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Attack on morality and corruption
-Public response
-Colson's conversation with Albert E. Sindlinger
-Response to McGovern
-John B. Connally’s view
-Possible risks
-Media
-Robert B. Semple, Jr.
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Possible comments
-Media coverage
-Media
-Television
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-Coverage
-John D. Ehrlichman’s view
-Staff meeting, 8:00 am
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-CBS
-Change
-NBC
-Telephone calls
-Leadership
-David Horowitz [?]
-Colson’s view
-The President’s recent meeting
-Anti-trust suit
-Radio Corporation of America [RCA]
-Colson's conversation with John W. Chancellor
-1972 election
-Colson’s possible action
-Networks
-Local stations
-Administration action
-Competition
-Oval Office
-White House
-Invitations
-Pattern
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-ABC
-CBS
-Colson’s trip to New York
-NBC
-Chancellor
-Ratings
-Reuven Frank
-Colson’s view
-Connally
-Administration strategy
-Response to charges
-1972 election


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Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Signing ceremony
-Charles H. Percy
-Clifford P. Case
-John Sherman Cooper
-Jacob K. Javits

McGovern
-Attacks on the President
-George E. Christian
-Colson’s view
-Colson’s conversation with Sindlinger
-Colson’s previous conversation with Chancellor
-Chancellor’s view
-Christian’s view
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-Corruption charges
-Morality
-North Vietnam
-Bombing
-Christian’s view
-Surrogates responses
-Television appearances
-Agnew
-Style
-Compared to McGovern


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Issues
-Corruption charges by McGovern
-Effectiveness as issue
-Christian’s view
-The economy, the Vietnam War, competence of candidates, busing
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Johnson
-Television stations
-Watergate
-Democrats
-Edward M. Kennedy
-The President’s view
-Hugh W. Sloan, Jr.
-Lawrence F. O'Brien, Jr.
-Current activities
-The President’s view
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Advertisement in Boston newspaper
-Defense budget
-Cuts
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Busing
-Legalization of marijuana
-Welfare
-Aid to parochial schools
-Quotes
-Democrats for Nixon
-Committee to Re-Elect the President [CRP]
-Raymond A. Gallagher, unknown person
-McGovern's welfare proposals
-McGovern's charges
-Connally’s analysis
-Surrogates handling
-Agnew
-McGovern advertisement promising accomplishments
-South Dakota
-Massachusetts and Missouri
-John F. Kennedy, Harry S. Truman, Johnson
-Possible response from the administration
-Colson's conversation with Franklyn C. (“Lyn”) Nofziger
-Documentary
-California
-McGovern
-World War II bombing
-Charges on Vietnam War
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-Double-standard


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Social Security
-Possible veto

Water bill
-Congress
-Possible veto by the President

Moral corruption charges against the President's administration
-Courage
-Veto
-McGovern
-Colson’s view

Water bill

Welfare
-Bill
-Possible compromise
-Eliot L. Richardson
-Adlai E. Stevenson, III
-The President’s instructions
-House Resolution [HR] 1, Title I
-Possible filibuster
-Social Security
-Titles II, III and IV
-Possible veto
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Henry A. Kissinger entered at 2:55 pm.

HR 1

Kissinger’s schedule
-New York friend

Michael J. Mansfield
-Possible trip

[General conversation]

Administration’s opponents

Colson left at 2:58 pm.

Foreign policy defense
-Connally

Mansfield
-Possible trip
-Timing
-1972 election
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-McGovern
-Kissinger’s concern
-Bipartisan approach
-Conservatives
-John C. Stennis

McGovern
-Corruption charges against the President's administration
-Press standards
-Analogy to hypothetical charge
-Press reaction
-The President’s view

Odds on the President's election
-Polls
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Negotiations on Vietnam War settlement
-McGovern's peace plan
-Negotiating strategy
-Postponement of resolutions
-Timing
-Nguyen van Thieu
-Bombing
-Tripartite government in South Vietnam
-Administration response
-Communist government
-Current negotiations
-Kissinger’s forthcoming trip
-Announcement
-Timing
-Kissinger’s schedule
-PRC
-W[illiam] Averell Harriman
-Thieu’s future
-McGovern
-Camapign
-Compared to the President’s
-Kissinger’s view
-Loyalty

The President’s schedule
-Camp David
-Speech
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-The President’s instructions to Kissinger
-Upcoming telephone call to the President
-Kissinger’s schedule
-New York
-Vietnam
-Statement

Ehrlichman entered at 3:08 pm.

SALT
-Signing ceremony
-Andrei A. Gromyko’s telephone call
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Kissinger
-PRC

Kissinger left at 3:10 pm.

Richardson
-The President’s schedule
-Camp David

Welfare legislation
-Ehrlichman’s previous telephone call with Richardson
-Russell B. Long
-Stevenson amendment
-Abraham A. Ribicoff
-Veto possibility
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Richardson's conversation with Ehrlichman
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-Implications
-Cole, Thomas C. Korologos
-The President's forthcoming meeting with Richardson
-Timing
-Cole
-Political judgement required
-Welfare reform issue
-The President’s strategy
-New York Times
-Liberals
-Ribicoff
-Long
-Debt ceiling
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Stevenson
-Richardson’s view
-Possible liberal shift

Ehrlichman left at 3:15 pm.
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