360–12

Conversation No. 360-12

Date: September 11, 1972
Time: 12:40 pm - 1:45 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

Colson’s schedule
-Princeton University

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:40 pm.

Refreshment

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:45 pm.


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Watergate
-Strategy
-Republicans
-Committee to Re-elect the President [CRP]
-Federal Bureau of investigation [FBI]
-Colson's previous meeting
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Clark MacGregor
-George S. McGovern
-Statements
-Possible response
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Tape Subject Log
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-Information source
-MacGregor’s view
-McGovern’s charges
-Tone
-FBI
-Alfred C. Baldwin, III
-Work for James W. McCord, Jr.
-Information
-Colson’s view
-McGovern’s charges
-Legal action
-MacGregor's future statement
-McGovern, R. Sargent Shriver, Lawrence F. O'Brien, Jr.
-Investigation
-Response
-The President’s view
-Maurice H. Stans
-McGovern
-Possible effect
-Break-in
-The President’s view
-The President's role
-Participants
-The President’s view
-John N. Mitchell
-Campaign support and contributions
-The President’s view
-The President’s conversation with Stans
-John B. Connally
-Campaign staff
-Legal action
-Indictments
-Alger Hiss case
-MacGregor
-Response
-The President’s instructions
-Robert J. Dole
-Response
-Letters, advertisements
-Common Cause
-New York Times, Washington Post
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)

-Domestic policy staff
-Use of offensive tactics
-John D. Ehrlichman
-The President’s view

Issues for 1972 election
-The President’s view
-Domestic issues
-George P. Shultz
-Welfare
-The presdient’s view
-John B. Connally
-Public response
-Watergate
-Colson’s view
-Charges
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Hiss case compensation
-Five-percenter case
-1960 election
-Issues
-1964 election
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Robert D. (“Bobby”) Baker
-Walter W. Jenkins

1972 campaign
-Responses to McGovern
-MacGregor
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Tax increases
-The President’s view
-Republican response
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Welfare issue
-The President’s view
-The President's successor
-George Meany’s view
-Connally
-Emphasis on New Majority theme
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)

-Colson’s efforts
-The President’s instructions
-Monday magazine
-Articles
-W. Ramsey Clark
-Viet Cong [VC]
-Foreign policy
-William P. Rogers
-Abram F. Chayes
-Transcript of conversation
-Release
-The President’s instructions
-Henry A. Kissinger, Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Release of Pentagon Papers
-The President’s instructions
-Source
-William J. Porter
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-State Department cables
-As issue
-Vietnam, amnesty
-McGovern
-Public opinion
-Bombing, mining
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-South Vietnam's future
-VC
-Coalition government
-Communist government
-New York Daily News story
-Clawson
-David Kraslow
-Use of item [about Chayes]
-Joseph W. Alsop
-Kraslow
-Jews
-Kissinger
-Jerry Green's column
-Chayes's disavowal of story
-Newsweek
-Arnaud de Borchegrave
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)

-[David] Kenneth Rush's forthcoming press conference
-Leo Cherne
-Chayes's interview with de Borchegrave
-White House use of story
-Rogers
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Effect of charges
-McGovern's judgment
-US-Soviet Union grain deal
-Earl L. Butz's response to charges
-Reports
-Charges
-Response to McGovern
-McGovern’s press conferences

Credibility issues
-Ehrlichman, Herbert G. Klein
-The President
-News media
-The President’s view
-McGovern
-Confidence issue
-Colson’s view
-The President


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1972 Olympic games in Munich, Germany
-The President's previous telephone call to Chris Schenkel
-National attitudes
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Tape Subject Log
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-The President’s view
-Black athletes
-Reaction during playing of national anthem
-\"Sugar\" Ray Seales
-1968 Olympic Games incident
-International Olympic Committee
-US Olympic Committee
-Athlete’s action
-Athletes action characterized
-Blacks
-Reaction


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1972 campaign finances
-McGovern
-Status
-The President's recent conversation with Stans
-Number of committees
-Robert J. Dole’s possible press conference,
September 12, 1972
-Compared to Republicans
-Financial discrepancies in McGovern campaign
-Analysis
-Dole’s possible press conference
-Charges of violations of Federal Election
Campaign Act
-Sources
-Colson’s conversation with Jay Lovestone
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
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-Foreign governments
-South American governments
-Watergate
-Howard Hughes
-Possible investigation

McGovern
-Colson’s view
-Self-righteousness
-Credibility
-Press
-Statement about support for Thomas F. Eagleton
-Milton J. Shapp

The President's schedule
-Pennsylvania
-Shapp
-The President’s view
-Ernest P. Kline
-The President’s view
-Unions
-Walter H. Annenberg
-Philadelphia Inquirer story
-Report of the President's September 9, 1972 visit
-Photograph

Watergate
-Handling of issue
-Klein
-Clark MacGregor
-Investigation
-Involvement
-John N. Mitchell
-Investigation
-Whitaker Chambers-Alger Hiss confrontation, 1948
-Harry S. Truman, Thomas E. Dewey
-Action in campaign
-Cover-up
-Negative effect
-MacGregor
-Possible statement on disclosure
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
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-McGovern's source of information
-McGovern’s charges
-Secrecy
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Barry M. Goldwater's statement
-Campaign practices
-Herb
-1964 campaign
-Use of spies
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Cow Palace
-Politics
-Goldwater’s view
-Audience response


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Public relations
-White House staff
-John A. Scali
-Klein, Ronald L. Ziegler, Clawson
-News media
-US-Soviet Union grain deal
-Butz
-Response to McGovern
-Public reaction


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
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[Duration: 1m 59s ]


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Watergate
-Indictments
-The President's involvement, administration's involvement
-Press

Media and press relations
-The President’s view
-1972 campaign

The President's health

Colson left at 1:45 pm.