366–3

Conversation No. 366-3

Date: October 10, 1972
Time: 2:40 pm - 3:37 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Charles W. Colson.


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1972 campaign
-Vietnam War
-George S. McGovern’s forthcoming speech
-Settlement prospects
-Effect on McGovern's campaign
-Response to McGovern
-Congress
-William P. Rogers
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew’s recent speech
-McGovern speech
-Press coverage
-Illinois


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1972 campaign
-Robert J. Dole's recommendations
-Economic issues
-Upcoming speeches from surrogates
-High prices, inflation, tax increases, increased spending
-Vietnam
-McGovern's position characterized
-Debate
-The President’s recent breakfast meeting
-John D. Ehrlichman, Clark MacGregor
-Surrogates
-Wisconsin
-Rhode Island
-Ehrlichman
-Brooklyn, Queens
-Philadelphia
-Cuyahoga County
-Cleveland
-Ethnics, labor unions
-Bridgeport, Connecticut
-Illinois
-Pittsburgh
-Amnesty
-Permissiveness
-Abortion
-Catholics
-Rhode Island
-McGovern
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-View of the Momon Church
-Catholic issue
-Permissiveness
-Promiscuity
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-Venereal disease
-Conservatives
-Colson’s view
-The President’s view
-Position of doctors characterized


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1972 campaign
-Amnesty, welfare
-Unions
-Permissiveness
-Lifestyle of McGovern supporters
-Photographs
-George Meany
-Gay liberation group
-Handouts
-Roman S. Hruska comment
-Strategy on use of issues
-Hugh Scott
-McGovern’s issue advertisements
-Responses
-Veterans
-Vietnam

Marjorie P. Acker [?] entered at an unknown time after 2:40 pm.

Tennis
-Shelley A. (Scarney) Buchanan
-Patrick J. Buchanan
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1972 campaign
-Economy
-Herbert K. Stein’s forthcoming appearance at New York
Society of Security Analysts
-Attack on McGovern
-McGovern’s recent appearance
-Inflation
-Prices
-Wage and price controls
-Duration
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Prices
-Wage and price controls
-McGovern’s program
-Effect
-Taxes
-Media and press relations
-News summary
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin
-Establishment
-Time, News Week
-Buchanan
-Name calling
-News magazines focus
-Welfare
-Garment workers
-Anti-semitism
-Louis P. Harris
-Italians, Poles, Russians
-Foreign policy issues
-McGovern campaign
-Harris’s view
-Incompetence
-Soviet Union
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Harris poll
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1972 campaign
-Tone
-Attack mode
-The President’s recent breakfast meeting
-Attack mode
-MacGregor
-Cabinet and White House staff
-Honesty
-Response to corruption charges

Press relations
-Watergate
-Washington Post
-Story, October 12, 1972
-Sabotage of Edmund S. Muskie campaign
-John B. Connally
-Committee to Re-Elect the President [CRP]

Issues
-1972 campaign
-Miami Herald
-McGovern
-Vietnam

1972 campaign
-McGovern's schedule
-Chicago
-Aldermen
-Detroit
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-[Roman S. Gribbs]
-Democrats for Nixon
-Mrs. Gribbs
-Italian parade

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 2:40 pm.

Connally

Colson and the unknown person left at 3:37 pm.