372–26

Conversation No. 372-26

Date: October 25, 1972
Time: 12:29 pm - 1:10 pm
Location: Executive Office Building


The President met with Charles W. Colson.

Watergate
-Ronald Ziegler's statement
-Washington Post article on Haldeman and campaign espionage
-Testimony
-White House response
-Secret fund
-Washington Post
-Dwight L. Chapin
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Chapin's secretary
-Nellie L. Yates
-Newsweek
-Public opinion
-White House response
-Watergate allegations
-Clark MacGregor
-Press conference
-Ziegler

George S. McGovern's campaign practices
-Demonstrators
-Tricia Nixon Cox, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
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-Press coverage
-The President’s recent trip to New York
-Response
-Robert J. Dole's statement
-Surrogates
-Press coverage
-Donald F. Rogers
-Hearsay
-Tricia Nixon Cox's reaction
-Television [TV] exposure
-John A. Volpe
-Patricia Ann (Hughes)
-Colson
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
-Columbia Broadcasting Corporation [CBS]
-Colson’s view
-Violence, damages
-Republican National Convention
-San Francisco
-Anti-free speech stance
-McGovern’s silence


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Campaign issues
-McGovern’s policies
-Higher taxes, higher prices, unemployment, welfare
-Defense budget
-Agnew’s speech in New York
-Jobs
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-Property value
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-George P. Shultz’s statements
-Colson’s conversation with Shultz
-Higher prices, higher taxes, welfare
-Recession
-Agnew
-Defense industries
-Strategy
-Advertising
-Tone
-Democrats
-Voting options
-Amnesty issue
-McGovern
-R. Sargent Shriver
-Abraham Lincoln, Calvin Coolidge, Harry S Truman
-R. Sargent Shriver
-Attack on John B. Connally
-Welfare and blacks
-Effectiveness
-New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan
-Italian-Americans
-Naval base
-Re-election committee
-Unknown person’s speech
-Press
-California
-Haldeman
-Franklyn C. (“Lyn”)Nofziger
-Republicans
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Reagan
-McGovern’s budget policies
-Rodgers’s response
-Defense cuts
-Effect on jobs
-B-1, North American Rockwell, Lockheed, Northrop, General
Dynamics
-International Brotherhood of Teamsters
-Analogy to Massachusetts
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-1960 election
-Brochures
-Leverett Saltonstall
-Defense contractors
-Lawrence
-Impact
-Advertisements
-Rogers
-Aerospace workers
-Southern California


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Press relations
-American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC]
-Veterans benefits bill signing ceremony, ) October 24, 1972
-[Larry Kirk]
-Radio
-Wire service photograph
-Washington Star, Washington Post

Campaign practices
-Press coverage
-Tricia Nixon Cox and demonstrators
-NBC
-Mrs. Colson
-CBS
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins's photographs
-Subjects
-McGovern
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-Hobart Rowen’s son [James Rowen]
-Article about radicalism
-Dole
-Forthcoming TV appearance
-Questions about finances and campaign practices
-Demonstrators
-Henry Kimelman
-Foreign contributors
-Investment trust
-Tax shelter
-War record
-Biography
-Joe Bottum
-Karl E. Mundt
-Adolf Hitler statement
-Ku Klux Klan [KKK] charge
-Mundt


Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:29 pm.

The President’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:10 pm.

-Comparison of Ho Chi Minh to George Washington
-American Federation of Labor – Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-
CIO]
-George Meany
-1962 Senatorial campaign
-McGovern’s position in Food-for-peace program
-1971 allegation
-Minnesota
-Dole’s response
-Communication with the White House


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Colson left at 1:10 pm.