609–13

Conversation No. 609-13

Date: October 30, 1971
Time: 12:09 pm - 12:37 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

Campaign practices
-Edward M. Kennedy
-London Express cartoon
-Distribution

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 12:10 pm.

Busing
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-Poll
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Possible Amendment
-Poll
-Blacks
-Supporters
-Edward Kennedy
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Poll
-Possible amendment
-1954 desegregation decision [Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education]
-Possible amendment
-Ehrlichman
-Leonard Garment
-The President’s view
-Poll
-George C. Wallace supporters
-The President's supporters
-Muskie supporters
-Nation-wide
-Letter from pro-busing group
-Muskie
-Polish-Americans
-Boston

Edward M. Kennedy
-London Express cartoon
-Distribution
-Muskie

Foreign aid program
-Previous Senate vote
-Henry A. Kissinger's view
-The President’s view
-Timing
-White House response
-Edward Kennedy’s statements
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United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan, Republic of China
-Colson's conversation with George H.W. Bush
-Bush's statement on the William F. Buckley, Jr. or “Dick Cavett” show television
show
-Possible UN expulsion of Israel
-Elliot L. Richardson's forthcoming speech to the American Jewish Congress
-President’s support for Israel
-Compared with Taiwan
-Colson's conversation with Richardson
-Statements about Edward Kennedy
-Press conference

Foreign aid program
-The President's conversation with Kissinger
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-The President's possible veto
-The President’s view
-Israel
-Cambodia

UN vote on Taiwan
-Bush’s statements
-Appearances on Cavett and Buckley television shows
-UN Secretary General U Thant's reaction
-Forthcoming attack on Edward Kennedy
-Kennedy’s previous statements on foreign policy
-Vietnam
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Kissinger’s trip to Peking
-Richard F. Pederson
-Bush's forthcoming treatment of the People's Republic of China [PRC] delegation
-The President’ view
-Compared with treatment of Soviet Union
-Kissinger

Edward Kennedy
-Effectiveness on television
-Ronald L. Ziegler's views
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The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 12:10 pm and 12:25
pm and requested Ziegler.

[Conversation No. 609-13A]

Edward Kennedy
-Compared to Robert F. Kennedy and John F. Kennedy

The President's foreign policy
-Press coverage
-Kissinger’s view
-Soviet trip announcement
-The President’s view

Edward Kennedy
-Robert J. Dole
-Colson's conversation with Franklyn C. (“Lyn”) Nofziger
-Possible attack

Ziegler present at 12:25 pm.

-Statement regarding UN vote on Taiwan
-Press coverage
-New York Times
-Washington Post
-Physical appearance
-Ziegler’s view
-Contrasted with brothers
-Possible White House attacks
-London Express cartoon
-Mike Royko column
-Peter Lisagor's possible column

Foreign aid
-Ziegler’s recent briefing
-Kissinger
-Israel
-Vietnamization
-Cambodia
-Pakistan
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Ziegler left at 12:30 pm

Press
-Kissinger
-Relations with the Administration
-UN
-Busing
-New York Times
-Ehrlichman, Leonard Garment
-Editorials

Foreign aid program
-Hugh Scott
-Previous Senate vote
-Administration's efforts
-State Department
-Nofziger
-Dole

UN vote on Taiwan
-Right-wing
-Buckley

The President, Haldeman, and Colson left at 12:37 pm.