767–10

Conversation No. 767-10
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Date: August 11, 1972
Time: 8:55 am – 9:28 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Patrick J. Buchanan.

Retail sales

Stock market


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Public relations
-Possible questions for the President’s family
-Republican National Convention
-Activities of the President’s family
-Activities of the President
-Presidential debates
-Clark MacGregor
-Activities of the President
-1972 campaign contrasted with the 1960 and 1968 campaigns
-Responsibilities of a Vice President relating to a campaign
-Responsibilities of a President during a campaign
-Duties of the Office of the President
-Foreign policy
-Congress
-Schedule


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The Administration’s record of appointing women
-Unimportance of number of appointments
-Stenographers
-Filing clerks
-Appointments to policy positions
-Supreme Court
-Cabinet
-Atomic Energy Commission [AEC] [Dixy Lee Ray]
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA] [Marina von N. Whitman]
-Federal Maritime Commission [Helen D. Bentley]


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Campaign
-Press
-News summary stories
-The Administration’s response to perceived media bias
-Depiction of crowd response at George S. McGovern event in New
Hampshire
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-Lyndon K. (\"Mort\") Allin
-John Dancy
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-Associated Press [AP]
-Actual size of crowd
-New Hampshire
-Compared to crowds from the President’s
appearances in the 1964 campaign
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Fairness
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-John A. Scali
-John W. Chancellor
-Melvin R. Laird
-David Brinkley
-Chancellor
-W. Ramsey Clark
-Remarks on J. Edgar Hoover
-Possible appointment as director of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation [FBI]
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Robert J. Dole’s previous remarks
-Efforts relative to North Vietnamese
-Possible remarks by Administration speakers
-Tone of campaign
-Compared with 1970 campaign
-Film
-William L. Safire
-Charges against Republicans
-Campaign fundraising
-Watergate
-James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.
-Possible indictments


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Vietnam related issues
-Clark
-Media interest
-Haldeman
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Possible statement
-Forthcoming speech
-Timing
-Agnew
-Speech on amnesty
-Writers
-Issue of the President's position on amnesty
-Carl Sandburg's anecdote on Abraham Lincoln
-Civil War-era deserter who moved to Canada
-Lincoln's action
-Recent Supreme Court decision
-[John] Calvin Coolidge
-Harry S. Truman
-Quakers
-The President’s view
-Peace Corps
-Lincoln
-Buchanan’s view

Agnew's possible speeches
-Questions for McGovern
-John P. Sears
-Clark
-Possible appointment as FBI director
-Previous trip to Hanoi
-Hoover
-Role as anti-communist
-Contrasted with Clark
-Possible speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW] national convention
-McGovern’s forthcoming VFW speech
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The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Henry A. Kissinger

Buchanan left at 9:28 am.