788–8

Conversation No. 788-8

Date: September 29, 1972
Time: 12:11 pm - 2:03 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

Greetings

The President left and H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 12:12 pm.

The President's schedule

The President entered at an unknown time before 12:15 pm.

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 12:15 pm.

The President's schedule
-John B. Anderson
-Dinner

Butterfield left at 12:17 pm.

1972 Presidential election
-The President's election headquarters in Phoenix
-Arson
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-Demonstrators
-George S. McGovern
-News summary
-Press usage
-Exploitation
-Anti-war demonstrators at Doral Hotel
-Richard Moore
-Signs
-International Telephone and Telegraph Company [ITT]
-Watergate
-Anti-Nixon rally
-Pictures
-Communist banners
-Century Plaza demonstration
-Mao Tse-tung
-George Putnam
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Pictures
-McGovern
-Supporters
-Century Plaza demonstrators
-Burning of headquarters
-Senate Fair Campaign Practices Committee
-Complaint filing
-Robert J. Dole
-Congress
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Clark MacGregor's statement
-Press coverage
-Surrogates

Speeches by campaign surrogates
-Quotations
-Colson
-John B. Connally
-Defense issue
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Peter H. Dominick
-William P. Rogers
-McGovern
-Defense cuts
-Melvin R. Laird
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-The President's speech to American Legion
-Use
-Defense strength
-Navy
-Aircraft carriers
-Air Force
-B-1 bomber
-Army


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Watergate
-White House reaction


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John D. Ehrlichman’s schedule

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time after 12:15 pm.

[Conversation No. 788-9A]
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Ehrlichman's schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

US-Soviet Union grain deal
-Ehrlichman
-Report
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] interviews
-Agriculture Department official in Japan
-Earl L. Butz
-Clarence D. Palmby
-Continental Grain Company employees
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] interviews
-Watergate
-Ehrlichman
-L.[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-FBI investigation
-Possible violations
-Possible firing
-Department of Agriculture staff
-Palmby
-Butz position
-Bryce N. Harlow’s view
-ITT

Watergate
-Indictments

ITT
-White House staff
-Disciplinary action

US-Soviet Union grain deal
-Administration action
-Personnel
-Butz
-The President’s view
-Administration personnel
-Action by Butz
-Impropriety
-Error in judgment
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-Joseph E. Kraft
-Soviet Union crop failure
-Effect
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-Subsidies
-Hurting tax payers
-Negotiations
-Soviet Union’s wheat crop
-Future trade with Soviets
-Effect
-Negotiations
-Farm prices
-Other crops
-Compared to car sales

1972 Presidential election
-US-Soviet Union grain deal
-Farm state effect
-Public feeling
-Soviet position
-Big business advantage
-Possible use as campaign issue
-McGovern
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Exit visas for Soviet Jews
-Foreign policy
-Trade with Soviet Union
-Big business
-Farmers
-Buchanan’s assessment
-Effect on campaign
-Communists
-Possible gain in support
-Lack of media opposition
-Conservative media
-Liberal media
-Jews
-American opinion on foreign policy
-The President’s view
-Support for President

Exit visas for Soviet Jews
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-Effect on Americans
-The President’s view
-Israeli policy
-University of Southern California, Los Angeles [UCLA]
-Tuition rebate to medical students

US-Soviet Union grain deal
-McGovern
-Buchanan
-McGovern’s staff
-Media support
-Watergate
-US-Soviet Union grain deal
-CBS
-New York Times
-Washington Post

Watergate
-Washington Post
-Union at the Washington Post
-Colson’s view
-Katherine A. Graham
-Publishing contract disputes
-New York Herald Tribune
-Compared to New York Times
-Washington Times
-Publishing empire
-Television station owned by Washington Post [WTOP-Washington,
DC]


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The President's schedule
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT] interim agreement
-Congressional signing
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Monday meeting
-Tuesday signing ceremony


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The President, Haldeman and Colson left at 2:03 pm.