18–91

Conversation No. 18-91

Date: January 17, 1972
Time: 2:47 pm - 3:10 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 315-6]
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Dan Rather's interview with the President
-Publicity
-Compared with Edmund S. Muskie
-Response of Middle America
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] reaction
-Letters to editor
-The President's letter to Walter L. Cronkite, Jr. about National Broadcasting
Corporation [NBC] show
-Cronkite’s letter to the President about “A Day in the Life of the Presidency”
-William P. Rogers

Muskie's interview
-Compared with the President
-CBS handling of White House response
-Unnamed lawyer
-Rather
-“Meet the Press”


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-Vulnerability on trust issue
-Campaign finances
-Compared to the President
-Maurice H. Stans


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Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Interviews
-“Meet the Press”
-NBC
-“Issues and Answers”
-CBS
-“Face the Nation”

Hugh Scott
-\"Meet the Press\"

Agnew
-Strengths
-Interviews
-John B. Connally
-Compared to Muskie
-Statement on Muskie

Media
-Buildup of Democrats
-Hubert H. Humphrey, Muskie
-Administration response

Democrat response to the State of the Union
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-Telephone format
-Issues
-Television time slot


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Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-William Loeb
-Muskie
-Manchester Union-leader
-Samuel W. Yorty
-John N. Ashbrook
-The Administration
-Help for the President
-West Coast dock strike
-Harry Bridges

Labor
-Help for the President
-Construction workers
-Industrial states
-New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois
-California
-Michigan
-Fitzsimmons
-Auto workers
-Political orientation
-Leonard Woodcock