22–67

Conversation No. 22-67

Date: April 3, 1972
Time: 3:19 pm - 3:33 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 328-35]

The President conferred with an unknown person at 3:19 pm.

[End of conferral]

The President’s schedule
-Foreign policy matter
-Meeting with Ronald L. Ziegler

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-George S. McGovern
-Questioning by the press
-Mistake
-The President’s view
-Primary
-Press coverage
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-Staff
-Links with Edward M. Kennedy’s staff
-Mistake
-Taxes
-Investigation by the Committee
-Kennedy staff man
-McGovern’s statement
-Press criticism

Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Criticism of New York Times
-Boeing employee

Media
-Coverage of Senators

ITT case
-Dita D. Beard
-Criticism of Vance Hartke statment
-Developments
-Time and Newsweek
-Public response
-Peter Lisagor
-Lack of evidence
-Colson’s efforts
-Creating doubt
-Public response
-Administration’s strategy
-Timing

Economy
-Food prices
-Colson’s talk with Albert E. Sindlinger
-Poll
-Public attitude
-John B. Connally’s remarks
-Upcoming Marina von N. Whitman briefing
-Wholesale Price Index [WPI]

Vietnam
-Public issue
-North Vietnam offensive into South Vietnam
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-Bombing by the US
-Publicity
-White House strategy
-US withdrawal
-Democrats’ strategy on issue
-The President’s view
-McGovern
-Edmund S. Muskie statement
-Military action
-Disadvantages
-Public response
-North Vietnamese aggression
-Treaties
-Demilitarized zone [DMZ]


Colson’s schedule
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-School issue
-Activities


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George Meany
-Withdrawal from the Pay Board
-James Rademacher’s criticism
-Threatened withdrawal from the American Federation of Labor-Congress
of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO]
-International Brotherhood of Teamsters
-Request for call to Colson
-Support for the President
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-Teamsters and building trades
-Basis of labor support
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Rademacher
-Catalyst role
-Talk with George T. Bell

ITT case
-Developments
-Other issues
-Food prices
-Busing

Busing
-Richmond case
-Importance
-Media coverage
-Department of Justice cases
-Frequency
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Public attitude
-Symbolic areas
-Richmond and Detroit