360–5

Conversation No. 360-5

Date: September 8, 1972
Time: 2:13 pm - 3:01 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
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The President met with Charles W. Colson.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Cabinet and Republican Congressional leaders, September 12, 1972
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Poll figures
-George P. Shultz
-Vietnam War
-Tone
-Economic issue

Michael J. Mansfield’s possible trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Henry A. Kissinger's conversation with Mansfield
-Administration position
-Administration statements
-Colson’s view
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Demonstrators




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Vietnam War
-Leak
-William J. Porter
-Colson’s efforts
-Joseph W. Alsop
-Abram Chayes
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-Possible statement
-Robert J. Dole

Economic issues
-Herbert Stein speech
-Network coverage
-Food prices
-Earl L. Butz
-Presentation
-Peter G. Peterson
-New York City
-Thomas R. Shepherd, Jr.
-Herbert G. Klein
-Robert H. Finch
-Richard A. Moore
-McGovern’s policies
-Taxes and spending
-Lifestyle
-Welfare proposal
-Congress
-Income levels
-Administration response
-The president’s instructions
-Richard Dougherty’s staement

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:13 pm.

The President's schedule
-Camp David
-Folder
-Forthcoming meeting
-Maurice H. Stans

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:01 pm.

Issues
-John G. Tower
-Charles H. Percy
-Polls
-Vietnam War
-Percy
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-McGovern
-Support by American people
-Poll
-Louis P. Harris profile
-The President's May 8, 1972 decision to mine Haiphong
harbor
-The president’s view
-Watergate
-The President’s view
-1701 Pennsylvania Avenue
-Surveillance
-Leak
-Dole’s forthcoming press conference
-Announcement
-Speechwriters
-The President’s instructions to Colson
-“Cover-up” charge
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Style


US-Soviet Union grain deal
-Announcement
-Butz
-Forthcoming press conference
-McGovern
-1964
-George Meany
-Public relations
-McGovern
-Butz
-Colson’s view
-The President’s view
-Possible comments on Clarence D. Palmby

James R. (“Jimmy”) Hoffa
-Planned trip to Hanoi
-Passport
-[William L. Taub]
-Colson’s recent telephone conversation with Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-William P. Rogers’s recent telephone calls to Meany and Fitzsimmons
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1972 campaign finances
-McGovern
-Henry Kimmelman
-The President’s view
-John B. Connally
-Alleged violations
-Maurice Stans
-Media
-John Ehrlichman’s conversation with the President
-Butz
-Investigation
-General Accounting Office [GAO]
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]

1972 New Hampshire campaign
-Vietnam War
-Wesley Powell
-Possible White House visit
-Thomas J. McIntyre
-Louis C. Wyman
-Thomas J. McIntyre
-McGovern
-Wyman
-William Loeb
-McIntyre
-McGovern
-Loeb

Edward M. Kennedy
-Amanda Burden
-Source of information
-Chappaquiddick
-R. Sargent Shriver
-Edmund S. Muskie
-National Inquirer magazine

Louis P. Harris poll
-Monday magazine
-Shriver
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1972 campaign practices
-Charges
-The President's conduct of the Vietnam War
-McGovern’s campaign
-Poll data
-Charts
-The President's campaign role
-Presidential candidates
-Minimum vote percentage
-Stans and John N. Mitchell
-Invitation to forthcoming meeting
-Powell
-Role

-Issues
-Vietnam
-Busing
-National defense
-Portsmouth, New Hampshire
-Military bases
-McGovern
-George H. Gallup

1972 New Hampshire campaign
-Robert C. Hill

The President's schedule
-1972 campaign
-The President’s view
-Colson’s view
-Media and press coverage
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-Colson's conversation with an unknown person
-Congressional candidacy

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Press conference
-Surrogates

1972 campaign
-US-Israel policy
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-1972 campaign issue
-Jews
-McGovern campaign
-Organizational discussion
-Gordon Weil
-Pacifism
-Polls
-Gallup and Louis P. Harris polls
-Eugene J. McCarthy

Instructions

Colson left at 3:01 pm.