368–5

Conversation No. 368-5

Date: October 17, 1972
Time: 2:10 pm - 3:00 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

Campaign charges
-Corruption
-Last minute smears

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 2:10 pm.

Food

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:00 pm.

Campaign practices
-Charges
-Time constraints
-The White House and President's role
-George S. McGovern's campaign
-Washington Post
-Benjamin C. Bradlee
-October 17, 1972 story
-White House allegations
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Issues
-Colson’s conversations with Paul Hall
-Corruption
-McGovern's appearance and voice
-Comparison with Adlai E. Stevenson, II
-Vietnam War
-McGovern's policies
-McGovern’s trustworthiness
-The President’s trustworthiness
-Maritime agreement
-Washington Post
-Appeal to leaders
-Attacks against Helen Gahagan Douglas
-Political tactics


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Issues
-McGovern’s proposed defense budget
-Base closures
-Utah, California
-Economic and domestic statements
-George P. Shultz
-Eliot L. Richardson
-John J. Rhodes
-Taxes, welfare
-Probable statements released
-John B. Connally
-Hall's conversation with Colson
-Amnesty
-Edwin L. Harper, Robert Teeter
-John N. Mitchell
-Youth vote
-Busing
-Unknown person
-Aid to parochial schools
-Amnesty
-Veterans groups
-The President’s view
-The President's October 16, 1972 appearance before prisoner of war [POW]
families group
-Morality

Alaska
-Airplane crash
-The President’s recent conversation with John D. Ehrlichman
-Will Rogers, Wiley Post
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs, Nicholas J. Begich
-Death proclamations
-Congressional seats
-Memorial service


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Issues
-Watergate
-Anti-trust suit
-International Business Machines Corp. [IBM]
-Announcement
-The President’s view
-Ehrlichman
-Labor
-Amnesty, marijuana, abortion, crime
-Conservatives
-Social compared to economic issues
-1970 comparison
-Taxes
-Real income
-Possibility of an increase
-Surrogates
-Meeting with the Cabinet
-Ehrlichman, Clark MacGregor
-Audio-visual clips
-Children
-Credibility
-Reporters
-Richard G. Kleindienst's call to Colson
-Timing
-Washington Post
-McGovern
-Amnesty
-Hall
-Reports from regional press

McGovern
-Campaign strategy
-Inconsistency
-Charges on corruption
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-Intended speech
-Advertisements
-Vietnam
-Taxes
-Aid to parochial schools

Issues
-Taxes
-Aid to parochial schools
-Concerned Citizens for Non-Public Schools
-[Unknown people], Wellington T. Mara
-Tax credit
-Draft letter
-Robert B. Semple, Jr.
-Northeast
-New York
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s instruction
-Statements targeted to different regions
-Chicago, Detroit
-The President's veto of the water bill
-Ehrlichman
-Social Security legislation veto
-Budget cost
-Retired people
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW] appropriation veto
-Office of Economic Opportunity
-Water bill
-Ehrlichman
-Suburbs
-Taxes
-The President’s credibility
-Spending-ceiling

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 2:10 pm.


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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:00 pm.


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Colson left at 3:00 pm.