376–26

Conversation No. 376-26

Date: November 2, 1972
Time: 10:50 am - 11:22 am
Location: Executive Office Building


The President met with Charles W. Colson.

Greetings

The President talked with the White House operator at an Unknown time between 10:50 am and
10:55 am.

[Conversation No. 376-26A]

[See Conversation No. 32-139]

[End of telephone conversation]

News coverage of 1972 campaign practices
-Demonstrations in Boston and San Diego
-News summary
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Frank Mankiewicz's charges
-Donald H. Segretti
-Hiring of unknown person
-Patrick J. Buchanan's analysis
-Agreement from Colson
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(rev. Nov-03)

-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], National Broadcasting
Corporation [NBC]
-Carl [last name unknown], George Meany
-Mankiewicz
-Archie Bunker type demonstrator
-Fight with George S. McGovern supporters

The White House operator talked with the President at 10:55 am.

[Conversation No. 376-26B]

[See Conversation No. 32-140]

[End of telephone conversation]

1972 election
-Demonstrators and McGovern tactics
-Boston
-Police action
-Reaction by public
-Press coverage

-Administration charges
-Clark MacGregor's statement
-News summary
-Instructions from the President
-McGovern, R. Sargent Shriver
-Organization in cities
-Miami
-Moral responsibility
-Columnists
-Vermont C. Royster, Nicolas P. Thimmesch, John S. (“Jack”) Knight
-University of Texas Young Republican President John Boardman
-John Connally
-Name calling
-News summaries
-George C. Wallace
-Support for the President
-Connally’s statement
-News coverage
-News summaries
-Detroit News
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-New York Daily News
-Dallas Morning News
-Jim Wright
-Comparison of the President's, McGovern's campaigns
-Kenneth Clawson, Al Abrahms
-Surrogates
-Polls
-Minneapolis Tribune
-Analysis
-Questions
-Critique of campaign conduct
-The President's compared with McGovern's conduct
-Percentages
-New York Daily News
-Albert Sindlinger
-The President's standing

Colson talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:55 am and 11:23
am.

-Watergate

Colson talked with Holly Holm at an unknown time between 10:55 am and 11:23 am.

Colson talked with W. Richard Howard at an unknown time between 10:55 am and 11:23 am.

[Conversation No. 376-26C; one item has been removed from the conversation]

[See Conversation No. 32-141]

[End of telephone conversation]

-Polls
-Shifts
-History
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Comparisons
-Last-minute strategy
-McGovern
-Demeanor
-Apathy
-Robert J. Dole
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)

-Summary of abuses
-News summary
-Agnew
-Scheduled press conference
-Los Angeles
-Demonstrators
-Heckling
-Antics
-Rationale
-Actions by the President’s supporters compared to those by McGovern’s
supporters
-Segretti
-Gabriel Hauge
-Peter M. Flanigan
-New York
-Wilbur D. Mills, J., William Fulbright
-Charges
-Republican campaign tactics
-Response
-Possible press conference


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Issues
-Watergate
-Staff concern
-Haig
-Economy
-Food prices
-Taxes
-1960 election
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Tape Subject Log
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-Inflation
-Thomas W. Dewey
-Watergate
-Crime
-Negative advertisements
-Dole

President’s forthcoming speech

Polls
-The President's standing
-Sindlinger
-Timing
-Vietnam
-Effect on voters
-Prospects in 1972 election
-Analysis
-Favorable percentages

Issues
-Speech appeal to New American Majority
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Richard M. Scammon
-1924 election, [John] Calvin Coolidge
-Comparisons
-Corruption, campaign practices
-Segretti
-Success of charges
-Practices
-The President’s view
-Dallas Morning News
Article in news summary compared to Detroit News
-Agnew, Dole
-Use of issues
-Vietnam
-Melvin R. Laird’s press conference
-Milwaukee
-William P. Rogers's appearance on Meet the Press, George Shultz
-Settlement possibility
-Possible strategy

An unknown person talked with the President at an unknown time between 10:55 am and 11:22
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am.

[Conversation No. 376-26D]

Schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

Issues
-Last-minute strategy on McGovern campaign practices
-Demonstrators
-McGovern positions
-Welfare, increased taxes, Vietnam
-Agnew
-[Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Tricia Nixon Cox] Thelma C. “Pat” Nixon
-Vietnam charges
-Sabotaging peace
-“Peace with surrender”

Colson left at 11:22 am.