390–12

Conversation No. 390-12

Date: November 2, 1972
Time: 5:12 pm - 5:30 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

1972 campaign
-Hecklers in Boston
-Response
-Press relations
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Double standard
-Violence
-Deprivation of speaker's rights
-Unknown person
-Colson’s conversation with George Gordon [?]
-Ziegler
-Robert J. Dole
-Herbert G. Klein
-Media and press coverage
-Boston
-Nassau rally
-Liberty Island
-San Francisco
-Liberty Island
-Washington Post and New York Times
-George S. McGovern
-Public reaction
-Colson’s recent conversation with John F. Collins
-Cab driver’s view
-Boston Herald Traveler, Boston Globe
-Bostonians’ view of Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Apology
-Reaction of McGovern supporters
-McGovern’s response
-Television [TV] interview
-Washington Post
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Conversation No. 390-12 (cont’d)

-McGovern’s campaign
-Possible “bomb”
-Response
-Colson’s schedule
-Denver
-Dennis Davis [?]
-Speech to College Republicans
-Mrs. Nixon


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-The President’s campaign
-Error
-Democratic convention
-Minnesota
-Wisconsin
-South Dakota
-West Virginia
-Minnesota
-Wisconsin
-McGovern’s chances
-Hecklers in Boston
-Compared to Chicago
-Public reaction
-John B. Connally
-Departure from Democratic Party
-Henry A. Wallace, Harry S. Truman
-McGovern
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-American people
-Goals in election
-Hecklers in Boston
-Media coverage
-Mrs. Nixon

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Conversation No. 390-12 (cont’d)


-Response
-The President’s forthcoming conversation with H.R. (“Bob”)
Haldeman
-Media coverage
-Wires
-Accusations that McGovern encouraging demonstrations against
First Family and surrogates
-Ziegler quotation
-Mrs. Nixon
-Klein
-Dole
-Agnew
-Number
-Impact
-Collins’ view
-TV advertisement
-Mrs. Nixon
-McGovern
-Hecklers
-Jerry Rubin
-McGovern
-Possible public statement


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-Samuel Lubell interviews
-New Majority
-The President’s speech, “Look to the Future”
-Revisions
-Quotation
-Appeal for support
-Middle America
-Support for the President
-New areas
-Jews
-Economic issues
-Taxes
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Conversation No. 390-12 (cont’d)

-Democrats
-Losses
-New majority
-Republicans
-Lack of enthusiasm
-Liberals
-Italian-Americans
-Labor
-Catholics
-Voting
-Candidates
-Maryland
-Illinois
-New York
-Ticket splitting
-Albert E. Sindlinger polls
-Projections
-Democrats
-Voting patterns
-New York

The President talked with White House operator at an unknown time between 5:12 pm and 5:29
pm.

[Conversation No. 390-12A]

[See Conversation No. 32-151]

1972 campaign
-Connally
-Compared to the President

The President talked with Mrs. Nixon between 5:29 pm and 5:31 pm.

[Conversation No. 390-12B]

[See conversation No. 32-152]

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Conversation No. 390-12 (cont’d)


Colson left at 5:30 pm.