408–7

Conversation No. 408-7

Date: February 5, 1973
Time: 4:10 pm - 4:46 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

Schedule
-Colson
-Trip to the Union of Soviet Republics [USSR]

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:10 pm.


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Schedule
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower and [Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Evening plans

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:46 pm.

Colson's trip to the USSR
-Patricia Colson
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-Possible article by Colson about trip
-Speech material

Sanchez entered at an unknown time before 4:10 pm.


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Schedule
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:46 pm.

Colson’s trip to USSR
-Speech material
-USSR
-People
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-Government
-Negotiations
-Trade
-Briefing
-Steven Lazarus
-Commerce Department
-East-West Trade Center
-Ralph Lazarus
-Navy Captain
-East-West Trade Center
-Vienna, Austria
-Facilities
-State Department
-Israel
-Duration of visit
-The President’s opinion
-1968 trip to Europe by Colson
-Berlin
-East Berlin
-Berlin Wall
-Colson’s son

The President and Colson’s meeting with Albert E. Sindlinger
-Herbert C. Hoover story
-Sindlinger’s attitude
-Helpfulness
-Prompt inflation
-Bias
-Polling techniques
-Reflection of public opinion
-Shooting of John C. Stennis
-Comparison with White House correspondence analysis
-Telephone polling
-Vietnam War


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Sindlinger
-1972 election outcome
-The President’s margin of victory
-George S. McGovern
-1964 election comparison
-Barry M. Goldwater, Sr.
-McGovern’s supporters
-Loyalty
-Bumper stickers
-Minority
-Fanaticism
-Voter turnout
-Sindlinger’s certainty of the President’s margin of victory
-Comparison with George H. Gallup and Louis P. Harris

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Vietnam War
-Settlement
-Sindlinger's analysis
-Desire for end of war
-Hawks
-Type of settlement
-The President’s critics
-The President as “national hero”
-Effect
-The President as a strong leader
-Image
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, other White House staff members

The President’s Schedule
-Meetings with Sindlinger
-Frequency
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-Reflection of public opinion
-Comparison with Harris, Gallup
-Currency of reports
-Depth
-Issues
-Busing
-Budget
-Recommendation of the President's television [TV]
appearence
-Timing
-Vietnam settlement
-Spending and economic issues
-Domestic Council
-Sub-standard housing
-Food stamps
-Congress
-Access to interviews in districts
-Change emphasis [?]
-Public reaction
-Standard polls
-Harris’s reporting of domestic issues
-Vietnam
-Joseph W. Alsop
-Domestic issues
-Congress
-Washington Post
-New York Times
-Networks
-Pressure groups
-Call to the President
-Article
-Currency

Polls
-Sindlinger
-Use of Harris for polling
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
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-Vietnam War
-Polling techniques
-Cease-fire
-October 8, 1972 agreement
-Vietnam War
-Public relations strategy
-Administration accomplishments
-“Peace with honor”
-Change in world relations
-The Nixon Doctrine
-Post-war period outlook
-Generation of peace
-Compared with Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Korean War
-1956 election
-Foreign relations
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Communication
-Respect

Domestic Issues
-Role of government
-Taxes
-Concentration of power
-Social programs
-School lunch programs
-Bureaucrats
-Government waste
-Social issues
-Shooting of Stennis
-Sindlinger
-Blacks
-Whites
-Middle class
-Support for the President
-West
-Irish-Americans
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-Italian-Americans
-Social issues
-Amnesty for draft dodgers
-Law and order
-Busing
-Pornography
-Marlon Brando
-Newsweek, Time articles
-Family magazines
-Patricia Colson
-Robert H. Abplanalp's conversation with the President
-Public service program
-Blacks
-Language
-Robert J. Brown
-Permissiveness
-Role of government

Vietnam settlement
-Antiwar critics
-Reaction
-The President's press conference
-News coverage
-Time
-Dan Rather
-Balance
-The President's tone, voice
-Comparison with Lyndon B. Johnson

Press relations
-Reporting standards
-Censorship
-Double standard
-White House public relations
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Richard A. Moore
-Agreement
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-Implementation of policy
-TV networks
-Influence
-CBS affiliate
-Coverage
-Watergate issue
-Vietnam settlement
-Antiwar critics
-Prisoners of War [POWs] guests
-CBS V
-New York
-Strategy
-John O. Pastore
-Donald R. Larrabee’s initiation at the National Press Club
-Democratic Congressmen
-New York Times piece
-Unknown man’s comment
-[Unintelligible name]
-Fighting back

The President’s supporters
-William Proxmire
-Demagogues [?]
-Proxmire
-Skills

1972 election
-“49 state landslide”
-Mandate
-Comparison with 1968 election
-Democrats
-Students
-Post-election plans
-The President’s opponents

The President’s schedule
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Colson left at 4:46 pm.