Date: September 24, 1972

Time: 11:56 am – 12:46 pm

Location: Camp David Study Table

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The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation no. 213-19]

The President’s meeting with laborers

-Press coverage by the Washington Evening Star

-Photographs

-Effect

-Type of story

-George Sherman

-Dissemination

1972 campaign issues

-Amnesty issue

-The President’s analysis

-Service to the country

-Idea of “moral” compared with “immoral” war

-World War II deserters

-Jewish press

-George S. McGovern

-Interview of McGovern

-Colson’s analysis

-McGovern’s appearance

-Problems stated

-Lawrence F. O’Brien, Jr.

-Conversation between the President and H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

-Complaint about buying television time

-Buying time on television situation

-Amount of time

-Refusal to the Democrats

-Robert J. Dole

-Network decision

-Amount of money for one-half hour of television

-McGovern’s campaign

-Idea of frustration among public supporters

-Idea of defensiveness by McGovern

-Richard G. Valeriani

-Idea of desperation

-Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak study

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-Richard M. Scammon, Oliver Quayle

-Possible effect on McGovern

-McComb County, Michigan

-Demographics

-Democrats

-United Auto Workers [UAW]

-Interviews

-Results

-Scammon

-Type of individuals interviewed

-Previous supporters of Hubert H. Humphrey

-Busing issue in McComb County, Michigan

-Interview results

-Issues

-The President’s foreign policy

-Soviet Union

-The People’s Republic of China [PRC]

-Clean water bill

-Possible veto

-McGovern’s credibility

-Approval rating for the President

-Similarity to Louis P. Harris poll

-McComb County interview percentage results

-Colson’s analysis

-The interview as reaching the silent majority

-Reaching the upper middle class

-Signing the water bill, the amnesty issue, the busing issue

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Issues

-Idea of sophisticated politics

-Watergate issue

-Wheat deal issue

-Result in election votes

-Comparison to Lyndon Johnson

-Robert D. (“Bobby”) Baker and Walter W. Jenkins

-Results

-Scammon’s analysis of campaign

-Type of situation

-Grain deal

-McGovern’s position

-Results in poll figures

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