Date: October 16, 1972

Time: 5:59 pm – 6:08 pm

Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Vice President Spiro T. Agnew.

[See Conversation No. 800-5C]

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Agnew’s schedule

-Revenue sharing signing ceremony in Philadelphia

-Chicago trip

-Location

-Sequence of events

1972 campaign

-Opponents

-The President’s view

-Focus on issues

-Foreign policy and national defense

-George S. McGovern

-Principal issues

-The economy

-Foreign policy

-Vietnam

-National defense

-Domestic issues

-Revenue sharing

-Welfare

-Busing

-Administration record on minorities and the environment

-Welfare

-Administration record

-McGovern’s plans

-Credibility issue

-R. Sargent Shriver

-The President’s view

-Agnew’s anecdote

-Public response

-Agnew

-The President’s Atlanta trip

-The President’s appearance with prisoners of war [POW] wives

-Amnesty issue

-McGovern

Agnew’s schedule

-Agnew’s attendance at the Alfred E. Smith dinner, October 2, 1972

-Terrance Cardinal Cooke

-The President’s personal greetings

-The President’s attendance in 1973

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-Suggestions for Agnew

-Composition of the audience

-National defense issue

-Excerpt from Agnew’s speech draft

-Charges against persons in politics

-Smith

-Henry Klein