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