Date: October 6, 1972
Time: 3:24 pm – 3:55 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
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The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.
Election
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting
-Effect
-Louis P. Harris poll
-Newsweek
-Call to Charles W. Colson
-George S. McGovern
-Harris
-New York Times
Colson entered at 3:25 pm.
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting
McGovern’s view of the President
Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting
-Election poll
-Vietnam negotiations
-Effect
-Harris
-National poll
-Comparison to Lyndon B. Johnson and Barry M. Goldwater
McGovern’s recent foreign policy speech
-William P. Rogers
-Press conference
-Melvin R. Laird
-Press conference
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Rogers
Trade
-Maritime agreement
Negotiations with North Vietnamese
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
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Kissinger and the President left at 3:30 pm.
The President reentered at an unknown time before 3:35 pm.
Harris poll
-Voter participation
-Trustworthiness of candidates
-Blacks, youth
-McGovern’s accusations
-Adolf Hitler
-Watergate
-The US-Soviet Union grain deal
-Abortion
-Reaction of farmers
-Other polls
-Vietnam War
-Bombing
-The President’s handling of the economy
-Vietnam War
-Goldwater
-McGovern
-Bombing issue
-Vietnam
-Forthcoming speech
-Administration response
Butterfield entered at 3:35 pm.
Vietnam
-McGovern
-Administration response
-Laird
The President’s schedule
-Meeting in the Cabinet Room
-William E. Timmons
-Edward W. Brooke
-Jacob K. Javits
-The President’s instructions
Butterfield left at 3:40 pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
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Campaign issues
-Survey
-McGovern
-Vietnam War prisoners of war [POWs]
-Albert E. Sindlinger
-Harris poll
-Wage-price controls
-Taxes
-Budget
-Prices
-Welfare
-Prices
-Taxes
-Persons to give speeches
-Herbert Stein
-George P. Shultz
-Pierre Rinfret
-John B. Connally
-West Coast
-Response to McGovern
-Stein
-Shultz
-Vietnam
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Welfare issue
-McGovern’s credibility
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Issues
-Harris
-Richard M. Scammon
-Amnesty, busing
-Amnesty
-McGovern’s view
-Draft dodgers, deserters
-Response
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Busing
-Amnesty
-Speech
-Scammon
-Crime
-Kleindienst
-Marijuana
-Courts
-Judges
-Permissiveness issue
-William H. Rehnquist
-Law and order
-McGovern
-Amnesty
-Crime
-Welfare recipients
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Issues
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-[McGovern?]
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:40 pm.
Unknown woman’s schedule [Marjorie P. Acker?]
Bull left at an unknown time before 3:55 pm.
Issues
-Amnesty
-Busing
-Mrs. Roman Gribbs
-Detroit mayor
-David Susskind
The President’s recent press conference
-Scammon
-Public relations
-Colson’s efforts
Colson left at 3:55 pm.