Date: September 16, 1972

Time: Unknown between 1:15 pm and 1:32 pm

Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

Watergate break-in

-Cubans

-Press story

-George S. McGovern

Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked with the President between 1:23 pm and 1:24 pm.

[Conversation No. 359-18A]

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US foreign policies

-The President’s conversation with Henry A. Kissinger

-Relations with the Soviet Union

-Trade

-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] II

-European Security Conference

-Timing of announcements

US economy

-Herbert Stein

-Wage and Price Commission

-McGovern

-Guidelines

Washington Post headline

-John F. Kennedy

-Pardon of Matthew J. Connelly

-Kenneth W. Clawson’s recent conversation with Howard Simons

-Stephen Rosenfeld

-Connelly

-Background

-Massachusetts

-[Appointments] Secretary to Harry S. Truman

-Fund raising

-Photograph

-Allen J. Ellender[?]

-McGovern

-Lyndon B. Johnson’s programs

-Donald H. Rumsfeld

-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]

-Stein

-Johnson

-High food prices

-George P. Shultz

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McGovern’s programs

-Increases

-Taxes

-Prices

-Welfare

-Telephone call to Colson from Albert E. Sindlinger

-George H. Gallup poll on wage and price controls

-Voluntary controls

-Pierre Rinfret

-Arthur F. Burns

-John B. Connally

Issues

-Knowledge of grain deal actions impact

-Export subsidy

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CBS

-Colson’s meeting

-Coverage

-Colson’s view

-Colson

-Train travel between New York and Washington

-Metroliner

-Comparison with air travel

-Fiorello H. LaGuardia airport

-Frank Stanton’s comments

-CBS rating

-William S. Paley

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-News coverage

-Press conference by the President

-Vietnam, national security

-Telephone call to Colson

-Paley

-CBS coverage

-Effect of Colson’s conversations with CBS officials

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Colson and the President left at 1:32 pm.