Date: October 16, 1972
Time: 2:25 pm – 3:29 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Charles W. Colson.
The President’s schedule
-The President’s October 16, 1972 appearance before the National League of
Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia
-Reaction
-George S. McGovern
-Colson’s staff report
-Hugh [last name unknown]
-Melville Stephens
The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown between 2:25 pm and 2:27
pm.
[Conversation No. 367-10A]
[See Conversation No. 31-60]
[End of telephone conversation]
Schedule
-George E. Christian
-John B. Connally
Vietnam War issue
-Prisoners of war [POWs], amnesty
-The President’s appearance before POW families group
-Reaction of audience
-Tone
-Press reaction
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The President talked with Christian between 2:27 pm and 2:30 pm.
[Conversation No. 367-10B]
[See Conversation No. 31-61; one item has been withdrawn]
[End of telephone conversation]
Press conference
-Connally
-Timing
The White House operator talked with the President at 2:31 pm.
[Conversation No. 367-10C]
[See Conversation No. 31-62]
[End of telephone conversation]
Connally
-Television broadcast
-The President’s view
-Discussion of foreign policy issues
-Economic issues
Foreign policy issues
-Effectiveness of issue
-Appeal
-George Meany
-Patriotism
-Compared to lifestyle issues
-Amnesty
-Connally
-McGovern
-Moral character
-Primacy of issue
-Welfare and social issues
-McGovern’s $1000 per person proposal
-Compared to national security issue
-Appeal to workers
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-Connally
-Vietnam issue
-Stephens
-Republicans
-McGovern
-Recent speech
-Communist government in South Vietnam
-St. Louis Post-Dispatch
-Tone
-Quote
-The President’s recent statement
The White House operator talked with the President at 2:35 pm.
[Conversation No. 367-10D]
[See Conversation No. 31-63]
[End of telephone conversation]
Vietnam War
-POWs
-Administration policy
-The President’s October 16, 1972 remarks to POW families
-Wire service coverage
-Albert E. Sindlinger
-Reception
-The press
-The President’s May 8, 1972 decision to bomb Hanoi and mine Haiphong
harbor
-Reaction of POW families to the President’s recent appearance, October 16, 1972
-Colson’s view
Watergate
-Donald H. Segretti
-Campaign practices
-Washington Post
-Issue
-The Establishment
-Focus
-The President
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-Separation of Watergate and campaign practices
charges
-Grand jury
-Prospect
George P. Shultz’s call to Colson
The President talked with an unknown person [H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman ?] at an unknown time
between 2:35 pm and 3:25 pm.
[Conversation No. 367-10H]
Instructions for staff
[End of telephone conversation]
Press relations
-Schultz’s call to Colson
-Schultz
-The President’s view
-Charges made against the President’s campaign
-Clark MacGregor
-Hugh W. Sloan, Jr.
-Response by administration to charges
-Ronald L. Ziegler, Herbert G. Klein
-Robert H. Finch
-Cabinet officers
-Connally
-Joseph McCarthyism
-Contact with the press
-Smear campaign
-Washington Post editorials
-Possible cutoff of Washington Post
-Haldeman
-Shultz
-New York Times, Time, Newsweek
-Television networks
-The President’s view
-Robert J. Dole
-MacGregor
-The President’s press conference
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-May Day riots, 1971
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
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[Duration: 8m 32s ]
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Issues
-Vietnam War
-McGovern
-Debate
-Amnesty
-POWs
-The President’s recent press conference
-The President’s demeanor
-McGovern
-As standard bearer of Democratic Party
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Democratic Party tradition
-Connally
-Support
-Recent speech
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Polls
-Presentation of issues
-Television
-Weekend news stories
-Knight newspapers
-Commercials
-Thomas F. Eagleton
-Panels
-Question and answer sessions
-Telephone questions from the public
-The President’s 1968 campaign
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-Manner
-Amnesty, Defense Department cuts
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Public interest
-Buchanan
-Democrats for Nixon
-Welfare
-Richard M. Scammon
-Scammon’s view
-McGovern’s trip to San Francisco
-[Homosexual] vote
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-Media
-McGovern’s recent Vietnam speech
-Daniel Yankelovich
-Louis P. Harris
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[Duration: 2m 43s ]
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Campaign practices
-Alleged McGovern tactics
-Response
Issues
-Vietnam War
-McGovern’s recent speech
-Dole
-Connally
-McGovern
-Credibility
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-Editorials
-Number
-Response from administration
-The press
-Hugh S. Sidey
-The President’s view
The Establishment
-Instructions for Buchanan
-Columns
-William F. Buckley, Jr.
1972 election
-Buchanan’s analysis
-Opposition views
-Compared to those of American majority
-Colson’s view
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[Duration: 6m 22s ]
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The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 2:35 pm and 3:25
pm.
[Conversation No. 367-10E]
[End of telephone conversation]
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
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[Duration: 6m 27s ]
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The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 2:35 pm and
3:25 pm.
[Conversation No. 367-10F]
[See Conversation No. 31-64]
[End of telephone conversation]
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[Duration: 1m 21s ]
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The White House operator talked with Colson at 3:25 pm.
[See Conversation No. 31-65]
Colson conferred with the President at an unknown time between 3:25 pm and 3:28 pm.
The President talked with Frank E. Fitzsimmons at an unknown time between 3:25 pm and 3:28
pm.
[Conversation No. 367-10G]
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[See Conversation No. 31-65; one item has been withdrawn]
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[Duration: 23m 20s ]
[END OF TELEPHONE CONVERSATION]
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Colson left at 3:49 pm.