Date: November 3, 1972
Time: Unknown between 9:45 am – 10:13 am
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Charles W. Colson and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
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1972 campaign
-The President’s speeches
-Media coverage
-New Majority
-Vietnam War
-Media relations
-Networks
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Work of the President’s supporters
-George S. McGovern
-Frank F. Mankiewicz
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-The President’s supporters
-Effort
-Execution
-Demonstrators
-Cincinnati
-Hecklers
-Media relations
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-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
-Buchanan
-Losing elections
-Understanding
-Watergate issue
-The President’s authority
-Donald H. Segretti
-Vietnam issue
-Melvin R. Laird
-Henry A. Kissinger
-The President’s telephone calls
-Clifford P. Case, Edward W. Brooke, and Mark O. Hatfield
-Position on war
-The President’s position
-Instructions for supporters
-The President’s speech, “Look to the Future”
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Drafts
-William P. Rogers
-William L. Safire
-Content
-Confidence
-Historical perspective
-McGovern’s campaign
-Views of Tricia Nixon Cox and Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Taping
-Presentation
-Quality
-Tribute to Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Inspiration
-Watergate issue
-Loss of support
-Blue collar vote
-The President’s handling
-Rogers’s comment to Haldeman
-Abraham Lincoln
-Illinois
-“Hard hats”
-Vietnam issue
-Significance of election
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-Impact on Hanoi
-John B. Connally
-Speech
-California
-Field poll
-Percentages
-Vietnam issue
-Impact on public attitudes
-Uncertainty
-McGovern’s position
-Kissinger’s statements
-Problems
-The President’s speech, “Look to the Future”
-Impact
-Kentucky
-Kissinger’s statements
-Problems
-Clarification
-Kissinger’s views
-Massachusetts
-Projection
-Mrs. Nixon’s visit
-Hecklers in Boston
-Impact
-Wisconsin
-Projection
-Further efforts
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The President talked with Jack R. Miller between 10:01 am and 10:04 am.
[Conversation No. 391-31A]
[See also Conversation No. 32-169]
[End of telephone conversation]
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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
1972 campaign
-The President’s telephone calls
-Miller
-Case
-Hatfield
-Miller
-Surrogates
-Complaints
-John D. Ehrlichman
-John W. Warner [?]
-Behavior
-Blue collar vote
-Cleveland
-Youngstown
-Richard M. Scammon
-Black vote
-Turnout
-Ohio
-Projection
-California
-Voter turnout
-Senators
-Vietnam issue
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The President talked with William L. Scott between 10:08 am and 10:10 am.
[Conversation No. 391-31B]
[See Conversation No. 32-170]
[End of telephone conversation]
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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
1972 campaign
-Scott
-Victory chances
-Agnew’s appearance
-Mrs. Nixon
-Support for the President
-Poll
-Publications
-Clark MacGregor
-Voter turnout
-Vietnam issue
-Vote for confidence in the President
-Foreign observation
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Colson and Haldeman left at 10:13 am.