Date: September 8, 1972

Time: Unknown between 11:32 am and 11:39 am.

Location: Oval Office

The President met with John G. Tower, Howard H. Baker, Jr., William E. Timmons and Oliver

F. (“Ollie”) Atkins.

[Photograph session]

-1972 campaign

Congressional action

-Edward W. Brooke amendment

-Debt ceiling

-Senate

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Vietnam

-Bombing and mining

-Poll results

-Barry M. Goldwater

Congressional candidate [Robin L. Beard, Jr.]

-Timmons

-6 Congressional district, Tennessee

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Polls

-Nashville, Tennessee

-George S. McGovern

-Votes

-Norman Thomas

Harold (“Barefoot”) Sanders

-Lyndon B. Johnson

-McGovern

-Loyalty to Democratic Party

Vietnam War

-Campaign issue

-Candidates

-Louis P. Harris poll

-US position

-Soviet Union

-Defense

-Jobs

-Unemployment

-Tennessee

The President and Tower left at 11:36 am.

1972 campaign

-The President’s schedule

-Knoxville

-Memphis

-1968, 1970

[This conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 11:39 am.]

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