Conversation No. 360-5

Date: September 8, 1972
Time: 2:13 pm - 3:01 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
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The President met with Charles W. Colson.

         The President's schedule
          -Meeting with Cabinet and Republican Congressional leaders, September 12, 1972
          -H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
          -Poll figures
          -George P. Shultz
          -Vietnam War
          -Tone
          -Economic issue

         Michael J. Mansfield’s possible trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
          -Henry A. Kissinger's conversation with Mansfield
          -Administration position
          -Administration statements
                   -Colson’s view
                       -Lyndon B. Johnson
                       -Demonstrators




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         Vietnam War
          -Leak
                  -William J. Porter
                  -Colson’s efforts
                  -Joseph W. Alsop
                  -Abram Chayes
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                        -Possible statement
                    -Robert J. Dole

          Economic issues
            -Herbert Stein speech
                     -Network coverage
            -Food prices
                     -Earl L. Butz
          -Presentation
            -Peter G. Peterson
                     -New York City
                     -Thomas R. Shepherd, Jr.
            -Herbert G. Klein
            -Robert H. Finch
            -Richard A. Moore
          -McGovern’s policies
            -Taxes and spending
            -Lifestyle
            -Welfare proposal
                     -Congress
                     -Income levels
                     -Administration response
                         -The president’s instructions
            -Richard Dougherty’s staement

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:13 pm.

          The President's schedule
           -Camp David
           -Folder
           -Forthcoming meeting
                    -Maurice H. Stans

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:01 pm.

          Issues
            -John G. Tower
            -Charles H. Percy
            -Polls
            -Vietnam War
                    -Percy
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               -McGovern
          -Support by American people
          -Poll
               -Louis P. Harris profile
          -The President's May 8, 1972 decision to mine Haiphong
           harbor
               -The president’s view
-Watergate
 -The President’s view
 -1701 Pennsylvania Avenue
          -Surveillance
               -Leak
 -Dole’s forthcoming press conference
          -Announcement
          -Speechwriters
               -The President’s instructions to Colson
                   -“Cover-up” charge
          -Patrick J. Buchanan
               -Style


US-Soviet Union grain deal
 -Announcement
          -Butz
               -Forthcoming press conference
          -McGovern
          -1964
               -George Meany
 -Public relations
          -McGovern
 -Butz
          -Colson’s view
          -The President’s view
          -Possible comments on Clarence D. Palmby

James R. (“Jimmy”) Hoffa
  -Planned trip to Hanoi
          -Passport
          -[William L. Taub]
          -Colson’s recent telephone conversation with Frank E. Fitzsimmons
          -William P. Rogers’s recent telephone calls to Meany and Fitzsimmons
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1972 campaign finances
 -McGovern
         -Henry Kimmelman
              -The President’s view
 -John B. Connally
 -Alleged violations
         -Maurice Stans
         -Media
              -John Ehrlichman’s conversation with the President
              -Butz
         -Investigation
              -General Accounting Office [GAO]
              -International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]

1972 New Hampshire campaign
 -Vietnam War
         -Wesley Powell
             -Possible White House visit
             -Thomas J. McIntyre
 -Louis C. Wyman
 -Thomas J. McIntyre
 -McGovern
 -Wyman
         -William Loeb
 -McIntyre
         -McGovern
 -Loeb

Edward M. Kennedy
 -Amanda Burden
 -Source of information
 -Chappaquiddick
 -R. Sargent Shriver
 -Edmund S. Muskie
         -National Inquirer magazine

Louis P. Harris poll
 -Monday magazine
 -Shriver
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1972 campaign practices
 -Charges
          -The President's conduct of the Vietnam War
          -McGovern’s campaign
 -Poll data
          -Charts
 -The President's campaign role
 -Presidential candidates
          -Minimum vote percentage
 -Stans and John N. Mitchell
          -Invitation to forthcoming meeting
 -Powell
          -Role

         -Issues
              -Vietnam
              -Busing
              -National defense
              -Portsmouth, New Hampshire
                  -Military bases
                      -McGovern
                          -George H. Gallup

1972 New Hampshire campaign
 -Robert C. Hill

The President's schedule
 -1972 campaign
          -The President’s view
          -Colson’s view
               -Media and press coverage
                   -National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
          -Colson's conversation with an unknown person
               -Congressional candidacy

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
 -Press conference
          -Surrogates

1972 campaign
 -US-Israel policy
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            -1972 campaign issue
                    -Jews
            -McGovern campaign
                    -Organizational discussion
                        -Gordon Weil
                             -Pacifism
            -Polls
                    -Gallup and Louis P. Harris polls
            -Eugene J. McCarthy

          Instructions

Colson left at 3:01 pm.