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Start Date: 10-Oct-1972 2:40 PM

End Date: 10-Oct-1972 3:37 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Colson, Charles W.Acker, Marjorie P.[Unknown person(s)]

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

366-003.mp3

NARA Description:

On October 10, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Charles W. Colson, Marjorie P. Acker, and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 2:40 pm to 3:37 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 366-003 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 366-3

Date: October 10, 1972
Time: 2:40 pm - 3:37 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Charles W. Colson.


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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[Duration: 8m 17s ]


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        1972 campaign
            -Vietnam War
                  -George S. McGovern’s forthcoming speech
                  -Settlement prospects
                       -Effect on McGovern's campaign
                  -Response to McGovern
                  -Congress
                  -William P. Rogers
                  -Henry A. Kissinger
                  -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew’s recent speech
                       -McGovern speech
                       -Press coverage
            -Illinois


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
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                                       Tape Subject Log
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[Duration:   2m 22s   ]


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        1972 campaign
            -Robert J. Dole's recommendations
                -Economic issues
                      -Upcoming speeches from surrogates
                      -High prices, inflation, tax increases, increased spending
                -Vietnam
                      -McGovern's position characterized
                          -Debate
            -The President’s recent breakfast meeting
                -John D. Ehrlichman, Clark MacGregor
                -Surrogates
            -Wisconsin
            -Rhode Island
                -Ehrlichman
                -Brooklyn, Queens
                -Philadelphia
                -Cuyahoga County
                      -Cleveland
                -Ethnics, labor unions
                -Bridgeport, Connecticut
                -Illinois
                -Pittsburgh
            -Amnesty
            -Permissiveness
            -Abortion
                -Catholics
                -Rhode Island
                      -McGovern
                -William F. (“Billy”) Graham
                -View of the Momon Church
                -Catholic issue
                -Permissiveness
                      -Promiscuity
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                                      Tape Subject Log
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                         -Venereal disease
                 -Conservatives
                 -Colson’s view
                 -The President’s view
                     -Position of doctors characterized


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[Duration: 4m 50s ]


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        1972 campaign
            -Amnesty, welfare
                 -Unions
            -Permissiveness
            -Lifestyle of McGovern supporters
                 -Photographs
                 -George Meany
                     -Gay liberation group
                          -Handouts
                              -Roman S. Hruska comment
            -Strategy on use of issues
                 -Hugh Scott
                     -McGovern’s issue advertisements
                          -Responses
                              -Veterans
                              -Vietnam

Marjorie P. Acker [?] entered at an unknown time after 2:40 pm.

        Tennis
           -Shelley A. (Scarney) Buchanan
           -Patrick J. Buchanan
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                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Aug-03)


Acker left at an unknown time before 3:37 pm.

        1972 campaign
            -Economy
                -Herbert K. Stein’s forthcoming appearance at New York
                 Society of Security Analysts
                     -Attack on McGovern
                     -McGovern’s recent appearance
                     -Inflation
                     -Prices
                          -Wage and price controls
                               -Duration
                                    -Lyndon B. Johnson
                -Prices
                     -Wage and price controls
                          -McGovern’s program
                               -Effect
                                    -Taxes
            -Media and press relations
                -News summary
                     -Patrick J. Buchanan
                     -Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin
                -Establishment
                -Time, News Week
                     -Buchanan
                     -Name calling
                -News magazines focus
                     -Welfare
            -Garment workers
                -Anti-semitism
                     -Louis P. Harris
                     -Italians, Poles, Russians
            -Foreign policy issues
                -McGovern campaign
                     -Harris’s view
                          -Incompetence
                          -Soviet Union
                          -People’s Republic of China [PRC]
                          -Harris poll
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                                    Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. Aug-03)


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
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[Duration: 21m 16s ]


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       1972 campaign
           -Tone
               -Attack mode
               -The President’s recent breakfast meeting
                   -Attack mode
                   -MacGregor
                   -Cabinet and White House staff
                       -Honesty
                            -Response to corruption charges

       Press relations
           -Watergate
                -Washington Post
                     -Story, October 12, 1972
                         -Sabotage of Edmund S. Muskie campaign
                              -John B. Connally
                         -Committee to Re-Elect the President [CRP]

       Issues
           -1972 campaign
               -Miami Herald
                   -McGovern
           -Vietnam

       1972 campaign
           -McGovern's schedule
               -Chicago
                   -Aldermen
               -Detroit
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                                      Tape Subject Log
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                     -[Roman S. Gribbs]
                     -Democrats for Nixon
                          -Mrs. Gribbs
                     -Italian parade

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 2:40 pm.

        Connally

Colson and the unknown person left at 3:37 pm.