Conversation No. 794-6

Date: October 9, 1972
Time: 12:13 pm - 12:36 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Sharon McLarty, Mr. and Mrs. I.W. McLarty, Tony McLarty, Mr. and
Mrs. Edward Shaffer, Eastland, and John E. Nidecker; the White House photographer and
members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.
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        Introductions and greetings

William E. Timmons entered and Nidecker left at 12:15 pm.

        Miss National Teenage America
            -Amory, Mississippi
            -[Photograph session]
            -Sharon McLarty's statement
            -Sharon McLarty's background
                -Education
                     -Scholarship
            -[Photograph session]
                -Arrangements
            -Eastland
                -Support
                     -Haiphong harbor mining
                -Mississippi citizens
                     -The President’s previous visit
            -Motto
            -Gift presentations
                -President’s seal
                     -Pins
                     -Cuff links
            -Scouting
                -Harold [?] Nixon
                -Jamborees
                     -The President as Vice President
            -Mayor Billy Glasgow of Amory, Mississippi
                -Photograph

        White House grounds
           -Magnolia
               -Andrew Jackson

Everyone but Eastland and Timmons left at 12:22 pm.

        1972 campaign
            -[Mississippi]
                -[Gilbert Carmichael]
                     -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
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               -Tricia Nixon Cox
-John B. Connally
-[Mississippi]
-[Arkansas]
-John L. McClellan
     -Opponent [Wayne H. Bobbitt]
          -Winthrop Rockefeller
-Agnew
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Mississippi
     -John N. Mitchell’s recent visit
-Alabama
     -John J. Sparkman
          -Support on national defense issues
          -Winton M. (“Red”) Blount
               -The President's endorsement
                    -The President’s schedule
     -The President's writing of letters to Congressional candidates
          -South
          -North
-Media support for George S. McGovern
     -New York Times
     -Washington Post
     -Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
     -American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC]
     -National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
     -Time
     -Newsweek
     -Issues
          -Amnesty
          -Pot
          -Defense cut
-The President's schedule
     -Atlanta motorcade
     -Connally
     -Mitchell
     -Security
          -Rally
          -Motorcade
               -John F. Kennedy
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               -Hotel meetings
            -Agnew
               -George C. Wallace
                   -Montgomery, Alabama
                   -Jackson, Mississippi
                       -Unknown person
                   -Forthcoming meeting with Agnew
                   -Edward M. Kennedy
                   -Stance

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 12:22 pm.

        Refreshment

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:36 pm.

        1972 campaign
            -The President’s upcoming radio addresses
            -California
                -Support for the President
                     -Orange County
                     -Los Angeles County
            -Tennessee
                -Howard H. Baker, Jr.
                     -Busing issue
                     -Judge
                     -Memphis newspaper
                         -James H. (“Jimmy”) Quillen
                              -Nashville Banner
                              -Conversation with Eastland
                              -Relationship with Baker
                -Chances for Republican victory
                     -A history of support for the President
            -Alabama
            -Mississippi
            -Georgia
            -Louisiana
            -Arkansas
            -Connally
                -Previous conversation with the President
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    -Democratic Party
        -“McGovernites”
        -Connally, Richard J. Daley
            -Party loyalty
    -The President's past position vis-à-vis Eastland, Richard B. Russell, Sparkman,
    McClellan, John C. Stennis
        -Voting record
            -American Bar Association [ABA]
            -McGovern
            -Republicans
    -The President’s Radio Address on Federal Spending, October 7, 1972
        -Russell B. Long, Wilbur D. Mills
        -Bipartisan responsibility for big spending
            -Charles W. Colson
            -Charles H. Percy
                 -Consumers, domestic issues

Senate recess
    -Timing

Watergate
   -Samuel J. Ervin’s possible investigation
        -Subcommittee of Judiciary Committee
        -Court
            -Timing
        -Conversation with Eastland
            -Previous matter
                 -Steel company records
                     -Subpoena
        -McClellan
        -Eastland
        -Judiciary committee
            -Subpoena
        -The President's comments on court cases
            -Charles Manson
                 -The President's schedule
                     -Denver, Colorado
                          -California
                 -Indictment
                 -Alger Hiss case
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                          -The President’s recent press conference
                              -Single standard
                 -Senate Judiciary Committee
                     -The President’s view

Eastland and Timmons left at 12:36 pm.