Conversation No. 803-13

Date: October 18, 1972
Time: Unknown between 12:09 pm and 1:27 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

        The President’s schedule
            -Meeting with surrogates
                -Helen D. Bentley, Mary T. Brooks
                     -Recent meeting
                          -Stephen B. Bull
                          -Roosevelt Room

Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:09 pm.

        The President's schedule
            -Recent meeting with women surrogates
            -Report from women surrogates

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:15 pm.

        President’s schedule
            -New York
            -Meeting with Bob Lilly, Dallas Cowboys
                 -Meeting with athletes
                      -1972 election
            -Meeting with maritime labor leaders
                 -Cabinet Room
                 -Maritime agreement
                      -Charles W. Colson
            -Signing of convention on narcotic drugs
                 -Ceremony
                      -Lobbying
                      -Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
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                                      Tape Subject Log
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                      -Photographic sessions
             -Meeting with Port Authority officials
                 -East Coast, Gulf of Mexico, Great Lakes
                 -H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
             -Meeting with businessmen
             -Ethnic editors and publishers

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 12:15 pm.

         The President's schedule
             -Meetings with ethnic editors and publishers
                 -Recommendation by Michael P. Balzano, Jr., Colson, Herbert G. Klein
             -Signing of convention on narcotic drugs
                 -Germany
                 -The President’s previous efforts
                      -Red Room
             -US-Soviet Union trade agreement
             -Effectiveness of events

Butterfield left at 12:16 pm.

         The President's schedule
             -The President's previous meeting on drug abuse and narcotics detection
                 -The President’s crime speech, October 15, 1972
                 -Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT] signings

         Campaign practices
            -Dick Tuck
                -Plans for John B. Connally's dinner for the President
                    -Possible disruption
                         -Truck rental
                              -Democrats

         Haldeman’s conversations with Colson, John D. Ehrlichman

         Presidential campaign activities
             -Ehrlichman’s view
             -Kentucky
             -Forthcoming trip to Michigan
                  -Muskegon
                       -Water bill
                          -Ehrlichman’s view
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                         Tape Subject Log
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             -Colson’s view
                 -Taxes
-Water bill
    -Ehrlichman’s view
-Colson’s view
    -Avoidance of fanfare crowds
         -Serious speech in prestigious forum
              -Media coverage
         -White House
-Boston
-Kentucky
    -Chicago, Ohio
-Impact of national television [TV]
    -Boston
         -Wisconsin
-Colson's recommendations
    -Patrick J. Buchanan
-Campaign momentum
    -George S. McGovern
-New York
-Campaign momentum
    -McGovern
         -Buchanan’s view
-Speeches
    -Targeting of audiences
         -Future Farmers of America
              -Compared to the Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
                  -Colson’s view
         -Clark MacGregor, Ehrlichman
-Travel
    -McGovern
-Use of national TV
-Prestigious forums
    -Ehrlichman
         -Muskegon
-Colson’s view
    -Cabinet Room
    -Presentation of legislative proposals on budget and spending issues in Press
    Room
         -Questions
         -Ehrlichman
    -Cost of Living Council [COLC] and Price Commission meetings
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                         Tape Subject Log
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          -Television
               -Previous drug meeting
    -Meeting with Secretary of Defense, Chairman of the JCS, service secretaries,
     officials on defense budget issues
          -Briefing by Melvin R. Laird
    -Colson's judgment
          -Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan, Elliot L. Richardson
               -Welfare proposals
          -Veterans legislation signing ceremony
               -Audience
-Trip to Kentucky
    -Ohio
    -Media coverage
    -John N. Mitchell, MacGregor
    -Peter H. Dominick
    -Telephone call to Louie B. Nunn
    -West Virginia
    -Transportation

-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew’s schedule
-The President's family’s schedule
-Serious speech in prestigious forum
    -Appeal
         -John F. Osborne, Hugh S. Sidey
    -Radio speeches
    -Changes in style of campaigning
    -Detroit Economic Club
    -Colson’s view
    -Non-political compared to political events
    -Buchanan's judgment
         -Press
-Kansas City
-Press conference
-Chicago event
    -Regional meeting
    -Denver
    -Example
         -National Secretaries Association
-Proposed events
    -Cabinet meeting
         -Cabinet members
             -Role as campaign surrogates
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                          Tape Subject Log
                            (rev. Nov-03)

    -JCS meeting
    -Credibility
         -Muskegon water plant
         -Veterans bill signing
-Travel
    -Helicopter
-Speeches
    -Nassau County speech by the President
         -Time
              -Tax policy
-Colson's evaluation
    -Frequency of appearances
         -Interpretation by opponents
    -Appeal to voters
         -Effect on Albert E. Sindlinger's analysis of voters not supporting
         McGovern
         -Voter turnout
         -Buchanan’s view
-Image of the President as campaigner
-Number and frequency of events
-Motorcades
    -Compared to helicopter travel
    -Ohio, Westchester, Chicago, Atlanta
-Proposed itinerary
    -Colson’s view
         -Charge of “hiding” in the White House
              -Media
         -Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, Ohio, Denver, Los Angeles
-Use of radio and TV
    -Presentation of issues
-Connally’s speech
    -Bipartisanship
-National television speech
    -Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Remaining in Washington, DC
    -Bills
         -Possible meeting
         -Signings
         -Ehrlichman
         -Enrollment
-Colson's analyses of schedule recommendations
    -MacGregor
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                             Tape Subject Log
                               (rev. Nov-03)

       -Connally
       -Mitchell
       -Ehrlichman
    -Number and frequency of events

US-Soviet Union trade agreement
   -Possible statement
       -Alexander M. Haig, Jr., William P. Rogers
       -Colson, Peter M. Flanigan
       -Ehrlichman
       -Poll results
            -Public reaction
       -Jobs
            -Rogers, Haig
       -Meeting with James O. Eastland
       -Rogers briefing
   -Presentation of administration accomplishments
       -The President's role
            -Jobs
            -Rogers
            -Connally's recommendation

Presidential campaign activities
    -Television
         -The President's forthcoming appearance
              -Colson
              -Ehrlichman
    -The President's recent appearance before prisoner of war [POW] families
         -Ehrlichman’s view
         -Radio coverage
    -Overexposure
         -Colson, Ehrlichman, Flanigan
              -Recommendations
         -Signing ceremonies
              -News value
    -Henry A. Kissinger's schedule
         -Story
    -Remaining in Washington, DC
         -Bills
    -Congressional adjournment
    -Proposed meetings
         -Cabinet
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                       Tape Subject Log
                         (rev. Nov-03)

    -COLC
    -Significance
         -Colson’s view
    -Cabinet
         -Defeat of spending ceiling limitation
             -Press room
                  -Questions
             -Possible statement
                  -Briefing by another person
                  -New Congress
                       -Taxes
         -Discussion of budget issues
             -Presentation
                  -Position on tax increases
-Press conferences
    -Timing
    -Possible questions
         -Vietnam
         -Campaign
             -McGovern
             -Campaign practices
                  -Donald H. Segretti
                  -Dwight L. Chapin
         -Limitation of subjects
             -MacGregor's statement
                  -Press coverage
                       -News summary
                       -Washington Post
         -Press relations
             -New York Times
             -Washington Post
                  -McGovern
-POW families meeting
-Events
    -Press coverage
         -Ehrlichman’s view
         -Colson’s view
             -Gerald L. Warren's news releases
                  -Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] and National
                   Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-National TV appearance
-Frequency of appearances
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                        Tape Subject Log
                          (rev. Nov-03)

    -Ehrlichman’s view
         -Colson
-Oklahoma
    -Denver
-Seattle
    -Los Angeles
-The President's role as the President
-Press coverage
-Purpose of suggested schedule events
    -Press and media coverage
         -Motorcades
         -Rallies
              -Nassau
              -Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis
    -Itinerary
         -Kentucky
              -Ohio
              -The South
              -1960, 1968 elections
              -Rally
                   -Lexington, Louisville
              -West Virginia
              -Nunn's conversations with Chapin
         -Michigan
         -New England
              -New York
         -New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana,
         Illinois, Tennessee, North Carolina, Michigan, Missouri
         -The South
         -Use of helicopter
    - [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson's birthplace in Virginia
         -New Jersey governorship
              -Foreign policy speech
              -Virginia
                   -New Majority support for the President
                   -Transportation
                   -John O. (“Jack”) Marsh, Jr.'s suggestion
              -Foreign policy speech
                   -Tie-in to Connally's speech
                       -Use of TV
                             -National coordination of campaign organizations
                                 -Corporate practice
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                                Tape Subject Log
                                  (rev. Nov-03)

                                 -Timing
                                     -Cost
                                 -McGregor
                                 -Advance knowledge of Connally's speech's content
                                     -Use of Hubert H. Humphrey's, Henry M.
                                     (“Scoop”) Jackson's names
                                         -McGovern reaction
                         -Marsh
                         -Another speech
                         -Timing
                             -Vietnam War issue
                                 -Discussion with Buchanan
                                 -President's recent appearance before POW families
                                     -Presentation of POW/missing in action [MIA]
                              bracelet to the President


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          -Possible rally
          -Kentucky
              -Nunn
          -Winton M. Blount
          -Dewey F. Bartlett
          -Blount, Nunn
              -Electoral chances
                   -Poll
          -Ohio
          -New England
              -Types of possible events
                   -Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine
                   -Massachusetts
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                         Tape Subject Log
                           (rev. Nov-03)

-Tri-State event
     -Michigan
     -Minnesota
          -Duluth
     -Superior, Wisconsin
     -Iron Mountain
     -Alpena, Michigan
          -1956 campaign
-Television appearance
     -Possible radio talk
-Announcement of schedule
     -Regional appearances
          -Midwest, mountain states, California
     -National television appearances
-Radio talk
     -Theme
          -Religious value
-Recommendations on use of time
     -MacGregor, Mitchell, Connally
     -Open time
     -Cabinet, COLC, JCS meetings
          -Issues
               -Vietnam
               -Press
               -Timing in campaign
-Television appearances
     -Motorcades, rallies
          -Denver
          -Chicago, Atlanta
     -As contrast to McGovern
     -Type of event
          -Rally
               -Timing
     -Radio address to the nation
-Kentucky
     -Support for Nunn
          -Other candidates
               -Springfield, Missouri
               -The President's efforts
               -Statements
     -Louisville
     -Ashland
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                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Nov-03)

                -Tri-state
                     -West Virginia, Ohio
                          -Possible presidential statement on Appalachia
                               -Instruction to Price
                -Night visit
                     -News value
                          -Motorcade
                          -Radio speech
                     -Speech
                          -Nassau
                               -New York
                          -Appalachia statement
                          -Fund raisers
                          -Duration
                     -Nature of support for the President
                          -Nunn
                          -Compared to Massachusetts, Michigan
                -Ohio night visit
                     -John H. Shaffer
                          -Airport
                -Other states
                     -North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
                      Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Maryland
            -Press
            -TV appearance
                -Timing
                     -Football game
                -Halloween
            -Frequency
            -Kentucky
                -John Sherman Cooper tribute
                     -Nunn

Haldeman left at 1:27 pm.