140–16

Conversation No. 140-16

Date: August 17, 1972
Time: 9:01 am - 9:47 am
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

[Conversation No. 203-5; one item has been withdrawn]

The President's schedule
-Cancellation of trip to Washington, D.C.

Speech writing
-Progress
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Staff
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's material
-Rose Mary Woods's trip to Camp David
-Mail
-Work pattern
-Logistics
-Weather

The President’s schedule
-The President’s forthcoming call to Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Veto of the Departments of Labor and Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
Appropriation Act, 1973
-House of Representatives vote

Lyndon B. Johnson's endorsement of George S. McGovern
-Press reaction
-Johnson
-The President’s view
-John B. Connally
-Briefings

News report
-McGovern’s dispatch of Pierre E.G. Salinger to Paris
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-Salinger’s meeting with the North Vietnames

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McGovern news report
-Salinger’s meeting with the North Vietnamese
-Prisoners of war [POWs] release
-Timing
-1972 election
-Media coverage
-McGovern’s denial
-Salinger’s view
-McGovern’s qualification
-Haldeman’s view
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-Salinger’s meeting with the North Vietnamese
-Result
-McGovern’s involvement in foreign policy
-Briefings
-W. Ramsey Clark
-Washington Post coverage
-Television coverage

Vietnam
-McGovern’s policies
-Possible administration reaction
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
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-Charles W. Colson
-McGovern
-R. Sargent Shriver
-Clark
-Colson’s view
-Timing
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Haldeman’s view
-Ronald L. Ziegler's view
-Connally's view
-Clark MacGregor's view
-Colson's view
-Connally's view
-Possible speech
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-William P. Rogers
-The President’s view
-Timing
-Negotiations
-1968
-Timing
-Kissinger
-Republican National Convention
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Washington Post editorial
-Clark effort
-Colson
-Pollsters
-The President's view
-Public awareness of Vietnam
-Network coverage
-Shriver
-McGovern
-Republican Convention
-Speech preparation
-Kissinger's return
-Republican Convention
-Kissinger's efforts
-Public relations
-Clark
-Salinger
-The Administrations’ possible briefings of McGovern
-Carroll Kilpatrick
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-Harry S. Truman quotation
-Bipartisan foreign policy
-Thomas E. Dewey
-Investigation of Paul C. Warnke
-Security clearance
-Necessity
-McGovern’s refusal of briefings
-Press reaction
-McGovern’s policies
-Possible Administration reaction
-Connally's view
-MacGregor's view
-Ziegler's view
-Bryce N. Harlow's view


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Vietnam
-McGovern’s policies
-Rogers
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Haldeman
-Kissinger
-Saigon
-Salinger
-Clark
-McGovern’s policies
-Possible Administration reaction
-Timing
-Rogers
-Reagan
-Republican Convention
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