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Conversation No. 222-7

Date: October 30, 1972
Time: 9:50 am - 10:25 am
Location: Camp David Hard Wire

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

Vietnam settlement
-George S. McGovern’s statements
-William P. Rogers’s forthcoming briefing
-Re-negotiation of terms
-Aid to South Vietnam
-Response to McGovern
-Henry A. Kissinger’s view
-Charles W. Colson
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Prospects of peace talks
-Ehrlichman’s interpretation
-Kissinger’s quote
-Status of talks
-McGovern’s role
-Rogers’s forthcoming briefing
-The President’s remarks at forthcoming regional meetings
-Kissinger
-Rogers’s briefing
-Haldeman’s view

Domestic issues
-The President’s veto of an aging bill
-Congressional appeals
-Ehrlichman
-The President’s view
-Aging, urban issues
-Ehrlichman
-The President’s view
-Kissinger
-The President’s vetoes
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-Water bill
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Signing of bills
-House Resolution [HR] 1
-Vetoed bills

The President’s speeches
-Speech on aging
-Alternatives
-Statement
-HR 1
-Schedule
-Television
-Radio spot
-Cancellation
-Payment for radio time
-TV compared with radio
-Benefits
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Television speech by Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Schedule
-Radio spots

Watergate
-Washington Post story about Dwight L. Chapin
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] document
-Chapin
-Donald H. Segretti
-Haldeman's denial of involvement
-Washington Post retraction
-Chapin story
-The President’s view
-Battle between media and administration
-Espionage
-Media charges
-Chapin
-Segretti
-Haldeman
-Direction of fund
-Accuracy
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Tape Subject Log
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-Lack of evidence
-Prominence of stories

News reports
-Vietnam story
-Time magazine
-Story preparation
-Chronology
-1950


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
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[Duration: 2m 46s ]


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Vietnam
-Negotiations
[Kissinger’s?] view

Rogers forthcoming briefing on Vietnam
-Notification
-Colson
-Kissinger
-Vietnam situation
-Political advantages
-Public knowledge
-North Vietnamese
-Kissinger’s negotiation efforts
-Compared with the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Soviet Union
-Hopes for peace
-Prospects for talks
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Tape Subject Log
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-McGovern
-Election strategy

Presentation of position on aging Americans
-Compared with release of statement


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
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[Duration: 2m 28s ]


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[Unintelligible]

Speech schedule
-Urban speech
-Price [?]
-Foreign policy
-Vietnam
-Time
-California

Haldeman left at 10:25 am.