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231–16
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • H. R. Haldeman
  • Camp David operator
November 28, 1972
Conversation No. 231-16

Date: November 28, 1972
Time: 12:14 pm- 1:50 pm
Location: Camp David Hard Wire

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

Second term reorganization
-Herbert Stein
-Peter J. Brennan
-George P. Shultz
-James D. Hodgson
-Recent meeting with the President
-Shultz
-Charles W. Colson
-Labor leaders representing labor
-Questioning
-The President’s advisers
-Exception
-Colson
-Farm leaders representing farmers
-Business leaders representing businesss
-Shultz
-Colson
-Role in appointment
-Irish-Catholic background
-Martin P. Durkin
-Relationship with Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Compared to the President’s relationship with Brennan
-Plumbing background
-John A. Scali
-Italian Catholic Democratic background
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Job offer
-Current work
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Conversation No. 231-16 (cont’d)

-Vietnam War
-Public relations [PR]
-Vietnam War
-Haldeman’s conversation with William P. Rogers and Melvin R. Laird
-Richard M. Helms
-Recent conversation with Haldeman
-Ambassadorship to Iran
-Acceptance
-[Cynthia McKelvie Helms]
-Ambassadorship to Iran
-Timing
-March 1973
-Haldeman’s forthcoming conversation with Helms
-[Dr. James R. Schlesinger, Jr.]
-Joseph S. Farland
-State Department
-Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Forthcoming conversation with Haldeman
-Informing Rogers
-Helms
-Ambassadorship to Iran
-Timing
-March 1973
-Farland
-Kissinger
-State Department
-Assistant Secretary for the Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
-Helms
-Informing [Shah of Iran] Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
-Announcement
-Advisability
-Schlesinger
-John N. (“Jack”) Irwin, II
-Conversation with Rogers
-Ambassadorship to France
-French speaking ability
-U. Alexis Johnson
-Forthcoming conversation with Rogers
-Ambassadorship to France
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Conversation No. 231-16 (cont’d)

-French speaking ability
-Rogers’s view
-Maurice H. Stans’s candidates
-Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.
-Appointment
-Kissinger
-Campaign contribution
-Brennan
-Labor representatives
-Ambassadorships
-Stans’s candidates
-I[lorwith] W[ilbur] Abel
-Shultz
-Colson
-Michael P. Balzano, Jr.
-Donald F. Rogers
-Schedule
-Unknown person
-Helicopter
-Role of labor representatives
-Rodgers
-Shultz
-Unknown economic adviser
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Balzano
-Colson
-White House Office of Information
-Role
-Press relations
-Work with labor and ethnic groups
-Black candidate
-Stanley S. Scott
-Herbert G. Klein
-Conversation with Haldeman
-US Information Agency [USIA]
-Departure
-USIA
-Position to be filled
-Peter G. Peterson
-The President’s conversation with John D. Ehrlichman
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Conversation No. 231-16 (cont’d)

-Haldeman’s conversation with Ehrlichman and Shultz
-Conversation with Shultz and Kissinger
-Interest in ambassadorship at large
-Washington, DC
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Motivation
-Washington, DC
-Commerce Department
-Frederick B. Dent
-Donald McI. Kendall
-Possible conversation with Haldeman
-Southern businessman
-Democrats in administration
-Scali, Brennan
-Other candidates
-South
-Other nominees
-New Orleans businessman
-Frederic V. Malek
-Florida nominee
-Southerner
-New Yorker
-Jew
-Miami Beach
-Jacksonville
-New Orleans businessman
-South Carolina
-Dent
-Meeting with the President
-Possible conversation with Haldeman
-Pepsi Cola Company
-Deal to sell soft drink in Soviet Union
-Southerner
-Age

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Dr. W. Kenneth Riland
-Trip to Washington, DC
-Return to Camp David
-Annoucements
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Conversation No. 231-16 (cont’d)

-Trip to Florida [Key Biscayne]
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Economic [Budget] group
-Announcements
-Camp David
-State Department
-Rogers
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-William J. Casey
-William J. Porter
-Return to Camp David
-Helicopter ride
-Timing
-Meeting with Nguyen Phu Duc, black administration officials, Riland
-Budget group
-JCS
-Camp David
-Washington, DC
-Duc
-The President’s press statement
-Camp David
-White House
-Key Biscayne
-Meeting with Kissinger

Second term reorganization
-Announcement
-White House staff
-Announcements, December 1, 1972
-[Council on Economic Policy]
-Shultz
-Stein
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Council on International Economic Policy [CIEP]
-Shultz
-Assistant to the President for economic affairs
-Announcements, December 2, 1972
-White House staff
-Key Biscayne
-Kissinger’s meeting with the President
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Conversation No. 231-16 (cont’d)

-East Wing staff
-The President’s forthcoming conversation with Thelma C. (“Pat”)
Nixon
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Peterson
-European Economic Council [EEC]
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Compared to EEC
-EEC
-Joseph A. Greenwald
-Possible recall
-Shultz
-Rumsfeld’s attitude
-COLC
-John T. Dunlop
-Labor Department
-NATO
-Hodgson
-Rumsfeld
-Geneva

The President’s schedule
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Meeting with the President
-Forthcoming conversation with Haldeman
-November 29, 1972
-Claude S. Brinegar
-Robert J. Brown
-Return to Washington, DC
-Brown
-Meetings at White House
-November 30, 1972
-Budget group
-JCS
-Departure for Key Biscayne

Second term reorganization
-Price
-Plans
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Conversation No. 231-16 (cont’d)

-Role in second term
-First term
-“House philosopher”
-Bring in seminal ideas
-The President’s philosophy
-Distillation
-Understanding
-Administration, country
-Price’s view
-Reconciling apparent inconsistencies
-Use of time
-Reading, reflection, writing
-Departmental responsibilities
-Speech writing
-Staff
-Supervisory role
-Title
-Counsellor
-Special Assistant to the President
-Leonard Garment
-William L. Safire
-Safire
-Book writing
-Departure
-Book
-Timing
-Inauguration
-Address [?]
-Tone, ideas
-Price
-“House philosopher”
-Policy process input
-Proposals
-Consistency with the President’s philosophy
-Price’s political orientation
-Left-center
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Political orientation
-Right
-Special assistantship
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Conversation No. 231-16 (cont’d)

-Haldeman’s forthcoming conversation with Price
-Editorial work
-White House staff
-Paperwork
-David R. Gergen
-Haldeman’s forthcoming conversation with Price
-Lee W. Huebner
-Speech writers
-Price, Buchanan
-Paperwork
-Frank Dale
-Klein’s job
-Klein
-Work outside of administration
-Work in first term
-Insecurity
-Administrative abilities
-Dale
-Administrative abilities
-Work with Ronald L. Ziegler
-Coordination
-Compared to Klein
-Attendance at meetings
-Congressional briefings
-Ziegler
-William E. Timmons

Mrs. Nixon’s schedule
-Rose Bowl parade
-Arrangements
-Guest of honor
-Special automobile
-Compared to grand marshall’s and tournament president’s
car
-Rose Bowl game
-Parade route
-Riding
-Queen, tournament president, grand marshall
-Announcement
-University of Southern California [USC]
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Conversation No. 231-16 (cont’d)

-Seating
-Tournament president
-USC president
-Grand marshall
-Tournament president
-Klein
-Conversation with Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Possible conversation with Mrs. Nixon
-Use
-John Wayne
-Grand marshall

The President’s schedule
-Key Biscayne
-California


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-Christmas
-Jack Drown, Helene (Cloesie) Drown
-F. Donald Nixon
-Mrs. Nixon’s schedule
-Rose Bowl
-Christmas
-Florida
-California
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Jack Drown, Helene Drown
-The President’s relatives

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Second term reorganization
-Klein
-USIA job
-Retention
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Conversation No. 231-16 (cont’d)

-Announcement
-Departure
-Timing
-Colson
-Replacement
-1973 Inauguration


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Mrs. Nixon’s schedule
-Rose Parade
-Haldeman’s possible conversation with Mrs. Nixon
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s schedule

The President’s schedule
-Army-Navy Football game

Republican National Committee [RNC]
-Robert J. Dole
-Meeting with John N. Mitchell
-Reaction
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Chairmanship
-Full time, professional position
-Departure
-Timing
-Advantages
-Mitchell’s advice
-Departure
-Timing
-1974 election
-Mitchell’s advice for the President’s meeting
-Praise for Dole
-The President’s acceptance speech
-Shoreham Hotel
-RNC
-Departure
-Role in Senate
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Conversation No. 231-16 (cont’d)

-Mitchell
-Replacement
-George H. W. Bush
-Retention
-1973 Inaugural
-Press reports
-William E. Brock, III
-Kenneth S. Rietz
-Appearances
-Committee to Re-elect the President [CRP]
-Recommendations to the RNC
-1972 election role
-Turnout
-Democrats
-Independents
-Republicans
-Analysis
-Dole
-Meeting with the President
-Other participants
-Haldeman’s presence
-Meeting with Haldeman
-Mitchell’s advice
-Dole’s reelection campaign
-Trip abroad
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-The President’s assistance

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-Trip abroad
-Japan
-Southeast Asia

Second term reorganization
-Under Secretaries
-Agriculture Department
-J. Phillip Campbell
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Conversation No. 231-16 (cont’d)

-Retention
-Southern support
-Political plans
-Timing
-Gubernatorial candidacy
-Knowledge
-Work with Earl L. Butz
-Assistant Secretaries
-Campbell
-Changes in department
-Interior Department
-John C. Whitaker
-Forthcoming conversation with Ehrlichman
-White House
-Atomic Energy Commission [AEC] offer
-Reputation
-AEC
-John G. Tower
-Dixy Lee Ray
-Qualifications
-Schlesinger’s view
-Women appointees
-Commerce Department
-Secretary
-Labor Department
-Frank Zarb
-Present position
-Assistant Secretary for Administration
-Qualifications
-Loyalty
-Tenure
-Colson
-Brennan
-Administration
-J[ames] Curtis Counts
-Counts
-Possible departure [from Federal Mediation and Conciliation
Service] [FMCS]
-Willie J. Usery
-Possible replacement for Counts
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Conversation No. 231-16 (cont’d)

-FMCS
-Counts
-Professional background
-Federal Trade Commission [FTC]
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Loyalty
-View of business
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB] candidate
-Outsiders
-Work with Weinberger
-Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD]
-John E. (“Jack”) Sheehan
-Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
-Background
-Kentucky
-Age
-Toughness
-Age
-Managerial expertise
-Replacement
-FRB
-Southern district
-Archibald K. Davis
-Health
-Department of Transportation
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Loyalty
-[Brinegar]
-State Department
-Treasury Department
-Appointments
-Malek
-Assistant Secretaries
-Ambassadorships, Assistant Secretaries, departments
-The President’s recent meeting with Brennan
-Unknown woman
-New York
-Agency directors
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
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Conversation No. 231-16 (cont’d)

-George D. Webster
-AEC
-Ray
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Schlesinger
-Agency for International Development [AID]
-William B. Macomber, Jr.
-Possible departure [from State Department]
-Ambassadorship
-Loyalty
-Mitchell
-Ambassadorship
-Businessman
-Kendall and Malek recommendation
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Arms Control and Disarmament Agency [ACDA]
-Secor D. Browne
-Kissinger’s recommendation
-Civil Aeronautics Board [CAB]
-Independence
-Knowledge
-Kissinger’s view
-Possible handling of bureaucracy
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson’s recommendations
-[Lt. Gen. Ed Rowny]
-Kissinger’s list
-Malek
-David R. Young, Jr.
-Loyalty
-Leo Cherne
-Experience
-ACDA
-National defense
-NATO
-Rumsfeld
-Geneva
-EEC
-[Joseph A. Greenwald]
-Flanigan’s support
-EEC
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Conversation No. 231-16 (cont’d)

-Hodgson
-Greenwald
-New job
-Shultz
-Cherne
-NATO
-ACDA
-William M. Magruder
-Technical expertise
-Supersonic Transport [SST]
-John S. Foster, Jr.
-Signal
-Credentials
-Possible handling of bureaucracy
-Negotiations
-Gerard C. Smith
-Administrative and negotiating functions
-Separation
-Smith
-Foster
-Kissinger’s view
-Compared to Robert S. McNamara
-Rietz
-Symbolism
-Youth
-Loyalty
-Politics
-Republican Party
-Equal Employment Opportunity Commission [EEOC]
-Brown
-Retention
-Loyalty
-Symbolism
-Possible court appointment
-Environmental Protection Agency [EPA]
-William D. Ruckelshaus
-Retention
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
-Loyalists
-Advance man
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Conversation No. 231-16 (cont’d)

-Phillip V. Sanchez
-HUD
-Ehrlichman’s plan
-Office of Emergency Preparedness [OEP]
-Confirmation requirement
-Timmons’s view
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Gray
-FBI
-Confirmation problem
-NATO
-Cherne
-Confirmation problem
-Compared to Flanigan
-Retention
-Mitchell’s view
-Kleindienst’s view
-Kleindienst’s involvement
-FBI
-[Jerry V. Wilson]
-Mitchell’s view
-Alternatives
-Alternatives
-Lawyer
-Krogh
-Relationship with the President
-OEP
-Louie B. Nunn
-Requirement
-Politician
-Nunn
-Gray
-Washington, DC
-Gray
-NATO
-Thomas S. Kleppe
-Retention
-General Services Administration [GSA]
-Nunn
-Requirement
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Conversation No. 231-16 (cont’d)

-Politician
-Young loyalist
-Nunn
-Money making
-USIA
-Richard L. Harkness
-Performance on [National Advisory Council for Drug Abuse
Prevention]
-Speaking ability
-Age
-James Leonard Reinsch
-Cox Broadcasting Company
-Political loyalties
-John F. Kennedy media adviser
-Advisory committee
-Klein
-Dale
-Reinsch
-Chairmanship of Advisory Committee
-Frank Stanton
-Dale
-James Keogh
-Loyalty
-Interest in returning to administration
-Qualifications
-Interest
-NATO
-Peterson
-Decision
-Acceptance
-Deputy Attorney General
-Myles J. Ambrose
-Mitchell’s view
-Relationship with the President
-Ehrlichman
-Mitchell’s view
-Confirmation problem
-Alleged incident in Texas
-FBI
-Wilson
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Conversation No. 231-16 (cont’d)

-Mitchell’s view
-Director
-Prerequisites
-Mitchell’s view
-Loyalty
-Ability
-Loyalty
-Legal background
-Administrative ability
-Political skills
-Evelle Younger
-California
-Gray
-Los Angeles District Attorney
-Legal background
-William French Smith
-Attorney General of Missouri
-[John C. Danforth]
-1970 election
-Senate race
-Christopher S. (“Kit”) Bond
-1972 election
-Attorney General of Arizona
-[Gary K. Nelson]
-Meeting with the President, September 21, 1971
-Toughness
-Robert H. Finch’s view
-Younger
-Finch’s view
-Ronald W. Reagan’s view
-Mitchell’s view
-Los Angeles County
-Size

The President talked with the Camp David operator at an unknown time between 12:14 pm and
1:50 pm.

[Conversation No. 231-16A]

[See Conversation No. 156-11]
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Conversation No. 231-16 (cont’d)


[End of telephone conversation]

Second term reorganization
-FBI
-[Wilson]
-Mitchell’s view
-Gray
-Departure
-Confirmation problem
-Watergate
-Job performance
-ACDA
-Confirmation problem
-Watergate
-Kleindienst’s view
-FBI investigation
-Relationship with the President
-Politics
-Gray
-ACDA
-OEP
-White House
-Political role
-ACDA
-ACDA
-Cherne
-Haldeman’s forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
-EEC
-Haldeman’s forthcoming conversation with Shultz
-Greenwald
-Possible recall
-Shultz
-Gray
-Candidacy for governor
-Helms
-Ambassadorship to Iran
-Haldeman’s forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
-CIA
-Schlesinger
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Conversation No. 231-16 (cont’d)

-Kissinger’s awareness
-Farland
-Kissinger

Haldeman talked with the Camp David operator at an unknown time between 12:14 pm and 1:50
pm.

[Conversation No. 231-16B]

[See Conversation No. 183-6]

[End of telephone conversation]

Finch’s schedule
-Availability
-Rotary clubs
-Present location
-Luncheon
-California
-Availability


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-Dole
-Competence
-1972 election
-“New Majority” appeals
-Democrats
-Dole
-Sensitivities
-The President’s acceptance speech
-Stans
-Mitchell

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Conversation No. 231-16 (cont’d)

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Connally
-Timing
-Key Biscayne
-Walker’s Cay
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Meeting with Connally
-Timing
-Jamaica
-Dinner
-Key Biscayne
-Meeting with JCS
-Duration
-Photograph session
-Budget group
-Meeting with Connally
-Timing
-Kissinger
-Shultz
-International economic issues
-Casey

Second term reorganization
-Kissinger’s involvement
-Vietnam
-Rogers
-Departure
-Tenure
-Casey
-State Department
-Administration post
-Recent conversation with Haldeman
-State Department
-Administration post
-Under Secretary for Economic Affairs
-Filling
-Casey’s possible promotion to Deputy Secretary
-Under Secretary for Economic Affairs
-Casey’s interest
-Treasury Department
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Conversation No. 231-16 (cont’d)

-William E. Simon
-[HUD]
-James T. Lynn
-Labor Department
-Brennan
-Possible performance
-Difficulty
-Colson
-Role outside of administration
-1972 campaign
-The President’s opposition
-The President’s supporters
-Washington lobbyists
-Cabinet officers
-Changes
-Rogers’s possible action
-Absence of changes
-Complacency
-Camp David
-Sequoia
-East Wing
-Liaison with West Wing
-Stephen B. Bull
-Telephone calls
-Constance M. (Cornell) (“Connie”) Stuart
-Michael J. Farrell
-Unknown person
-William R. Codus
-1972 campaign
-State Department
-Mrs. Nixon
-Scheduling


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-Mrs. Nixon
-Staff changes
-Codus
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Conversation No. 231-16 (cont’d)

-State Department
-Protocol
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Codus

White House staff
-Edward C. Nixon
-Job
-Legal restrictions
-John F. Kennedy

Nixon Foundation
-Colson’s new organization
-Edward Nixon
-Institute
-Public relations [PR] firm
-American Enterprise Institute [AEI]
-Academic credentials
-Staff
-Increase
-Loie G. Gaunt
-Oral history
-Edward Nixon
-Job in Washington, DC
-Purpose
-Institute
-Staff
-Recruitment
-Historian
-John R. Nesbitt
-Government employee
-High-level appointment
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Edward Nixon
-The President’s papers
-The President’s trust
-Fundraising
-Site planning
-Ed Nixon
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Conversation No. 231-16 (cont’d)

-Job in Washington, DC
-Director
-Fundraising
-Edward Nixon
-Age
-Abilities
-Fundraising
-Organizing
-Fundraising
-Committee
-Leonard K. Fireston
-Activities
-Timing
-1972 election

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Edward Nixon
-Gay (Lynne) Nixon
-Health
-Possible meeting with the President
-Possible conversation with Haldeman
-Second term reorganization
-Review
-Roy L. Ash


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1972 election
-Kissinger [?]
-Disloyalty
-John H. (“Jay”) Whitney

Nixon Foundation
-Staff
-“New Majority” types
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Conversation No. 231-16 (cont’d)

-Interest

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1973 Inauguration
-Organizers
-Architecture
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-General Services Administration [GSA] review of plans for
pavilion
-Safety concern
-Weather
-J. Willard Marriott, Jr.
-Parade
-John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
-Arrangements

Second term reorganization
-Deputy Attorney General
-Peter Fay
-Counsel to the Committee for the Re-election of the President [CRP]
-Young people
-Lynn
-Whitaker
-Promotion
-Toughness
-Compared to Lynn
-Compared to Lynn
-Toughness, dynamism
-Loyalty
-Agencies
-Retentions
-Informing
-Staffs
-Changes
-OEO

The President’s schedule
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Conversation No. 231-16 (cont’d)

-Trips to Florida
-Frequency
-1972 election
-Work on second term reorganization
-Time off
-Meetings with Rogers, Kleindienst, George W. Romney, John A. Volpe,
Helms, Klein
-Loyalty
-William P. Clements, Jr., Simon

Second term reorganization
-Hodgson
-Forthcoming conversation with Haldeman
-Geneva
-EEC
-NATO
-EEC
-Replacement for Greenwald
-NATO
-Cherne
-Gray
-Confirmation
-Watergate questions
-Answers
-FBI investigation
-Administration cooperation
-Attorney General [Mitchell] involvement
-Finances
-Trial
-Relevance
-Committee members

Dwight L. Chapin
-Forthcoming meeting with Haldeman
-Job offer
-Marriott
-Conversations with John W. Dean, III and Richard A. Moore
-Departure
-Dean’s view
-Haldeman’s view
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Conversation No. 231-16 (cont’d)

-Dean’s conversations with Haldeman
-Future
-Forthcoming award
-Work with networks
-Dean’s view
-Forthcoming meeting with Haldeman
-The President’s concern
-Departure
-Pace
-Timing

White House staff
-Gordon C. Strachan
-USIA counsel’s office
-Announcement
-Watergate
-Testimony
-Dean’s view
-Role in administration
-Dean
-Work on Watergate
-Quality
-Compared to Justice Department
-Watergate
-Possible statement
-Timing
-Inauguration
-Chapin
-Strachan

Watergate
-Donald H. Segretti
-Newsday
-Dean’s report
-News reports

Second term reorganization
-Dale
-Compared to Klein
-Public appearances
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb.-08)

Conversation No. 231-16 (cont’d)

-Calls, meeting with people
-Relationship with Haldeman
-Meeting with Haldeman

The President’s schedule
-Lunch
-Meeting with [Dole et. al]

Haldeman left at 1:50 p.m.
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231–16

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