339–1

Conversation No. 337-28/339-1

Date: May 10, 1972
Time: 4:04-5:45 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

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

[Continued from EOB 337-28]

[An unknown portion of the conversation was not recorded while the tape was changed]

Dinner for Duke Law School classmates
-President’s lifestyle
-Compared with unknown person(s)
-President’s habits
-President’s appearance
-Compared to Lyndon B. Johnson
-Age process
-Drinking habits
-Working habits
-Classmates
-Age
-Suitability for Supreme Court
-Compared with Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
-Dean Joseph T. Sneed
-Supreme Court justice possibility
-The President’s view
-Texas
-John D. Ehrlichman's comments
-Public relations advantages
-Charles S. Rhyne
-Female classmates
-Seating
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-JoAnne (Horton) Haldeman
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s view
-Classmates
-Reaction
-Supreme Court justices
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-An unknown female classmate
-Appearance
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 337-28/339-1 (cont.)

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Forthcoming election
-Henry A. Kissinger's stake in Vietnam blockade
-President's stakes in decision to blockade in Vietnam
-Compared with Johnson
-Johnson
-Importance of Vietnam for reelection
-Haldeman’s view
-John B. Connally’s view
-William P. Rogers’s view
-The President’s view
-George S. McGovern
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-McGovern
-Connally’s view
-McGovern's and George C. Wallace's appeal
-Leadership
-Busing
-Constitutional Amendment

Vietnam
-Support for President's actions
-Telegrams and letters
-Liberals
-Compared with John F. Kennedy and Cuban missile crisis and media
liberals
-A Vietnam War veteran
-A Korean War veteran
-A Vietnam War veteran
-Stephen Page
-A military wife
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Conv. No. 337-28/339-1 (cont.)
-Prisoners of War [POWs] and Missing in Action [MIA]
-Young man from Massachusetts
-Presbyterians
-A Vietnamese War veteran
-A soldier
-A family of a deceased Vietnam veteran
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower


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-Comments
-Spanish-American Business Association
-A Democrat
-Joseph [surname unknown], Lima, Ohio
-Young Americans for Freedom
-Silent Majority
-Phil and Moiya Lear
-American Security Council
-Robert W. Galvin
-John Fisher
-Hawks
-Polls
-Percentage
-Jesse Bush, Jr.
-Disabled American Veterans
-Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
-Russell DeYoung
-Business Council member
-Total of wires and letters
-Percent of support
-Polls
-Publicity
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 337-28/339-1 (cont.)
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Democrats
-The President’s view
-Polls
-Charles H. Percy
-Jacob K. Javits

Haldeman left at 5:45 pm.