342–6

Conversation No. 342-6

Date: June 13, 1972
Time: 2:50-unknown before 4:14 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman at 2:50 pm


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Haldeman left at an unknown time after 2:50 pm.

Haldeman entered at an unknown time before 3:30 pm.


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The President's schedule
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-Thursday
-The President's meeting with the president of Mexico

The President’s forthcoming press conference
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Foreign policy
-Vietnam
-Domestic issues
-Television
-Schedule
-Congressional adjournment

President's schedule
-Ziegler
-Forthcoming press conference
-Timing
-William P. Rogers press conference
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Press Club
-Meetings
-Jacob K. Javits
-Conference

Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Release
-Problems
-Charles W. Colson

The President's forthcoming press conference
-Foreign policy
-US News and World Report article

The President's schedule
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Kleindienst
-Personality
-John N. Mitchell
-Senate confirmation
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Domestic issues
-Cabinet meeting
-Photographs
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-Arthur F. Burns
-Council of Economic Advisers [CEA]
-George P. Shultz
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Warren P. Burger
-John Cardinal Krol

Public relations
-Publicity
-Soviet Union trip
-Reception
-Signing ceremony
-Kiev
-Meeting with Leonid I. Brezhnev
-The President’s schedule
-Tehran
-Warsaw
-The American School
-Business community
-Peoples Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Tehran luncheon
-Leningrad


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Haldeman spoke with the White House operator.

[Conversation No. 342-6A]

[See Conversation No. 25-57]
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[End of telephone conversation]

1972 Campaign
-Frederick C. LaRue
-Mitchell
-LaRue
-The President’s view
-Peter O'Donnell [?]

Haldeman spoke with the White House operator.

[Conversation No. 342-6B]

[See Conversation No. 25-57]

[End of telephone conversation]

[Unintelligible]

Haldeman talked with LaRue.

[Conversation No. 342-6C]

[See Conversation No. 25-57]

[End of telephone conversation]


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Henry A. Kissinger entered at 3:30 pm.
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President’s forthcoming press conference
-Clark MacGregor
-J. William Fulbright
-Timing
-Coverage
-MacGregor
-Transcripts
-Radio program
-State department
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Defense Department
-White House
-Format
-MacGregor
-Master of ceremonies
-Identity of Questioner
-Radio
-Congressmen
-Kissinger
-Fulbright
-John C. Stennis

White House briefing compared with congressional hearing
-MacGregor
-Executive privilege
-New York Times
-Washington Post
-MacGregor
-Radio broadcast
-President as master of ceremonies
-Typing in press room
-Defense Department
-CIA
-Arms Control and Disarmament Agency [ACDA]
-Press Room
-Congress
-Transcripts
-Ziegler
-Timing

Haldeman left at 3:35 pm.
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-President’s foreign policy efforts
-Arms control
-SALT
-William C. Foster
-Administration’s accomplishments
-John F. Kennedy
-George P. Shultz

The President's schedule
-Meeting with President of Mexico

Foreign Relations Committee compared to Armed Services Committee

Press conference
-Scheduling
-Press Club
-Kleindienst

The President talked with an unknown person.

[Conversation No. 342-6D]

Haldeman's location

[End of telephone conversation]

Press conference

Vietnam negotiations
-North Vietnam
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Moscow
-Trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Effort
-Television
-May 8th decision
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-MacGregor
-Possibility of international incident
-North Vietnamese
-George S. McGovern statement
-Bombing halt
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The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman,

[Conversation No. 342-6E]

[See Conversation No. 25-58]

[End of telephone conversation]

SALT
-Importance

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-William J. Porter
-Timing
-Hanoi
-PRC
-Bombing
-Weather
-The President’s previous trip to PRC
-Draftees in war
-Negotiations
-US credibility
-Hanoi
-Resolution to end the war
-Impact on negotiations
-Plenary sessions
-Dates
-Advantages
-Scheduling
-Private meeting
-Bombing
-Timing
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Cease fire
-Negotiating position

Ambassadors
-India
-Pakistan
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John B. Connally

William P. Rogers

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Domestic impact
-Impact of election
-Xuan Thuy

Camp David

Format for press conference

Kissinger left at an unknown time before 4:14 pm.