347–4

Conversation No. 347-4

Date: June 30, 1972
Time: 12:52 pm - 2:10 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with John N. Mitchell and H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

The President talked with George P. Shultz between 12:52 pm and 12:57 pm.

[Conversation No. 347-4A]

[See Conversation No. 26-30]

Greetings

Refreshments

The President's press conference, June 29, 1972
-Questions
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Quality
-The President’s view
-Vietnam War
-Capital punishment

Haldeman entered at unknown time after 12:57 pm.

[Unintelligible]

Haldeman talked with John D. Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 12:57 and 2:10 pm.
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Conv. No. 347-4 (cont.)

[Conversation No. 347-4B]

[See Conversation No. 26-31]

[End of telephone conversation]

[Unintelligible]

Caviar
-Iran
-The President’s previous trip
-Compared with the Soviet Union
-Mohammed Reza Pahlavi [Shah of Iran]


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Supreme Court
-The President's appointees
-Vote on capital punishment
-The President’s position
-Press coverage
-The President's appointees
-Influence
-Press coverage
-Fred P. Graham
-Lyle Denniston
-Washington Post
-Phrase \"Nixon Court\"
-Warren E. Burger
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Earl Warren
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Conv. No. 347-4 (cont.)

-Public impression
-Potter Stewart
-Georgetown
-Child's school
-Smith College

Mitchell
-Resignation
-Relationship with the President
-Personal problems


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Politicians' wives
-Six Crises
-Dedication to Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Difficulties
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-The President’s view
-Difficulties with public role

Martha Mitchell
-Effect on John Mitchell
-1972 campaign
-The President’s view
-Health
-John Mitchell’s view
-Effect on John Mitchell
-Media Interest
-Effect
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Martha Mitchell
-The President’s view
-John Mitchell’s service to the President


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-Journey from Westchester County
-Martha Mitchell
-Westchester Country Club
-Media
-Incident
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Welfare reform
-Administration's position
-House Resolution [HR] 1
-Elliot L. Richardson
-James D. Hodgson
-Abraham A. Ribicoff's position
-Los Angeles Times statement
-Ronald W. Reagan


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Ideological orientation
-Legal services issues
-Public Broadcasting
-Sander Vanocur
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Conv. No. 347-4 (cont.)

-Salary
-Compared to Cabinet and Supreme Court
-Comparison with Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-Kennedy family


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[Transcripts of the following portion of the conversation my be found in RG 460, Box 172, pp 1.
SI, BK II, pp. 514-15, (1-2)]

[End of transcribed portion]


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The President's conversation with William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Graham's wife
-Offer of help for the Mitchells
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Martha Mitchell
-Fan mail
-Westchester Country Club incident

[Transcripts of the following portion of the conversation my be found in RG 460, Box 172, p.2
and SI, BK. II, PP.515-16 (2-3)]

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Martha Mitchell
-Health
-Strains of public life
-Politician's wives
-Samuel Rayburn and Joseph W. Martin, Jr.
-Catholic priests

Mitchell and Haldeman left at 2:10 pm.