360–9

Conversation No. 360-9

Date: September 8, 1972
Time: 3:44 pm - 4:40 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

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

John D. Ehrlicnman’s son
-Graduation from law school

Public relations
-Press secretary’s [Richard Daugherty’s] statement
-George S. McGovern
-Ronald L. Ziegler

Polls
-Results
-Support for the President
-Categories
-Blue collar workers
-George H. Gallup

1972 campaign practices
-The President’s policies
-Haldeman’s view
-Responses to McGovern
-Clark MacGregor
-The People's Republic of China [PRC]
-World Leaders
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-White House guest lists
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Role

Issues
-Vietnam War
-McGovern’s charges
-Ziegler’s responses
-George H.W. Bush
-Haldeman’s conversations
-Possible speech on foreign policy
-Responses to McGovern
-Unknown person
-Possible candidacy for Senate
-Crime
-Ehrlichman and Egil G. (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Presentation of issues
-The President’s role
-The president’s view
-John B. Connally
-The President's schedule

The president’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting
-Alexander F. Douglas-Home
-Dinner
-William P. Rogers
-White House dinners for Home and Andrei A. Gromyko
-Size
-The President’s view
-Blue Room
-Previous administrations

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 3:44 pm and 4:00
pm.

[Conversation No. 360-9A]

The President's schedule
-Stephen B. Bull
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[End of telephone conversation]

Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:44 pm.

Instructions for Bull
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Birthdate
-Theodore R. Roosevelt
-Age at death

Bull left and Maurice H. Stans entered at 4:00 pm.

Greetings

The President's Executive Office Building office
-Seating arrangements
-Stans’ previous meetings with the President
-Oval Office
-The President’s work habits
-Oval Office
-Previous Presidents

Forthcoming Cabinet briefing
-Thomas W. Evans
-John N. Mitchell
-Anne Armstrong and Evans
-Connally
-Cabinet officials
-Robert J. Dole
-Women
-Barbara H. Franklin
-Armstrong

1972 campaign finances
-General Accounting Office [GAO] report
-Filing, September 11, 1972
-George S. McGovern
-Contributions
-Henry Kimmelman
-The President’s view
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An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 4:00 pm.

Refreshment

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 4:35 pm.

1972 campaign finances
-Kimmelman
-Dwayne D. Andrews

US–Soviet Union grain deal
-Recent telephone call from Thomas C. (:Teddy”) Gleason

1972 campaign finances
-Andreas
-Telephone conversation with Kimmelman
-Herbert H. Humphrey contribution
-Contributors to McGovern
-Stewart R. Mott
-Legislation
-McGovern’s conversation with Andreas
-Radio advertising
-Costs
-Public relations
-Media
-Public mood
-Committee to Re-elect the President [CRP]
-Expenditures
-Television [TV], radio, newspaper
-Billboards
-Democratic charges
-Responses
-Direct mail, telephone calls
-TV
-McGovern
-Contributors
-McGovern
-Fundraising efforts
-Expenditures
-Personnel
-Lawyers
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-Use of telephone
-Precinct workers
-Registration
-Newspaper advertising
-Editorial support
-Pledges
-Small contributors
-John N. Mitchell's role
-Lawrence F. O’Brien, Jr. suit
-Robert J. Dole's role
-Watergate burglers
-CRP
-The President's role
-Fundraising dinners
-California
-The President’s role
-San Francisco
-David Packard
-Los Angeles, New York
-Chicago
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Amounts
-Public relations
-Public relations
-Issues
-McGovern
-Radio
-October 10, 1972
-Use of TV
-Duration
-Celebrities
-Possible contributions
-Celebrities

The President's schedule
-Hugh W. Sloan, Jr.
-Previous meeting with the President
-Forthcoming testimony
-Previous meeting
-Deborah (Murray) Sloan
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Support for the President
-Catholics
-Letter to Stans from nun
-Jews
-Democratic voters
-Reaction to McGovern's supporter’s lifestyle

House building industry
-Audio tape for National Association of Homebuilders convention and
fundraising dinners
-Compared to videotape
-McGovern
-Public domain
-George W. Romney
-Possible message from the President
-Videotape
-Closed circuit

1972 campaign issues
-McGovern
-The President’s political career
-Watergate
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-War and peace
-Crime
-Taxes
-Prices
-Watergate
-Washington, DC establishment
-Public view
-The President's future schedule
-Hugh Sloan
-Forthcoming testimony
-Morale
-Hugh Sloan
-Care of individuals involved
-Employment
-Financial assistance
-Post-1972 election
-Testimony
-Deborah Sloan
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-Press coverage
-Republican National Convention
-Requests for tickets
-CRP
-Jack N. Anderson
-Leaks
-Richard (“Dick”) Tuck
-Use of surveillance
-1968 election
-[Joe McGinniss, The Selling of the President]
-Leonard Garment

The president’s schedule
-Republican storefront campaign headquarters

1972 campaign
-Stans's work
-Business leaders
-Telephone calls
-Business leaders
-Labor officials
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Peter J. Brennan

Stans’s future role
-Post-1972 election
-Robert H. Finch

Stans left at 4:35 pm.

Franklin D. Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt
-Age at deaths
-Recent movie

The President's schedule
-Walk from Executive Office Building to campaign headquarters

The President and Haldeman left at 4:40 pm.
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