372–24

Conversation No. 372-24

Date: October 25, 1972
Time: 11:18 am - 12:00 pm
Location: Executive Office Building


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

Bill signings

1972 election campaign
-October 25, Washington Post story on Haldeman and campaign espionage
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Forthcoming George McGovern television [TV] appearance
-Administration response
-Press conference by Clark MacGregor and Robert J. Dole
-Timing of conference
-Watergate allegations
-John N. Mitchell
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Vietnam issue
-MacGregor’s statement
-Paul C. Warnke
-McGovern's position compared to the President’s position
-“Peace with surrender” compared “peace with honor”
-Emphasis in press
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Possible trip to Hanoi
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-MacGregor’s statement
-McGovern’s position on peace settlement negotiations
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Communist government in South Vietnam

Watergate
-News story on Haldeman
-Veracity
-Authority
-Secret fund allegation
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-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] inquiry
-Hugh W. Sloan, Jr.,
-Response
-Ziegler
-Henry E. Peterson
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-MacGregor
-Richard A. Moore
-Impact on public opinion
-Sherman Adams
-Impact on press
-Washington Post
-John B. Connally’s statement
-Charles W. Colson’s staff
-Loyalty
-White House staff loyalty
-Rose Mary Woods
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-John P. Sears
-Woods


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-Chapin
-Memorandum
-Location
-Haldeman
-Donald H. Segretti
-Chapin's secretary
-Nellie L. Yates
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-Unknown person
-FBI document
-Segretti
-Arthur H. Bremer
-Chapin
-Haldeman's knowledge
-Chapin
-Washington Post
-Libel case
-Chapin, Haldeman
-Maurice H. Stans
-John W. Dean, III


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[Duration: 3m 33s ]


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Ziegler entered at 11:33 am.

Vietnam negotiations
-Postponement of statement
-Kissinger’s view


Ziegler left at 11:34 am.


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 5m 23s ]
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The President’s forthcoming radio message on vetoes
-Nature of message
-Time
-TV
-Buying air time


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
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[Duration: 8m 45s ]


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Amnesty issue
-McGovern’s position
-Vietnam War


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
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[Duration: 3m 14s ]


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Kissinger entered at 11:55 am.

Vietnam peace settlement negotiations
-William F. Buckley, Jr.’s forthcoming column
-Kissinger’s recent conversation with Buckley
-US proposal
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Gen. John W. Vogt
-Support for the President
-US negotiating strategy
-North Vietnamese message
-(Madame) Nguyen This Binh’s statement
-Cease-Fire
-Nguyen Van Thieu’s response
-North Vietnamese
-Le Duc Tho
-US stance
-Issue of coalition government
-Issue of coalition government
-Treaty Wording
-[National Council of National Reconciliation and Concord]
-Messages
-Paris
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Public record
-Settlement
-Timing
-Verification
-Settlement
-Timing
-1972 election
-Howard K. Smith
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Charles W. Colson
-Richard (“Dick”) Wilson
-William S. White
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-The President’s position

October 25, Washington Post story on Haldeman and campaign espionage
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-Haldeman’s photograph
-Kissinger’s view
-Haldeman’s control over secret fund


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 35s ]


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Haldeman and Kissinger left at 12:00 pm.