378–4

Conversation No. 378-4

Date: October 31, 1972
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Time: 9:55 am - 11:00 am
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Vietnam settlement
-Ziegler’s forthcoming press conference
-Viet Cong [VC] statement
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Quality of settlement
-Progress
-Details of agreement
-Importance
-1962 Laotian agreement
-Kissinger
-Quality of agreement
-Importance
-Condition set by the administration
-Coalition government
-Sine Qua Non condition
-Deadlines
-October 31, 1972
-November 7, 1972
-Details of agreement
-Laotian agreement in 1962
-1968 bombing halt
-Coalition government election commission
-De facto, de jure status
-Kissinger
-Laotian agreement
-Self determination
-Election
-Electoral commission
-Communists
-North Vietnamese
-Negotiation progress
-US statements
-Consultation with Saigon
-Kissinger
-Partnership
-Veto
-Settlement timing
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-1972 election
-Quality of agreement
-Sine Qua Non condition
-Kissinger

H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 10:03 am.


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Ziegler left at 10:17 am.


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Ziegler entered at 10:19 am.

Signing of final bill of 92nd Congress
-Scheduling
-Oval Office
-The President's meeting with Nelson A. Rockefeller

The President’s schedule
-Rockefeller
-Photograph session

Ziegler left at 10:20 am.

Campaign practices
-Press coverage of the President’s assistance to Congressional
candidates
-Endorsement letters
-Photographs
-Television [TV] spots
-Candidate endorsements
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-Campaign contributions
-Clark MacGregor
-Transfer of funds
-MacGregor
-John N. Mitchell
-Kevin P. Phillips
-Films
-Buildup
-Radio
-U.S. News and World Report
-Telephone calls
-Robert J. Dole
-Phillips
-News summary
-News summary


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Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between
10:20 am and 10:50 am.

[Conversation No. 378-4A]

John B. Connally's schedule

[End of telephone conversation]


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The President’s schedule
-Chicago
-Security considerations
-Demonstrators
-Comparisons to 1968 Democratic National Convention

Record of administration
-Public relations
-Amnesty
-US News and World Report
-1972 election
-White paper
-Distribution
-Hugh Sidey
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Editors
-Buying broadcast time
-Radio
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-George S. McGovern

Watergate
-Possible libel suit
-Charles W. Colson
-Problems
-Chapin
-Chapin

Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Political use
-Time article
-News summary
-Ehrlichman’s statement, October 30, 1972
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-Crime information in localities
-Justice Department
-Inquiry from Domestic Council staff
-Property of inquiry
-Handling by Justice Department
-The President’s view
-Analogy to bugging of Democratic National Committee
-Domestic Council
-Edwin L. Harper
-Domestic Council
-Geoffrey C. Shepard
-Ehrlichman’s statement
-Analogy to inquiries made of Agriculture and Transportation [sic]
Departments

Watergate
-Haldeman, Chapin, Colson
-Chapin
-Donald H. Segretti

Issues
-Vietnam, corruption
-Administration polls
-Democratic advertisements
-Effect
-Colson
-The President’s forthcoming trip to Chicago
-Vietnam
-Press relations
-Hanoi
-Thieu
-Kissinger
-Left and right
-Administration poll

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between
10:20 am and 10:50 am.

[Conversation No. 378-4B]

Request
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[End of telephone conversation]


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Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 10:50 am.

White House staff
-Size
-Ehrlichman’s staff [Domestic Council]
-Speeches
-Work
-Meetings

The president’s schedule
-Rockefeller meetings
-Connally
-Bill signing
-Chicago
-Possible delay
-Media reaction

Butterfield left at 10:52 am.


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Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:52 am.

The President's schedule
-Rockefeller
-Connally
-Chicago
-Delay

Bull and Haldeman left at 11:00 am.