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473–4
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • H. R. Haldeman
  • Stephen B. Bull
March 25, 1971
Conversation No. 473-4

Date: March 25, 1971
Time: Unknown between 9:31 am and 9:50 am
Location: Oval Office

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

Rose Mary Woods’ call

President’s schedule
-California trip

White House staff
-Needs
-California trip
-Public relations
-Compared with House and Senate
-Compared with a campaign

Cabinet
-John B. Connally
-Public relations
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
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White House staff
-Haldeman
-Charles W. Colson
-Colson’s role
-Public relations
-Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Peter H. Dominick’s previous meeting with President
-Republican leaders’ meetings Conv. No. 473-4 (cont.)

Congressional relations
-Clark MacGregor
-Possible meeting with President or Haldeman
-Dominick meeting
-Charles H. Percy
-Need for support for President’s policies
-Vietnam
-SST vote
-Administration efforts
-Meetings with Senators
-Effect
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Robert H. Finch and Rumsfeld’s trip to Europe
-Possible position
-Trade Representative
-Possible work with MacGregor
-Congress
-Finch
-Work
-Public relations efforts
-MacGregor
-William E. Timmons
-MacGregor
-Meetings with President’s supporters
-Possible meeting with President
-Reasons for meeting
-Public relations efforts
-Motivation
-Needs

President’ schedule
-California trip
-Possible alternative
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)



-Troop withdrawal announcement
-Meeting with surrogate speakers

[Name unintelligible]
-White House staff
-National Security Council [NSC] meetings
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Public relations efforts Conv. No. 473-4 (cont.)
-Relations with the press
-Stewart J. O. Alsop
-John Kenneth Galbraith
-Public relations efforts
-Galbraith
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Finch
-The President
-Kissinger
-Vietnam briefings
-Kissinger
-Vietnam briefings
-Student groups

President’s schedule
-Cabinet and senior staff
-Information for press
-Public relations efforts
-Haldeman’s US News and World Report interview
-Public relations efforts
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Congressional groups
-Press
-Timmons, Ehrlichman, MacGregor, George P. Shultz, and Finch
-Cabinet officers
-Colson’s role
-Questionnaire

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:31 am

President’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:58 am
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)



Public relations
-Questionnaire
-Responses
-President’s qualities
-Polling techniques
-President’s qualities
-Compared with Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-Children Conv. No. 473-4 (cont.)

Haldeman left at 9:50 am
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