576–5

Conversation No. 576-5

Date: September 18, 1971
Time: 10:05 am - 10:40 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. Haldeman.

Clifford M. Hardin
-Cost of living [COLC] meeting
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Reaction to Walter J. Hickel's book
-Possible book by Hardin
-Support for the President
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-Cabinet compared to private role
-Financial assistance in publication
-Patrick J. Buchanan's writing assistance

The White House operator talked with the President at 10:01 am.

[Conversation No. 576-5A]

[See Conversation No. 9-74]

[End of telephone conversation]

Hardin
-Book compared with article option
-Hickel

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:01 am and
10:05 am.

[Conversation No. 576-5B]

[See Conversation No. 9-75]

[End of telephone conversation]

An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time between 10:01 am and 10:05 am.

Book
-Options
-Hickel

Hardin
-Departure from post of Secretary of Agriculture

The President's public appearances
-Article about security arrangements in Cleveland
-News summary
-Secret Service
-Air Force base
-Security precautions
-Reporter's facts
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-Crowd control
-Local stories
-New Republic story
-The President's public appearances
-The President and the press
-Letter to the editor
-Letter to the editor
-Cleveland newspaper
-Comparison to Lyndon B. Johnson
-Source of response
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Member of Congress
-Presidential security in crowds
-Control
-Assassinations
-[John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy]
-New Republic article
-Demonstration
-Disruptions
-Airport
-Attraction of crowds to the President
-Reaction of opponents
-Republican investigation of air base incident
-Responsibility
-White House advance men, airport security personnel

The White House operator talked with the President at 10:05 am.

[Conversation No. 576-5C]

[See Conversation No. 9-76]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's press conference
-Edmund S. Muskie's Vice Presidency statement
-Joseph McCaffrey
-Cue allegation
-Questions
-Wire services
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-Column
-Muskie
-Follow-up statement on Vice Presidential candidate
-Reactions to Muskie
-Press support for Edward M. Kennedy, George S. McGovern
-Appeal
-The South
-Possible Edward Kennedy-Wilbur D. Mills candidacy

The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 10:05 am and
10:39 am.

[Conversation No. 576-5D]

[See Conversation No. 9-77]

[End of telephone conversation]

1972 Presidential race
-Speculation
-Muskie

Pentagon Papers
-Effects of exposure
-Democrats
-Response
-Charles W. Colson
-Ehrlichman
-Henry A. Kissinger's concerns

Presidential election
-Muskie’s Vice President statement
-Edward W. Brooke
-Social implications


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Fundraising and campaign practices
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-As money raiser
-Distribution of funds
-George C. Wallace
-Eugene J. McCarthy
-Effects of third party candidates
-Congressional races
-Norris Poulson
-Number of opponents
-McCarthy
-Black candidates
-Results and effects

The press
-Peter A. Lisagor
-Editorial
-Congress
-Editorials
-Chicago Sun-Times, Miami Herald, Philadelphia Inquirer
-Liberals
-Lisagor
-Article on Oval Office press conference
-News summary

Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Daniel Shorr
-Mary McGrory
-J. Edgar Hoover and the Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-FBI investigation of Shorr
-Investigation at Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Shorr's colleagues
-Buchanan's view
-Apparent hiring of Shorr
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-FBI

Supreme Court appointment
-John N. Mitchell
-Call to Haldeman
-John M. Harlan
-William French Smith as choice
-Law firm
-Senior partner role
-Comparison to Harlan
-Board of Regents role
-Ronald W. Reagan
-California
-Jean Webb Smith
-George Vaughn
-Activism in civic affairs
-Official position with Junior League
-Support for the President
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Busing
-Mitchell

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:05 am.

President’s schedule
-Mitchell

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:40 am.

Supreme Court appointments
-Views of potential nominees on issues
-Busing
-Forced integration of housing
-Mitchell
-Richard H. Poff
-American Bar Association [ABA]
-Confirmation
-Replacement of Hugo L. Black
-Southerner
-1972 election
-Four judges named by the President
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-Potter Stewart
-Harlan
-William O. Douglas
-Thurgood Marshall
-Black

The President's schedule
-Ehrlichman's location
-Ehrlichman and Weinberger
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO] extension
-Herbert Stein, and Maurice H. Stans
-Bills on small business
-Ehrlichman, Weinberger, George P. Shultz
-Personnel cuts

Supreme Court appointment
-Frederic V. Malek
-Recommendation on Southern lawyer
-Conservative, busing view
-Issues
-Housing
-Busing
-North

Unknown issue
-Press coverage
-Strike
-Press conference

The President and Haldeman left at 10:40 am.