594–2

Conversation No. 594-2

Date: October 18, 1971
Time: 8:45 am - 9:58 am
Location: Oval Office

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

The President's schedule
-Helicopter
-Passengers
-The President’s instruction
-Andrews Air Force Base
-Passengers
-William P. Rogers
-John N. Mitchell

News story
-World Series game
-The President's prediction
-Richard A. Moore
-Irish vote
-Ronald L. Ziegler
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Sports
-Pittsburgh Pirates
-The President’s prediction
-Wire service story
-Outcome of World Series
-The President's telephone call
-Washington Redskins
-Popular psychology
-Arkansas-Texas football game
-Reaction of Arkansas players
-Pittsburgh Pirates

Personnel
-Look reporter
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Thomas R. Shepard, Jr.
-Campaign
-State Department
-Public affairs office
-Rogers
-Objective
-[Forename unknown] Collins
-John Richardson, Jr.
-Campaign
-The President’s view

H. Rap Brown

“The Vantage Point”
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-John F. Kennedy
-Ngo Dinh Diem
-Media reaction

Press coverage of World Series
-Disturbance in Pittsburgh
-Earl Weaver
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Dan Rather

Supreme Court appointments
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-Nominees
-Mitchell, Ehrlichman
-American Bar Association [ABA]
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Herschel H. Friday
-Mildred L. Lillie
-Record as judge
-Friday
-Lawyer
-Possible problems
-Potter Stewart
-Tom Wicker
-Lillie
-Ehrlichman
-Mitchell
-Southerner
-[Unintelligible]
-Florida
-William H. Mulligan
-Lillie
-Political membership
-Woman
-Conservative Catholics
-John F. Kennedy
-Bella S. Abzug
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Public relations
-Friday
-Question of using the Court for political ends
-Republicans
-Friday
-Mitchell
-John L. McClellan
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Louis C. Wyman
-New Hampshire primary
-Richard H. Poff
-Justice Department
-Will R. Wilson
-Mitchell
-Friday
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-John W. Dean, III
-Ehrlichman
-David R. Young, Jr.
-Nominees
-Mitchell
-Friday
-Jew
-Edward H. Levi
-Mitchell
-Friday
-Age
-Lewis F. Powell
-Friday
-Age criteria
-Friday
-G. Harrold Carswell
-Strategy
-Timing of announcement
-Press
-Questions and answers [Q&A]

Media
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-Allen S. Drury
-Look magazine excerpt
-Ziegler
-Haldeman's daughter
-Response to press
-Look article
-Haldeman's daughter’s view
-Ziegler
-Henry A. Kissinger

News summary
-Lyndon B. Johnson’s book
-Diem’s assassination
-The President's visit to Charlotte, North Carolina
-Washington Star story
-Kissinger
-Veracity of story
-People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative
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-Rogers
-The President’s role
-Kissinger
-Briefings
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-John A. Scali

The President's PRC trip
-Media coverage
-Scali
-Kissinger

Kissinger's trip to PRC
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Hawaii
-Kissinger
-State Department
-Alfred LeS. Jenkins
-John H. Holdridge
-Chinese language ability
-PRC Summit
-Holdridge’s and Jenkins view
-Public relations
-Kissinger
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Desires of Chinese
-Publicity
-Holdridge’s and Jenkins’ view
-Forthcoming Soviet Summit

Media
-News story
-Summit meetings
-Kissinger
-Soviet Summit announcement
-New York Times
-Lillie's husband, A. V. Falcone
-Account
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Hugh Sidey
-Chicago Sun Times
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-Levi
-P. G. Wodehouse
-New York Mets
-Richard M. Nixon
-Plane crash
-Dr. James E. Allen
-Wife
-Grand Canyon

The President's schedule
-Contacts with the press
-Ruth Voss
-Robert Allen
-Scali
-Kissinger
-Haig
-Kissinger
-Forthcoming trip to Disneyland
-Kissinger's schedule
-Troop announcement
-Camp David
-Republican Women's dinner
-Disneyland
-Possible press conference
-Location of the President upon Kissinger's return
-Florida
-Kissinger
-Radio addresses
-Veterans' Day
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Year end Presidential perspective

Youth
-Newsweek magazine
-Peace
-Fort Detrick
-Cancer initiative
-Military
-William E. Brock III

The President's schedule
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-Mitchell
-Supreme Court appointments
-Rogers and Haig
-George P. Shultz, Ehrlichman, Haig, Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Budget meeting

Supreme Court appointments
-Nomination
-Woman
-Timing of announcement
-Confirmation hearings
-Liberals
-Jews
-Levi
-Weinberger
-Republican Women event
-Lillie announcement

The President's schedule
-Delores Hope
-Mrs. Nixon's schedule
-Reception
-Hospital
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Leslie T. (“Bob”) and Delores Hope

Economy
-Business Council
-Charles W. Colson
-Publicity

Mrs. Nixon's schedule
-Forthcoming trip to Africa

Public relations
-Photographs of the President
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Bradford K. (“Fabian”) Bachrach
-Arnold Newman
-The President’ view
-Unknown photographer from California
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-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Atkins
-Bachrach
-John B. Connally
-The President's view

White House correspondence
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-Charlotte, North Carolina

Public broadcasting
-The President’s view
-Frederic V. Malek
-Report
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Colson
-Programs
-Subsidization
-Sander Vanocer
-Brookings Institute
-George H. Gallup
-Fred W. Friendly
-Flanigan
-Funding

Peace Corps
-Robert H. Finch
-Outside volunteer organizations
-Malek
-Finch
-Director
-Center for Voluntary Action
-ACTION

The President's schedule
-White House correspondents dinner
-Dinner
-PRC-USSR planning

Newsday magazine article
-Ziegler
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-Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Possible suit
-Ehrlichman
-Schedule
-Newspapers
-Minneapolis, Los Angeles
-Miami
-Story
-Son-in-law
-Stock
-Veracity
-The President's finances
-Ehrlichman
-Financial loss
-Stock quotations

Campaign financing
-Lewis
-Dwayne O. Andreas
-Contribution
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Rebozo
-Rose Mary Woods
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Mitchell
-Robert J. Dole
-Woods
-Rebozo
-Maurice H. Stans
-Republican National Committee [RNC]
-Humphrey
-Andreas

Media
-Newsweek magazine
-Gallup
-Polls
-Political affiliations
-Campuses
-Edward Kennedy
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Polls
-Louis P. Harris
-Gallup
-Press coverage
-Opinion Research Corporation [ORC]
-Colson

Administration tactics

Media
-Cartoon about democrats
-John Kennedy
-Lyndon Johnson
-Washington, DC
-Supreme Court appointments
-Polls
-Carswell, Clement F. Haynsworth

US foreign relations
-Haig
-Kissinger
-Moscow
-The President’s view
-Vietnam
-Paris Summit
-Chapin’s view of PRC trip preparations
-Kissinger
-State Department
-Holdridge
-Haldeman
-Kissinger
-Diem
-Johnson
-Richard M. Helms

White House dinners
-William McMahon
-Indira Gandhi
-Nihat Erim
-Emilio Garrastazu Medici
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-Guest list
-Invitations

The President's schedule
-Robert F. Ellsworth
-Haig
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Ehrlichman
-Mitchell

Haldeman left at 9:58 am.