789–2

Conversation No. 789-2

Date: September 30, 1972
Time: 9:42 am - 10:06 am
Location: Oval Office

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


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US–Soviet grain deal
-John D. Ehrlichman
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Tape Subject Log
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-Midwest drought
-Administration public relations
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] report
-Big company issues
-Ehrlichman
-Cargill, Inc.
-Cargill
-Losses
-The President's former law firm, Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie
and Alexander
-John N. Mitchell, the President
-Ehrlichman


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Magazine publishing
-The President’s meeting with Burt SerVaas and Cory Jane SerVaas,
September, 29, 1972
-Indianapolis
-Haldeman's schedule
-Indianapolis
-Background
-Saturday Evening Post
-Profitability
-Holiday magazine
-Profitability
-Jack and Jill magazine
-Profitability
-Steel plants
-Richard G. Lugar
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Tape Subject Log
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-Circulation
-Costs
-Newsstand, mailing
-Advertising agencies
-J. Walter Thompson
-Media buyers
-Left orientation
-Congress
-Postal rates
-Post-1972 election plans
-J. Walter Thompson
-E.I. Lilly
-Indianapolis
-Advertising in Saturday Evening Post
-New York advertising agency [Geer DuBois]
-Circulation argument
-Rates
-Readers' Digest
-Building the Saturday Evening Post
-Advertising investment
-Holiday Inn
-Kenneth Wilson
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Saturday Evening Post
-New York
-Networks
-Post-1972 election action

Press and media relations
-Catherine Mackin
-Charles W. Colson
-Advertisers
-Post-1972 election action
-Agencies
-Congress
-The President
-Saturday Evening Post
-William Randolph Hearst newspapers
-New York Daily News
-George Putnam
-List of conservative media
-“New Establishment”
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Tape Subject Log
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-New commentators
-Herbert G. Klein
-R. Sargent Shriver
-John Pierson [of Wall Street Journal]
-Los Angeles Times
-Vermont C. Royster
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Access to White House staff
-Ehrlichman
-Henry A. Kissinger
-U.S. News & World Report
-Howard Morton
-John P. (“Jack”) Sutherland
-View of administration
-Kissinger's previous lunch with Time-Life
-Effectiveness

Kissinger entered at 10:00 am.

-William P. Rogers's forthcoming attendance at Washington Post dedication
-Katharine L. Graham
-Invitation to Haldeman
-Walter E. Washington
-White House staff participation
-Ehrlichman invitation
-Kissinger invitation
-Haldeman invitation
-Washington Post treatment of Rogers, administration foreign policy
-Rogers's previous job as lawyer for Washington Post
-Cabinet attendance
-Note on attendance

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:00 am.

The President's schedule
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT] signing ceremony for Joint
Resolution

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:06 am.

Vietnam negotiations
-Democratic Republic of Vietnam [DRV] [North Vietnam]
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)

-Message
-Forthcoming meeting
-Duration
-Orientation
-Possible settlement
-Timing
-Prolongation of war
-US responsibility
-Concessions
-Tone
-Lack of precedent

Forthcoming SALT signing ceremony

The President, Kissinger and Haldeman left at 10:06 am.