819–2

Conversation No. 819-2

Date: December 11, 1972
Time: Unknown between 10:18 am and 2:25 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Robert J. Dole.

[The recording began while the conversation was in progress.]

[Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.]
-Press relations
-David S. Broder
-Rowland Evans
-Robert D. Novak
-Jack N. Anderson
-Spencer Rich
-Washington Post
-Service in Congress with Dole
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-Duration


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Fundraising
-1966
-Maryland
-Financial supporters
-Charles H. Percy
-Mathias
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Nomination support
-Clement F. Haynesworth, Jr.
-Support for vote
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Percy
-Friendship
-Kissinger
-Political ties

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Dole’s possible trip
-Timing
-Spring or Fall 1973
-Politics
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Vietnam negotiations
-Status
-Viewing of graves
-Settlement agreement
-Return
-Timing
-Kansas
-Jews
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-Middle East
-Catholics
-[Pope Paul VI] Giovanni Battista Motini
-Latin America
-Japan
-Wheat
-Trade
-Kansas City

-Soviet Union
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Japan
-Wheat
-PRC
-Leadership
-Soviet Union
-Crisis
-Latin American
-Vietnam
-Timing
-Spring or Fall 1973
-Soviet Union
-India
-Dole’s previous trip
-Soviet Union
-Market
-Eastern Europe
-Timing
-Summer 1973

Congressional relations
-Handicapped
-Republicans
-Dole’s health
-Kidney’s, paralysis
-Warren G. (“Maggie”) Magnuson
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Kidney machines
-Cancer
-Dole’s speaking tours
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-Compassion
-Republican action
-Administration initiatives
-State-level activity
-Veterans benefits
-Hospitals
-Labor Committee
-Possible bill
-Dole’s possible consultations with Department of Health,
Education and Welfare [HEW], Labor Department, and John D.
Ehrlichman
-Administration support
-Deaf
-First Family’s activities
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Information center
-HEW
-Single source
-College benefits
-Funding
-Public relations [PR]
-Ehrlichman
-National Center for Voluntary Action [NCVA]
-Funding
-Social Security Administration [SAA], HEW, Labor
Department
-Benefits, jobs
-Veterans Administration [VA]
-Timing
-Dole’s recent meeting with agencies’ representatives
-Constituencies
-Lack of communication
-Haldeman’s forthcoming conversation with Ehrlichman
-HEW
-Administration support
-Mailing list
-Charles E. Bennett
-HEW

Dole’s possible trip
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-Soviet Union
-Timing
-Asia
-Africa
-India
-Dole’s 1966 trip
William R. Pogue
-Work habits
-Age
-Comparison to Gulliver


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Republican National Committee [RNC] chairmanship
-George H. W. Bush
-Dole’s trip to New York
-Press speculation
-Dole’s calls
-Haldeman’s calls
-Proposed announcement
-Dole’s support
-Opposition
-Texas
-Democrats
-Robert S. Strauss
-John B. Connally
-Membership in Republican Party
-Support
-Senate races
-Governor
-Melvin R. Laird
-Unwillingness
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Experience
-Anne L. Armstrong
-Bush
-Announcement
-Timing
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-Wording
-United Nations [UN] Ambassador
-Transition
-Timing
-1972 election
-Local results
-Disappointment
-UN Ambassador
-Deputy Secretary of the Treasury
-The President’s forthcoming call
-Congressional relations
-House of Representatives
-The President’s conversation with Gerald R. Ford
-Connally
-Clarence J. (“Bud”) Brown, Jr.
-Characterized
-Candidates
-Annoucement
-1972 election
-Financing
-Candidates
-Cooperation
-House of Representatives Campaign Committee
-Senate Campaign Committee
-RNC
-Candidates
-Republican governors
-New chairman
-Linwood Holton
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Rockefeller
-Disaster assistance
-Role in finding candidates
-Rockefeller, Reagan
-Janet Johnson
-California
-“Co-chair” position
-Political orientation
-Reagan
-Armstrong
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-Other positions
-Ambassadorship
-Family responsibilities
-United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
[UNESCO]
-Thomas B. Evans
-Finance chairman
-John W. Rollins
-Pat Wilson
-Tennessee
-William E. Brock, III
-Evans
-Maurice H. Stans
-Annoucement
-Treasury Department
-Ronald L. Ziegler

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The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:18 am and
11:07 am.

[Conversation No. 819-2A]

[See Conversation No. 34-34]

[End of telephone conversation]

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 11:07 am.

The President’s call to McDill (\"Huck\") Boyd
-Press relations
-Mother’s birthday
-Press relations
-Ray C. Bliss


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Kansas
-Robert Blackwell Docking
-Dole
-Political strength
-Republican legislature
-Taxes

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Haldeman talked with George H. W. Bush at 11:08 am.

[Conversation No. 819-2B]

[See Conversation No. 34-35]

The President talked with Bush at an unknown time between 11:08 am and 11:15 am.

[Conversation No. 819-2C]

[End of telephone conversation]


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RNC Chairmanship
-Announcement
-Wording
-Transistion
-Dole’s decision to resign
-Kansas survey
-George H. W. Bush
-The President’s consultations
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Connally
-Party leaders
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-Parties’s future
-Texans

The President’s call to Boyd

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The President talked with the White House operator at 11:25 am.

[Conversation No. 819-2D]

[See Conversation No. 34-36]

[End of telephone conversation]

Dole and Ziegler left at an unknown time before 11:42 am.

Dole
-Success
-Degree
-Qualities
-As “loner”

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Republican governors
-Holton
-Executive Committee
-Bush
-Republican Senators and Congressmen


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1972 election
-Analysis
-Patrick J. Buchanan and Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin
-Bush
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-Brock
-Brown
-Harry S. Dent’s speech
-The President’s support for candidates
-Incumbents

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The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 11:25 am and
11:42 am.

[Conversation No. 819-2E]

[See Conversation No. 34-37]

[End of telephone conversation]


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Dent’s speech
-Complaints
-Counteroffensive

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The President’s schedule
-Republican governors
-Blacks
-Jews
-White House staff, Cabinet
-The President’s appreciation
-Ehrlichman’s and John A. Volpe’s views

Nixon Foundation
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-Yorba Linda house
-Lawn mowing, painting
-Ehrlichman, Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Lawn mowing, rock fence
-National park designation
-Yorba Linda school district
-General Services Administration [GSA]

Dole
-Qualities
-Recent meeting with the President

Senate
-Quality
-Ability to advance

The President’s schedule
-Senators
-Hand-shaking
-Meeting with wives
-Gifts
-White House staff
-White House staff
-Frank L. Rizzo
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Ehlrichman
-Trip
-Relationship with the President
-Compared to Nelson A. Rockefeller’s relationship with the President
-Rockefeller
-Reagan
-Staff

Press relations
-Watergate
-Republicans
-1972 election
-Buchanan

Press relations
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-Buchanan’s memorandum for the President, December 8, 1972
-Writer
-Possible promotion

White House staff
-Promotions
-Letterwriting
-Priorities

Watergate
-Buchanan’s analysis
-John W. Dean, III, Ziegler, Ehrlichman meeting
-Possible meeting with the President
-Dean report
-Timing
-Press relations
-Subpeonas
-Congressional hearings
-Results
-Secretary’s story about telephone [used by Plumbers in White House]
-Washington Post article
-Ziegler’s analysis
-Dorothy Hunt
-Money at plane crash site
-Traceability
-Dean
-Investments
-Howard Johnson restaurants
-Chicago police
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Traceability
-Dean’s view
-White House staff
-PR
-Corruption
-The President’s possible statement
-Trial
-Donald H. Segretti
-Separation
-Involvement by White House staff
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Conversation No. 819-2 (cont’d)

-[John N. Mitchell]
-[Maurice H. Stans]
-Money
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Haldeman
-Charles W. Colson
-Ehrlichman
-Chapin
-Buchanan’s analysis
-Second term reorganization

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 11:25 am.

The President’s recent call to Boyd

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 11:42 am.

The President talked with Boyd at 11:42 am.

[Conversation No. 819-2F]

[See Conversation No. 34-38]

[End of telephone conversation]

Watergate
-PR
-White House
-The President
-Segretti
-The President’s possible statements
-Presidential action
-Trial
-The President’s view
-Chapin
-Timing
-Dean’s, Ziegler’s and Ehrlichman’s view
-Compared to Haldeman’s view
-Peace issue
-Christmas
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-Length
-White House staff and Presidential involvement
-Segretti
-White House staff
-Chapin and Gordon C. Strachen
-The President’s possible meeting with Ehrlichman
-Dean
-Richard A. Moore’s view
-John R. (“Tex”) McCrary
-Ziegler
-Legal analysis compared to PR analysis
-Henry A. Kissinger’s “peace is at hand” statement, October 26,
1972
-Ziegler
-Tactics
-Buchanan
-Colson
-Ehrlichman
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Buchanan
-Football analogy
-Whittier College versus Los Angeles Rams
-Howard Hunt
-Trial
-Timing
-G[eorge] Gordon Liddy
-Possible separation of cases
-Prosecution
-Family
-Daughter, Dorothy Hunt
-Bugging of Democratic National Committee
-The President’s possible statement

Ziegler entered at 11:55 am.

Press relations
-Ziegler’s recent press conference


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RNC
-Dole announcement
-Ziegler comment
-Dole’s previous meeting with the President
-Camp David
-Future of Republican Party
-Bush

Charles W. Colson
-Office
-Replacements

Connally
-Haldeman’s call to Connally
-Bush
-Strauss

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Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 11:55 am and
12:14 pm.

[Conversation No. 819-2G]

[See Conversation No. 34-39]

[End of telephone conversation]

Second term reorganization
-John A. Scali
-Announcement
-Timing
-Bush’s view
-[United Nations] [UN] session
-PR
-Africa
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-Vietnam negotiations
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s possible trip
-Leak
-Effect
-Haig, Kissinger
-Interest in ambassadorship to UN
-Scali’s conversation with Haldeman
-Haig, Kissinger, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew’s possible trip
-Scali’s role
-Vietnam negotiations
-The President’s possible meeting with Scali
-South Vietnam
-Trip
-Imelda Marcos

Gen. Walter R. Tkach
-Susan Haldeman’s boyfriend’s call to H. R. Haldeman
-Imelda Marcos
-Ferdinand E. Marcos

Press relations
-George P. Shultz’s remarks on economic stabilization and federal spending,
December 11, 1972
-Budget spending ceiling
-Federal Executive pay freeze
-Hiring freeze
-Extension of [Economic Stabilization Net]
-Wage and price controls
-Consultations with groups
-PR

Cabinet
-PR
-Buchanan’s analysis
-Peter J. Brennan
-Secretary of Transportation

H. R. Haldeman talked with John B. Connally at an unknown time between 11:55 am and 12:14
pm.
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[Conversation No. 819-2H]

[See Conversation No. 34-40]

[End of telephone conversation]


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RNC Chairmanship
-Bush appointment
-Connally’s reaction
-Democratic party
-Robert S. Strauss
-Appearance on television [TV]
-Connally call to Strauss
-Possible removal from Democratic Party
-George S. McGovern
-Democrats that voted against McGovern
-Moral standards
-Public censure of all Democrats that voted for the President
-1972 election
-George C. Wallace
-South
-Southern Governors
-Congressional Southerners
-Change of parties
-Timing

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Connally
-Forthcoming trip to Saudi Arabia
-Timing
-[King of Saudi Arabia] Malik Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud
-Letter from the President
-Iran
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Ehrlichman entered at 12:14 pm.

Second term reorganization
-Justice Department
-Joseph T. Sneed
-Texas
-Wallace Johnson
-Italian-Americans
-Johnson
-William E. Timmons
-Image
-Brennan
-Claude S. Brinegar
-Reputed Catholicism
-Italian-Americans, Polish-Americans, Blacks, Mexican-Americans
-Unknown person
-Aliens
-First term
-George W. Romney
-John A. Volpe
-Sub-Cabinet
-Instructions for Frederic V. Malek
-Young people
-Ethnic groups
-Johnson
-[Jewell S. Lafontant]
-Sneed
-Office of Legal Counsel
-Competence
-White House staff
-Brennan
-Frederick B. Dent
-South
-Brinegar
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Under Secretary level
-John C. Whitaker
-Michael J. Farrell
-Retention
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-John E. Nidecker
-State Department
-Protocol
-Roger E. Johnson
-Nidecker
-Competence
-Stephen B. Bull
-Image
-Walter J. Hickel
-Robert H. Finchj
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Management ability
-Finch, Hickel, Romney
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-David M. Kennedy
-Shultz
-Forthcoming announcement
-PR
-Romney
-Housing
-Robert H. Bork
-Supreme Court
-Sneed
-Attorney General
-Background
-White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
-Religion
-Episopalianism
-Catholicism
-Malek
-Transportation Department
-Brinegar
-Krogh
-Krogh
-Justice Department
-Quality
-Changes
-Congressional relations
-Image
-Compared to policy making
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-White House staff
-Brennan
-Labor Party
-Labor Department
-Colson
-Political appointments
-Laurence H. Silberman
-Inconsistency pf goals
-Robert J. Hitt
-Under Secretary of Interior
-Morton
-Whitaker
-Dent
-Compared to Maurice H. Stans
-Brennan
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Brennan
-Shultz
-1973 strikes
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Protectionism
-Trade legislation
-Under Secretaries
-Labor Department
-Colson
-Brennan
-Commerce Department
-Young manager
-Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD]
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-HEW
-Casper W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Image
-Earl L. Butz
-Brennan
-[James T. Lynn]
-HUD
-Weinberger
-HEW
-Richardson
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-Lynn
-Connally
-Effect
-Brennan
-Creativity, imagination
-Roy L. Ash
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-Connally
-Shultz
-Peter G. Peterson
-Peterson
-Departure
-Press relations
-The President’s view
-Leaks
-Loyalty
-Press relations
-Press relations
-Kissinger
-Stewart J. O. Alsop’s article, December 11, 1972
-Richard M. Helms
-Dr. James R. Schlesinger, Jr.
-Conversation with Shultz
-Possible trip
-Duration
-Leaks
-Shultz’s possible conversation with Peterson
-Presidential plane
-Image
-Imagination, innovation
-Spending
-Rockefeller
-Irving Kristol
-Herman Kahn
-Dr. Edward C. Banfield
-Robert A. Nisbit
-Column
-Timing
-California
-Pierre Rinfret
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-Leaks
-Consultations
-Shultz’s forthcoming announcement
-Speech
-Departments
-Interior
-Possible school for Cabinet, sub-Cabinet, principal appointees
-Leaks
-Personnel control
-Location
-Airlie House
-Number of “students”
-Location
-Camp David
-Idea box
-Cabinet criteria
-Loyalty
-Breadth
-Ivy League
-South
-Color, creativity
-Georgetown set

Haldeman
-Residence
-Georgetown
-Pool
-Tree

Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:14 pm.

Request for William Blake, Disraeli

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:25 pm.

Haldeman
-Residence
-Tree or pool

Second term reorganization
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-Brinegar
-[Union Oil Company]
-Ziegler’s announcement
-Highway trust fund
-Qualifications
-Malek
-Business experience
-White House staff
-Cuts
-Bureaucracy
-The President’s meeting with Haig, December 10, 1972
-Whitaker
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Interior Department
-Labor Deparment
-Brennan
-Under Secretary
-Colson
-White House
-Youth, manpower
-Under Secretary of Labor
-J[ames] Curtis Counts
-Myles J. Ambrose
-Brennan
-Frank Zarb
-Malek
-Ambrose
-Brennan
-Counts
-Zarb
-Shultz
-Ambrose
-Administrative ability
-Assistant Attorney General for Adminstration
-Leo M. Pellerzi
-Background
-Democrat
-Italian-American
-Catholicism
-Mitchell
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Conversation No. 819-2 (cont’d)

-Krogh
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Career status
-Mitchell
-Resignation
-Ziegler’s announcement, December 8, 1972
-Anti-trust division
-Lafontant
-Sneed
-Blacks in Justice Department
-Possible meeting with the President
-New York
-Anne L. Armstrong
-The President’s recent meeting with Dole
-Telephone call
-Possible meeting with the President
-Texas
-Recent call to Ehrlichman
-Possible meeting with the President
-Plans, recommendations
-Washington, DC residence
-Chief of Protocol
-Haldeman’s recent conversation with Bush
-Armstrong’s family
-Schedule
-Roger’s view
-Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.
-Texas
-Lame ducks
-Richard B. Ogilvie
-Federal Trade Commission [FTC]
-Office of Economic Policy [OEP]
-Law Enforcement Assistance Adminstration [LEAA]
-General Services Administration [GSA]
-Politics
-LEAA
-FTC
-LEAA
-Attorney General, Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-LEAA
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Conversation No. 819-2 (cont’d)

-GSA
-Robert L. Kunzig’s recent letter to Ehrlichman

Bull entered and left at an unknown time before 2:25 pm.

Second term reorganization
-GSA
-Kunzig’s letter to Ehrlichman
-Arthur F. Sampson
-Hugh Scott
-Sampson
-Scott
-Possible meeting with administration
-Background
-Pennsylvania politics
-Compared to Kunzig

Disraeli
-Georgetown
-Background
-Lower class
-Converted Jew
-Religious matters
-Cynicism
-Victorian England
-Relationship with the ruling class
-Victorian England
-Ruling class
-Aristocracy
-Compared to Georgetown
-Regency
-1830s
-Prince of Wales
-Compared to Rockefeller
-Upper middle class
-Compared to aristocracy
-Education
-Attitude, outlook
-Ministers, MPs, judges, divines, civil servants, dons
-Relationship with the upper middle class and aristocracy
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-London society
-Tolerance
-Editor of The Times
-William Gladstone
-Intellectuals
-Edward S. Derby
-Tractarians
-Essays and reviews
-John Stuart Mill
-Poor
-George Gordon Byron
-Charles Darwin, Origin of the Species
-Sheldonian Theatre, 1863
-Edward A. Freeman
-J. A. Froude
-Victorian England
-Compared to US intellectual elite
-Blacks
-McGovernites
-Washington, DC
-Easterners
-Moral responsibility
-Fitness to govern
-Peak
-Timing
-Winston S. Churchill
-Flag
-Handling of critics
-Press relations
-Compared to Rizzo

1972 election
-University of Michigan analysis
-Voting
-Republicans compared to Democrats
-Rhode Island Democrat’s analysis
-Victory margin
-Suburbia
-1960
-Non-suburbia
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Elite class
-Finch-Rumsfeld constituency
-Brennan and the President
-Working class
-Lack of character
-Sneed
-Professors, students
-Bork and Buchanan
-The President’s view

Politics
-Kahn’s analysis
-Vietnam War
-Reagan
-1976
-Left radicalism
-Edward Kennedy
-Opposition
-Bland professionalism
-Cabinet
-Romney
-Volpe
-Administration supporters
-House of Representatives, Senate
-Shultz
-PR
-Advice
-Compared to Connally
-Scholarship
-Conservatism
-Right and left
-Effect on center
-Left
-Center
-Philosophy
-Administrative ability
-White House staff
-Cuts
-Tax increase
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Second term reorganization
-Brinegar
-Transportation Department
-Budget deficit reduction
-Airports
-Congestion, location
-Highways
-First term
-Reelection
-Intelligence
-Goals
-White House staff
-Cuts
-Environment
-Transporation
-Race problem
-Moynihan
-Possible conversation with the President
-Family Assistance Plan [FAP]
-Effect on blacks
-Assimilation
-1972 election
-Brennan
-Unions
-Wallace Johnson
-Justice Department
-Assistant Attorney General
-Internal security
-Lands
-Ogilvie
-LEAA
-Possible conversation with Ehrlichman
-OEP
-White House staff
-LEAA
-Malek’s view
-Relationship with Haldeman
-Beta Theta Pi fraternity
-Age
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-LEAA
-Politics
-Bork
-Attorney General
-Deputy Attorney General
-Law enforcement, administrative experience
-Politics
-Kleindienst
-Reappointment
-Credit
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Meeting with the President at Camp David
-Wives
-Influence
-Mitchell
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-Peterson
-Sally (Hornbogen) Peterson

White House social affairs
-Establishment set
-Washington, DC
-Compared to 19th Century England
-Blake, Disraeli
-Charm
-White tie occasions
-Pasadena
-Administration set
-Social functions
-Wives
-Wealthy
-Homes
-William L. Safire
-Establishment set
-Kissinger
-Compared to Ehrlichman
-Peter Peterson
-Administration
-Establishment set
-Press relations
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-Alsop
-Thomas W. Braden
-Potter Steward
-Joseph A. Alsop
-Braden
-Gloria Steinem
-Administration set
-Colson
-Clark MacGregor
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Charles E. Walker
-The President’s attendance
-Kristol, Nisbet
-Establishment set
-Washington Post, New York Times
-Lack of substance
-Benjamin C. Bradlee
-Gene Patterson
-Wives
-TV
-Reading
-Tennis
-White House symposia
-Safire’s view
-East Room
-The President’s or Agnew’s participation
-Subsidies
-Publication
-Expenses
-Medals
-Kahn
-21st Century
-Invitees
-Administration people
-Wives
-“Civilization” movie series
-First term
-Wives
-Theater
-White House Theater
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-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Recreation center
-Bowling alley
-Solarium
-Camp David
-Solarium
-What the Peeper Saw
-[Jana Hruska’s] attendance, December 7, 1972
-Parental Guidance [PG] rating
-Plot
-Quote
-Hruska
-The President’s briefings
-Radio
-[Mark I. Goode]
-Tapes
-Roosevelt Room
-Studio
-EOB

White House social affairs
-Wives
-Contributions

The President’s schedule
-Sub-Cabinet meetings
-Ideas
-White House
-Interest in management, contributions
-Corporations

Supreme Court
-Thurgood Marshall
-Jewel Lafontant
-Warren E. Burger’s view
-Intermediate Supreme Court
-Circuit Court judges panel
-Screening of workload
-Earl Warren
-William O. Douglas
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Conversation No. 819-2 (cont’d)

-Workload
-Dissent

Watergate
-The President’s possible statement
-Timing
-1973 Inauguration
-PR
-Dean
-Segretti
-White House involvement
-Liddy
-Hunt
-Investigation
-Trial
-Campaign finance
-Committee to Reelect the President [CRP]
-Segretti
-Chapin
-Dean’s investigation
-1972 campaign
-Richard (“Dick”) Tuck
-Democratic primaries
-Recruitment
-Herbert W. Klambach
-White House involvement
-Strachan’s and Chapin’s departures
-Press relations
-Dean’s investigations
-Chapin
-Richard A. Moore’s view
-Thomas F. Eagleton comparison
-Conversation with the President
-Watergate
-Reprimand
-Segretti
-Departures
-Second term
-Strachan and Chapin
-Kenneth W. Clawson
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-Colson
-Recruitmen
-Chapin
-Tuck
-Democratic primary states
-Activities
-Morality
-Harassment of the President’s campaign
-Illegal flyer
-Harassment of the President’s campaign
-Record
-Republican convention
-Pickets
-Press conferences
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Florida
-Michigan
-Busing
-Muskie stationary
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Chapin
-Strachan
-FBI investigation
-Florida
-Chapin’s departure
-McGovern’s removal of Eagleton
-Eagleton reaction
-Possible statement
-Possible departure from staff
-Colson
-Timing
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Krogh’s conversation with Commerce Committee staff chief [Frederick J. Lordan]
-Confirmation hearings
-Whitaker
-Possible statement
-Timing
-Press relations
-Ziegler
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-Dean
-Study
-Ziegler
-Compared to Ehrlichman
-Planted question
-Leak
-Washington Star
-Dean’s report
-Conclusions
-Timing
-Vietnam negotiations
-Christmas
-Chapin’s departure
-Timing
-Colson
-William P. Rogers
-Colson
-Hunt
-Herbert G. Klein
-Job search
-Klein’s effectiveness
-News summaries
-The President’s conversations with Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Tricia
Nixon Cox
-Compared to Agnew, Cabinet, Connally, surrogates, Dole, MacGregor
-Effort
-Credit
-Timing
-Second term
-Colson’s departure
-New Majority, 1974 election
-1972 election
-Klein
-Chapin
-Compared to first term
-The President’s trip to the PRC and Soviet Union
-1972 campaign
-Race problem
-Transporation
-Welfare
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-Different priorities
-Management
-New Republican Party structure
-Candidates
-Dent
-1972 election
-Press conference
-Criticism
-Incumbents
-Dole
-Solid South

RNC
-Bush
-Counselor
-Maine

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Watergate
-Chapin’s departure
-Press relations
-Timing
-Ehrlichman’s recent meeting with Chapin
-Job search
-Announcement
-Possible statement
-Congressional reconvention
-Hearings
-Timing
-Possible statement
-Duration
-Gabriel Hauge
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-Gen. Lucius DuB. Clay, Jr.
-Murray M. Chotiner
-McCrary
-Moore
-Dean
-Ziegler
-1972 election
-News summary
-Buchanan’s analysis
-Press relations
-Carroll Kilpatrick
-Support
-Right
-Statement
-Segretti
-Duration
-Dean’s report
-Chapin’s role
-Recruitment
-Direction of activities
-The President’s role in the 1972 campaign
-Timing
-Republican convention
-Primaries
-John Mitchell
-Clark MacGregor
-Segretti
-John Mitchell
-Involvement
-John Mitchell
-The President’s memoir
-Martha Mitchell
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Hunt
-Magruder, Chapin
-The President’s role in 1972 campaign
-Press conferences
-Schedules
-Possible statement
-Segretti
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Conversation No. 819-2 (cont’d)

-Lack of connection to Watergate
-Carl T. Rowan
-PR analysis
-Compared to local analysis and Ziegler’s view
-Dean report
-Segretti
-Chapin’s role
-Chapin’s retention
-PR analysis
-Chapin’s departure
-Timing
-Strachan
-Departure
-Knowledge
-Compared to Chapin
-Segretti
-Recruitment
-Contact
-Chapin
-Telephone records
-Knowledge
-Move to new job
-Compared to Chapin
-Segretti
-Recruitment
-Segretti
-Chapin’s role
-The President’s visit to Portland, OR
-[Emperor of Japan] Hirohito
-Demonstrations
-Dean report
-1972 campaign activities
-Sabotage of the President’s campaign
-Demonstrators
-Heckling
-McGovern
-Possible statement
-Segretti
-Lack of connection to Watergate
-Perspective
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Conversation No. 819-2 (cont’d)

-Sabatoge of the President’s campaign
-Primaries
-Recruitment
-Chapin
-Information
-Dean report
-Canuck letter
-Clawson
-Haldeman
-Slush fund
-Segretti
-White House involvement
-White House involvement
-Ziegler
-Timing

Vietnam negotiations
-Timing
-Kissinger’s return
-December 11, 1972 meeting

Watergate
-Statement
-Timing
-Leak to Washington Star
-Basis
-Ziegler
-Ziegler
-Timing
-Magazines
-Vietnam War
-Christmas
-Mitchell
-PR

1973 Inaugural
-The President’s schedule
-Buffet lunch
-Congressional leaders
-Parade route
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Conversation No. 819-2 (cont’d)

-Bends
-Instructions for Secret Service
-Automobile
-Running boards
-Shotguns
-Unknown person
-Limosine

Demonstration on Ellipse, December 11, 1972
-Vietnam
-Possible organizers
-Prince George’s County
-Busing
-Birth control

The President, Haldeman and Ehrlichman left at 2:25 pm.