Date: August 16, 1972
Time: 8:21 am - 8:29 am
Location: Camp David Study Table
The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
[See Conversation No. 202-15]
Paul C. Warnke
-George S. McGovern's statement
-Possible briefing of Warnke
-Security clearance process
-Questions on Pentagon Papers
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-The President’s instructions
-Report by Richard M. Helms
-Contents of briefing
-McGovern's statement
-Newspapers
-Haig's forthcoming calls to State Department, Defense
Department and Helms
-Referrals to Haig
-McGovern statement
-Previous meetings with Henry A. Kissinger
-Kissinger’s recollection
-Tone
-Briefing
-Content
-Sanitization
-Pentagon Paper questions
-Instructions to Helms
-Answers under oath
-Connections with Daniel Ellsberg
Public relations
-Vietnam
-Effect of negotiations on domestic critics
-September, October 1972
-Effect of critics
-Effect of Kissinger’s trip on critics
-W. Ramsey Clark
-R. Sargent Shriver’s statement
-Dean Rusk rebuttal
-Press coverage
-News summary
-McGovern’s reaction to Clark
-Clark’s possible position in the Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Clark’s statement
-Washington Star
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar-02)
-Prisoners of war [POWs[
-Press view of McGovern
-The President’s view
Vietnam
-Battlefield situation
-Possible attack on Hue
-Timing
-Kissinger’s view
-South Vietnamese
-Military activity near the Citadel [of Quang Tri]
Warnke's security check
-Content of briefing
-Ellsberg
-Questions by Helms