194–14

Conversation No. 194-14

Date: June 24, 1972
Time: 2:29 pm – 3:50 pm
Location: Camp David Hard Wire

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

President's forthcoming press conference
-Film
-Television
-Arrangements
-Announcements

The President talked with the Camp David operator at an unknown time between 2:29 and 2:45
pm

[Conversation No. 194-14A]

[See also Conversation No. 134-10]

The President talked with Herbert Stein between 2:45 and 2:46 pm [Conversation No. 194-14B]

[Conversation No. 194-14B]
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[See also Conversation No. 134-11]

[End of telephone conversation]

President's forthcoming press conference
-Television cameras in non-televised conference
-Radio
-Location
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Press room
-Oval Office
-Announcement
-The President’ sview
-Television
-Helen A. Thomas
-United Press International [UPI]

President's previous trip to Pennsylvania
-Wire services
-Reports
-Photographs
-Networks
-Black child
-The President's comments

Press conferences
-Small groups of reporters
-Cameras
-Movie
-Still
-Television
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Still cameramen

President's statements
-Length
-Meat prices
-Quotas
-Necessity
-Supply
-Statement
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Press conferences
-Length
-Number of questions
-Length of President's responses
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Busing
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Preparation
-Length of responses
-William L. Safire to Buchanan
-Kissinger

President's forthcoming press conference
-East Room
-Relations with press
-Timing
-Democratic convention
-Oval Office
-Advantages
-Political questions
-\"Three-on-one\" format
-Haldeman’s view
-East Room
-Length of answers
-Haldeman’s view
-Thomas
-Camp David
-California
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Press pool
-Size
-Optimum size
-Wire service reporters
-Sound recording
-Risks

Hurricane Agnes
-President's trip
-Public relations efforts
-The President’s view
-News coverage
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-Print media
-Destruction
-Deaths
-News coverage
-Richmond, Virginia
-James River
-President's response to disaster
-First Family efforts
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower [?]
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-South Dakota
-Compared with Lyndon B. Johnson's responses
-The President’s view
-Craig S. Campbell's plan
-John D. Ehrlichman's plan


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Watergate break-in
-Message to Vernon A. Walters
-Director
-Guilty pleas
-Grand jury
-Indictments
-Civil suit
-Judge Charles R. J. Richey
-Depositions
-John N. Mitchell, Charles W. Colson
-White House involvement
-Cubans
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Supreme Court ruling on labor's expenditures in politics
-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organization [AFL-CIO]

The President’s forthcoming press conference
-Length of answers
-Ziegler
-The President’s instructions

Renovations at Camp David
-Unknown books

The President and Haldeman left at 3:50 pm.