197–17

Conversation No. 197-17

Date: July 22, 1972
Time: Unknown between 3:05 pm and 3:57 pm
Location: Camp David Hard Wire

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


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Forthcoming press briefings
-F-15 program
-Voting records
-George S. McGovern
-Hubert H. Humphrey, Edmund S. Muskie
-McGovern
-Need for debates
-The President’s view in 1964
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-International conditions
-Negotiations
-National interest
-North Vietnam
-Jack N. Anderson's column July 22, 1972
-Charles W. Colson

McGovern
-Forthcoming briefings
-Humphrey
-Staff
-Henry A. Wallace

Haldeman's health
-California

The President's health


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The President's schedule
-Press conferences
-Networks
-[McGovern]
-Timing
-Republican National Convention
-Political questions
-Equal time
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Foreign policy
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Call to the President
-Possible meeting
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-Foreign trip
-Location
-The President's location
-Camp David
-Edwin Meese, III's conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-The President’s view

Reagan
-Foreign trip
-Unknown person
-The President’s view
-Political influence in California
-Possible role with administration
-Ambassadorship


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The President's schedule
-Henry Kearns
-Annual report
-Timing
-1972 election
-Budget
-Drug enforcement reports
-Timing
-Polls
-Secret Service reception
-Wives
-Golf
-George Meany
-Camp David
-Unknown beach trip
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
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-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Revenue sharing testimony
-Mayors
-[Moon Landrieu] of New Orleans
-Sam Massell of Atlanta
-Louie Welch of Houston
-Roman S. Gribbs of Detroit
-Frank W. Burke of Louisville
-Harry G. Haskell of Wilmington
-Henry W. Maier of Milwaukee
-John W. Driggs of Phoenix
-Joseph L. Alioto of San Francisco
-Wesley C. Uhlman of Seattle
-Dayton Lee Alexander of Syracuse
-Roy Martin of Norfolk
-William D. Schaeffer of Baltimore
-Norman Y. Mineta of San Jose
-Location
-Timing
-Senate Finance Committee
-Future Farmers of America [FFA] state presidents
-Possible arrangements
-Timing
-Press conference
-Cabinet Room
-Mrs. Nixon, Tricia Nixon Cox
-Representatives from Baltic States
-Anniversary of de jure recognition
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Haig's views
-Soviet Union
-Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia
-Possible presentation to the President
-Independence
-Haig
-Kissinger
-Agnew
-Dr. John A. Hannah
-Secret Service
-Timing
-Press conference
-FFA
-Hannah
-Secret Service
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-Mrs. Nixon schedule
-Property Review Board
-Legacy of Parks program
-John D. Ehrlichman's views
-Property turnover
-Texas, California, Florida, New Jersey
-Publicity
-Congressmen
-Incumbents
-Photograph opportunity
-Telephone call to Golda Meir
-Satellite
-Timing
-Value
-Dean Burch
-Kissinger
-Politics
-Arabs
-Girls' Nation
-Boys' Nation
-Attorney General's conference on crime reduction
-Justice Department
-Timing
-Television
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.’s proposal
-Ehrlichman
-Talking points
-Lowell Thomas
-Norman Vincent Peale
-Kissinger
-Sir Alexander F. Douglas-Home
-United Nations [UN] General Assembly
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Timing
-Breakfast
-Goals
-Publicity


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Agnew
-Announcement
-Schedule
-Rod Laver
-Trip
-Previous meeting
-Speech in Portland
-Press
-Relations with White House
-Haldeman’s view
-Schedule
-Fifty state tour
-Airplane
-Airports
-Los Angeles, South Dakota, San Bernardino, Ontario, California,
Orange County
-Motorcade
-California

Tricia Nixon Cox talked with the President.

[Conversation No. 197-17A]

[See Conversation No. 136-15; one item has been withdrawn from this conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

Agnew
-Possible meeting with Haldeman
-Aides
-Staff
-Secret Service
-Haldeman's role
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Haldeman's notes from July 21, 1972 meeting

The President's schedule
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-Johnny Cash
-William E. Brock, III
-Drugs
-American Health Congress
-Chicago
-Health program
-Congress
-Health care costs
-US-Soviet health agreement
-Nursing homes
-Audience size
-Hospital and nursing home representatives


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Vietnam
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-McGovern
-Position
-US troops
-Reintroduction
-Problems
-Nguyen Van Thieu


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The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[Conversation No. 197-17B]

[See Conversation No. 136-16]

The President talked with Kissinger.

[Conversation No. 197-17C]

[See Conversation No. 136-17]

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger


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Clark MacGregor
-Possible role with administration
-Administrative ability
-Qualities
-Attorney General
-Cabinet

George W. Romney
-Meeting with Ehrlichman July 22, 1972
-Tenure in office
-1972 election
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-Housing program
-Congress
-Housing scandal
-Tenure in office
-Budget

Cabinet and White House staff transitions
-Possible changes
-Ehrlichman
-Timing
-Inauguration
-Election
-1968
-Thomas E. Dewey
-Franklin B. Lincoln, Jr.'s letter to Rose Mary Woods
-Transition books
-McGovern
-Lyndon B. Johnson, Hubert H. Humphrey
-Ehrlichman
-Resignations
-Timing
-1972 election
-William P. Rogers
-Cabinet
-Haldeman
-Staff
-Possible transition
-Lincoln
-Brookings Institution
-McGovern

1972 election
-The President’s schedule
-Debates
-Necessity


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McGovern's schedule
-Return from Miami
-Democratic National Convention
-Secret Service
-Defense Department
-Use of Andrews Air Force Base
-Chartered plane
-Secret Service protection
-Treatment of the President in 1968
-Robert F. Kennedy assassination
-Page [sp?] Terminal
-Briefing

Secret Service
-Possible staff changes
-James J. Rowley
-Lilburn E. (“Pat”) Boggs
-Haldeman’s view

Possible personnel changes
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Finances
-Secret Service
-Boggs
-Robert H. Taylor

Watergate
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Interrogation
-Possible Grand jury appearance
-Grand jury
-Possible indictments
-Timing
-John W. Dean, III
-Conversations
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, John N. Mitchell, lawyers, Henry E. Petersen,
Gray
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
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-W. Mark Felt
-Possible tests

Secret Service
-Boggs's role
-William L. Duncan
-Duncan
-Compared to Taylor
-Taylor
-McGovern's detail
-White House infiltration
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Frank F. Mankiewicz
-Lawrence F. O'Brien, Jr.


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Staff salaries
-Claire Crawford's article
-David N. Parker's salary
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Tricia Nixon Cox’s schedule
-Non-political and political events
-Mrs. Nixon
-William R. Codus
-Practices of Lyndon B. Johnson and Humphrey
-Hatch Act
-Codus, Parker
-Haldeman, Colson

Crippling strikes legislation
-Colson's conversation with James D. Hodgson
-International Brotherhood of Teamsters
-Robert W. Packwood
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-Subsequent conversation with Hodgson
-Laurence H. Silberman's subsequent conversation with Packwood
-The President's conversation with George P. Shultz
-The President’s meeting with Teamsters
-Colson
-Ehrlichman
-Possible conversation with Packwood
-House of Representatives
-Shultz
-Colson
-Political style
-Welfare reform
-Ehrlichman

Colson

Crippling strikes legislation
-Hodgson
-Views
-Shultz
-Colson
-Packwood
-Colson's conversations
-William E. Timmons, Thomas C. Korologos
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Packwood

Reagan
-Possible meeting
-Story
-Welfare family
-The President’s view
-Haldeman’s view
-California
-University matters
-Possible role with administration
-Ambassadorship
-Edwin Reinecke


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Senate
-Leadership
-Hugh Scott
-Age
-Robert P. Griffin
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Charles H. Percy

Percy

Crippling strikes legislation
-Packwood
-Teamsters
-Shultz's conversation with Meany


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Public relations
-Poll standing
-George H. Gallup
-Trips to People's Republic of China [PRC] and Soviet Union
-Tricia Nixon Cox’s wedding
-Television
-Vietnam speeches
-Press conferences
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-Vietnam
-As issue
-National economy
-Food prices
-[James] Harold Wilson
-Loss of office
-Inflation
-Impact
-Buying power
-Mortgages
-Trend


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The President's schedule
-The President's travel
-Defense bases
-President's previous PRC and Soviet Union trips
-Republican National Convention program
-Mrs. Nixon
-Tapes
-Patricia B. McKee
-Dictation

Haldeman left at an unknown time after 4:23 pm.
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