215–1

Conversation No. 215-1

Date: October 3, 1972
Time: Unknown between 6:00 pm and 7:19 pm
Location: Camp David Hard Wire

The President met with H.R. (\"Bob\") Haldeman.

The President's schedule
-Camp David
-Frequency of visits
-Meetings, dinners
-Timing
-Key Biscayne, Florida
-White House


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Issue poll
-Massachusetts results
-Compared with national results
-George S. McGovern's welfare proposals
-$1000 per person
-Defense budget cuts
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Effectiveness of issue
-Amnesty
-Vietnam War
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-Withdrawal of US troops
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
[MIT]
-Marijuana legalization
-Targeting of the President's television advertisements
-Issues
-Welfare, marijuana legalization, Vietnam
-Possible trip to Boston
-Haldeman's view
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 6:00 pm.

Refreshments

Agnew
-Conservatism
-Sanchez's view
-The press
-Impact on country

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 7:19 pm.


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Philip Potter
-Administration of Food for Peace program by McGovern,
1960-62
-Grain shipments abroad
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT] signing ceremony
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-Hugh S. Sidey’s and Potter's opinion


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Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-Request for telephone call from the President
-Note from Ronald L. Ziegler
-Previous conversation from Camp David
-Cronkite's schedule



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The Presidency
-Sidey
-[McGovern]
-Charges about corruption
-The President's administration
-Watergate
-US-Soviet grain deal
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-Teapot Dome scandal
-Comparisons
-Personal aggrandizement
-Previous administrations
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

Polls on issues
-Use

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 7:19 pm.