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Conversation No. 226-1

Date: November 16, 1972
Time: 5:42 pm - 6:05 pm
Location: Camp David Hard Wire

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

Second term reorganization
-William P. Roger’s tenure as Secretary of State
-The President’s recent conversation with Rogers
-Press relations
-Marvin L. Kalb story
-Vietnam
-Settlement agreement
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Kissinger
-Kalb story
-Fears of John B. Connally
-John D. Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Schedule
-Rogers
-Recent conversation with the President
-Florida meetings with Kissinger
-Haldeman’s meeting with Rogers
-Vietnam
-Cabinet officers
-Rogers’s concern
-The President’s approach
-Explanation of plans
-Officers’ views
-The President’s view
-Dealing with each officers
-Rogers’s view
-Tone
-Rogers’s recommendation
-George W. Romney
-Richard G. Kleindienst
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Conversation No. 226-1 (cont’d)

-Double standard
-Kleindienst
-Effort for the President’s 1968 nomination
-Compared to Rogers
-Rogers
-Retention
-Reasons
-Vietnam
-Kissinger’s role
-State Department
-Deputy Secretary
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Under Secretary for Economic Affairs
-Secretary
-William J. Casey
-Deputy Secretary
-Rush
-Rogers
-Secretary Rush
-June 1973
-Kissinger
-Connally
-Rogers
-Resignation
-June1, 1973 deadline
-Kissinger
-Casey
-Deputy Secretary
-Rush
-Rush
-Deputy Secretary
-Casey
-Under Secretary for Economic Affairs
-Promotions
-John N. (“Jack”) Irwin, II
-Rogers
-1972 campaign contributions
-Appointment
-Court
-Ambassadorship
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Conversation No. 226-1 (cont’d)

-Campaign contribution
Rogers
-Departure
-Timing
-Retention
-Motivation
-Compared to other Cabinet members, Herbert G. Klein, Charles
W. Colson
-Colson
-Rententions
-Motivation
-Timing
-Perception
-Departures
-Number
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-New job
-Ambassadorship to Canada or North Atlantic Treaty Organization
[NATO]
-John A. Volpe
-Job offer
-Tone
-Ambassadorship to Italy
-Political symbolism to Italian-Americans
-Cabinet officers
-Forthcoming meeting with the President
-Tone
-Compared to the President’s recent conversation with Rogers
-Possible reaction to palns
-Press relations
-Gerald L. Warren story
-Key Biscayne
-The President’s efforts
-Ehrlichman’s, Haldeman’s, Kissinger’s efforts
-Necessity
-Ehrlichman
-Release of stories
-Pace
-Timing
-The President’s forthcoming meeting with Cabinet officers
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Conversation No. 226-1 (cont’d)

-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-The President’s recent conversation with Rogers
-[Jerry V. Wilson]
-Handling
-Compared to Kissinger
-Walter E. Washington
-Black
-Justice Department
-Richard G. Kliendienst
-Rogers’s view
-Youth
-John N. Mitchell’s view
-Charges of corruption
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Watergate investigation
-Criticism
-Purpose
-Attack on the President
-Kissinger
-Rogers’s concern
-The President
-Press coverage
-Necessity for restraint
-Credit
-Sophisticates
-Historians
-The President’s possible writing of history
-Forthcoming conversation with Haldeman
-Rogers
-Transition period
-[Vietnam settlement agreement]
-Testimony
-Effect
-Rogers
-Interest
-State Department
-Changes in organization
-William J. Porter
-Rogers
-Haldeman’s forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
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Conversation No. 226-1 (cont’d)

-Under Secretary for Political Affairs
-Loyalty
-U. Alexis Johnson
-Casey
-Rush
-Casey
-Under Secretary for Economic Affairs
-Responsibilities
-Promotion
-Rogers
-Timing
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-Vietnam settlement agreement
-Rogers’s testimony
-Appropriations
-Necessity
-Continuity
-State Department
-Changes
-Rogers
-Departure
-Timing
-Testimony
-Timing
-Political significance
-Timing
-Vietnam
-Foreign policy successes
-Domestic policy failure
-Connally
-Secretary
-Timing
-Rush
-Casey
-Timing
-Connally
-Kissinger
-Kissinger
-Possible departure
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Conversation No. 226-1 (cont’d)

-Moods
-Alexander M Haig, Jr.
-Vietnam settlement agreement
-Compared to Colson
-Colson
-Meeting with the President
-Tone
-Meeting with Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Departure
-Timing
-Klein
-Robert H. Finch
-Initiative
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Meeting with the President, November 15, 1972
-Law firm
-Work on outside
-Public relations
-Polling
-Foundation
-Law firm
-Role
-The President’s liason with organized labor, media
-The President’s recent conversation with Rogers

Haldeman left at 6:05 pm.