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Conversation No. 229-13

Date: November 21, 1972
Time: 12:25 pm – 12:43 pm
Location: Camp David Hard Wire

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

Second term reorganization
-Herbert G. Klein
-Job offer
-US Information Agency [USIA]
-Financial situation
-Departure
-Retirement
-Work outside administration
-Age
-Business world
-Recent meeting with Haldeman
-Money making
-Justification
-Avoiding appearance of firing
-Retention
-Meeting with President
-Pressure from Haldeman

John D. Ehrlichman entered at an unknown time after 10:35 am.

The President’s schedule
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
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-Arrival
Ehrlichman left at an unknown time before 12:44 pm.

Second term reorganization
-Klein
-Pressure from Haldeman
-Retention
-Office
-Changes
-Departure
-New job
-Procrastination
-Departure
-Timing
-Recent meeting with Haldeman
-Retention
-1973 inauguration
-Justification
-Internal operations, running office
-Retention
-1973 inauguration
-Editors
-Retention
-Vietnam settlement agreement
-Public relations [PR]
-Editors in Peoria
-Charles W. Colson
-Departure
-Announcement
-Clients
-Compared to Klein
-Effect on future
-Job offer
-USIA
-Effect on future
-Ambassadorship to Mexico
-Leon Parma
-Background
-Spanish speaking ability
-James J. Reynolds
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-Parma
-Klein
-Reynolds
-Spanish speaking ability
-Father’s residence
-Mexico City
-Kissinger
-Relations with Rogers
-Source of conflict
-Departures
-Timing
-Departure
-Retention
-Conditions
-Social life
-Publicity
-Football games, theaters
-Signing autographs
-Waving to crowds
-Status as celebrity
-Relations with Rogers
-Relations with Elliot L. Richardson
-Comments to Rockefeller
-Schedule
-Role in ambassador selections
-[National Security Council staff] [NSC]
-Quality
-Leaks
-Role in ambassador selections
-Activities
-Expansion
-Present time compared to 1970
-Need for restraint
-Negotiations
-Haldeman’s possible meeting with Kissinger
-Possible meeting with Haldeman
-Press relations
-Oriana Fallaci interview, November 2 and 4, 1972
-Reaction to article
-Substance
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-Kissinger’s relations with the President
-Private comments compared to public
comments
-Strategic arms limitation treaty [SALT] II
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Schedule
-Return from Paris
-Victim negotiations
-Relations with the President

Second term reorganization
-Kenneth Rush
-Job offer
-State Department
-Under Secretary
-State Department
-William J. Casey
-Assistant Secretary for Administration
-Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs
-U. Alexis Johnson
-Ambassadorship to Japan
-Kissinger
-Haldeman’s forthcoming telephone call to Rogers
-Johnson’s age, health
-Robert S. Ingersoll
-Rogers
-Vetting candidates
-Under Secretary
-Rush
-Casey
-Administrative responsibilities
-Rush
Frank C. Carlucci

Haldeman left at 12:43 pm
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