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Conversation No. 232-3

Date: November 28 or 29, 1972
Time: Unknown between 6:50 pm, November 28, 1972 and 8:40 am, November 29, 1972
Location: Camp David Hard Wire

The President dictated a memorandum to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

Disposition
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Conversation No. 232-3 (cont’d)

-File
-Copy for Haldeman

Public relations [PR]
-Personal aspects of the Presidency
-The President’s previous memorandum
-Review
-1972 election
-Effect
-The President’s address to the nation, “Look to the Future,” November 2, 1972
-Television [TV]
-Effect
-William P. Rogers’s reaction
-Press relations
-Tone
-Effect
-Public interest
-The President’s remarks on [1972] election eve, November 6, 1972
-Length
-Effect
-Public interest
-Discourse
-Mail
-The President’s public appearance
-Effect
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.’s analysis
-Tone
-Effect
-Second term goals
-Second term
-Vietnam War
-Conclusion
-Significant events
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Reorganization and Cabinet appointments
-Announcements
-Ziegler
-Washington, DC
-The President’s conversation with John D. Ehrlichman
-Ehrlichman’s view
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Conversation No. 232-3 (cont’d)

-Compared to the President’s
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Establishment and appointment of George P. Shultz
-New York Times and Washington Post
-Public recognition
-The President’s public appearances
-The President’s remarks on 1972 election eve
-Effect
-Voters
-Anticlimax
-Shoreham Hotel
-Oval Office
-1972 campaign
-White House staff analysis
-The President’s remarks on election eve
-Press relations
-Tone
-Intellectuals
-Price
-Demonstrators
-Motorcades
-Greensboro, North Carolina
-Los Angeles
-Rally
-Timing
-Effect
-Administration actions
-Effect
-Political scientists
-Public interest
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Announcements
-Possible locations
-Junior high schools, supermarkets
-Announcements
-Effect

The President replayed a portion of the memorandum.

[Pause]
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The President resumed dictating the memorandum to Haldeman.

Disposition
-Copy for Haldeman
-Tape two
-File

1970 campaign
-John B. Connally’s view
-Press relations
-San Jose incident, October 29, 1970
-The President’s remarks in Phoenix, October 31, 1970
-Al Capp’s view
-Charles W. Colson
-Broadcasts
-Phoenix speech
-Effect
-Letter
-Timing
-Harry S. Truman

PR
-The President’s trip to New York, November 24-26, 1972
-Rockefeller Center
-Meeting with Israeli [Moshe Harel] and Egyptian [Ismail El
Shamawany]
-TV coverage
-Ziegler’s opposition
-The President’s reception on Wall Street
-Necessity
-Henry A. Kissinger’s schedule
-Demonstrators
-White House staff
-Political chemistry
-Understanding
-The President’s visit with Prisoners of War [POW] wives
-Ehrlichman’s analysis
-Media relations
-Crowd reaction
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Conversation No. 232-3 (cont’d)

-Conflicts with the President’s style
-Spontaneity
-Contact with the peoplew
-Speeches
-Junior Chamber of Commerce
-Appearance of contrivance
-Overcaution
-Foreign policy
-Ehrlichman and William L. Safire
-The President’s public appearances
-1972 campaign
-The President’s nomination acceptance speech, August 23, 1972
-Audience
-TV
-Crowd
- -Applause
-Effect
-The President’s remarks to young voters rally, Miami, August 22,
1972
-White House staff
-Spontaneity
-Demagoguery
-Personal tone
-Sammy Davis, Jr.
-Speechwriters
-Planning
-White House staff
-Recruitment
-Meetings with the President in Oval Office
-Stephen B. Bull
-Relations with people
-Compared to Alexander P. Butterfield
-John E. Nidecker
-Dorothy Cox
-The President’s experience as Congressman
-Pete Provincio
-The President’s experience as Vice President
-Letters of commendations
-Relations with people
-Rose Mary Woods
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Conversation No. 232-3 (cont’d)

-Relations with people

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 6:50 pm, November 28, 1972.

-Last paragraph
-Digression
-Review
-Necessity
-1972 election

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 8:40 am, November 29, 1972.