293–9

Conversation No. 293-9

Date: November 17, 1971
Time: 2:53 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

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

John D. Ehrlichman
-Previous conversation with the President

Henry A. Kissinger
-Schedule

Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Schedule

Ehrlichman

Pending legislation
-Tax Bill
-Charles H. Percy
-Amendment
-Ronald W. Reagan and Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Percy
-Effect
-House Resolution [HR] 1
-The President's previous conversation with Ehrlichman
-The President's signature
-Possible veto
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-Wilbur D. Mills
-Congressional responsibility
-Balanced budget
-Staff meeting
-John B. Connally
-Financing political campaigns
-Effect
-Tax check-off provision
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Effect
-Parties
-Vietnam War
-Status
-Possible veto
-Eighteen year old vote

The President's schedule
-The President's forthcoming speech to American Federation of Labor-Congress of
Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO] convention
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 2:53 pm and 3:10 pm.

[Conversation No. 293-9A]

The President's review of a speech

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-The President's forthcoming AFL-CIO speech
-Prepared text
-Ehrlichman

Bruce J. Kehrli entered at 3:10 pm.

-Instructions
-Ronald L. Ziegler

Kehrli left at 3:11 pm.
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-National Association of Manufacturers [NAM] Dinner
-Republicans

NAM Dinner
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson

The President's schedule
-Florida
-Manolo Sanchez
-Conversation with Military Aides office
-Haldeman's conversation with Maj. Gen. James D. Hughes
-Helicopters
-Sanchez
-Ziegler
-Schedule Office


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Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 3:11 pm and 4:00
pm.

[Conversation No. 293-9B]

[See Conversation No. 14-156]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
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An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 3:11 pm.

The President's speech

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 4:00 pm.

The President's forthcoming speech to AFL-CIO convention
-Content
-The President's previous radio broadcast on dignity of work
-Ehrlichman's views
-Previous speech

Haldeman talked with Hughes at an unknown time between 3:11 pm and 4:00 pm.

[Conversation No. 293-9C]

[See Conversation No. 14-157]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Trip to Florida
-Haldeman's previous conversation with Hughes
-Helicopters
-Sanchez

Congress

Pending legislation
-Tax Bill
-Percy's amendment
-Richard B. Ogilvie
-John B. Anderson
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Ogilvie

Polls
-An initiative
-Robert Teeter
-John N. Mitchell
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-Teeter
-Opinion Research Center [ORC]

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 3:11 pm and 4:00 pm.

[Conversation No. 293-9D]

Polls
-Figures

[End of telephone conversation]

Polls
-Results
-United Nations [UN] vote on the People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Troop withdrawal announcement
-Timing
-Gallup
-The President's forthcoming speech to AFL-CIO convention
-Timing
-Gallup
-Size of sample
-Accuracy
-White House
-Gallup
-Harris
-Timing
-Troop withdrawal announcement
-Soviet summit announcement
-Press conference
-Announcement of the President's Supreme Court nominees
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Compared with Laos invasion period
-PRC
-Phase II
-Results
-National economy
-The West
-Recognition of the PRC
-Compared to other areas
-Ronald W. Reagan
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Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 3:11 pm and 4:00 pm.

[Conversation No. 293-9E]

Polls
-Gallup
-Results
-The West

[End of telephone conversation]

Polls
-Results
-The West
-The South

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 3:11 pm and 4:00 pm.

[Conversation No. 293-9F]

Polls
-Results

[End of telephone conversation]

Polls
-Results
-Timing
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Polls
-Results
-National economy
-The West
-National economy
-The Presidency
-The President's forthcoming foreign trips
-Mao Tse-tung
-State visits
-Vietnam
-Questions
-National economy

National economy
-The President's forthcoming speech to AFL-CIO convention
-The President's program
-Cambodia
-Vietnam
-Wage increases
-Vietnam casualties

Kissinger
-Schedule
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The President's schedule
-Speech

Haldeman left at 4:00 pm.