340–18

Conversation No. 340-18

Date: June 6, 1972
Time: 10:26 am-12:23 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

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

The President's schedule
-Weather
-Florida
-Camp David
-Key Biscayne
-Palm Springs
-Plans
-Maj. Gen. James D. Hughes
-John V. Brennan
-Unknown person
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-Key Biscayne
-Palm Springs
-San Clemente
-Henry A. Kissinger's visit
-John B. Connally
-The President's church visit
-Press story
-John A. Huffman, Jr.
-Reception
-Miami Herald
-Crowd sizes
-Camp David
-Haldeman’s schedule

Connally
-Forthcoming trip
-The President’s view
-Connally in San Clemente
-Story
-Foreign policy tour
-Additional countries
-South America, Iran
-Iran
[Shah of Iran] Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
-Oil
-Connally's talk with President
-Politics
-Charles W. Colson
-Connally's advice
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Connally's comments about: the President
-President's visibility
-Forthcoming presidential election

The President's public relations efforts
-Car accident related by Haldeman
-June schedule
-Opportunities
-Public events
-Connally's advice
-Low visibility
-Patrick J. Buchanan
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-William L. Safire
-Foreign policy emphasis
-Treaties
-Kissinger
-William P. Rogers


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-Press conferences
-The President’s view
-Convention schedule
-Lions International
-Mexico City
-Rotary convention in Houston
-Jaycee convention
-President's recent trips to the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of
China [PRC]
-Domestic issues
-Politics
-Colson's advice
-Haldeman’s view
-Schedule commitments
-PRC trip
-Follow-up
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-John A. Scali
-Rogers
-Kissinger’s actions
-Public relations
-Rogers
-Soviet Union trip
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-Kissinger's advice
-Question and answer [Q&A] sessions
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] talks
-The President’s possible meeting with Kissinger

Media
-Democrats
-The President’s memoranda
-Washington Post
-The President’s view
-Communist plot
-Cambodia
-Vietnam

President's public relations efforts
-Colson's advice
-Compared with Connally
-Jaycee convention
-Preparation
-Atlanta
-President's visibility
-Television
-President's demeanor
-Poland
-Haldeman’s view
-John Cardinal Krol
-Memorandum to Kissinger
-Poland
-Colson's advice
-Need for press conference
-Press conferences
-Ehrlichman's advice
-Memoranda
-Domestic issues
-Connally's view of domestic issues
-Establishment
-Governors
-1970 election


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-Ehrlichman’s advice
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Kissinger
-Ehrlichman
-Connally’s advice
-Domestic issues
-Constitutional amendment on busing
-Amnesty
-Taxes
-Budget cuts

Justice Department
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Deputy Attorney General opening
-William D. Ruckelshaus
-Mitchell
-Confirmation

Treasury Department
-George P. Shultz confirmation
-Ceremony
-Kleindienst

Justice Department
-Angela Y. Davis trial
-Haldeman’s view
-Jurors
-Action
-The President's view
-McGovern

The President's public relations efforts
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-Ehrlichman's views
-Press conference
-Return from the Soviet Union
-Q&A
-Public impression
-Helicopter
-Democrats
-Press conference
-Compared to speech
-Television
-Television
-Timing
-Schedule
-Television
-Planning
-Office conference
-Forthcoming meeting with Luis Alvarez Echeverria
-Office conference
-Television conference
-California
-Democrats
-Speeches
-Rotary
-Jaycees
-Preparation
-Rotary
-Kissinger's schedule
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr. testimonial
-Clark MacGregor
-Japan
-Soviet Union trip
-Kleindienst
-Charles H. Percy
-Speech
-Rotary
-Texas
-Television coverage
-Crowd
-Astrodome
-Houston

The President's schedule
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-Connally
-Ranch
-The President’s view
-Ehrlichman
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Shultz
-Attitude
-Rotary speech
-International meeting
-Advantages
-Rogers
-Party for World War II Navy veterans
-South Pacific Air Combat Transport [SCAT]
-Cancellation
-Camp David
-Mexican delegation
-Astronauts
-Meeting with the President
-Possible trip to Florida
-Rotary speech
-Timing
-President’s forthcoming meeting with Echeverria
-Jaycee's speech
-The President's opinion
-Rogers
-Haldeman's opinion
-Mathias
-Kleindienst
-Rotary speech
-McGovern’s possible attendane
-National Association of Counties request
-The President’s decision
-Revenue sharing
-Agnew
-California trip
-Camp David
-Barry M. Goldwater at Bethesda Naval Hospital
-Kissinger

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 10:26 am and 12:23 pm.

[Conversation No. 340-18A]
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Location of Goldwater
-Call to Colson

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's public relations efforts
-Speeches
-Rotary International
-Astrodome
-Membership described
-Rotary speech
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Compared with John K. Andrews, Jr.
-Use of previous Russian speech
-The President’s view
-Themes
-Themes
-Previous speech as Vice President
-Changes in foreign relations
-PRC
-Soviet Union
-Hopes for peace
-Vietnam
-Writers
-Price
-Length
-Content
-Previous Soviet Union television address
-Use of portion about girl named Tanya
-Tanya’s diary
-PRC
-North Vietnam
-Price
-Schedule
-Draft deadline
-Content
-The President’s view
-Partisanship
-American strength
-Possible attendees
-McGovern
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-Jaycees speech
-Agnew’s role
-Price
-Press conferences
-The President’s decision
-Haldeman's views
-Timing
-Key Biscayne
-California trip

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 10:26 am and 12:23 pm.

[Conversation No. 340-18E]

The President’s schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:26 am and
12:23 pm.

[Conversation No. 340-18B]

[See also Conversation No. 25-10]

[End of telephone conversation]

Haldeman talked with Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 10:26 am and 12:23 pm.

[Conversation No. 340-18C]

[See also Conversation No. 25-11]

[End of telephone conversation]

Ehrlichman's telephone call
-Richardson
-Higher education report
-Busing position
-Importance
-Richardson's reaction
-Richardson’s schedule
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-Japan
-Meeting with the President
-House Resolution [HR] 1
-Ehrlichman
-Schedule
-Richardson
-Testimony

The President's schedule
-Camp David
-President's plans
-Weather
-Swearing-in ceremony
-Kleindienst
-Shultz
-Camp David
-Executive Committee of National Governors Conference
-Conference
-Possible meeting
-Revenue sharing, welfare reform
-County officials
-Governors Conference
-Executive Committee
-Russell B. Long
-Agnew’s suggestion
-Revenue sharing
-Long
-George H. Mahon

Congress
-Melvin R. Laird's supplemental for Vietnam
-Revenue sharing supplement

The President's schedule
-Meeting with John S.D. Eisenhower
-Declassification
-Ehrlichman’s role
-Possible meeting with Laotian Guerrilla Leader, General Vang Pao
-Kissinger
-Possible meeting with Saudi Defense Minister, Prince Sultan
-Memorandum from Rose Mary Woods
-Laird invitation
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-Press conference
-King Faisal [Malik Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud]
-President's press conference
-Office press conference
-Schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Luis Echeverria Alvarez
-Nature of foreign visits
-Dinners
-Arthur F. Burns
-Shultz
-Media
-Television anchorman
-Kissinger's opinions
-President's press conference
-Moscow

Staff to testify
-Kissinger
-John A. Scali
-Herbert G. Klein
-Gerard C. Smith
-Kissinger
-SALT
-Smith
-Blair House

President's public relations efforts
-Media
-Price
-Views
-Radio
-Rotary speech
-Radio
-Television
-Charity

Foreign relations
-SALT negotiations
-Kissinger's position
-Haldeman’s meeting with Colson [?]
-US News and World Report article
-Price
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The President's schedule
-Meeting with an unknown person
-Soviet trip

The President talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 10:26 am and 12:23 pm.

[Conversation No. 340-18D]

Kissinger's schedule
-Camp David
-Departure time
-Meeting with President
- US News and World Report article
-Discussion

[End of telephone conversation]

Goldwater
-Schedule

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 10:26 am and 12:23 pm.

[Conversation No. 340-18F]

Goldwater’s schedule
-Raymond P. Shafer [?]

[End of telephone conversation]

Goldwater
-Possible visit
-President's opinion
-George C. Wallace
-Possible visit
-Timing
-Publicity

Wallace
-Health

Staff
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Tape Subject Log
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-Secretarial coverage
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Woods
-Key Biscayne
-Schedule
-Work
-Woods
-Key Biscayne


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Unknown person
-Hagerstown, Maryland

Photographs
-Previous trip to Florida
-Associated Press [AP] and United Press International [UPI] wires

The President's schedule
-Florida

Ronald L. Ziegler
-President's views


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President's schedule
-Camp David
-Departure
-Weather

Haldeman left at 12:23 pm.