341–14

Conversation No. 341-14

Date: June 10, 1972
Time: 1:40-4:45 pm
Location: Old Executive Office Building

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
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Book [World Report]
-Possible use
-Henry A. Kissinger’s efforts
-Compared to the President’s forthcoming article
-Distribution
-US News and World Report

President's schedule
-Camp David
-Use
-The President’s view
-Swimming pool
-Weather
-Renovations
-Birch Lodge
-Compared to Aspen Lodge

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Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-Possible message to Congress
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-The President’s view
-Compared to People’s Republic of China [PRC] message
-The President’s conversation with Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-State Department
-William P. Rogers
-Possible benefits
-Congress
-The President’s view
-Haldeman’s view
-Views of Rogers and State Department


United Nations [UN] conference on environment
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan


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Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:40 and 4:45 pm.

[Conversation No. 341-14A]

[See also Conversation No. 25-25]

[End of telephone conversation]

Charles W. Colson's location
-Son's graduation

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 1:40 and 4:45 pm.

[Conversation No. 341-14B]

[See also Conversation No. 25-27]
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[End of telephone conversation]


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Night club
-Unknown man's parties

Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:40 and 4:45 pm.

[Conversation No. 341-14C].

[See also Conversation No. 25-29]

[End of telephone conversation]

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Richard G. Kleindienst's confirmation

Haldeman talked with John N. Mitchell at an unknown time between 1:40 and 4:45 pm.

[Conversation No. 341-14D]

[See also Conversation No. 25-31; one item has been withdrawn]

[End of telephone conversation]
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An unknown person talked with Haldeman at an unknown time between 1:40 and 4:45 pm.

[Conversation No. 341-14E]

[See also Conversation No. 25-32]

[End of telephone conversation]


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The President's schedule
-Swearing in ceremony
-Warren E. Burger
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Reception
-The President’s possible participation
-Clyde A. Tolson, Helen Gandy
-J. Edgar Hoover's funeral
-Bui Diem
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Donald F. Rodgers
-John C. Stennis
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-Kissinger
-Possible press conference
-Kissinger's schedule
-Herbert Stein and George P. Shultz
-Kermit Gordon
-Brookings Institution
-Pay Board

Gordon
-Role with Administration
-Views of Shultz and Donald H. Rumsfeld

The President's schedule
-Robert Elegant, Joseph Hainesbury Smith, Peter Kahn
-Views of Kenneth W. Clawson and Herbert G. Klein
-Stewart J. O. Alsop
-Richard L. Wilson
-San Francisco Examiner
-Associated Press [AP]
-Article for US News and World Report
-Haldeman's possible conversation with Klein,
Colson, Clawson, and Ronald L. Ziegler
-American Association of Retired Persons [AARP]
-Testimonial for Omar N. Bradley
-Possible Presidential Medal of Freedom
-Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
-Elwood R. Quesada and Frank Higgs
-Chester V. Clifton
-Possible statement on SALT
-Kissinger
-Length
-Republican leadership meeting
-Henry Cabot Lodge
-Cartoonists
-Philadelphia Police League
-Petition
-Frank L. Rizzo
-New petition
-League of United Latin American Citizens Convention
-Tricia Nixon Cox's schedule
-Service chiefs
-John B. Connally's views
-Kissinger
-Melvin R. Laird
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-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Topics of discussion
-Timing of meeting

1972 Campaign
-Campaign debates
-Haldeman
-Mitchell's view
-Raymond K. Price's view
-President’s policies
-Record
-President's article in Saturday Evening Post
-John F. Kennedy
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Price's view
-Mitchell's view
-White House response
-President's possible action
-Patrick J. Buchanan's view
-The President’s policies
-Politics
-Mitchell's previous press conference
-Rationale

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:40 and 4:45
pm.

[Conversation No. 341-14F]

[See also Conversation No. 25-33]

[End of telephone conversation]

Foreign policy
-US News and World Report

Haldeman talked with Ziegler at an unknown time between 1:40 and 4:45 pm.

[Conversation No. 341-14G]

[See also Conversation No. 25-34]

[End of telephone conversation]
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Ziegler's forthcoming press briefing
-The President's forthcoming article for US News and
World Report
-1972 Campaign
-Effects on participants

Foreign policy
-Reaction to the President's decisions
-The President’s trip to the Soviet Union
-Kissinger
-Actions
-The President’s May 8 decision on Vietnam
-The President and Kissinger
-Rogers
-The President’s view
-Kissinger’s action
-1969 Vietnam Peace settlement
-Soviet Union-PRC relations

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Kissinger
-Role in administration
-Conversations with John D. Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-The President’s May 8, 1972 Vietnam speech
-National Guard
-Consultation with Cabinet members
-Elliot L. Richardson [?]

Connally
-Public statement
-President's policy on Vietnam

Vietnam
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-President's conversation with Kissinger
-The President’s policies
-Bombing
-Cancellation of US-Soviet Union summit
-Possible effect
-President's visits to Soviet Union and PRC

Public relations
-Role of President
-Connally
-Administration spokesman
-Speeches
-Effect
-Television
-Importance
-The President’s trip to PRC
-Effect
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Franklin D. Roosevelt


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Public relations
The President's trip to Soviet Union
-Return and report to Congress
-Effect
-Helicopter
-Network coverage
-Effect
-John Reagan (“Tex”) McCrary's view
-President's speech to Soviet people, May 28, 1972
-US television coverage
-Effect
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-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Unknown man's actions
-Film

Films of the President
-Hearst Corporation
-Commentary
-Use
-Schools

PRC
-Gift of book library to the President
-Storage
-Future use in Nixon Library

Soviet Union
-Gift of hydrofoil to President
-Possible uses
-Potomac
-Florida
-Walkers Key
-Gift of Cadillac to Leonid I. Brezhnev
-General Motors [GM]
-Brezhnev’s wishes
-Traffic lanes in Moscow
-Uses
-The President’s trip to Soviet Union
-Automobiles
-Rose Mary Woods's views
-Comparison with PRC

President's foreign policy
-State of World report
-Length
-The President’s view
-Kissinger
-The President’s role
-Public interest


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White House staff
-Size
-Budget
-Possible use
-Possible supplemental appropriation
-Use
-Speech writers
-Buchanan
-Campaign

1972 Campaign
-Domestic council
-Frederic V. Malek's role
-Responsiveness program
-Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD]
-Contracts
-Administration supporters
-Organization
-Personnel
-Personnel
-Campaign staff
-Malek
Jeb S. Magruder

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Connally

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 1:40 pm.

Briefcase

Unknown man left at an unknown time before 4:45 pm.


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Haldeman left at 4:45 pm.