345–10

Conversation No. 345-10

Date: June 29, 1972
Time: 2:40-3:50 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

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

Weather

President's schedule
-Camp David visit
-Value
-Press conference
-The President’s responses to questions
-White House staff
-President's efforts


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-Foreign trips
-Press conferences
-President's preparation
-William L. Safire


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-Charles W. Colson's intelligence reports
-George S. McGovern
-Democratic National Convention
-Nomination


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Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 2:50 pm.

A draft of unidentified item

Butterfield left at 2:52 pm.
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John N. Mitchell
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Watergate break-in
-Resignation as campaign manager

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 3:00 pm.

Greetings


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Vietnam
-Preparation for President's forthcoming press conference
-Troop withdrawal
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Draftees
-Navy
-Melvin R. Laird
-Prisoners of war[POWs]
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-Criticism
-Assistance to South Vietnam
-Jane Fonda
-May 8, 1972 proposal
-Response
-North Vietnamese Army
-Demilitarized zone [DMZ]
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Troop withdrawal
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Edmund S. Muskie
-US Army
-Military advisors
-Laos
-The President’s possible response
-Joseph C. Kraft
-Invitation to Hanoi
-North Vietnam intentions
-Anthony Lewis
-John D. Lavelle
-Margaret Chase Smith
-Leo Cherne
-Harold J. Gibbons
-Colson's suggestion
-Diplomatic mission
-Kissinger’s view
-Committee for Peace and Freedom


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Kissinger's announcement on the draft
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-Press reports
-Laird
-Effects on public

Kissinger left at 3:20 pm.

Mitchell
-Watergate break-in
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-Health
-Knowledge of Watergate break-in
-Health
-Support for the President
-Emotional state


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-Blame for Administration's activities
-Martha's opinion
-Watergate
-Role in campaign
-Resignation
-Previous conversation with Haldeman
-Timing
-Public relations
-Mail
-Reporters at Westchester Country Club
-Martha Mitchell
-Possible course of action by husband
-Press reaction
-Role
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-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-New Jersey scandal
-William T. Cahill
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Mitchell
-Alleged payoff
-Cahill
-Secretary of state
-Attorney General
-Resignation
-Martha Mitchell
-Move to New York
-Impact
-Future role in campaign
-Possible question at press conference


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Watergate break-in
-Effects of Mitchell's resignation
-Martha Mitchell
-John Mitchell's knowledge
-Break-in
-G. Gordon Liddy
-Firing
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] investigation
-Effects
-Possible resignation statement by Mitchell
-Effects of Mitchell's resignation
-Frank Dale
-Effect of Mitchell’s reorganization
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-Clark MacGregor and Frederic V. Malek


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Congress's schedule

President's schedule
-Trip to California
-Timing
-Congress's schedule
-Carl B. Albert
-Leslie C. Arends

Pending legislation
-Social Security increase
-Provisions
-House Resolution [HR] 1
-Impact
-1972 election

Hiring of East Wing employees
-Unknown woman
-Constance M. Stuart
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon’s view
-David N. Parker
-Advance staff
-Scheduling
-Schedule planner
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Tricia Nixon Cox
-Parker
-Mrs. Nixon
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-Unknown woman

Tricia Cox’s schedule
-California
-Mexico
-Merv Griffin show

Mitchell's role
-Comparison with John B. Connally


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An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 3:20 pm.

Delivery of an item [?]

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 3:50 pm.

President's schedule
-Mark I. Goode

President's forthcoming press conference
-Clothing
-The President’s view
-The President’s previous television appearance in the Soviet Union
-Make-up


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Haldeman left at 3:50 pm.