381–17

Conversation No. 381-17

Date: December 18, 1972
Time: 1:43 pm – 2:05 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

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

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Ronald L. Ziegler

Ziegler’s press conferences
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Conversation No. 381-17 (cont’d)

-Ziegler’s handling
-Emotions
-Henry A. Kissinger
-December 18, 1972
-Counsellors to the President
-Robert H. Finch
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-Ziegler’s demeanor
-Post-1972 election
-“Cockiness”
-Performance
-December 18, 1972
-Press relations
-Washington Post
-White House social events
-Christmas tree lighting
-Pool

Vietnam War
-US bombing north of 20th Parallel
-Kissinger’s concern
-The President’s conversation with Kissinger
-The President’s possible television [TV] statement
-Kissinger’s conversation with Haldeman
-Kissinger’s cables
-Effect
-“Hawks”
-Cause and effect
-Domestic crisis
-Vietnam negotiations
-Press relations
-Ziegler’s view
-Credibility
-“Peace is at hand” statement, October 26, 1972
-“Peace is at hand”
-The President’s view
-Kissinger’s mood
-Support

The President’s schedule
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Conversation No. 381-17 (cont’d)

-Possible meeting
-Kissinger
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Timing

Congressional relations
-Ambassador-at-large
-John Sherman Cooper
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson’s recommendation
-Defense, foreign policy votes
-Haldeman’s conversation with Thomas C. Korologos, Willliam E.
Timmons
-Office
-Debt
-State Department

Second term reorganization
-Maurice H. Stans
-Ambassadorship to Cambodia
-Health

The President’s schedule
-Guest lists
-Duplication
-Charles W. Colson
-Reception
-Christmas tree lighting
-Church services
-Colson
-Rose Mary Woods
-1973 Inauguration
-Colson

Item for the President’s signature
-Ehrlichman

The President’s schedule
-Guest lists
-Duplication
-Woods
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Conversation No. 381-17 (cont’d)

-Colson
-Handling
-Groups
-Political
-Stans
-Republican National Committee [RNC]
-Robert J. Dole
-Church service
-Stans
-Church service
-Haldeman’s conversation with Woods
-Cabinet
-Church services, dinner
-Heads of state
-Receptions
-Public relations [PR]
-New Majority
-Recognition of supporters
-1972 election
-Christmas events
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Supporters
-Hard hats, Republicans
-Italian-Americans
-American Legion hat
-Disabled American Veterans head [Jack O. Hicks]
-Flag lapel pin
-Republicans
-Social events
-Cabinet dinner
-Josephine (Brickell) Brennan
-Toasts
-William P. Rogers
-Anne L. Armstrong
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Rogers’s toast
-Mrs. Nixon
-Armstrong
-Agnew
-Rogers’s toast
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Conversation No. 381-17 (cont’d)

-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s schedule
-New York

Vietnam negotiations
-Kissinger’s “peace is at hand” statement
-Effect
-1972 election
-Polls

The President’s schedule
-White House staff’s schedule
-Vietnam War
-US bombing north of 20th Parallel
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Christmas
-New York
-California
-Children
-Florida
-Criticism
-Crisis
-Public relations [PR]
-Haldeman’s telephone call to Mrs. Nixon
-Private dinner party [?]
-Kissinger
-Telephone call from the President

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:43 pm.

The President’s schedule
-Richard G. Kleindienst

Golf [?]
-Hole-in-one
-Unknown woman

Haldeman and Bull left at 2:05 pm.
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