516–12

Conversation No. 516-12

Date: June 10, 1971
Time: 5:20 pm - 6:01 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods


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Copying of letter
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-Mrs. Guthrie

President’s book
-Researcher’s comment
-Dr. [Forename unknown] Bell
-Researcher invitation to White House

Use of President’s time Conv. No. 516-11 (cont.)
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Picture taking
-Possible poses


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Woods left and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 5:32 pm


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Haldeman’s previous phone call with Terry McGinnity [author of newspaper article]
-Background
-Princeton Theological Seminary
-Family
-Work
-Religious
-Norman Vincent Peale role
-Princeton Theological Seminary
-Return to Catholicism
-Philadelphia Inquirer article
-New articles
-Bulletin
-Feedback from article
-Effect of call
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-Roger E. Johnson
-Impression of Haldeman
-Suitability for politics
-Support for President
-Invitation to visit White House
-Job prospects
-Comparison with other prospect
-Raymond K. Price, Jr. role Conv. No. 516-12 (cont.)
-Reverend John J. McLaughlin [?]
-Use of talents
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-”Popular” writing ability
-Feeling about radicals
-Buchanan schedule
-Publication of work
-Dean Manyan [?]
-American Manifesto
-Use for broadcast
-Religious beliefs
-Support for President
-Reference to family assistance
-Implication
-Haldeman impression
-Efforts as fiction writer
-Use of McGinnity talents
-Letters to editor
-Speech writing
-Focus
-Phraseology
-Imagery
-Beliefs regarding war
-”Internal war”
-Radicals versus conservatives
-Strategy for hiring

Wedding plans
-Television set up
-Television specials
-Sponsors
-Gulf Oil Company
-Commercials
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McGinnity
-Hiring
-Price
-McLaughlin
-[Richard K.?] Cook
-McLaughlin
-Member of priesthood
-Belief in President’s values Conv. No. 516-12 (cont.)
-Benefits to President

Sequoia trip
-Attendance
-John B. Connally
-William P. Rogers
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Exposure to Rogers

[Haldeman talked with the White House operator at unknown time between 5:32 pm and 5:57
pm]

[Conversation No. 516-12A]

[See Conversation No. 5-5]

[End of telephone conversation]

McGinnity
-President’s impression


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-Writer drawbacks
-Buchanan
-Kevin P. Phillips

[Haldeman talked with Flanigan at an unknown time between 5:32 pm and 5:57 pm]

[Conversation No. 516-12B] Conv. No. 516-12 (cont.)

[See Conversation No. 5-6]

[End of telephone conversation]

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:32 pm

Sequoia trip
-Other invitations

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:57 pm

Job placement
-Flanigan
-Political leaning of staff

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:32 pm

President’s schedule

Sanchez left at unknown time before 5:57 pm

Sanchez
-Competence
-Attitude
-Help for staff

Polls
-Image
-Issues
-Need for focus on issues
-Thomas W. Benham analysis of poll
-Implications
-China feeling
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-Harris versus Gallup results
-Poll taking
-Distortion
-Haldeman experience
-Benham analysis
-Press problems
-Possible summit with Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Effect of upcoming People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip Conv. No. 516-12 (cont.)
-Meeting with Mao Tse-tung
-Effect of Vietnam War

Call to Hubert H. Humphrey
Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:32 pm

Arrival of guests for Sequoia trip

President’s schedule

Haldeman and Bull left and Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 5:57 pm

Connally memo
-International Monetary Fund [IMF] matters
-Paul W. McCracken
-George P. Shultz
-Peter G. Peterson

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 6:01 pm

Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:57 pm

Sequoia trip
-Guests
-Arrival

The President and Bull left at 6:01 pm