743–6

Conversation No. 743-6

Date: June 27, 1972
Time: Unknown between 11:57 am. and 1:50 pm.
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

The President's list of baseball greats
-Tape
-Names

H. R. Haldeman entered at 12:03 pm.

-John R. (“Jackie”) Robinson
-Statistics
-The President’s recollection

Woods left at an unknown time between 12:03 and 12:06 pm.

-Track and field
-James C. (\"Jesse\") Owens
-Skill as athlete
-The President's view
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The President's schedule
-Congress's schedule
-Delay
-California
-Thelm C. (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule
-Chicago
-Congress
-Social securityand debt limit bill
-Camp David
-Congress

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 12:06 pm.

Documents for President’s signature

The President's schedule
-Spiro T. Agnew's appearance before Jaycees
-The President's experience as Vice President
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Appearances by the President

Butterfield left at 12:10 pm.

Pending legislation
-Welfare reform
-Russell B. Long
-Revenue sharing
-Michael J. Mansfield resolution
-Timing
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Timing
-Kissinger

Association of Counties
-Appearances by George S. McGovern, Edmund S. Muskie,
Hubert H. Humphrey, Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson, James B. Allen,
George C. Wallace
-Muskie
-Busing
-Vietnam

The President left at an unknown time after 12:10 pm.
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Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 12:10 and 12:56 pm.

[Conversation No. 743-6A]

Number of attendees at a function [Association of Counties]
-David N. Parker
-The President’s remarks
-Vietnam

[End of telephone conversation]
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The President entered at an unknown time before 12:56 pm.


The President’s schedule
-Association of Counties
-Revenue sharing
-Agnew's remarks

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 12:10 and 12:56 pm.

[Conversation No 743-6B]

Association of Counties meeting
-Agnew’s remarks
-Revenue sharing

[End of telephone conversation]

-Timing
-Location
-Possible topics for the President's remarks
-The President's view
-Mayors meeting
-New Orleans
-The President's view
-Association of Counties

The President's statement on meat prices
-Technical problems with networks
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] objection to format
-Ronald L. Ziegler
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-Sabotage
-Teleprompter
-Format
-Single camera
-Compared to previous statements
-Press coverage on meat quotas
-Los Angeles Times article

Public relations
-Efforts
-Political
-Charles W. Colson, Patrick J. Buchanan
-Economy
-Buchanan's memorandum
-Administration's strength
-National Security

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming press conference
-Pending legislation


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White House staff
-Youth
-Woods
-Buchanan, John P. Sears, Leonard Garment
-Kevin P. Phillips
-Domestic policy
-Youth
-Political beliefs
-Jeffrey Bell
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-Buchanan

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Public relations efforts
-White House staff
-Kissinger
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Myles J. Ambrose

The President's schedule
-Association of Counties
-Agnew's schedule
-Previous visit to flood area

News leads
-Democratic platform
-Meat prices
-Vietnam War
-President’s press conference
-Timing
-Price controls

Arthur F. Burns's letter
-The President's view
-John B. Connally
-American people
-Need for leadership
-The President’s actions
-Trips to the People’s Republic of China [PRC] and Soviet Union
-Mining of Haiphong Harbor
-McGovern and Wallace


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Kissinger entered at 12:56 pm.

Kissinger's meeting with commentators
-Ehrlichman

Kissinger's conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Grain sales
-Timing
-Arrangements
-Maritime Union
-Peter G. Peterson, Colson
-Thomas W. (\"Teddy\") Gleason

Kissinger's schedule
-Meeting with Senators
-Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr., Ernest F.(“Fritz”) Hollings
-Kissinger's Peking trip
-Charles H. Percy, Charles MacMathias, Jr. Hollings
-Mansfield amendment
-Possible vote
-Future meeting

Vietnam peace negotiations
-Forthcoming meetings
-Chances for success
-McgGovern

The President left at an unknown time after 12:56 pm.

-US bombing around Hue
-Effects
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Kissinger's schedule
-John W. Chancellor

The President returned at an unknown time before 1:12 pm.

Vietnam military situation
-Letter from North Vietnamese soldier
-Morale
-McGovern
-Threat of military action after election

Vietnam peace negotiations
-Acceptable options
-McGovern
-North Vietnamese strategy
-Cease-fire
-Release of prisoners of war [POWs]
-Possible administration actions
-Cease-fire
-POWs
-North Vietnam
-Advantages
-North Vietnam
-Gloria Emerson
-Commentary
-Kissinger’s view
-Press coverage
-Effect
-Support for the President

Kissinger's schedule
-The President's schedule

The President's forthcoming press conference
-Announcement on draftees
-Ziegler
-Melvin R. Laird

National Security Council [NSC] Consultant
-Carter [First name unknown]
-Speech at Brookings Institute
-View of administration policy
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
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John d. Lavelle situation
-Press reports
-Compared to Daniel Ellsberg situation
-Number of violations
-Effect
-North Vietnam protests
-Actions

Kissinger's schedule
-Chancellor
-CBS
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.

Kissinger left at 1:12 pm.

The President's schedule
-Association of Counties
-Agnew
-Ehrlichman
-Association of Counties meeting schedule

Kissinger
-Value of activities
-McGovern

Welfare
-Raymond K. Price, Jr. and Buchanan
-Administration action
-Attack on McGovern
-House Resolution [HR] 1
-Abraham A. Ribicoff's proposal
-McGovern’s proposal
-HR 1
-Democrat platform

The President's schedule
-Association of Counties
-Ehrlichman’s view

The President's article on baseball greats

The President talked with Woods at an unknown time between 1:12 and 1:26 pm.
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[Conversation No. 743-6C]

-Spelling of names
-Ziegler
-Elroy Face

[End of telephone conversation]

-Instructions for Haldeman to call Ziegler

. Haldeman talked with Ziegler at an unknown time between 1:12 and 1:26 pm.

[Conversation No. 743-6D.]

[See Conversation No. 26-12]

[End of telephone conversation]

-Hugh Casey
-Face

Ziegler entered at 1:26 pm.

-Face
-Correct first name
-Mase Brown
-Casey

Ziegler left at 1:27 pm.

-Face

Woods entered at 1:27 pm.

-Brown, Casey
-Marjorie P. Acker
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II's handwriting

[No conversation]

The President left at 1:29 pm.
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Manolo Sanchez entered at 1:29 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:36 pm.

The President entered at an unknown time before 1:36 pm.

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between
1:29 and 1:36 pm.

[Conversation No. 743-6E.]

[See Conversation No. 26-13]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President talked with Ziegler between 1:36 and 1:37 pm.

[Conversation No. 743-6F.]

[See Conversation No. 26-14]

[End of telephone conversation]

Robinson
-Owens's record

Baseball greats

Ziegler entered at 1:41 pm.

-Spelling of Jim Konstanty's name
-Ronald Perranoski
-Los Angeles Dodgers
-The President's article
-Sporting News
-Wire services
-Clifford Evans
-Tom Subject [?]
-AP
-Sporting News
-Sports Illustrated
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-Washington Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times,
Philadelphia Inquirer
-Evans
-Timing of article
-The President’s possible remarks to Evans
-Frank Robinson
-Lefty Grove
-Hoyt Wilhelm
-Bob Feller
-Hank Greenberg
-Baseball Writers Association
-Arky Vaughn
-The President's article
-Newspapers
-Magazines
-AP

Ziegler left at 1:43 pm.

The President's schedule
-Association of Counties
-William F. (\"Billy\") Graham

Haldeman left at 1:50 pm.
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