752–9

Conversation No. 752-9

Date: July 25, 1972
Time: 11:14 am - 1:33 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

Weather

Lyndon B. Johnson
-Health
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-Alexander P. Butterfield


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White House staff
-Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin
-Roland L. Elliott
-Compared to unknown person
-State Department
-Staff
-Duties
-Correspondence
-Non-political
-Political
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.’s staff
-Duties
-Correspondence
-White House mail
-Anecdotes
-Conventions
-Responses
-Political material
-Non-political material
-Elliott
-Role in 1962 campaign
-California
-Wife's role
-Herbert G. Klein
-Background
-Advertising
-Insurance
-University of California, Los Angeles [UCLA]
-Frederic V. Malek
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-Price's staff
-Size
-Loyalty
-Recruitment
-Malek
-Rodney C. Campbell
-Aram Bakshian
-Drafts of acceptance speech
-Campbell
-Bakshian
-Campbell
-The President’s July 24, 1972 meeting with White House staff
-Instructions
-Use of term “Democratic”
-“Talking sense” to American people
-Adlai E. Stevenson, II in 1952
-Quotable phrases
-The President’s meeting with Price
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Anecdotes
-Rev. John J. McLaughlin
-Bakshian
-Background
-Campbell
-The President's \"Tanya\" speech in Soviet Union
-The President’s June 24, 1972 trip to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
-“Jess”
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-The President's forthcoming acceptance speech
-Teleprompter
-1960, 1968
-Delivery
-Reading
-Preparation and delivery
-Vietnam speeches
-The President's \"Tanya\" speech in Soviet Union
-Soviet television
-Leningrad
-Diary
-Price
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Jokes
-Delivery
-Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope

The President's forthcoming acceptance speech
-\"Tanya\" speech
-Audience
-Preparation
-Timing

The President's schedule
-Press conference
-Date and format
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Patrick J. Buchanan's briefing book
-Foreign and domestic themes

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:14 am.

Requested Ziegler be asked to join them

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:01 pm.

Johnson
-Health
-Dr. William M. Lukash

John B. Connally's schedule
-George C. Wallace
-Importance of meeting

Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:14 am.

Ziegler's schedule
-Briefing

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:01 pm.

Refreshments
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Campaign financing
-Funds
-Maurice H. Stans's knowledge
-Connally
-Rose Mary Woods
-Availability
-Amount
-Committee to Re-Elect the President
-Unreported funds


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Ziegler entered at 12:01 pm.

Ziegler's previous press briefing
-Henry A. Kissinger's schedule
-Fundraising
-Jewish groups
-Thomas W. Braden's column
-Vietnam
-Bombing of dikes
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-William P. Rogers
-Kurt Waldheim
-North Vietnam
-Propaganda efforts
-Dam and dike structure
-Length
-Flooding
-US policy
-Helen A. Thomas's question
-Civilian casualties
-The President's policy
-North Vietnamese invasion
-Negotiations
-Property Review Board
-Security Assistance Program legislation
-Legislation
-Senate
-House of Representatives

Security Assistance Program legislation
-John Sherman Cooper
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
-Kissinger
-Charles H. Percy
-Presidency
-Liberals
-Conservatives
-Republican National Convention
-Reform
-Ziegler's previous press briefing
-Vote, July 24, 1972
-Unilateral withdrawal from Southeast Asia
-Fund cut-off
-Aid for Southeast Asia
-Section 14
-Base agreements
-Fund cutoff
-Effect on negotiations
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The President's schedule
-Possible press conference
-Timing
-Republican National Convention
-Format
-Television
-Timing
-Acceptance speech
-Preparation
-Themes
-Domestic affairs
-McGovern
-Format
-Purpose
-Press relations
-Bureaucracy

1972 campaign analysis
-The President's July 24, 1972 meeting with news summary staff
-Buchanan
-Allin
-Staff
-Television network coverage
-1968, 1960 campaigns
-Klein
-Allin's forthcoming analysis of television network coverage
-Chicago motorcade example
-McGovern
-Compared to the President
-Tone and slant
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] labor special on television
-Unknown person
-Charles W. Colson's views
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-McGovern
-Impression
-George Meany
-Rank and file
-Richard J. Daley
-Precinct workers
-Georgia's Democratic national committeman and woman
-Julian Bond, [Forename unknown] Johnson
-Allin's forthcoming analyses
-Priorities
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-Wire services
-Television
-Other news coverage
-News magazines


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Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Preparation for press conference
-Ziegler's call to Victor Gold
-Agnew’s schedule
-Tennis
-The President's preparation
-San Clemente
-Swimming
-Question to Agnew about Thomas F. Eagleton
-Staff
-Adequacy
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Possible talk with Haldeman
-Secret Service
-Buchanan
-Comments in speeches
-Buchanan
-Charles E. Goodell comment
-Christine Jorgenson
-Editing
-Editing
-Joseph R. McCarthy
-Eagleton

An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 12:01 pm.
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The President’s schedule
-Kissinger

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 12:41 pm.

1972 Campaign
-Agnew
-Potential
-Talk with the President
-Possible leak
-Hugh Scott's statement about the President
-Ziegler's conversation with Robert Pierpoint
-News summary
-The President's comments
-Political matters
-Republican National Convention
-California
-Press conference
-Television

Kissinger entered at 12:41 pm.

-The President’s schedule
-Previous meeting with Kissinger
-Colson
-Eagleton
-Statement about the President's trip to People's Republic of China [PRC] and
the Soviet Union
-Vietnam
-White House response
-Alleged diplomatic machinations
-Vietnam
-Delay of war’s end
-Ziegler’s role
-The President's statement to Dan Rather
-Edward M. Kennedy's statement about Vietnam
-George S. McGovern
-Statement about Vietnam, July 24, 1972
-US bombing
-Peace settlement
-Timing
-Republican response
-Compared to White House response
-Clark M. MacGregor
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-Scott
-George D. Aiken
-Preparation
-Statement about aid to Greece
-Connally's response
-Greeks' response
-Possible Republican response
-State Department
-Rogers
-Secretary of Defense
-Tennis teacher Allie Ritzenberg [?]
-Lawrence F. O'Brien, Jr.
-Press coverage
-Comment about staff
-Analysis of foreign policy statements
-Kissinger's staff
-News summary
-Winston Lord
-Peter W. Rodman
-Colson, Kenneth W. Clawson
-Agnew, Eagleton
-PRC, Soviet Union, North Vietnam

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1972 campaign
-The President's meeting with Eagleton and his son
-Life photograph
-Open Door Hour
-Agnew
-Relations with Harlow
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Eagleton
-Agnew
-Competence
-Compared to Eagleton
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-Qualities
-Compared to Eagleton
-Eagleton
-Background
-McGovern
-Compared to the PResident
-Analysis of foreign policy statements
-US casulaties
-Allegation that administration deliberately prolonging Vietnam War
-1968 campaign
-Johnson, John F. Kennedy
-Vietnam
-Casualties
-Timing
-Kennedy and Johnson Administration action
-Compared to Nixon Administration action
-McGovern's policy
-The President's meeting with Price's staff
-State Department
-US withdrawal
-Conduct of war
-Moral argument
-Imposition of Communist government in South Vietnam
-US withdrawal

Kissinger left at 1:01 pm.


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The President's schedule
-Press conference
-Timing
-Format
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-Preparation time
-Vietnam
-Kissinger’s concern
-Anwar el-Sadat
-Vietnam
-Kissinger’s concern
-Negotiations
-Bombing of dikes, troop withdrawal
-Format
-Timing
-Republican National Convention
-Acceptance speech
-Momentum
-Political questions
-East Room
-Compared to questions on national issues
-California
-McGovern
-Issues
-Vietnam
-Campaign
-Federal funds
-Clark MacGregor
-Watergate
-Investigation
-Federal Bureau of Investigations [FBI], US Attorney’s Office

Watergate
-Ziegler's previous press briefing
-New York Times
-[Forename unknown] Grumbacher's report
-Ziegler's possible response
-Forthcoming indictments
-Timing
-New York Times story
-John W. Dean, III [?]
-Calls from Bernard Barker to Committee to Re-Elect the President
-Source
-FBI, US Attoryney’s Office
-Effect
-Alger Hiss case
-E. Howard Hunt
-Forthcoming statement to grand jury
-Publicity
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-Effect
-Supreme Court
-Dean
-Fifth Amendment
-Sworn statement to attorney
-Dean’s comment
-Lawyer
-Legal strategy
-Supreme Court
-Popular opinion

The President's schedule
-Press conferences
-Timing and format
-Television
-East Room
-California
-Colson
-Filming
-California
-The President’s answers
-Photograph opportunity
-Photograph opportunity
-John R. (“Tex”) McCrary's views
-Timing and format
-California
-East Room
-Republican National Convention
-Photograph opportunity
-Television
-Television
-Effect
-East Room
-Campaign
-Film
-Political questions
-Political questions
-Oval Office
-California
-Republican National Convention

Ziegler left at 1:30 pm.

The President's schedule
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-Colson's staff
-Cabinet Roon
-Purpose of meeting
-Buchanan, Kenneth L. Khachigian
-Format of meeting

The President and Haldeman left at 1:33 pm.