754–7

Conversation No. 754-7
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Date: July 26, 1972
Time: 12:22 pm - 1:38 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

The President’s schedule

John D. Ehrlichman
-Press briefing
-Budget message
-References to Congress
-Spending

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 12:22 pm and 12:26
pm.

[Conversation No. 754-7C]

Unknown matter

[End of telephone conversation]

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 12:26 pm.

Ehrlichman
-Press briefing
-George P. Shultz
-Potential as candidate
-Work habits
-Work habits
-Compared to John N. Mitchell

The President's schedule
-Press conference
-Thomas F. Eagleton

1972 campaign
-Ziegler's recent press briefing
-Eagleton
-Health
-Republican response
-The President’s instructions to Clark MacGregor, Vice President
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Spiro T. Agnew and others
-Gary Hart's statement about release of personal information
-George S. McGovern
-Reciprocity
-1968 campaign
-Gen. Walter R. Tkach
-Eagleton
-Health
-Rose Mary Woods's conversation with Dr. Arnold A. Hutschnecker
-Calls to Hutschnecker about the President's health
-Washington Post, Newsweek
-Hutschnecker
-Health of the President and Agnew
-Ziegler's recent press briefing


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Hutschnecker
-Appearance
-Background
-Conversation with Woods

[Eagleton]
-Psychiatrists
-Public comments

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:26 pm.


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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:36 pm.

Eagleton
-Appearance on the Today Show
-Robert Abernathy's questions
-Candidates’ health
-Eagleton’s jugdment
-Informing McGovern
-Mental health
-Education public
-Frank M. Blair's comments

Woods entered at 12:36 pm.


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Eagleton
-Health
-Hutschnecker's views on electric shock treatment
-Dwight D. Eisenhower's health
-Lyndon B. Johnson's health
-Hutschnecker's views on health
-Psychosomatic theory
-Christian Scientists
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Ziegler left at 12:45 pm.


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Los Angeles Times
-Finances
-Kyle Palmer
-Retirement
-Chandler family
-Norman Chandler
-Compared to Washington Post
-Political orientation


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Agnew
-Strengths
-National Security Council [NSC] meetings
-Comparison with William P. Rogers, Melvin R. Laird, Henry A. Kissinger
-Political style
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Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 1:10 pm.

Call from John B. Connally

Butterfield left at 1:10 pm.

Haldeman talked with the White House operator at 1:10 pm.

[Conversation No. 754-7A]

Request for a call to Charles W. Colson

The President talked with Connally between 1:10 pm and 1:24 pm. Haldeman can be heard in
the background.

[Conversation No. 754-7B]

[See Conversation No. 27-80; three items have been withdrawn from the conversation]

Woods left at 1:12 pm.

[End of telephone conversation]


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Rogers
-Reaction to comments
-Kissinger and the President
-Compared to the President
-Compared to Herbert Brownell


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
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[Duration: 4m 42s ]


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Picture
-Unknown woman

The President's schedule
-Press conference
-Clothing

Eagleton
-Health
-Press coverage
-Democrats

The President and Haldeman left at 1:38 pm.