757–6

Conversation No. 757-6

Date: July 31, 1972
Time: 5:38 pm - 6:40 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with John B. Connally.

Greetings

Manolo Sanchez was present at an unknown time after 5:38 pm.


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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:44 pm.

The President's previous trip to Allen J. Ellender's funeral
-James O. Eastland, John L. McClellan, Joe D. Waggonner, Jr.

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The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:38 pm and
5:44 pm.

[Conversation No. 757-6A]

[See Conversation No. 28-15]

[End of telephone conversation]

1972 campaign
-Connally's conversation with Edward W. Edwards, July 31, 1972
-Waggonner
-Possible appointment
-Ellender
-J. Bennett Johnston
-Democratic nomination
-Gubernatorial race
-Waggonner
-Possible run as independent

The President talked with Waggonner between 5:44 pm and 5:54 pm.

[Conversation No. 757-6B]

[See Conversation No. 28-16]

Connally talked with Waggonner.

[See Conversation No. 28-16; one item has been withdrawn]

[End of telephone conversation]

Connally's previous conversation with Waggonner
-Selection of Ellender's successor
-Edwards's conversation with Waggonner
-Legal process
-Louisiana attorney general’s view of statute
-Election postponement
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-Democrats' state central committee
-Meeting
-Timing
-Democratic primary
-Possible court action
-Edwards's conversation with Otto E. Passman
-[Elaine Edwards]
-Appointment
-Waggonner's stance vis-a-vis Edwards and Johnson
-District vote
-Johnston
-Edwards
-Mrs. Edwards
-Political consequences
-Retirement benefits

The President's conversation with McClellan, July 31, 1972
-1972 campaign
-Primary
-McClellan's Republican opponent [Wayne H. Babbit]
-Winthrop Rockefeller
-Financial support
-Democrats for Nixon

1972 Campaign
-[Babbit]
-Mitchell
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-McClellan’s position
-Senate appropriations committee
-Jake Jacobsen
-Hugh Scott
-Connally’s forthcoming call to Mitchell
-Nixon campaign
-McClellan
-Position
-Campaign chairman
-[Babbit]
-Possible withdrawal of candidacy
-Possible statement
-McClellan’s position
-The President’s conversation with McClellan and Scott
-Connally's possible conversation with Mitchell
-Appointment for Babbit
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H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 6:13 pm.

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1972 Campaign
-Internal Revenue Service investigation
-Lawrence F. O'Brien, Jr., Howard R. Hughes
-Audit
-1952 campaign
-Joe Napolitan
-Paul Dessautels [?]
-Hubert Humphrey's son [Hubert H. Humphrey, III?]
-Hughes
-Napolitan
-Identity

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Connally left at 6:35 pm.

Jacobsen
-Forthcoming indictment
-John D. Ehrlichman’s view
-Hearsay
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Grand Jury
-Investigators
-Connally
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Meeting with Ehrlichman, July 31, 1972
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-Possible stratagy
-Delay
-Timing
-Ehrlichman’s role
-Connally's conversation with Kleindienst
-Haldeman's forthcoming meeting with Kleindienst and Ehrlichman
-Role with Democrats for Nixon
-Connally
-Kleindienst's schedule
-Ehrlichman's possible conversation with Connally
-Kleindienst
-Request for suggested action

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Haldeman left at 6:40 pm.