758–6

Conversation No. 758-6

Date: August 1, 1972
Time: 8:39 am - 10:09 am
Location: Oval Office

H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's request for Charles W. Colson

Photographs
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Timing

Colson entered at 8:40 am.

Bull left at 8:40 am.

John D. Ehrlichman’s previous meeting with John B. Connally [?]
-Unknown matter [Jake Jacobsen?]

The President entered at an unknown time after 8:40 am.

1972 election
-Timing


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Campaign-related issues
-British Labor Party compared to Conservative Party
-Economics
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Foreign policy
-Defense
-Law enforcement
-Compared to Great Britain
-Economics
-Inflation
-Strategy
-Haldeman’s recent comment at an economic meeting

Inflation
-Polls
-Change in public confidence
-Compared to January 1972
-August 15, 1971
-Herbert Stein
-George P. Shultz
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-As an issue
-Public perception
-Shultz
-Possible freeze on food prices
-Economists
-Shultz
-Tariffs on farm products
-Removal
-Reaction by farmers
-Consumers
-Reaction to price freeze in 1971
-CPI
-Food prices
-Compared to casualties in Vietnam
-Shultz
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-Stein
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Shultz
-Louis P. Harris poll

Vietnam
-Policy statement
-Instruction for Colson
-Surrogate speakers

George H.W. Bush
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Role at the United Nations [UN]
-Kurt Waldheim
-Example of Henry Cabot Lodge
-Defense of US position
-Soviet Union
-Today show appearance
-State Department
-Pauline Frederick
-Relations with Waldheim
-Role at UN
-Defense of US positions
-Concerns about perception of the President
-UN

UN
-Bush’s schedule
-Waldheim
-Previous conversations with Bush
-North Vietnamese
-Bush’s schedule


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Campaign finance
-Contributions
-Questionable sources
-Foreign sources
-Hypothetical Saudi Arabian oilman
-George S. McGovern donors
-Foreign sources
-Organized crime sources
-Administration strategy
-Possible inquiry into McGovern donors
-Timing
-Vice presidential nominee issue
-Compared to questions in a trial
-Jury reaction
-Value of questions


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Press relations
-Memorandum from the President
-Price
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-Ehrlichman
-Robert J. Dole
-Clark MacGregor
-Washington Post
-MacGregor
-Haldeman’s view
-Lou Cannon
-Conversations with Haldeman
-Ehrlichman
-Cannon compared to Kenneth W. Clawson
-Criticism of staff and campaign
-MacGregor
-Criticisms
-MacGregor’s position on the White House staff
-Bryce N. Harlow
-William E. Timmons
-MacGregor’s position at the Committee to Re-elect the President
[CRP]
-John N. Mitchell
-Possible rationale behind MacGregor’s criticism
-CRP
-Mitchell
-Harlow
-Appearance at the National Press Club
-Nature
-Taping

Taping of staff members during press interviews

Haldeman and Colson left at 10:09 am.