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Conversation No. 767-16

Date: August 11, 1972
Time: Unknown between 9:35 am and 10:36 am
Location: Oval Office

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

The President’s forthcoming acceptance speech
-Suggestions from staff members
-Arrangement of suggestions
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:44 am.


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John D. Ehrlichman entered at 9:44 am.

[Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan]
-Activities
-Article in The Public Interest
-The President’s veto of the Departments of Labor and Health,
Education and Welfare [HEW] appropriations bill
-Newsweek column
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC] appearance
-Busing
-Administration position


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R. Sargent Shriver
-Resignation letter
-William P. Rogers
-Forthcoming publication of letter
-Moynihan's reaction to speech
-Campaign for governorship
-Rogers
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-Previous meeting with Ehrlichman
-Possible job with administration

The President’s forthcoming meeting with Peter G. Peterson

Media relations
-Article on the Administration’s media strategy
-Source of article
-The President’s view
-John A. Scali
-Charles W. Colson
-Proposed tough stance with the press
-Scali
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Scali and Clawson
-Buchanan
-Colson
-Clawson
-Scali
-Buchanan
-Détente with press
-Détente with press
-The President’s view
-Statement on the media in general
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Response to individual stories
-Haldeman’s view
-Robert B. Semple, Jr.
-Cabinet meeting at Camp David, August 8, 1972
-Portrayal as economic discussion
-Presence of Republican National Committee member
-Fred J. Agnich
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming conversation with Semple
-Ronald L. Ziegler’s response
-The President’s view
-[Edith] “Efron Syndrome”
-News summaries
-Example of John Dancy’s report
-Buchanan
-George S. McGovern crowds in New England
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-Dancy’s description of crowds
-Size of crowds
-Associated Press [AP] reports
-Hartford, Connecticut
-Compared to the President's campaign crowds
in 1966
-Press coverage of the President’s crowds
in Maine
-“Efron Syndrome”

W. Ramsey Clark
-White House response strategy
-Robert J. Dole
-Buchanan
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Anti-communist figure
-McGovern’s plan for Clark to assume Hoover’s position
-McGovern’s description of Hoover
-Clark’s relationship with the North Vietnamese
-Agnew’s forthcoming speeches
-Press reaction
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Dole
-The President’s view
-Colson
-Desire to force McGovern to confirm or deny plan to appoint Clark to
FBI
-Jane Fonda's trip to North Vietnam
-Connection to Clark
-Clark’s address on Radio Hanoi
-MacGregor’s previous speech at the National Press Club
-Fonda and Clark
-Agnew
-News summary
-Colson’s previous conversation with the President
-MacGregor
-Dole
-Press reaction
-MacGregor’s other comments at the National Press Club
-“Come home George”
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-“Efron Syndrome”
-Network coverage
-Watergate
-“Come home George”

Ziegler entered at 9:58 am.

Shriver
-The Administration’s release of resignation letter
-Ziegler’s forthcoming conversation with Rogers
-Possible release by the State Department
-Possible release by the White House
-State Department’s reluctance to release the letter
-Haldeman’s possible conversation with Rogers
-Possible release by the White House
-The President’s view
-Release by the State Department
-Rogers
-Possible call by Ziegler
-Possible release by the White House
-Possible statement by Rogers
-Quotation from Shriver’s letter

Ziegler left at 10:00 am.

-Request for job in the Administration
-Publicity
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming meeting with Jerrold L. Schecter
-Possible letter from Ehrlichman to Shriver
-Ehrlichman's forthcoming visit to Florida
-Television appearances
-Time magazine
-Schecter
-Previous meeting with the President
-Desire to run for governor
-Statements on Vietnam
-Service as ambassador to France
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Possible article by Schecter
-Ehrlichman’s response to Shriver’s statements
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Revenue sharing
-John L. McClellan
-Appropriations Committee
-Wallace F. Bennett
-Russell B. Long
-Appropriations Committee
-Senate Finance Committee
-Thomas C. Korologos
-Delays
-George H. Mahon
-McClellan

Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
-The President’s previous conversation with Gerald R. Ford
-The President's veto
-Shriver

Busing
-As an issue
-Ehrlichman’s view
-House of Representatives
-Senate

Handgun bill
-Administration support

White House staff
-Colson
-Conflict with Scali
-Conflicts
-Colson

Automobile pricing
-The President’s memorandum
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Impact on Consumer Price Index [CPI]

The President’s forthcoming meeting with George W. Romney
-Other attendees
-Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania flood situation
-Request for additional staff
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-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger

Labor and HEW appropriations bill veto
-Timing
-Republican National Convention
-Television time

Lawrence F. O'Brien, Jr.
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS] investigation
-Delays
-George P. Shultz
-Johnnie M. Walters
-Delays
-Shultz

Investigations of McGovern contributors
-Rose Mary Woods
-Max Palevsky
-Unreported contributions to McGovern
-Palevsky
-Henry L. Kimelman
-Virgin Islands
-Income tax audit
-Results
-Interior Department
-Justice Department
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Interior Department
-Rogers C.B. Morton
-Morton’s location
-Alaska
-Cabinet meeting at Camp David, August 8, 1972
-Newspaper article

The President's schedule
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Possible meeting with Clark MacGregor and John N. Mitchell
-Reasons
-Guidance
-Report to the President
-Republican National Convention
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-Meeting with Ronald W. Reagan
-MacGregor
-Camp David
-Revenue sharing
-Veto [of Labor and HEW appropriations bill]
-Camp David

Watergate
-Grand jury investigation
-Reports
-Sources
-Alger Hiss case
-Maurice H. Stans
-Newspaper investigation
-Minnesota person [Kenneth H. Dahlberg]
-Mexican lawyer [Manuel Ogarrio Daguerre]
-Sources
-Burglars
-Florida
-Investigators
-Post election plans
-Henry E. Peterson
-Personnel changes

Civil Rights Division [of the Justice Department]
-Personnel changes
-John B. Connally
-Lawsuit in Los Angeles
-Samuel W. Yorty
-Administration disapproval
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Yorty's response
-Kevin D. White

Cabinet
-Shultz
-The President’s possible conversation with Shultz
-Investigation of O’Brien
-Romney
-Ehrlichman’s note to Romney
-Previous call from wife [Lenore L. Romney] to Ehrlichman
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-The President’s view
-Rogers
-Release of Shriver’s resignation letter
-Shultz
-Treasury Department
-IRS

Civil Rights Division
-Kleindienst
-Cases
-Boston
-White
-Birmingham, Chicago, and Los Angeles
-Reversal of suits

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 10:15 am.

Vietnam briefings for McGovern
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Butterfield
-The Administration’s letter to McGovern
-Kissinger
-Paul C. Warnke
-Paris negotiations
-McGovern’s refusal to receive briefings
-Haig
-Publicity
-The Administration’s letter to McGovern
-Possible question at press conference
-Ziegler
-Warnke
-Haig

Shriver
-Publicity for Shriver’s resignation letter
-Rogers
-Ziegler
-Release by the White House
-Rogers
-Shriver’s cables while ambassador to France
-Vietnam
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-Shriver’s knowledge
-Compared to Ehrlichman’s knowledge
-Rogers
-Publicity for Shriver’s resignation letter
-Rogers’s reluctance to release
-Haldeman’s view
-Ziegler
-Robert J. McCloskey

Haldeman left at 10:16 am.

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming trip to Camp David
-Meeting with Reagan
-Republican National Convention
-Report on Europe
-Reagan’s comments on West Germany
-The President’s previous meeting with Sir Burke St. John Trend
-Trend’s response
-Belgian Foreign Minister, Pierre C.J.M. Harmel
-Forthcoming meeting with Kissinger
-Kissinger’s forthcoming foreign trips
-News items
-Platform Committee
-Camp David

Automobile manufacturers
-The President's memorandum
-Relationship with administration
-Rumsfeld
-News summary

Ehrlichman left at 10:24 am.

Vietnam
-Poland
-Shipment to North Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to Paris
-North Vietnamese proposal
-Political element
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-Kissinger's forthcoming trip to Saigon
-Announcement
-Ellsworth F. Bunker

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 10:24 am.

Acknowledgement

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:36 am.

-Possible resignation of Nguyen Van Thieu
-Kissinger’s previous cable to the North Vietnamese
-North Vietnamese reply
-Xuan Thuy
-Presence of substitute at meeting
-Possible publicity of North Vietnamese plan
-Effect on US domestic situation
-Kissinger’s view
-Possible US proposal
-The President’s instruction
-Possible US proposal at next meeting
-North Vietnamese rejection
-McGovern
-US proposal
-North Vietnamese rejection
-Kissinger’s memorandum to the President
-Political convention
-Possible US withdrawal
-North Vietnamese reluctance
-Thieu
-Strength
-Kissinger’s new proposal
-Continued US military presence
-1972 election
-Ceasefire contrasted with withdrawal
-Possible post-election bombing
-Release of prisoners of war [POWs]
-Political settlement
-Possible North Vietnamese negotiations with Thieu
-Basic agreement
-Ceasefire
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-McGovern
-Clark
-McGovern's plan to appoint Clark FBI director


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The President's meeting with Peter G. Peterson
-Kissinger’s memorandum
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Kissinger's forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Lend-Lease proposal
-Peterson’s knowledge of trip
-Gas deal
-Flanigan's knowledge of the trip
-Kissinger’s view
-The President’s view
-Announcement of agreement

Arms control negotiations
-US-Great Britain collaboration
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Draft of agreement
-Soviet Union reaction
-Kissinger’s sharing of Soviet Union proposal with People’s Republic of China
[PRC] officials
-Negotiations with the Soviet Union

Foreign policy
-Major issues
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-Grain sales to the Soviet Union
-Vietnam
-Importance
-US-Soviet Union relations
-Brezhnev
-Vietnam
-Middle East

Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:24 am.

The President’s forthcoming meeting with Peterson
-Photograph

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:36 am.

Arms control agreement
-Great Britain
-NATO
-PRC
-Soviet Union
-Middle East issue

The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Peterson
-Bull
-Forthcoming meeting with Romney

Kissinger left at an unknown time before 10:36 am.