783–26

Conversation No. 783-26

Date: September 19, 1972
Time: 3:42 pm - 5:41 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and William E. Timmons.

Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO] bill
-Possibility of sustaining veto
-Jacob K. Javits
-OEO
-The President’s view
-Domestic Council staff
-Labor
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr., Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr., John D. Ehrlichman
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger, Charles W. Colson

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 3:43 pm.

Memoranda on trade
-The President's signature

Rose Mary Woods

[Signing memoranda]

Kissinger’s security
-Secret Service protection
-Eugene T. Rossides
-Information on possible attack on Jewish person
-George S. McGovern's staff
-Blame on administration
-The President's earlier meeting with George Bush
-Arabs
-Al-Fatah
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-Intelligence reports
-Haldeman
-Secret Service
-Social activities
-McGovern, R. Sargent Shriver
-Safety

McGovern's campaign
-Soviet-Jewish emigration
-William L. Safire's reception for the press
-Max Frankel
-Crowds
-Political preference

Kissinger’s security
-Schedule
-1972 election
-Announcements
Charles H. Percy fund raiser

US-Soviet Union trade agreement
-Kissinger's call from Bryce N. Harlow
-Carl B. Albert’s conversation with Dr. Thomas E. (“Doc”) Morgan
-Morgan
-Conference
-Conference
-Javits amendment
-House of Representatives
-Morgan
-Henry M. (\"Scoop\") Jackson
-Language
-Agreement compared to treaty
-Soviets
-Legislative strategy
-Morgan
-Albert
-Conversations with conferees
-Forthcoming meetings with Peter H.B. Frelinghuysen and William S.
Mailliard
-Schedule
-Soviets
-Schedule
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Tape Subject Log
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Kissinger's schedule
-New York
-Meeting [with People’s Republic of China] [PRC] [officials]

News summary item
-McGovern supporters at Democratic National Convention
-George S. Meany comment

Kissinger's schedule
-Jill St. John
-Nancy Maginnes

The PRC
-Women

Kissinger left at 3:52 pm.

OEO bill
-Changes in provisions
-Weinberger’s view
-Cole’s view
-Probability of sustaining veto
-1972 election
-Shriver
-Weinberger
-Cole
-Victory margin
-Mandatory funding issue
-Congressional leaders

Water bill
-Gerald R. Ford
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Justice Department review
-Mandatory spending issue
-Budget effect
-Congressional leaders
-Sustainability of veto
-Fiscal responsibility issue
-Advisability of veto
-Ehrlichman
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Funding of programs
-OEO
-Signing
-The President’s forthcoming meeting with Ehrlichman,
Weinberger
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Headstart
-1968 election
-Community action programs
-Voters' view
-Democrats
-OEO bill
-Sustainability of veto
-Manadatory spending
-Legal services, emergency health, emergency food
-Weinberger
-Spending ceiling
-William V. Roth

Congressional relations
-OEO bill
-Timmons’s forthcoming conversation with Congressional leaders
-Quid pro quo
-Sustaining water bill veto
-Cole's views
-1972 election
-Lyndon B. Johnson-era economy
-Federal deficit and full employment in 1968
-Effect on inflation
-1968 election


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OEO bill
-Timmons's forthcoming conversation with Congressional leaders

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:52 pm.

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting
-George E. Christian
-Interruption
-The President's departure for Camp David
-Helicopter
-Tricia Nixon Cox

OEO bill
-Ehrlichman
-Signing

Timmons and Bull left at 4:02 pm.

John B. Connally, Clark MacGregor, Christian and Colson entered at 4:03 pm.

Greetings
-Connally’s health

Refreshments


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1972 campaign
-Advertisements
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-The President’s trips to the Soviet Union and the PRC
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-McGovern
-Campaign tone
-The President’s accomplishments
-Appeal to Democrats, Independents
-National security
-Economy
-Redistribution of wealth
-Social issues
-Meany
-Presidential character
-Barry M. Goldwater's campaign in 1964
-Tennessee Valley Authority [TVA] issue
-Foreign policy
-Foreign policy
-Johnson
-Democratic Party tradition
-Bipartisanship
-Post World War II era
-Harry S. Truman aid program
-George C. Marshall Plan
-McGovern
-National defense and national security
-The President’s viewing
-Compared to other issues such as strip mining and the
Soviet grain deal
-Negative tone
-Timing
-National defense welfare, credibility
-Emphasis on the positive
-Timing
-McGovern
-Hardhats
-Positive, five minute spots
-Cost
-Timing
-“Mini-documentaries”
-Republican National Convention
-Busing
-Michigan
-Foreign policy
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-The President's trip to the Soviet Union
-Trade agreement
-Kissinger’s visits
-Timing
-Forthcoming foreign policy announcements
-US-Soviet Union trade agreement, October
[18], 1972
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] II,
October [19], 1972
-November [21], 1972
-Moscow, Washington, DC
-The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
[CSCE] and Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions
[MBFR]
-Interim SALT agreement, October 1972
-Andrei A. Gromyko's forthcoming visit
-Moscow, Washington, DC signings
-Timing
-Soviet Union announcements
-Trip
-The President's trip to the PRC
-Youth
-“America the Beautiful” tour
-Focus
-Single issues
-Duration
-The President’s trip to the PRC
-Timing
-Soviet Union
-Gromyko
-Negative tone
-National defense
-Timing
-The President's conversation with O. Clark Fisher of
Texas earlier in the day
-The President’s and Fisher’s experience on Labor
Committee
-Domestic and foreign policy and national security
votes
-The President’s experience
-Focus
-Advertisements
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-Foreign policy
-William P. Rogers's United Nations [UN] appearance
-Speech to Foreign Affairs Council
-The President's appearances
-International Monetary Fund [IMF] speech,
September 25, 1972
-New York, September 26, 1972
-Statue of Liberty
-Ethnic groups [American Museum of
Immigration dedication]
-Common Cause
-National Career Conference, Los Angeles, September
28, 1972
-National defense
-Soviet Union announcements
-Speech
-Timing
-Timing
-The President's IMF speech
-Rogers at UN
-Melvin R. Laird
-Los Angeles
-Connally's television appearance
-Timing
-Relationship to the President's schedule
-Atlanta
-Connally’s schedule
-St. Louis
-Taping
-Charts
-Meeting with Gromyko
-SALT signing
-Photograph
-Duration
-October 4, 1972
-News value of appearance
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-The President's schedule
-Atlanta
-Forthcoming trip to Texas
-Laredo and [Rio Grande High School]
-Connally’s ranch
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-San Antonio
-Connally's forthcoming television appearance
-Taping
-Leaks
-Target audience
-Democrats, labor
-Bipartisanship
-Connally’s background
-Secretary of Navy
-Truman
-National Defense
-Veteran’s organizations
-McGovern
-Franklin D. Roosevelt, Truman, John F. Kennedy
-Tone
-Text
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Theme
-Henry A. Wallace's position on aid to Greece and Turkey
-1948 campaign
-McGovern
-The President’s experience as congressman
-Aid to Greece and Turkey, Marshall Plan
-Truman
-Helen Gahagan Douglas
-Use of graphics and audiovisual aids
-Wallace film clip's availability
-March of Time archives
-Aid to Greece and Turkey
-Roll call vote
-The President
-The President and Kennedy as freshman members of
Congress
-Theme
-Wallace
-McGovern
-Robert Sam Anson biography
-Assistance from White House staff
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Kissinger
-Buchanan
-Themes
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-McGovern’s 1948 letter about Red Scare
-Meany circulation
-Signing of SALT agreement and Gromyko's visit

Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:03 pm.

Request for Congressional Record
-Aid to Greece and Turkey
-1947 vote
-The President, Kennedy

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:30 pm.


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Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:03 pm.

Request for glasses

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:30 pm.

Polls
-McGovern
-Albert E. Sindlinger
-Louis P. Harris polls
-Economy
-Recession

Bull entered and left at an unknown time before 5:30 PM.

Polls
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-Harris polls
-Economy
-Approval of the President's handling of the job
-Compared to 1969
-Economy
-Possibility of recession
-1971 compared to 1972
-Price increases


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Polls
-Sindlinger polls
-Wage and price controls
-Trend
-Politics
-The President's handling of job
-McGovern
-Cabinet, Congress
-The President’s family
-McGovern
-Sindlinger poll

Foreign policy
-80th Congress vote on aid to Greece and Turkey
-Douglas
-Isolationists
-The President, Kennedy, Johnson
-Ages
-Television
-McGovern
-1947
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-The President’s votes as congressman
-Food for Europe
-1946 election
-Johnson campaign
-Tone
-Hardy Hollers
-Accusations of stealing
-Dan Moody
-Financial records
-Arlan Graves [?] of Austin
-Claudia A. (Taylor) (“Ladybird”) Johnson
-Lyndon Johnson’s speech at Wooldridge
Park
th
-80 Congress vote on aid to Greece and Turkey
-Debate
-Buchanan's possible analysis
-Participants
-The President and Kennedy
-Joseph W. Martin, Jr., Samuel T. Rayburn,
Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Wallace
-Lyndon Johnson
-Vito Marcantonio
-J. Harry McGregor of Ohio
-Conservatives


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Connally et al. except Haldeman, left at 5:36 pm.

OEO bill
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Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 5:36 pm.

Request

Haldeman’s schedule

The President's schedule
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

The President left at an unknown time after 5:36 pm.

The President's schedule
-Ehrlichman, Weinberger
-Kissinger

The President entered at an unknown time after 5:37 pm.

The President and Haldeman left at 5:41 pm.