789–6

Conversation No. 789-6

Date: September 30, 1972
Time: 10:56 am - 12:00 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

The President’s schedule
-Recent Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT] signing ceremony for Joint
Resolution
-[Treaty] Room

1972 election
-Los Angeles demonstration, September 27, 1972
-Photographs
-Size of demonstration
-Physical appearance
-Signs
-Anti-war group
-George S. McGovern, R. Sargent Shriver
-Vietnam casualties
-Alleged Communist affiliation
-Jews
-Vietcong [VC] flags
-Hard hat action
-Plans
-International Brotherhood of Teamsters
-Charles W. Colson
-Donald Kalish
-University of California, Los Angeles [UCLA]
-Alleged Communism
-Vietnam casualties
-Killed in Action [KIA]
-Possible publication
-U.S. News and World Report
-Film


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Defense contracts
-McDonnell-Douglas
-Press interviews of aerospace industry workers
-St. Louis
-Thomas Victor Jones
-Union
-1972 campaign strategy
-Leaflets
-Timing
-F-15
-B-1
-McGovern

Campaign spending law
-New York Times or Washington Post story
-Constitutionality
-Lawyers for the Committee for the Reelection of the President [CRP]
argument
-Common Cause suit
-Federal Corrupt Practices Act
-Attempted stay
-Supreme Court
-Appeals
-Timing
-1972 election
-[Malcolm Richard Wilkey]
-Reappointment
-Compared to [Murray I. Gurfein] of New York
-Background
-Jewish identity
-Thomas E. Dewey

Appointments
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Tape Subject Log
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-Rita E. Hauser
-John N. Mitchell
-United Nations [UN] Ambassadorship
-Background
-Jewish identity
-Woman
-New York Times report
-Unknown editorialist
-Positions
-Reelection of the President
-The President compared to McGovern
-Compared to the President
-Human rights
-Civil rights
-Vietnam
-Views on women
-The President’s possible victory margin
-Mitchell
-Jews
-Herbert Stein
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Leonard Garment
-Character
-Garment

Return of three Prisoners of War [POWs]
-News summary
-Cora Weiss and David Dellinger
-Barry M. Goldwater
-McGovern
-Maj. Edward K. Elias
-Wife
-Quote about reincarnation claim
-Weiss
-Manner
-Compared to Bella S. Abzug
-Lt. Norris A. Charles
-Lt. Markham L. Gartley
-Parents
-Elias
-Administration handling
-Elias
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-Military hospital
-Wife
-Defense Department Handling
-Brig. Gen. Daniel (\"Chappie\") James, Jr.
-Skill as a spokesman
-North Vietnam propaganda
-Value
-Elias
-POW wives
-Point about tour
-Treatment by captors
-Quality
-Compared to unreleased pre-1067 POWs
-Value


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Public relations
-Polls
-Timing
-US-Soviet Union trade deal
-Wheat deal
-Announcement
-Kissinger
-Press briefings
-The President's recent talk with Kissinger
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-SALT II
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Vietnam
-Focus on one subject at a time
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-Previous Vietnam briefing
-Impact on Soviet Union briefing
-Ziegler
-Kissinger
-Kissinger’s Soviet Union briefing
-News impact
-Compared to Vietnam briefing
-Use of Kissinger

William P. Rogers's forthcoming attendance at Washington Post dedication
-Washington Post’s treatment of the President
-The President
-Rogers
-Mitchell
-White House staff
-Watergate
-Attention by other newspapers
-Orders to Cabinet
-Handling
-Possible phone calls from Alexander P. Butterfield

Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 10:56 am.


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Butterfield left at an unknown time before 11:13 am.


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Kissinger entered at 11:13 am.

The President’s meeting with Andrei A. Gromyko, October 2, 1972
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Tape Subject Log
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-Talking points
-Rogers
-Vietnam peace plans
-Nuclear missile treaty [SALT II]
-Duration
-Statements
-Nuclear missile treaty [SALT II]
-Vietnam War
-Tone
-Vietnam War
-Concessions
-1972 election
-Military solution
-Restraints

Gromyko's schedule
-Camp David
-Rogers
-Return to the White House
-Kissinger's schedule
-Breakfast
-SALT signing ceremony
-Weather
-Rogers
-Breakfast
-The President's schedule
-Kissinger's schedule
-Camp David dinner
-Rogers's schedule
-The President's schedule
-Escort for Gromyko
-Rogers
-The President’s schedule
-Helicopter
-Dinner group
-Helicopter
-The President’s schedule
-Rogers's schedule
-Administration group
-Soviet Group
-Breakfast
-Breakfast
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-Nuclear weapons, Vietnam
-The President's schedule
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin, Kissinger
-Map room
-Ceremony
-Map Room
-Embassy
-Ceremony
-Arrival
-Camp David
-Rogers
-The President's schedule
-Oval Office meeting
-Camp David
-Kissinger and Soviet group
-Rogers and State Department group
-Dinner
-Helicopter
-Aspen Lodge
-Return to White House
-Rogers
-Gromyko
-Dobrynin
-Kissinger
-Second helicopter

Maritime agreement
-Signing
-Timing
-Colson
-Conversation with Kissinger
-White House setting
-Commerce Department
-SALT
-Jobs
-The President’s schedule
-Camp David
-Political leadership meeting
-John B. Connally's broadcast
-[Camp David]
-SALT
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The President’s schedule
-Wholesale Price Index [WPI]
-[Camp David]
-Meeting with Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Executive prerogative
-Purpose
-The President's appearance at retirement ceremony [for Adm. John S. McCain, Jr.,
September 1, 1972]
-Foreign policy
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Paris
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Camp David
-Vietnam

Vietnam Negotiations
-The press
-Settlement
-Prospects
-Deadline
-North Vietnamese
-North Vietnamese Proposal
-Nguyen Van Thieu’s acceptance
-North Vietnamese expectations
-Maurice Schumann
-Bombing Halt

The President's forthcoming meeting with Gromyko
-Rogers
-Vietnam
-US stance
-Military solution
-The President's previous talk with Shumann
-Diplomatic solution

Vietnam War
-Settlement
-North Vietnamese
-10-year involvement
-Losses
-Prospects
-Progress
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-Current document
-Thieu’s tenure
-Thieu's tenure
-Administration image
-History’s verdict
-Public
-1972 election
-History’s verdict
-US allies
-South Vietnam government’s status
-North Vietnamese strategy
-Thieu's tenure
-Possibility of agreement
-Military solution
-US civilian and military leadership
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Arms Control and Disarmament Agency [ACDA] [Raymond L. Garthoff]
[sic]
-Gen Andrew J. Goodpaster's Deputy [Lt. Gen. Edward Rowny]
-Hard liners
-Defense Department
-JCS
-Paul H. Nitze
-Vietnamization
-Ground war
-South Vietnam's Air Force
-Compared to North Vietnam
-Navy Operations
-Carriers
-Air Cover
-Korea
-US Aircraft
-Plans
-Negotiations
-Prospects
-North Vietnamese leadership
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Chou En-Lai
-US Strategy
-Record
-Thieu’s tenure
-Imposition of communist government
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-Military action
-Attrition
-Duration
-February 1973
-Dry season
-Effectiveness
-Bombing
-North Vietnamese position
-Offer
-Negotiation progress
-Previous position of North Vietnamese
-North Vietnamese control of army, police
-Government of Vietnam [GVN] status
-Present position of North Vietnamese
-North Vietnamese government advisory committee role
-GVN status
-The President's January 1972 peace proposal
-Concessions
-Le Duc Tho
-US stance
-Kissinger’s speeches
-Committee of National Reconciliation
-Thieu's reaction
-Previous offer in Electoral Commission
-Changes in North Vietnamese position
-July 1972
-Prospects

US foreign policy
-Negotiations with the Soviet Union
-Press reaction
-Joseph C. Kraft
-Recent Washington Post story
-The People's Republic of China [PRC]-Japan accord
-Impact on US
-Soviet Union
-McGovern
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Milton Viorst
-Washington Star article
-US policy towards Soviet Union, PRC
-Liberals
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-Press
-Contact with Kissinger
-New York Times

1972 election
-McGovern
-Press and media support
-The President’s victory margin

The President's schedule
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Gromyko
-Rogers’s schedule
-Camp David
-Swimming

Kissinger left at 11:36 am.

Funding for the President's previous Texas trip
-Publicity
-Melvin R. Laird’s travels

Vietnam War
-Kissinger
-History’s verdict
-Foreign policy
-Allies
-Pre-1972 election
-Settlement
-Timing
-1972 election
-Polls
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The President's forthcoming radio speeches
-Raymond K. Price's, Jr.
-Schedule
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Domestic themes
-Kissinger
-Price
-Foreign policy speech
-Issues
-Environment
-Youth
-Future
-Foreign policy and national defense
-The President’s September 27, 1972 speech in San Francisco
-National security
-Economy
-Reform
-Price's schedule
-[Camp David]
-Ehrlichman's schedule
-Camp David
-Family
-Jeanne (Fisher) Ehrlichman’s schedule
-Campaigning

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 11:46 am and
11:52 am.

[Conversation No. 789-6A]

[See Conversation No. 30-35]
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[End of telephone conversation]

The President's speeches
-Price's schedule
-Camp David
-Work
-Image with staff
-Companion

The President’s schedule]
-Camp David
-Edward C. Nixon
-Birch Lodge
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower's schedule
-Aspen Lodge

Polls

Administration activities
-Media coverage
-Tone
-Daily analysis

Haldeman talked with Price between 11:52 am and 11:54 am.

[Conversation No. 789-6B]

[See Conversation No. 30-36]

[End of telephone conversation]

Price’s schedule
-Staff
-Helicopter
-Edward Nixon
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1972 election
-Radio speeches
-The President’s forthcoming conversation with Price
-Importance
-Supporters, record
-John Foster Dulles

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:54 am.

Colson's schedule

Weather
-Timing of Camp David trip
-Helicopter

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:00 pm.

Haldeman's schedule
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-Ft. Wayne report

The President left at an unknown time after 11:54 am.

The President entered at an unknown time before 12:00 pm.

Ft. Wayne report
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-Record


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-Use
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Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:54 am.

Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon’s schedule

Helicopter

Colson's schedule

Haldeman’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:00 pm.


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Request for follow-up

Haldeman left at 12:00 pm.