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Conversation No. 795-17

Date: October 10, 1972
Time: 1:37 pm - 2:30 pm
Location: Oval Office
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The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.


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Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 1:37 pm.

Item for Rose Mary Woods

Sanchez left at 1:40 pm.

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 1:40 pm.

The President's schedule
-Blacks
-Hispanics
-Italian-Americans
-Ethnic leaders
-Marriott Key Bridge motel
-The President’s upcoming visit to Atlanta
-Timing
-Radio talk
-Family, staff schedule
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Herbert G. Klein
-Edward C. Nixon
-Donald McI. Kendall
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-LaCrosse, Wisconsin
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Barcelona, Spain
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-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Marriott
-Meetings
-Blacks
-Jews
-Washington, DC government
-Washington Post, Washington Star
-Walter E. Washington
-Public interest
-Crime


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US-Poland Science and Technology agreement
-Signing ceremony
-The President’s recent meeting [with Witold Trampczynski]
-Film presentation
-Casimir Pulaski Day
-Polish government
-Communists
-Polish-Americans
-Government
-William P. Rogers
-White House
-Possible ceremony
-State Department
-Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.
-US-Soviet Union [trade] agreement

The President's schedule
-Senators
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-Debt control
-Public statements
-Breakfast meeting, October 10, 1972
-Radio address on Federal spending, October 7, 1972
-Camp David
-House of Representatives
-William E. Timmons view on passage
-Debt ceiling
-Public understanding
-The President’s recent radio speech
-Spending ceiling
-Nature of events
-James S. Copley
-Publications
-Samuel Newhouse
-William Randolph Hearst
-Roy Howard, Thomas Vail
-Post-1972 election plans
-Post-inaugural plans
-British
-French
-Henry A. Kissinger previous conversation with Haldeman
-Chung Hee Park
-The President’s recent meeting with Quadriand
-December 15, 1972
-Budget
-Inaugural address
-State of the Union address
-Kissinger
-Inaugural address
-State of the Union address
-New Congress
-Speech writer
-Progress
-Parties for contributors
-Possible Senate leaders meeting
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Busing legislation
-Recent breakfast meeting
-Gerald R. Ford
-Cloture vote
-James L. Buckley, Robert P. Griffin, Howard H. Baker, Jr., William E.
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Brock III, Harry F. Byrd, Jr., John G. Tower
-Request
-John Ehrlichman, Timmons, Charles W. Colson
-Recommendations
-Cloture vote
-Cole
-Camp David
-Publishers and editors
-Reception

Letters
-Congressmen and Senators

Possible Senate leaders meeting
-Tower
-Recent breakfast meeting
-Letter on busing
-Ehrlichman
-Timmons
-Tower
-Texas
-Clark MacGregor
-Baker, Brock, Byrd, Griffin, Buckley, Tower
-Busing legislation
-The President’s support
-Busing issue
-Presidential meetings
-March 1972

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:40 pm.

Request for Ronald L. Zeigler

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:00 pm.

Meeting with Senators
-Public statements on busing
-Speeches, press conferences
-Tower

Zeigler entered at 2:00 pm.
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Busing
-Zeigler’s recent press conferences

Butterfield left at 2:02 pm.

-Defense
-Ford
-Recent breakfast meeting
-Cloture vote
-[Cole’s] memorandum for the President
-Moratorium
-Equal opportunities legislation
-Cloture vote
-Ziegler's coordination with Cole
-Meeting with the Senators
-Cole’s memorandum
-Cloture vote
-Result

The President's schedule
-Possible Senate leaders meeting
-Ehrlichman, Edwin L. Morgan
-Photograph session
-Cole
-Reception
-Ehrlichman and Morgan
-Differing views

Melvin R. Laird press conference
-Daniel Z. Hinken’s previous telephone conversation with Ziegler
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Vietnam negotiations
-George S. McGovern television appearance, October 10, 1972
-Administration response to proposal
-Instructions for Laird
-Bombing, mining, prisoners of war [POWs], surrender

Ziegler left at 2:08 pm.

The President's schedule
-Senate leaders meeting
-Duration
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Tape Subject Log
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-Reception
-Baker
-Camp David
-Washington
-Washington, DC
-Public interest
-Narcotics

Speeches
-Radio Address on Crime and Drug Abuse, October 15, 1972
-William L. Safire’s draft [on philosophy of government]
-Radio Address on the American Veteran, October 22, 1972
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.’s draft
-American spirit
-Safire’s draft
-Paternalism compared to freedom
-Work ethic
-Compared to issues of taxes, crime, farming, veterans
-Philosophical theme
-Foreign policy
-Kissinger
-Vision of America
-Press


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Ziegler entered at 2:19 pm.

Senate
-Cloture vote
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Ziegler left at 2:20 pm.

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The President's schedule
-Letters
-Crime speech
-Camp David
-Camp David


The President and Haldeman left at 2:30 pm.