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801–5
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Ronald L. Ziegler
  • H. R. Haldeman
  • Stephen B. Bull
  • David C. Hoopes
  • Alexander M. Haig
October 17, 1972
Conversation No. 801-5

Date: October 17, 1972
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)

Time: 9:59 am - 10:21 am
Location: Oval Office


The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

John B. Connally’s forthcoming broadcast
-Herbert G. Klein
-Newspaper editors

H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 9:59 am.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with foreign labor officials
-Press coverage

Ziegler left at 10:00 am.

The President's schedule
-Political meeting

The President’s remarks to the National League of Families of American Prisoners and
Missing in Southeast Asia
-The President’s criticism of opinion leaders

Watergate issue
-Charles W. Colson
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Corruption issue
-Press coverage
-Networks
-Donald H. Segretti's affidavit
-Lawsuit
-White House position
-Segretti’s affidavit

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:00 am.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with foreign labor leaders
-Press
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:08 am.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with foreign labor leaders
-George Meany
-Press coverage

Watergate
-The President's view
-Democratic campaign practices
-Robert J. Dole
-Clark MacGregor
-Connally
-Forthcoming press conference


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[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 2m 1s ]


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Vietnam negotiations
-Henry A. Kissinger’s schedule
-Trip to Saigon
-Possible trip to Hanoi
-Trip to Paris
-Kissinger’s insecurity
-Adolph Hitler
-Napoleon [Bonaparte] I
-Winston S. Churchill
-Movie [Young Winston]
-Gen. Charles A.J.M. DeGaulle

David C. Hoopes entered and left between 10:08 am and 10:09 am.

-Gen. Douglas MacArthur
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)

-Kissinger’s message to Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Status of negotiations
-Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to Saigon
-Announcement
-Haig

Haldeman talked with Haig at an unknown time between 10:09 am and 10:21 am.

[Conversation No. 801-5a]

Announcement of Kissinger’s trip to Saigon
-The President’s forthcoming meeting with Haig
-The President’s forthcoming meeting with foreign labor leaders

The President conferred with Haldeman.

-Emphasis on consultation
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-De-emphasis on progress of negotiations
-William P. Rogers
-The President’s schedule
-Foreign labor leaders

[End of conferral]

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam negotiations
-Kissinger’s possible trip to Hanoi
-Haldeman’s previous meeting with Kissinger
-The President’s note to Kissinger
-Kissinger’s demeanor in possible photographs
-Haig
-Thieu’s reaction to settlement
-1972 election
-Effect on 1972 election
-Haldeman’s view


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)

[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 3m 57s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

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Forthcoming announcement on US – Soviet Union trade agreement

Foreign policy
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-Importance of economics
-Secretary of State

Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:00 am.

The President's forthcoming meeting with foreign leaders

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:21 a.m.

Economics
-Lewis
-Secretary of State

The President and Haldeman left at 10:21 am.
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