810–17

Conversation No. 810-17

Date: October 31, l972
Time: 3:25 pm - 4:08 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

1973 Appropriations Act
-92nd Congress


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Nelson A. Rockefeller's National Press Club speech
-Reaction
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Vietnam negotiations

Vietnam negotiations
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Tape Subject Log
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-US public opinion
-Polls
-Peace
-Peace advocates
-Opposition to the President
-Marijuana
-Abortion
-Welfare
-Amnesty for draft evaders
-Permissive judges
-Government size

The President's schedule
-Speeches
-Chicago
-Length of speech
-Richard B. Olgive
-Charles H. Percy
-Congressmen
-Importance of Illinois
-Recent train accident in Chicago
-Peace settlement

Public relations
-Poll
-Timing
-Questions
-Laos, Cambodia
-Vietnam negotiations
-Louis P. Harris
-Opinion Research Corporation [ORC]
-Timing
-Verification of previous results
-Reaction to peace talks
-The President’s forthcoming statements
-Reaction to corruption issue
-Possible shift in polls
-Verification
-Reasons
-George S. McGovern
-Supporters
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-Commercials
-Youth
-Manual workers
-Youth
-Peace issue
-Professors
-Desire for conflict
-Big business and the rich


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Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 3:40 p.m.


Announcements
-The President’s schedule
-Chicago
-O’Hare International Airport
-Oklahoma
-Providence, Rhode Island
-Details
-Chicago
-Possible motorcade
-Train accident
-Adjustment of schedule
-Zeigler’s morning briefing
-Vietnam
-Wire services
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-Administration stance
-Nature of peace settlement
-Previous peace agreements
-1968
-Justification for the President’s schedule
-Oklahoma, Rhode Island
-Congressional elections
-North Carolina, New Mexico, Oklahoma
-Rhode Island
-New Mexico
-Details of trip

Ziegler left at 3:44 pm.

Ziegler
-The President’s view

Polls
-Value of additional polls
-Corruption issue
-Lawsuit
-Vietnam
-Possible shifts in polls
-Reasons
-New charges of corruption
-McGovern
-Washington Post
-Lack of new information


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Public relations
-Backgrounders
-Honesty
-Robert H. Finch
-Objectivity
-Compared to advocacy


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Haldeman left at 4:08 pm.