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Conversation No. 813-20

Date: November 8, 1972
Time: 10:16 - 10:53 a.m.
Location: Oval Office

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

Haldeman’s schedule
-Packing
-Family

The President’s schedule


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The President’s schedule
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Conversation No. 813-20 (cont’d)

-Trip to Florida

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The President’s schedule
-Trip to Florida
-Time
-Rose Mary Woods
-Length
-White House staff meeting
-Agenda
-The President’s remarks
-Resignations
-Appreciation
-Second term reorganization
-Haldeman’s role
-Timing
-Timing
-Cabinet meeting
-Duration
-Cabinet meeting
-Haldeman’s presence
-Resignations
-William P. Rogers
-Haldeman's briefing
-Haldeman’s presence
-Rogers’s view
-The President’s presence
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Alexander P. Butterfield
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Conversation No. 813-20 (cont’d)

-White House staff meeting
-Agenda
-The President’s remarks
-Future plans of individuals
-Haldeman’s role
-Interim period
-Changes
-Appreciation
-First term
-Second term reorganization
-Senior staff
-Messages for their staffs
-Resignations
-Haldeman’s role
-Cabinet meeting
-Agenda
-The President’s remarks
-Rogers
-Appreciation
-1972 campaign
-Future plans of individuals
-Second term reorganization
-Future plans of individuals
-The President’s forthcoming meetings
-Timing
-John A. Volpe
-Resignations
-Forms
-Requests

-Second term reorganization
-Retentions
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Public relations [PR]
-Under secretaryship
-Terms for second term
-Peter G. Peterson
-Volpe
-George W. Romney
-James D. Hodgson
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Conversation No. 813-20 (cont’d)

-Replacement
-Labor representative
-Peterson
-Rogers and Melvin R. Laird
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Justice Department
-Robert T. Mardian
-Executive branch centralization
-Relations with Congress


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1972 election
-Press stories
-Congressional races
-Complaints about the President’s assistance
-The President’s conversation with Harry S. Dent
-Telephone calls
-Validity
-Herbert G. Klein
-Calls about the President’s assistance
-Television spots
-Radio spots
-Telephone calls
-Photographs
-Letters of endorsement
-Financing
-Republican Party
-Problems
-Voter turnout
-Support for the President
-Nancy Dickerson
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
-Returns
-Percentages
-California
-Margin of victory
-United Press International [UPI] figures
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Conversation No. 813-20 (cont’d)

-John G. Schmitz
-Comparison with 1964
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Voter turnout
-UPI report
-Precinct reporting
-Alaska
-Voter turnout
-Influence of polls
-Record number of states carried
-Plurality
-Comparison with 1964
-Johnson
-Franklin D. Roosevelt and Alfred M. (“Alf”) Landon
-Figures
-California

Haldeman talked with an unknown man at an unknown time between 10:16 am and 10:31 am.

[Conversations No. 813-20A]

1972 election
-Plurality
-Number of votes
-Latest figures

[End of conversation]

1972 election
-Projections
-New York Times
-The President’s landslide
-Congressional races
-Republican Party results
-Media coverage
-Candidates
-Problems
-Dent
-Delaware
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-Colorado
-Jack R. Miller
-Loss
-Montana
-The President’s support
-Michael J. Mansfield
-[Henry Hibbard]
-Defeat
-Margin
-J. Caleb Boggs
-Margin of defeat
-Delaware
-The President’s race
-Margin
-Support of the President
-Miller
-Gordon L. Allott
-Relations with the President
-Budget
-Margaret Chase Smith
-Support of the President
-Primary
-Louie B. Nunn
-Margin of defeat
-The President’s trips
-Oklahoma
-North Carolina
-New Mexico
-Benefits
-Illinois
-Richard B. Ogilvie
-Loss
-Comparison with the President
-Daniel Walker
-Comparison with George S. McGovern
-Charles H. Percy
-Number of votes
-Comparison with the President

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Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 10:31 am.

Ziegler’s forthcoming press conference
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s trip to Saigon, November 8, 1972
-Announcement
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Cabinet meeting
-Agenda
-The President’s remarks
-Appreciation
-1972 campaign
-Press and media coverage
-Second term reorganization
-Duration
-Photograph opportunity
-The President’s schedule
-Tone
-Staff meetings
-Cabinet meeting
-PR
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Ziegler statement
-Resignations
-Ziegler’s possible attendance
-Ehrlichman
-Agenda
-Second term reorganization
-Review and planning
-Series of discussions on plans
-Resignations
-The President’s interview with Garnett D. (“Jack”) Horner
-Ziegler statement
-Timing
-Resignations
-Rogers
-Resignations
-Staff, Presidential, Schedule C, ambassadorial appointees
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Conversation No. 813-20 (cont’d)

-Tradition
-Agency heads, Cabinet officers
-Second term reorganization
-Resignations
-Discussions
-Timing
-The President's schedule
-Florida trip
-Ehrlichman
-Kissinger
-Haldeman
-Review of White House staff
-Review of departments in government
-Horner article
-White House staff
-Watergate
-Review
-Reform of structure
-Horner article

Rose Mary Woods entered at 10:39 am.


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1972 election
-The President’s visit to Shoreham Hotel
-The President’s telephone calls
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Frank L. Rizzo
-John B. Connally
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-Pennsylvania

The President’s schedule
-The President’s departure for Florida
-Time

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-Florida trip
-Time
-Manolo Sanchez’s departure
-Time
-Dogs

Woods left at 10:02 am.

The President’s schedule
-Christmas vacation
-Woods

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Ziegler's forthcoming press conference
-Cabinet meeting
-Resignations
-Custom
-Changes
-The President’s forthcoming meetings
-Announcements
-Decisions
-Haig trip to Saigon
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1972 campaign
-Congressional races
-Questions
-The President’s influence
-Ticket splitting
-Post-World War II period
-Republican Party
-Minority status
-Presidential “coattails”
-The President’s support for Republican candidates
-Telephone calls
-Endorsements
-Air Force One
-Publicity
-Ziegler’s Press Releases

1972 election
-1964 election
-Number of votes for Johnson
-Comparison with the President
-Goldwater
-George S. McGovern
-Number of voters
-Margin of victory
-Comparison with the President
-Absentee voters
-Percentages
-Third party vote
-Increase since 1964
-Dr. Benjamin Spock
-Schmitz
-Electoral votes
-Goldwater
-Electoral votes
-Popular vote
-Margin for the President
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-Margin for Johnson
-Recent figures
-California
-Latest figures

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The President’s schedule
-White House staff meeting
-Agenda
-The President’s remarks
-Appreciation
-1972 campaign
-First term

Ziegler left at 10:49 am.

-Second term reorganization
-Changes
-Appreciation
-Interim period
-The President’s forthcoming meetings
-Senior staff
-Messages for their staffs
-Second term reorganization
-Interests
-Changes
-Interests

Second term reorganization
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Herbert G. Klein
-Haldeman’s conversation with Robert H. Finch
-Departure
-James S. Copley
-Ambassadorship
-Flanigan
-White House staff
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Conversation No. 813-20 (cont’d)

-Confirmation
-Confirmation
-Past difficulties
-Walter J. Hickel, G. Harrold Carswell, Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr.
-Flanigan
-Meeting with the President
-Timing

The President’s schedule
-Cabinet meeting
-Agenda
-The President’s remarks
-Appreciation
-The President’s forthcoming meetings
-Timing
-Resignations
-Rogers’s, Haldeman’s roles
-Form
-Recovery of papers
-The President’s remarks
-White House staff meeting

Haldeman and the President left at 10:53 am.