Date: July 20, 1972
Time: 3:16 pm – 5:30 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman. Discontinuities in the conversation appear in
the original recording.
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 5m 52s ]
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Sequoia
-Schedule
-Richard M. Scammon
Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 3:16 pm and 4:02 pm.
The President can be heard in the background.
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[Conversation No. 349-12A]
Sequoia
-Schedule
-Menu
-Schedule
-Charles W. Colson
-Scammon
-Haldeman’s schedule
-Request for a call to an unknown person
[End of telephone conversation]
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 3m 47s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
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Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 3:16 pm and 4:02 pm.
[Conversation No. 349-12B]
The President’s schedule
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-John N. Mitchell
-EOB
[End of telephone conversation]
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 22m 56s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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Watergate
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Possible indictment
-Possible testimony
-G[eorge] Gordon Liddy
-Knowledge
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] interrogation July 20, 1972
-Herbert L. Porter
-FBI interrogation
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Conversation with John W. Dean, III, July 20, 1972
-FBI inquiry
-Duration
-Grand jury
-Duration
-Interpretation by Mitchell and Dean
-Timing of indictments
-Magruder
-Haldeman’s conversation with Mitchell
-Henry E. Petersen and Gray
-Conversation with Dean
-Handling of investigation
-Investigation
-White House activities
-[TAPE MALFUNCTION]
-Grand jury
-Magruder
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-Haldeman’s conversation with Mitchell
-Paul O’Brien and [Kenneth W. Parkinson]
-Mitchell’s strategy compared to John D. Ehrlichman’s strategy
-Richard G. Kleindienst
The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 3:16 pm and
4:02 pm.
[Conversation No. 349-12C]
[See Conversation No. 27-25]
[End of telephone conversation]
Watergate
The President talked with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon between 4:02 pm and 4:04 pm.
[Conversation No. 349-12D]
[See Conversation No. 27-26; one item has been withdrawn]
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 20m 27s ]
[END OF TELEPHONE CONVERSATION]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
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The President talked with the White House operator at 4:28 pm.
[Conversation No. 349-12E]
[See Conversation No. 27-27]
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[End of telephone conversation]
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 59s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
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Haldeman talked with an unknown person.
[Conversation No. 349-12F]
Schedule
-EOB
[End of telephone conversation]
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 10m 27s ]
Colson entered at an unknown time after 4:28 pm.
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
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James and John A. Roosevelt
-Conversation with Rogers C.B. Morton
-Possible ambassadorial role in administration
-Bicentennial
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 9m 12s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
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McGovern
-1962
-Jay Lovestone
-The President’s view
-Handling of Food for Peace program
-George Meany’s meeting with John F. Kennedy and Lovestone in 1962
-Meeting with Meany in 1962
-Cartoon in Daily World
-Meany and Lovestone
-Lovestone
-Trotskyism
-View of McGovern’s supporters
-Elitism
-Destruction of existing social structures
The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger at an unknown time between 4:28 pm and 4:55
pm.
[Conversation No. 349-12G]
Kissinger’s schedule
[End of telephone conversation]
The President’s conversation with Kissinger
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
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[Duration: 9m 54s ]
KISSINGER ENTERED AT 4:55 PM.
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
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Vietnam
-Kissinger’s conversation with McGovern
-The President’s January 25, 1972 Vietnam speech
-George Stevens’s party
-Vietnam negotiations
-McGovern’s role
-Troop withdrawal for prisoners of war [POWs]
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 10
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 11m 21s ]
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The President’s schedule
-Meeting, July 21, 1972
-Agenda
-Cabinet and congressional leaders
-Congress
-Domestic affairs, defense
-Melvin R. Laird
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-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Kissinger’s schedule
-McGovernites
-Senate “Doves”
-Press
-Vietnam negotiations
-Briefing McGovern
-Face the Nation appearance
Newspaper headlines
Vietnam
-Radio Hanoi
-Statement
-Military situation
-Training division
-Joseph C. Kraft’s views
-Kissinger’s meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Message
-Expulsion of Soviet advisors from Egypt
-Dobrynin’s lunch with W[illiam] Averell Harriman
-US diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Effect on US-Soviet relations
-Briefing
-Kraft
-Story
-Report to Embassy officer
-Democratic consultants
-Possible leak
-John A. Scali
Meeting, July 21, 1972
-Kissinger’s possible role
-End the war resolutions
-Effect on negotiations
Kissinger left at 5:25 pm.
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Kissinger
-Kraft
-Conversation with the President, July 19, 1972
-Press relations
-Compared to the President’s
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 12
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[Duration: 1m 39s ]
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The President’s schedule
-Sequoia
-Agenda for meeting
-Republican National Convention
-Scammon
-Arrangements
Ehrlichman
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 13
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 15s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 13
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Haldeman and Colson left at 5:30 pm.
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