Date: August 4, 1972
Time: Unknown after 10:37 am – 1:48 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
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Watergate
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Grand jury appearance
-Contribution
-Philip S. (“Sam”) Hughes
-Dwayne O. Andreas
-Kenneth H. Dahlberg
-Maurice H. Stans
Edward R.F. Cox and Tricia Nixon Cox entered at 10:41 am.
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Kenneth C. Rietz, George K. Gorton, Kenneth M. Smith, Angela M. Harris, Angela L. Miller,
Lea D. Jablonsky And Thomas M. Davis entered at 10:43 am. Stephen B. Bull and the White
House photographer were present at the beginning of the meeting.
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The President’s policies
-Ending of the draft
-Vietnam
-Lottery
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Economy
-Employment
-Effects of phase-down of Vietnam War
-Discharged servicemen
-Former employees of defense contractors
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US foreign policy
-The public’s view of the future
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(rev. Nov-03)
-Louis P. Harris poll
-War in Vietnam
-Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy
-The Administration’s strategy for ending the war
-Need to deter aggression
-US-Soviet Union relations
-Arms race
-US-People’s Republic of China [PRC] relations
-Nascent power of the PRC
-Population
-Nuclear capability
-US relations with communist nations
-The President’s knowledge of communist nations
-PRC and the Soviet Union
-The President’s trips to the PRC and the Soviet Union
-Importance of the Pacific region to the US
-World War II, Korean War, war in Vietnam
-US relations with the PRC
-US relations with Japan
-US relations with the Soviet Union
-Arms control
-Effectiveness of nuclear test ban
-Limit on defensive nuclear weapons
-Limit on offensive nuclear weapons
-Phase II of arms control
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-[George S. McGovern]
-Henry A. Kissinger
-US relations with the PRC
-Pacific region
-California
-Washington
-Oregon
-US relations with the Soviet Union
-Trade
-Exchanges of information
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Space, science, medicine
-Cooperation of scientists
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-Cancer research
-Joint space missions
-Soviet people
-Chinese people
-Women leaders
-[Golda Meir]
-[Indira Gandhi]
-Outlook toward end of century
-US relations with the PRC
-US relations with the Soviet Union
-Arms control
-Limits on defensive weapons
-Need for new limits on offensive weapons
-Situation at the start of the Administration
-War in Vietnam
-US-PRC relations
-US-Soviet Union relations
-Arms race
-Administration efforts to end the war in Vietnam
-Respect for US in the Middle East, Europe, and among allies
-US relations with the PRC and the Soviet Union
-The President’s experience in foreign policy
-US policy toward the PRC
-Arms control
-The President’s relationship with Chinese and Soviet
leaders
-The President’s travels as Vice President and as a private citizen
-The President’s knowledge of world leaders
-Nicolae Ceausescu
-Emilio Garrastazu Medici
-Brazil
-Lt. Gen. T.N.J. Suharto
-Indonesia
-Kakuei Tanaka
-Japan
-Football analogy
-The President’s trip to the PRC
-Significance
-Relationship between North and South Korea
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-Improvement in world affairs
-Exception of relationship between India and Pakistan
-Bangladesh
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-McGovern supporters
-The President’s view of Agnew
-Thomas F. Eagleton
-The President’s response at a previous press conference
-Agnew’s reaction in decision-making process
-Cambodia
-May 8, 1972 decision
-Arms control
-Agnew’s strength and emotional stability
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Responsibilities
-Cabinet and National Security Council [NSC] meetings
-Foreign policy
-McGovern
-Role of Vice President
-The President’s responsibilities during the Eisenhower
Administration
-Lebanon
-Relative strength Of US compared to the Soviet Union
-Kennedy Administration
-Cuban missile crisis
-Relative strength of US compared to the Soviet Union
-May 8, 1972 decision
-Relative strength of US compared to the Soviet Union
-Mutual desire for US-Soviet Union summit
-Agnew’s participation in decision-making
-Relationship with the press
-Relationship with young people
-Strength
-Responsibilities
-Membership on the NSC
-Cabinet meetings
-Agnew’s role
-Strength
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-Need for strength in positions of great responsibility
-Winston S. Churchill
-Eisenhower
-Quotation by Finley Peter Dunne
-“Mr. Dooley’s” view of the vice presidency
-Alben W. Barkley
-Theodore Roosevelt
-McGovern
Gift presentations
-Cufflinks
The President’s schedule
-Political events
-Republican National Convention
Presidential seal
Cufflinks
Furnishings of Oval Office
-Painting of the White House
-Steuben crystal [“Star of the President]
-Walter H. Annenberg
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s crewel work
-1968 campaign
[General conversation]
Rietz, Gorton, Smith, Harris, Miller, Jablonsky and Davis left at 12:04 pm.
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Edward and Tricia Nixon Cox left at 12:14 pm.
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Watergate
-Andreas
-Call to Clark MacGregor
-Money given to Dahlgren [Dahlberg]
-Possible statement
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Support for the President
-Importance
-Ten million dollars
-Reporting law
-Statement content
-Humphrey
-MacGregor
-Impact of statement
-Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman
-General Accounting Office [GAO] investigation
-Political impact of Democratic support
-Indictments
-GAO investigation
-Magruder’s involvement
-John N. Mitchell’s involvement
-Magruder
-Testimony
-Possible inclusion in group meeting with the President
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Andreas statement
-Ehrlichman
-John W. Dean, III
-Content
-Humphrey
-Legal aspects
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-Ehrlichman’s view
-Hughes’s view
-Dahlberg delivery
-Stans
-Hughes
-GAO
-Retirement
The President’s schedule
-Republican National Convention
-Philadelphia
-Wilkes-Barre
-The President’s forthcoming acceptance speech
-Revenue Sharing bill signing ceremony
-Timing
-Publicity
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Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 12:37 pm.
Press conference
-Vietnam
-US bombing dams and dikes in North Vietnam
-Edward M. Kennedy’s statement
-Question to Ziegler
-Reuters
-Ralph Harris
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-Ziegler’s answer
-US policy on bombing
-Extent of bombing
-North Vietnam propaganda
-Edward Kennedy’s staff
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Vice Presidency
-Dunne
-“Mr. Dooley”
-Quotation
-Barkley
-Anecdote
-Possible use by Robert B. Semple, Jr.
-The President’s recent meeting with youth
-Photograph
Press conference
-Watergate
-Contributions
-Question from Robert Pierpoint
-Stans
-Question by Pierpoint
-Hugh Scott
-Nobel Peace Prize possibility for the President
-McGovern
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-Watergate
-Contributions
-Committee to Reelect the President
-Knowledge
-Investigation
-Campaign
-The President’s meetings with groups
-Young people
-MacGregor, Mitchell
-Youth
-Photograph
-Timing for beginning of campaign
-Vice presidency
-Semple
-Barkley
-Dunne quotation
-Other quote
Ziegler’s use of quotations
-Rudyard Kipling quote
-Aldo B. (“Elbow”) Beckman
-The President’s visit to the PRC
Watergate
-Public relations
Press
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Watergate
-Press
-Pierpoint’s questions
-Stans
-Investigation
-Cooperation by the Administration
Vietnam
-Washington Post column
-Editorial
-The President’s previous press conference
-Previous article on the press conference
-Ben H. Bagdikian
-Photograph of North Vietnamese dikes under repair
-Age of photograph
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-Bagdikian
-Haldeman’s view
-Bombing
-Gen. John D. Lavelle
-Popular sentiment
-Edward Kennedy
-May 8, 1972 decision
-Dikes
-Louis P. Harris poll
-Support for mining of harbors
-McGovern supporters
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Ziegler left at 1:01 pm.
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Ehrlichman
Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 1:01 pm and 1:05 pm.
[Conversation No. 761-7A]
Ehrlichman’s schedule
-Oval Office
[End of telephone conversation]
The President left at an unknown time after 1:01 pm.
Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 1:01 pm and 1:05 pm.
[Conversation No. 761-7B]
The President’s schedule
[End of telephone conversation]
The President entered at an unknown time before 1:05 pm.
John W. Gardner
-Democrats
-Press
Public relations
-News summary
-MacGregor
-Presidential commendations
-Need for increase
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-Anniversaries
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
Ehrlichman entered at 1:05 pm.
Hides legislation
-Peter G. Peterson
-George P. Shultz
-Peterson
-Herbert Stein
-Henry C. Cashen, II
-Decision by the Department of Commerce
-Earl L. Butz
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Press release
-Congress
-Shultz’s view
-Withdrawal of legislation
-Thomas C. Korologos
-The President’s forthcoming conversation with Richard K. Cook
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming conversation with members of his staff
The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:05 pm and
1:09 pm.
[Conversation No. 761-7C]
[See Conversation No. 29-16]
[End of telephone conversation]
Ehrlichman talked with an unknown person in his office at an unknown time between 1:05 pm
and 1:09 pm.
[Conversation No. 761-7D]
Korologos’s schedule
The President and Haldeman can be heard in the background.
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White House staff
-Cabinet
[End of telephone conversation]
The President talked with Cook between 1:09 pm and 1:12 pm.
[Conversation No. 761-7E]
[See Conversation No. 29-17; one item has been withdrawn]
[End of telephone conversation]
Hides bill
-Senate
Economy
-Price freeze
-Ehrlichman’s schedule
-Shultz
-Arthur F. Burns
-John B. Connally
-Shultz
-Food prices outlook
-Controls
-Timing
Watergate
-Tax audit on Lawrence F. O’Brien, Jr.
-Shultz
-Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
-Investigation
-Howard R. Hughes
Dahlgren [Dahlberg]
Andreas contribution
-Stans
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-Humphrey
-O’Brien
-Edward Bennett Williams
-Midwest finance chairman
-Stans
-Contribution
-Laws
-Banking methods
-Sam Hughes
-Califano
-Date of gift statement
-Dahlgren [Dahlberg]
-Role
-Date of gift
-Nature of gift
-Issues involved
-Andreas
-Contact with administration
-MacGregor
-Dean
-Knowledge of contribution
-Other contributions
-Ten million dollars
Watergate
-Magruder
-Testimony
-Hugh W. Sloan, Jr.
-Money to G[eorge] Gordon Liddy
-Rationale
-Republican National Convention
-Supervision
-Liddy’s firing
-Sloan
-Immunity
-Testimony
An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time between 1:12 pm and 1:35 pm.
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-US Attorney
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Immunity
-Fifth Amendment
-Previous grand jury appearance
-Campaign Spending Act violations
-Liddy’s role
-Role in Watergate
-Stans’s knowledge
-Campaign Spending Act
-Stans
-Knowledge
-Use of funds
-Liddy
Hides legislation
-Council on International Economic Policy [CIEP]
Watergate
-Stans
-Possible testimony
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Effect on campaign
-Mitchell
-Kleindienst subordinate
-Forthcoming statement
-Effect of Watergate on fund raising
-Grand jury
-Sloan
-Testimony
-Possible indictments
-Burglars, Liddy, E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Pleas
-Trials
Arthur H. Bremer
-Previous attempt to assassinate the President
-Charles W. Colson
-Patricia Colson’s reaction to story
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-Possible public relations impact
-Canada
-Bremer’s diary
-Haldeman’s view
-Journal entries
-Visit to New York massage parlor
-Bremer’s attempt to smuggle gun into Canada
-Accident with gun in Canadian motel
-Assassination attempts in Canada, April 1972
-Demonstrators
-Gas station
-Airport
-Parliament Block
-Demonstrators
-Royal Canadian Mounted Police
-Pierre E. Trudeau
-Instruction to write memorandum
-[Timothy Porteous?]
-Secret Service
-Ottawa
-Possible presence of Bremer in Haldeman’s movies
-Assassination attempts in Washington, DC
-PRC table tennis exhibition, April 18, 1972
-The President’s visit to the Treasury Building
-Assassination of the President compared to assassination of George C.
Wallace
-Burial of first portion of Bremer’s diary
-Possible sale of diary
-[Furman v. Georgia]
-Effect on death penalty
Ehrlichman’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with John J. Rhodes
-Platform committee
-Women’s liberation
-Republican women
Polling results
-View of abortion
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-Women
-Men
Ehrlichman left at 1:35 pm.
Watergate
-Andreas
-Statement
-Midwest finance chairman
-Dahlgren [Dahlberg]
-Gift disclosure date
-Contribution publicity
-Humphrey
-Democrats’ views
The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming signing ceremony [for the Revenue Sharing bill]
-Possible meeting with women’s group
-Possible meeting with group including Magruder
-California
-Possible meeting with unknown public relations official
-Forthcoming trip to Thomas B. McCabe, Jr.’s residence
-Weather
-California
-Connally dinner
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The President and Haldeman left at 1:48 pm.