Date: October 18, 1972
Time: 3:21 pm – 5:46 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Ronald L. Ziegler.
US-Soviet Union relations
-Maritime agreement, trade agreement
-Lend-lease agreement
The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Congressional leaders
-Location
-Blue Room
-Photograph session
-Map Room
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Timing
US-Soviet relations
-Trade agreement
-Maritime agreement
-Lend-lease agreement
-William P. Rogers’s briefing
-Peter G. Peterson
Meeting with Congressional leaders
-Blue Room
Ziegler left at 3:23 pm.
The President’s schedule
-Clark MacGregor’s view
-Michigan
-Kentucky
-Louis B. Nunn
-Rally
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-Ashland
-West Virginia
-Charles W. Colson’s view
-Conversation with Bryce N. Harlow
-Colson-Haldeman position
-Kentucky
-Michigan
-The President’s radio speech
-Cabinet, Cost of Living Council [COLC], Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS] meetings
-JCS meeting
-Vietnam
-Rogers
Vietnam negotiations
-Possible settlement
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Position
This conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 3:47 pm.
[An unknown portion of the conversation was not recorded at this time while the tape was
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