Date: October 31, l972

Time: 3:25 pm – 4:08 pm

Location: Oval Office

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

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Nelson A. Rockefeller’s National Press Club speech

-Reaction

-Henry A. Kissinger

-Vietnam negotiations

Vietnam negotiations

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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.