Date: November 17, 1972

Time: 1:07 pm – 1:15 pm

Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Bryce N. Harlow.

[See Conversation No. 226-13]

Greetings

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1972 election

-Final figures

-Absentees

-Percentages

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-The President’s conversation with John B. Connally

-Absentees

-Secretaries of State

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Second term reorganization

-Melvin R. Laird

-Forthcoming meeting with the President

-Plans

-Departure

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Second term reorganization

-Political activities

-White House

-Transfer to Republican National Committee [RNC]

-Public relations

RNC

-[Frederick James] Marquis Woolton

-Laird

-Tenure at Defense Department

-Politics

-1972 campaign

-RNC Chairman

-Salary

-Rebuilding Republican Party

-Senate and House of Representatives campaign committees

-Reorganization

-William E. Brock, III

-Jack. F. Kemp

-Wealth

-Job offer incentives

-Harry S. Dent’s departure

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-Access to the President

-1974 election

-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

-Connally

-Responsibilities

-Acceptance

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Second term reorganization

-Dwight D. Eisenhower administration

-Second terms

-Mistakes

-Changes in staff

-Sherman Adams

-Harlow’s suggestions in 1955

-White House staff

-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

-John D. Ehrlichman

-Henry A. Kissinger

-Changes

-Robert H. Finch

-Herbert G. Klein

-Donald H. Rumsfeld

-Senate race

-Charles W. Colson

-Timing

-Outside work

-Legal

-Foundation

-Polling

-Necessity

-Congressional relations

-William E. Timmons

-Defeated members of Congress

-Gordon L. Allott and Jack R. Miller

-Miller’s recent conversation with Harlow

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