Date: March 8, 1973
Time: Unknown between 2:20 pm and 2:50 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
President’s schedule
-Week’s events
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Rescheduling
-Afternoon meeting
-John D. Ehrlichman
-President’s speech on crime, drugs
-Meetings
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-Singing
-Protocol, Format
-Value to guests
-Publicity for country
-Television [TV]
-Stag dinner
Lee Kuan Yew
-Visit
-Wife
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Stag dinner
-Spouses
-Women
-Anne L. Armstrong, Jewel S. La Fontaine
-Press
-Fay Wells
-Administration supporter
-Invitation
Charles W. Colson
-Return to work
-Location
-Travel
-Meeting with Haldeman’s
Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Capt. Jeremiah A. Denton, Jr. and Col. Robinson Risner
-Talk with Haldeman
-Evening at the White House
-Denton and Risner’s opinion of timing
-Previous visits
-Congress member
-Tour of White House
-Denton and Risner
-Talk with President
-Value to President
-President’s desire for meeting
-Availability
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-Scheduling
-Camp David
-Families
-Son’s graduation
-Separate meetings
-Meeting with unnamed officer and enlisted man
-Denton and Risner
-Separate meetings with President
-Camp David
-Residences
-Oklahoma, Portsmith
-Desire to meet with President
-Scheduling
President’s schedule
-Press conference
-Meetings
-Management Improvement Awards as type of event
-Stans
-Avoidance
Evening at the White House
-Francis A. (“Frank”) Sinatra evening
-Paul W. Keyes
-Consultant role
-Invitations
-Arrangements
-Lucy A. Winchester [?]
President’s schedule
-Meeting with Denton and Risner
-Length
-Press relations
-Denton and Risner
POWs
-Denton and Risner
-Reaction to Evening at the White House
-Wives
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-Invitation
-Children
-Publicity
-Announcement
-Invitations to speak, honors
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Risner
-Schools
-Denton
-Middlesex Club of Boston
-Award to President
-Charles W. Colson
-Meeting with President
-Denton and Risner
-James B. Stockdale
-Leader of POWs
-[First name unknown] Kassler [?]
-Denton and Risner
-Separate meetings
-Value
-Evening at the White House
-Letter’s effectiveness in remarks by President
-Congress
-Support for President [?]
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John B. Connally
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Party switch
-Decision
-Problem of timing
-Arrangements
-George Christian
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-Work with Jeb Stewart Magruder
-Commerce Department
-Watergate hearings
-Impact on Connally
-Timing
-Work with Colson
-Private basis
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Connally
-Visit to Jamaica
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-POWs
-May 8, 1972 decision
-William P. Rogers
-Evening at the White House
-Letter
-Party switch
-Conversations with Haldeman
-Press conference
-Timing
-Place
-Texas
-Washington, DC
-Advantages
-Questions
-Coordination with Christian
-Other Democrats
-Opposition to George S. McGovern
-Strength of sentiment
-Support for President
Jobs
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Leonard H. Marks
-Call from William J. Casey
-Increase in number of State Department labor and business attaches
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Abilities
-Presidential Library
-Johnson
Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library
-Preparation
-Costs
-Congress
-Land in California
-Value
-Possible opposition
-Commission
-Edward F. Hebert
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] clearances
Evening at the White House
-Tony Martin, Cyd Charisse
-Abilities
-State Dinner
-Invitations
-Liza Minelli
Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 2:46 pm.
Hope
-Jokes
Watergate
-Donald H. Segretti
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Questions from press
-Links with White House
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-Ziegler’s answer
-Raw files from FBI
-Release
-American Civil Liberties Union [ACLU] protests
-Ziegler’s response
-FBI files
-Value
-Hearsay
-J. Edgar Hoover
-[First name unknown] Brandon [?]
-ACLU position
-Ervin Committee
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
President’s meeting with Newbold (“Newby”) Noyes, Jr.
-President’s speech
-President’s attendance
President’s schedule
-Meeting with National Press Club
-President’s press conference [?]
-Value
-Publicity
-President’s meeting with Noyes
-Camp David
Ziegler and Haldeman left at 2:50 pm.
the beginning of the meeting.
Greetings
Gift
-Golf club
-Camp David
-Weight, type
The White House photographer left.
Golf celebrity tournament at Woodmont
-President’s game
-Burning Tree Country Club
-A tree
-Melvin R. Laird
Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Evening at the White House
-Hardships
-Discipline
-Example for US
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 2:50 pm.
H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s attendance at meeting
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 3:05 pm.
POWs
-Discipline
-Patriotism
-Vietnam War
-Value
-Heroes
-Appreciation
-Vietnam War veterans and casualties
-Hospitals
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