Date: September 13, 1972
Time: 11:40 am – 1:12 pm
Location: Camp David Hard Wire
The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
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Haldeman talked with the Camp David operator at an unknown time between 11:40 am and 1:04
pm.
[See Conversation No. 210-13A]
Request for a call to Lawrence M. Higby
Haldeman talked with Larry Higby at an unknown time between 11:40 am and 1:04 pm.
Kevin Phillips report
[End of telephone conversation]
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Campaign finances
-George S. McGovern’s funds
-Source analysis
-Murray Chotiner
-Washington Post story
-McDonald’s hamburger franchise
-Contributor
-Violations of law
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-General Accounting Office [GAO]
-Democrats
-Republicans
-Chotiner’s operation
-John D. Ehrlichman’s Internal Revenue
Service [IRS] operation
-Haldeman’s analysis
-David R. Young
Campaign issues
-Foreign policy issue
-John B. Connally
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Trips
-Knowledge
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Idea of presidency
-National defense
-Telephone call from Haldeman to Connally
-Timing
-Statement on foreign policy issue
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Domestic issues
-Appearances by Connally
-Rationale
-McGovern
-Defense policy
-Foreign policy
-Vietnam issue
-Amnesty
-Idea of failure
-Violation of bipartisan tradition
-Foreign policy
-Current campaign promises by McGovern
-Possible implications
-Isolationism
-Connally’s appearances
-Speechwriting
-Buchanan
-Quotes from the NSC
-Statements on foreign policy and national security
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-Timing
-National defense
-Vietnam
-Foreign policy
-Length of speeches
-Type of crowd
-Number of speeches
-Impact on audience
-Commercials
-Subject
-Vietnam
-Coverage of speeches
-Connally
-Effectiveness compared to Agnew
-Type of constituency
-Democrats for the President
-Unity
The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Connally, John N. Mitchell, Clark MacGregor
-Time
-Dinner
-Topic
-Commission on Watergate
-Haldeman’s conversation with Richard G. Kleindienst
-Idea of commission
-Mitchell’s reaction
-Earl Warren
-Tom C. Clark
Watergate
-Review by Clark
-MacGregor
-Connally
-Ideas on Watergate
-Kleindienst’s analysis
-Handling of whitewash charges
-Deposition
-Mitchell
-Herbert Brownell
-Ehrlichman
-Views on Watergate
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-Public relations group
-Actions
-Staff of Domestic Council
-Wording of statements
-Court appearances
-Details
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Samuel I. Rosenman
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-English
-Details
-Policy statements
-Charles W. Colson
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Riots
-Impact on the President’s campaign
-Number of people
-The President’s speeches
-Comparison to 1968
-Secret Service
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The President’s second term
-Ehrlichman and Domestic Council
-Planning for future
-The President’s position
-First one hundred days of next term
-New programs
-The President’s analysis
-Experimentation
-Education system
-Racial problems
-Idea of rebuilding cities
-New York City
-The President’s view
-Demographics
-Effort by administration
-Idea of cycle of survival and destruction
Planning for a new administration
-US foreign policies
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Secretary of State
-Capabilities
-Relationship with establishment
-The President’s view
-Future
-Book
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Personnel
-Need
-Age and intelligence
-Understanding the President’s way of
thinking
-Furnishing writers
-Price
-The President’s trip to the Soviet Union
-Price
-Qualifications
New administration
-State Department
-Defense Department
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-Department of Justice
-Civil rights
-Ivy League lawyers
-Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD]
-Minorities
-Idea of reorganization
-Congress
-Department of the Interior
-Department of Agriculture
-Approaching Congress by administration
-Appointments
-Number of jobs
-Loyalty to the President
-Domestic Council
-Replacement of individuals
-Idea of establishment
-Ehrlichman’s deputies
-Egil G. (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Edward L. Morgan
-John C. Whittaker
-Edwin L.Harper
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-White House staff
-Support of the President
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-Hiring Democrats
-Nixon Democrats
-Hubert H. Humphrey Democrats
-McGovern Democrats
-Previous idea of striving for unity
-Power compared with unity
-Hiring labor people, hard hats, Italians
-Loyalty to the President
-Blacks
-District of Columbia [Washington, DC]
-Administration of District of Columbia
-Ehrlichman
-Gilbert Hahn and wife
Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:40 am.
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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:12 pm.
New administration
-Administration of District of Columbia
-Mrs. Hahn
-Visit to Georgetown
-John F. Kennedy administration policy
-Period of social turmoil
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
-Daniel Patrick Moynihan
-Urban Council
-Community action
-Gerald R. Ford
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-Grand Rapids, Michigan
-Quality of programs
-Alice Marriott
-Advisory Committee for Kennedy Center
-Reputation
-Question as to action of members at 1972
election
-Resignations
-Meeting between Marriott and administration
-New appointments
-Sammy Davis, Jr.
-Possible reactions to reorganization
-Foreign Service
-Appointment of ambassadors
-Loyalty
-Washington Post
-Colson’s trip to New York
-Press
-Herbert G. Klein’s office
-Discussion of Klein’s performance and past relationship with press
-Colson’s office
Press relations with administration
-Administration’s relationship with press
-Future behavior
-Conversation between Haldeman and Ronald L. Ziegler
-Idea of press friends of the administration
-New York Times
-The Washington Post
-Chicago Tribune
-Access to the President
-Pool reporting
-Idea of reward
-Priorities
-Press friends and enemies
-Press pool
-The President’s view
-John F. Osborne
-Washington Post, New York Times
-Access to the President
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston and Walter Lippman
-Attendance at the White House
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-Arthur Krock
-The President’s instructions
-Invitations to press members to White House and question of access
-Katharine L. (“Kay”) Graham
-Enemies
-East Wing of the White House
-Press corps
-Ziegler’s abilities
-Support by the President
New administration
-Ehrlichman
-Phillips’s analysis of national attitudes
-Revolutionary new programs
-The President’s view
-Connally
-Analysis of status quo
-Ideas about “Great Society” programs
-Sociologists
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Haldeman left at 1:12 pm.