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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
Date: September 19, 1972
Time: 11:45 am – 12:12 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman at 11:45 am.
1972 elections
-Theodore H. White
-View
-Working style
-Recent and future meetings with the President
-The President’s People’s Republic of China [PRC] initiative
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 9m 30s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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Grain deal
-Department of Agriculture
-Allegation of conflict of interest
-Clarence D. Palmby [and Clifford G. Pulvermacher]
-Palmby
-Farmer’s view
-Kansas
-Farm prices
-Farm prices
-John D. Ehrlichman, Earl L. Butz
-White House staff
-Ehrlichman
1972 campaign trips
-Federal funding
-Use of airplanes
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-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Clark MacGregor
-Staff and government officials as surrogates
-Ehrlichman’s suggested reply
-George S. McGovern and staff
-Edmund S. Muskie, Hubert H. Humphrey, Edward M. Kennedy
Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:45 am.
The President’s schedule
-Reserve Officers Association
Bull left at an unknown time before 12:12 pm.
Amnesty and Vietnam War
-Charles W. Colson
-McGovern’s possible television [TV] speech
-Ehrlichman
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Speeches
-Campaign advertisement
-Democrats for Nixon
-Quote from the President
-John B. Connally
-Foreign policy speech
-TV
-Health
-Schedule
-Texas
-Haldeman’s recent conversation
-Speech draft
-Effectiveness as campaign issue
-Labor
-News summary item
-Ethnic groups, Democrats, veterans, labor
Watergate
-Stewart T.O. Alsop’s article
-Joseph R. McCarthy
-Washington Post
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 1m 54s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
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Speechwriting
-Instructions regarding colorful language
-International Monetary Fund [IMF] speech
-Draft
-Length
-Compared to the President’s drug conference speech
-Requirement
-Haldeman’s forthcoming conversation with William L. Safire
-Tone
-Camp David
-Safire
-Length
-Possible edit
-Tone
-Length
-Ad libs
-Audience
-Press
-Compared to TV
-Previous speech
-Length
-Safire
Haldeman left at 12:12 pm.