104–11

Conversation No. 104-11

Date: July 25, 1972
Time: 3:39 pm - 5:13 pm
Location: Cabinet Room

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, Charles W. Colson, W. Richard Howard,
Henry C. Cashen, II, Michael P. Balzano, Jr., Donald F. Rodgers, William F. Rhatican, Noel C.
Koch, Desmond J. Barker, Jr., Kathleen W. Balsdon, Patrick E. O’Donnell, S. Steven Karalekas,
Douglas L. Hallett, Howard A. Cohen, Llewelyn J. (“Bud”) Evans, Jr., John G. Carlson, and
Melville Stephens


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[Duration: 7m 37s ]


Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:39 pm

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:13 pm


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Colson’s staff
-O’Donnell
-Surrogate speakers
-Speakers bureau
-Work with Dean Burch at Federal Communications Commission [FCC]
-Equal time memos
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
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[Duration: 17m 40s ]


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Cabinet
-Role
-Secretaries of State and Defense
-Defense of government’s policies
-Criticism
-1948 and 1952 campaigns
-Partisan roles
-Defense of administration’s policies
-William P. Rogers
-[Name unintelligible]
-Role
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Role
-Police and fireman’s groups
-American Bar Association
-Audiences
-Speeches
-The President’s policies
-Courts
-Permissiveness issue
-Issues
-Judicial appointments
-Conservatism
-Warren E. Burger
-Harry A. Blackmun
-Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
-William H. Rehnquist
-The President’s approach to Constitution
-Strength of issue
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[Duration: 18m 35s ]


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Personnel
-Advancement
-State Department bureaucrats
-Defense officials
-General George S. Patton, Jr.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower’s opinion
-Drew Pearson


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[Duration: 34m 29s ]


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Inflation
-Popular attitudes
-Food prices
-Farmers
-Earl L. Butz
-Butz
-Ervin bill
-Abuse of issue
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 2m 30s ]


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Gifts for Colson’s staff
-Cost
-Lyndon B. Johnson’s gifts

[General conversation/Unintelligible]

The President, et al. left at 5:13 pm