204–1

Conversation No. 204-1

Date: August 17, 1972
Time: Unknown between 6:26 pm and 7:35 pm
Location: Camp David Hard Wire

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

The President's forthcoming acceptance speech
-Summary of materials
-Richard A. Moore [?]
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Letters from relatives of Vietnam War casualties
-Answers to the President’s questions
-The Administration’s accomplishments
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-The President’s view
-Buchanan
-Foreign policy
-Supreme Court
-Haldeman’s conversation with William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-1968 campaign
-Possible duration
-Buchanan’s suggestions
-Issues
-Contrast with George S. McGovern
-Defense
-Amnesty for draft evaders
-Permissiveness
-Welfare
-Foreign policy
-Isolationism
-Taxes
-Spending
-American society
-Harvard University
-Yale University
-Notre Dame University
-Graham’s view
-Tone of speech
-Accomplishments
-Thomas E. Dewey complex
-John B. Connally
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-Mention of McGovern
-Welfare state
-McGovern
-Length of speech

Graham’s visit with Lyndon B. Johnson
-Johnson's endorsement
-Sale of television station
-Johnson's health
-Los Angeles Times
-Gift of house
-National Park Service


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Polls
-Public approval of the President
-George H. Gallup
-Support for the President
-Conservatives and liberals
-Public exposure
-The public’s perception of support for the President
-McGovern
-Media coverage of politics

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Ronald W. Reagan
-Duration
-Possible report
-California
-Effect of Reagan’s support on the President
-Democrats
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-Franklyn C. (“Lyn”) Nofziger
-Timing of meeting

The President's forthcoming acceptance speech
-Buchanan’s view
-Ivy League
-Intellectual elite
-The President’s recent talk with Tricia Nixon Cox
-Format
-Strategy
-Mention of McGovern
-Introduction
-\"New majority\"
-Economics
-Law and order
-Foreign policy
-Defense
-Offer of choice
-Buchanan
-Beliefs of the Administration
-Welfare reform
-$1000-per-person proposal
-Defense
-Gallup
-Debate
-Polls
-Speechwriters
-The President’s view
-Content
-Haldeman’s view
-\"New majority\"
-Offer of choice
-Contrast with McGovern
-Economy, personal safety, world peace
-Format
-Foreign policy
-Peace
-Domestic issues
-Environment, Women, youth, farmers, Indians
-Issues
-Economy
Inflation
-McGovern’s speech
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-The President’s progress in drafting the speech
-Reagan
-Compared to Nelson A. Rockefeller
-The President’s view

Public relations
-McGovern
-Crowds in Racine, Wisconsin
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower's conversation with the President
-Advance work
-Compared to Hubert H. Humphrey
-McGovern’s possible reaction
-Haldeman’s view
-Press reaction
-The President
-Crowds
-Compared to McGovern
-Ohio State University appearance
-Television
-Estimates of size
-Los Angeles
-El Toro

The President's forthcoming acceptance speech
-State of US in 1968
-Buchanan
-Strategy
-Haldeman’s view
-Tone
-Speechwriters
-Price
-William L. Safire
-Buchanan
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-Aram Bakshian
-Knowledge of issues
-Andrews’s draft
-McGovern
-1972 Democratic Party platform
-“New majority”
-Partisanship
-Price
-The President's accomplishments
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar-02)


-Bakshian’s draft
-Vietnam
-Inflation
-Cities
-Environment
-Price’s draft
-Mamie G.D. Eisenhower
-Progress since 1952
-Workers income
-Americans in poverty
-Increase in college education
-End of segregation
-Output of goods and services
-Decrease of work week
-Wages
-Home ownership
-Technology
-Leisure
-Environment
-Aid to poor and elderly
-Unemployment
-Cost of living
-Crime
-Drug abuse
-Tax cuts
-World peace
-Offer of choices
-McGovern
-Increase in welfare rolls
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Thomas Jefferson
-Harry S. Truman
-John F. Kennedy
-US traditions
-Trials of former presidents
-Adlai E. Stevenson, II
-The President’s view
-Recounting of administration achievements
-Public reaction
-Compared with State of the Union address
-Efficacy of speech
-Content
-Major topics
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-Taxes
-Inflation
-Taxes
-Spending
-Economy
-Inflation
-Need for positive tone
-Differences between the candidates
-Reaction of listeners
-The President's beliefs
-Politics
-Recounting of the President’s accomplishments
-Audience
-Context of speech
-Other speakers

Haldeman's forthcoming call to John D. Ehrlichman

The President and Haldeman left at an unknown time before 7:40 pm.