348–10

Conversation No. 348-10

Date: July 19, 1972
Time: 2:42 pm - 5:53 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

Telephone call

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:42 pm.

The President's schedule
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Buzzer on telephone

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:27 pm.


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The President's call to Francis A. (“Frank”) Sinatra
-Entertainment for Giulio Andreotti visit
-Scheduling
-John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
-White House
-South Lawn

Entertainment for Andreotti
-White House
-Television

Sinatra
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-Relationship with Kennedy
-Previous trip to White House
-Relationship with Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

Colson's forthcoming call to Agnew
-The President's call to Sinatra
-Purpose
-Congratulations on testimony


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An unknown person talked with the President at an unknown time between 2:42 pm and 3:27
pm.

[Conversation No. 348-10A]

Call to someone
-Buzzer system

[End of telephone conversation]
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Watergate
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-John N. Mitchell
-Judge
-Colson's summons in civil case
-E. Howard Hunt
-View of previous activities
-Possible testimony
-Relationship to William F. Buckley, Jr.
-Brown University
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Daniel Ellsberg
-Criminal case
-Compared to civil case
-Democratic National Committee
-Grand jury
-Magruder
-Ehrlichman
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Politics
-Burglars
-Actions
-Possible sentences
-Gray
-Democrats' portrayal
-Hunt, G[eorge] Gordon Liddy, Magruder
-White House
-Magruder
-Haldeman
-Herbert G. Klein
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-Vietnam Veterans against the War
-Charges
-Pardons
-Timing
-Grounds
-Corruption in administration
-McGovern
-International Brotherhood of Teamsters
-Cubans' motives
-New York Times story
-Tad Szulc
-McGovern
-Money
-As an issue
-The President's forthcoming press conference
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] and big business
-Labor support for the President
-Frank L. Rizzo
-“Mattie” Ryan
-Boston
-Washington Post

News summary
-White House staff work
-Contents
-Indexing
-Lead stories
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC], Columbia Broadcasting
System [CBS], American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC]
-Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin
-Possible role
-Contents
-Distribution
-Washington Post

Watergate
-The President’s request of Colson
-California
-Finance Committee
-Republican National Committee
-Robert J. Dole
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Watergate
-Staff's feelings toward Magruder and Mitchell
-Dole


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Cabinet breakfast meeting

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 3:27 pm and 3:45 pm.

[Conversation No. 348-10C]

Cabinet breakfast meeting
-Timing

[End of telephone call]
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Cabinet meeting
-Arrangements
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Budget

The President's schedule
-Armand Hammer

Stock market
-Hammer
-John B. Connally's comment
-McGovern's capital gains proposal
-Borrowing money with stock as security

The President schedule
-Connally
-Cabinet meeting
-Colson, Haldeman, Clark MacGregor
-Connally
-William E. Timmons

Labor relations
-George P. Shultz, James D. Hodgson
-Harry Bridges
-Teamsters
-The President’s schedule
-Shultz, Hodgson
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Shultz
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-Story
-Conversation with Colson
-Teamsters
-Vote
-Robert Holmes
-James R. (“Jimmy”) Hoffa
-Einar O. Mahon
-Harold J. Gibbons
-Forthcoming conversation with Colson
-Victor Riesel
-Statement on Meany
-Forthcoming conversation with Colson
-The President's golf game
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-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Golf
-Unknown people
-Texas Tech University
-San Francisco 49ers

Colson left at 3:45 pm.

NBC's forthcoming All-Star game coverage
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-American League
-Frank F. Manckiewicz
-National League
-McGovern


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The President's speech to the American Legion
-Length
-US defense issues
-Amnesty
-Political rhetoric
-Use of words “Democrat” and “Republican”
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Agnew
-Haldeman's conversation with Mitchell
-The President's forthcoming conversation with Connally

Watergate
-The White House response
-The President’s talk with Mitchell [?]
-Bart Porter
-Grand jury testimony July 19, 1972
-Effect
-Magruder
-Mitchell
-Magruder
-John W. Dean, III
-Mitchell
-Henry E. Petersen
- White House staff
-Ehrlichman's view
-Democratic National Convention
-Magruder
-The President’s view
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The President's call to Sinatra
-The President's call to Frank L. Rizzo
-View of law enforcement
-Testimony before congressional committee
-Plans for Andreotti visit
-White House
-East Room
-Television
-Timing
-Kennedy Center
-Farewell performance
-News conference
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 4:10 pm..

Weather
-California

Vietnam negotiations
-Kissinger
-Paris
-The President's conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Richard M. Helms, Haig, Kissinger
-Possible briefings for McGovern
-Haig’s talk with Fred Dutton
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1972 campaign
-Meany's statement
-Support for the President or McGovern
-Daniel L. Schorr

News leads
-Kissinger, American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations
[AFL-CIO] endorsement vote, Egyptian expulsion of Soviet advisers

Teamsters
-Washington Post story
-Katharine L. Graham
-Franklin D. Roosevelt's political speech (“Fala Speech”) of September 23, 1944

McGovern
-Newsmen's views
-Policies
-National defense
-Compared to Hubert H. Humphrey

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:10 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:33 pm.

McGovern
-Newsmen's views
-Democratic Party
Treatment by campaign people
-Mankiewicz
-Pierre Salinger
-Mankiewicz and Salinger
-Treatment of press
-John F. Kennedy

The President left at an unknown time after 4:10 pm.

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:10 and 5:33 pm.

[Conversation No. 348-10B]

Baseball
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-David N. Parker

[End of telephone conversation]

All Star game
-David Eisenhower's role
-Mankiewicz

Weather

The President entered at an unknown time before 5:33 pm.

The President's press relations
-1968 campaign
-The President's press relations
-Arguments
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Douglas L. Hallett
-Unavailability, staff hostility, dullness
-Bias toward Humphrey
-Compared with 1972
-Possible anti-Nixon bias by press
-The President's accomplishments in office
-McGovern
-Press conferences
-Possible press conferences
-Confidence
-John A. Scali's memorandum
-Attacks on press
-Monday magazine
-Contacts with the President
-Air Force One
-Wall Street Journal
-Radio
-Social events
-Press conferences
-Possible changes
-Contacts with press by the White House staff
-Ehrlichman, Haldeman, Kissinger
-MacGregor
-Connally
-The President’s schedule
-Interviews
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-Associated Press [AP]
-Wall Street Journal
-Kissinger
-Comparison with Ehrlichman
-John Hart
-Columnists
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr., John Chancellor, David Brinkley, [Arnold] Eric
Sevareid
-ABC
-Harry Reasoner, Howard K. Smith, Thomas E. Jarriel
-Groups
-CBS, NBC, ABC
-Ehrlichman
-Haldeman
-Kissinger
-On the record compared to off the record
-Connally
-Press conferences
-Democrats
-Cronkite
-Kissinger
-Marvin L. and Bernard Kalb, Chalmers Roberts, Murrey Marder, Joseph
C. Kraft
-Joseph W. and Stewart J.O. Alsop, Rowland Evans
-Cronkite, Chancellor, Smith, Reasoner, Brinkley, Dan Rather, Herbert E.
Kaplow, Richard G. Valeriani, Robert B. Semple, Jr., unknown person,
James J. Kilpatrick, Jr., unknown people, Helen A. Thomas, Stewart M.
Hensley, Evans
-Herb Kaplow, Frank Cormier, Richard Valeriani
-Los Angeles Times
-Ehrlichman
-The President's press contacts
-Press conferences
-Oval Office
-AP
-Television
-Cronkite
-Timing
-Republican National Convention
-California
-Social event
-Spontaneity
-Cronkite
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-Eugene V. Risher
-Frank Cormier
-Pace of changes
-Off the record
-Thomas
-Western White House
-Republican National Convention
-Kissinger, Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Klein, Robert H. Finch
-MacGregor
-On the record
-Klein, Finch, Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Issues
-Editorial boards

The President's schedule
-Vietnam issue


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Watergate
-Magruder
-Forthcoming meeting July 19, 1972 with Mitchell and Haldeman
-Cover-up
-Possible indictment
-Effects
-Hugh W. Sloan,Jr.
-Porter
-Testimony July 19, 1972
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-Role at the Committee to Re-elect the President
-Mitchell
-Compared to Magruder and Porter
-Possible subpoena
-Grand jury's interests
-Colson
-Civil suit
-John Ehrlichman
-Hunt's testimony about Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Washington Post
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Petersen
-Opinion about Mitchell
-Mitchell


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Haldeman left at 5:53 pm.
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