361–16

Conversation No. 361-16

Date: August 22, 1972
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Time: 10:25 am - 11:35 am
Location: Executive Office Building

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


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Sanchez left at 10:26 am.


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The President talked with Barry M. Goldwater between 10:26 am and 10:27 am.

[Conversation No. 361-16A]

[End of telephone conversation]


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The President’s forthcoming acceptance speech
-Amnesty for draft-dodgers
-Veterans reference
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-The President’s forthcoming speech to the American Legion
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Goldwater
-Haldeman’s view
-Voter behavior
-Jews
-New York, California
-Louis P. Harris poll results
-Amnesty
-The President’s reading of the speech draft
-American Legion
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-Haldeman’s view
-Wording of reference to veterans
-Casualties
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Tone of speech
-Possible press comment
-Haldeman’s view
-Reference to Allies
-Europe
-Asia
-Middle East
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-Latin America


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The President talked with Pamela Powell between 10:41 am and 10:43 am.

[Conversation No. 361-16B]

[End of telephone conversation]


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The President’s forthcoming acceptance speech
-Law and order reference
-Judges
-Polls on domestic issues
-Law and order
-Narcotics
-Busing
-Domestic Council
-Discussion of domestic policies
-Role of media
-Compared with the President’s statements on foreign policy
-Vietnam
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Soviet Union
-Foreign policy
-Negotiations
-Conclusion
-Tone
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-Vietnam
-Defense
-The President’s trip to the PRC
-The President’s trip to the Soviet Union
-The President’s reading of the speech draft
-Continuity with documentary film
-Tanya Savicheva story
-Abraham Lincoln quote
-Conclusion


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Vietnam
-Casualty rate compared to rate in previous administration
-Defense Department view


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The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 10:43 am and 11:09
am.

[Conversation No. 361-16C]

[End of telephone conversation]
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Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Food
-Non-food
-Change from 1971
-July 1972


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The President talked with John J. Rhodes between 11:09 am and 11:10 am.

[Conversation No. 361-6D]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 11:10 am and 11:35
am.

[Conversation No. 361-16E]

[End of telephone conversation]


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General Accounting Office [GAO] report
-Phillip S. Hughes
-Leaks
-Maurice Stans
-Talks with Haldeman, Hughes
-Recording mistake
-McGovern's campaign finances
-Political conventions


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Haldeman left at 11:35 am.