739–4

Conversation No. 739-4

Date: June 21, 1972
Time: 9:30 - 10:38 am
Location: Oval Office
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The President met with H. R. Haldeman.

The President's schedule
-Arthur F. Burns
-John B. Connally, George P. Shultz
-Schedule

Economic indicators
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Food prices
-Price Commission meeting
-Donald H. Rumsfeld

Debt ceiling bill
-Frank F. Church
-Social Security
-Russell B. Long
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Timing of vote in Senate
-William P. Rogers, Clark MacGregor
-Robert W. Packwood, Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Timing of vote

Watergate break-in
-Staff meeting
-Haldeman's conversation with John N. Mitchell
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-John D. Ehrlichman
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-G. Gordon Liddy
-Role in Committee to Reelect the President [CRP]
-Mitchell's knowledge
-Charles W. Colson
-White House consultant
-John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson
-Colson's involvement
-Other involvement
-Need for strategy
-Ehrlichman
-Civil suit
-Depositions
-Liddy
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-Summary judgement
-White House involvement
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Colson
-Bay of Pigs
-Colson's projects
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Dita D. Beard
-Disappearance
-White House strategy
-Ehrlichman
-Admission of guilt
-Implications by press
-Dan Rather
-Republicans
-George S. McGovern
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-White House staff reaction
-Colson's conversation with the President
-Jack N. Anderson's commentary
-Charles G. (\"Bebe\") Rebozo
-Republican convention arrangements
-Miami, Florida
-Cubans
-Hunt
-James W. McCord, Jr.
-Hiring
-Hunt
-Cubans
-Plans to bug McGovern headquarters
-Doral Hotel
-Republican National Committee
-Colson
-Washington Post story
-Hunt, Colson
-Five burglars
-Lawyer
-Liddy
-Colson
-Defense by administration
-Activities
-As an issue
-Nationally
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-Washington
-Liddy
-White House strategy
-Tom C. Huston
-Nathan Hale
-Admission of guilt
-White House reaction
-Burglary
-Sentencing
-Mitchell
-Involvement
-Ehrlichman
-Liddy
-Hunt
-Disappearance
-Cubans
-FBI
-Names in notebooks
-Policemen and FBI agents
-Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
-Lawsuit
-Edward Bennett Williams
-Depositions
-Ehrlichman
-Gray
-Colson
-Hunt
-Depositions
-Liddy
-Mitchell
-Democrats' reaction
-Ehrlichman's strategy for White House

The President's schedule
-Press meeting
-McGovern
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Watergate break-in
-Economic Quadriad meeting
-Shultz
-Nelson A. Rockefeller, James L. Buckley, Jacob K. Javits, John A. Volpe
-Rapid Transit grant to New York City
-Mitchell
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Watergate
-Colson
-Democrats
-Operations against the President
-Reaction
-Colson, Hunt

The President's schedule
-Press meeting
-The President’s view
-Primary results
-McGovern
-Bella S. Abzug
-Emanuel Celler
-Allard K. Lowenstein
-Reasons for defeat in primary
-Republicans
-John J. Rhodes
-Press
-Charles W. Colson
-Abzug
-Impeachment efforts

Common Cause
-Suit
-Impeachment efforts
-Campaign efforts
Colson

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 9:30 am.

Request to meet with Colson

The unknown person left at a unknown time before 10:12 am.

The President's schedule
-Economic meeting
-Quadriad
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Caspar W. Weinberger
-Shultz
-Ehrlichman
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-Peter M. Flanigan
-Rumsfeld
-National economy
-Herbert Stein
-Unemployment
-Food prices
-Employment
-Haldeman’s view


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Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 10:12 am.

Charles Colson entered at 10:13 am.

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Butterfield left at unknown time after 10:13 am.

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:13 and
10:22 am.

[Conversation No. 739-4A]

[See Conversation No. 25-98]

[End of telephone conversation]

John J. Rooney

Rockefeller

Lowenstein
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Watergate break-in
-Washington Post story
-Anderson's commentary
-Rebozo
-Libel
-Jim Shertz (sp?)
-White House strategy
-Democrats
-Hunt
-Civil suit
-Mitchell
-Lawyer for burglars
-Mitchell
-Williams
-Ehrlichman
-Liddy
-Shertz (sp?)
-Hunt's activities
-Media coverage
-Washington Post
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]

The President talked with the White House operator at 10:22 am.

[Conversation No. 739-4B]

[See Conversation No. 25-99]

[End of telephone conversation]


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Watergate break-in
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-White House involvement
-Ziegler
-Credibility
-Ehrlichman
-Vietnam
-Civil rights
-As an issue
-National reaction
-ITT
-Repression, bugging
-Espionage
-Industrial, international, political
-White House involvement


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Watergate break-in
-White House strategy
-Haldeman
-Liddy
-ITT
-Ehrlichman
-Haldeman
-Colson's involvement
-As an issue
-Grand Jury
-Hunt
-Democrats
-Convention
-The President's role
-Robert J. Dole
-Lawrence F. O'Brien, Jr.
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-Colson
-Television coverage
-Civil suit
-Hunt
-Career
-Role
-Conversation with Colson
-Bay of Pigs
-Novels

Colson left at an unknown time after 10:22 am.

The President's schedule
-Quadriad
-Schultz
-Burns
-Reports on trips
-Burns
-Connally
-Flanigan
-Burns
-Cabinet meetings

Haldeman left at 10:38 am.