742–8

Conversation No. 742-8

Date: June 26, 1972
Time: 9:50 am - 10:45 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

Presidential cuff links
-Possible purchase
-Tie tac

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 9:50 am.


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Woods left at 10:00 am.

Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-Call to Helen A. Thomas
-Removal of telephones
-John N. Mitchell
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Bugging
-Haldeman’s view
-Possible trip abroad
-Mexico
-Health
-Thomas
-Possible conversation with the President
-John Mitchell
-Health
-Telephoning

The President's opponents' charges
-Bugging
-ITT
-Harrold G. Carswell
-Gen. John D. Lavelle
-Effect of scandals
-Joseph C. Kraft’s columns
-The President
-Carswell, Lavelle, ITT
-Administration's credibility

Lavelle
-Harry S. Truman and Gen. Douglas MacArthur
-Situation

Carswell
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Watergate break-in
-Kraft's opinion
-John Mitchell's and Nixon's morality

The President's conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
-Kissinger's conversation with Stewart J.O. Alsop
-Katharine L. Graham
-The President’s policy
-The President

Liberal press
-Opposition to the President
-Graham
-Kraft
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Reasons
-Alsop

Opposition to Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Haldeman’s grandfather


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The President's memorandum to Charles W. Colson
-Response to Dwight D. Eisenhower story in Washington Post
-Victor Lasky
-Letters to editor
-Gen. Alfred Gruenther
-Gen. Omar N. Bradley
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-Arthur W. Radford
-John S. D. Eisenhower
-Letter to the Washington Post
-Patrick J. Buchanan

Speechwriting
-Presidential statements
-Restriction of meat imports
-Style
-William L. Safire, Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Buchanan
-The President's rhythm

Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Press coverage
-Event

Harvard University
-Event
-Ralph Nader
-Adolf Hitler

Message from George H. Mahon
-Possible response from the President

Beef prices
-News summaries
-Earl L. Butz
-The President's statement
-Price
-Safire
-George P. Shultz, Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger, Colson, John D.
Ehrlichman, and John C. Whitaker
-Clearance by the President
-John K. Andrews, Jr.

Vera Hirshberg
-The President’s instructions
-Possible reassignment
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
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-Dr. Sidney P. Marland, Jr.

Staff appointments

Watergate break-in
-Ziegler
-Lawrence F. O'Brien, Jr.'s letter to the President
-Special Prosecutor
-Burglars
-Ehrlichman
-John W. Dean III, John Mitchell, Robert C. Mardian
-Pleas
-Investigation's progress


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The President's conversation with [Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Story on baseball greats written by the President
-Teams picked by the President
-Players
-News value
-Radio
-Wire services
-Press release
-Sports Illustrated
-Timing of release
-Associated Press [AP]
-Ziegler
-Sports Illustrated
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-John R. (“Jackie”) Robinson's accomplishments
-Lawrence M. Higby [?]
-Track and field
-Basketball
-Football

Pending legislation
-Debt limit
-Schedule
-Frank F. Church's Social Security amendment
-Clark MacGregor's conversation with Robert C. Byrd
-House of Representatives rules
-Expiration of debt limit
-Weinberger
-Ehrlichman
-Wilbur D. Mills's position
-John W. Byrnes
-1973 budget meeting
-Ehrlichman
-Weinberger, Shultz, Herbert Stein
-Colson, Mitchell, MacGregor, Kenneth R. Cole, Jr., Edwin L. Harper
-MacGregor

The President's schedule
-Filming of announcement
-Location

Rally for George S. McGovern
-Stars
-Telephone calls
-Agents
-Herbert J. (“Jackie”) Gleason
-Contract for Daughters of the American Revolution [DAR] hall
-George D. Aiken

John Mitchell
-Martha Mitchell

Haldeman left at 10:45 am.
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