744–20

Conversation No. 744-20

Date: June 30, 1972
Time: 12:17-12:44 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

The President's schedule
-Meeting with candidates

The President's previous press conference
-James D. Hodgson's opinion
-The President's style
-Hodgson's opinion

Charles W. Colson entered at 12:21 pm.

White House relations with the press
-The President's style
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Factual errors
-Press bias
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Ronald W. Reagan
-White House staff
-John D. Ehrlichman, Haldeman, Colson
-1952 campaign
-Antagonism to the President
-Cambodia and Laos
-1962 campaign
-Factual errors
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 744-20 (cont.)

-Need for response
-Ehrlichman
-Press questions
-Anthony Lewis
-Mailing of articles
-Attribution
-James Keogh
-New York Times article
-Organization to send letters
-Media bias
-Financing
-John A. Scali's memorandum

The President's previous press conference
-Questions
-The President’s preparation
-Number of questions
-Topics
-The President's style
-1960 debates
-John F. Kennedy's press conferences
-Colson’s view
-Television pool camera
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]


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New York Times
-Editorial conference with the President
-Spitting incident before 1968 election
-Jewish reporter
-Compared to incident at Jewish temple in 1960
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Tape Subject Log
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-Max Frankel
-Incumbent's advantage
-Date for Vietnam negotiations
-George Sherman of the Washington Star
-George S. McGovern's interview on Associated Press [AP]
-Bombing in Indochina
-Adolf Hitler
-Administration's response
-Frank Borman
-Press coverage on McGovern’s \"begging\" statement
-Kennedy’s comments in Oregon
-Labor vote
-Wire services
-United Press International [UPI]
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-Delegates
-New York Daily News
-Washington Star

Personnel
-Anecdote
-Abraham Lincoln

The President's previous press conference
-Robert Pierpoint's statement

The President, Haldeman, and Colson left at 12:44 pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-02)
Conv. No. 744-20 (cont.)