746–17

Conversation No. 746-17

Date: July 1, 1972
Time: 12:16 pm - 1:00 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

The President’s schedule
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Haldeman
-Schedule
-California

Julie Nixon Eisenhower entered at 12:16 pm.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Media coverage
-Girl Scouts
-Cincinnati story
-Francis L. Dale
-News summary
-Baseball story

President's schedule
-Dabney Hibbert's wedding
-Date of wedding, Julye 22, 1972

Personnel
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Camp David
-The President’s press conference, June 29, 1972
-Unknown woman
-Work in overall programs
-Age
-David N. Parker
-Article
-Mrs. Nixon’s concern
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-Woman’s earnings
-Public relations
-Sharon Crawford

Public relations
-Mrs. Nixon
-Non-political events
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Examples
-Homemakers of the year, Environment Protection Agency [EPA]
conference, drug prevention
-Article about Parker’s staffer
-Effect
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Mrs. Nixon
-Washington Post
-Vera Hershberg
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s view
-Religious affiliation
-Assignments
-Work
-Ralph Nader

Nader
-Efforts and motives

Speechwriters
-Political orientation
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-Ted Lezar
-Work with Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Work with Julie Nixon Eisenhower

First family scheduling
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Tricia Nixon Cox, Mrs. Nixon
-Frequency of scheduling events
-Summer 1972
-Republican National Convention
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s schedule
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-Parker
-Dallas, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia
-George C. Wallace
-Degree of political involvement
-National compared to local exposure
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower's schedule
-Democratic National Convention
-Vocational education
-Homemakers of America
-Los Angeles
-Mrs. Nixon
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Mrs. Nixon
-Schedule
-Visit to Helene (Colesie) Drown
-August
-Republican National Convention
-Parker
-Mrs. Nixon
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-California
-League of United Latin American Citizens [LULAC]
-Reception
-Tone
-Speech
-Influence
-Dr. Henry M. Ramirez
-Romana A. Banuelos

Possible Spanish support
-Texas
-Republicans
-John G. Tower
-Mexicans
-California
-Radicals
-Cesar Chavez
-Mexican-American Political Association [MAPA]
-Los Angeles
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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[Duration: 8m 25s ]


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Julie Nixon Eisenhower left at 12:43 pm.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Intelligence
-Skill with people

The President's schedule
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-George P. Shultz
-Republican Convention
-John B. Connally's schedule
-Europe
-Jamaica
-California
-Democratic Convention
-William P. Rogers
-Weinberger
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Death penalty
-Clark MacGregor and Frederic V. Malek
-Pat Hutar
-Compared to Patricia R. Hitt
-Peter G. Peterson
-Delegation to Soviet Union
-Alleged conversation with the President
-COLC
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Lon Fuller
-Background
-Poland
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-Age
-Sir Robert Thompson
-Kissinger
-Summary of possible meetings
-Press coverage
-Democrats
-Miami

Ronald W. Reagan
-Call from the President, July 1, 1972
-Reagan's trip to Europe
-Possible motive
-Kissinger’s meeting with Reagan
-Knowledge
-Communism in movie industry
-Human Events
-Speaking ability
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Mrs. Nixon
-John N. Mitchell

Speechmaking
-Connally
-MacGregor
-Compared to Mitchell

MacGregor’s schedule
-Briefing

Mitchell’s resignation
-Letter for the President’s signature

An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 12:43 pm.

Request that MacGregor join them

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 12:53 pm.

Haldeman's conversation with Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Mitchell's resignation
-Agnew's statement on George S. McGovern, June 30, 1972
-Charles W. Colson
-Press coverage
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-Television

An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 12:43 pm.

MacGregor's location
-1701 [Pennsylvania Avenue, Republican National Committee headquarters]

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 12:53 pm.

Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 12:43 pm and
12:53 pm.

[Conversation No. 746-17A]

[See Conversation No. 26-40]

[End of telephone conversation]

Staff

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Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Tricia Nixon Cox
-Speeches
-Editing
-Substance
-Price
-Message
-Andrews

Haldeman talked with MacGregor at an unknown time between 12:43 pm and 12:53 pm.

[Conversation No. 746-17B]

[See Conversation No. 26-41]
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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[Duration: 2m 57s ]


[End of telephone conversation]


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Ziegler entered at 12:53 pm.

News leads
-Social Security bill
-Signing message
-The President’s writing
-Tone
-Mitchell's resignation
-Reporters’ schedule
-California

The President's schedule
-Contact with press
-The President’s letter about Mitchell resignation
-Press pool

The President's statement on Mitchell's resignation
-Lunch with Mitchell, June 30, 1972
-The President’s letter
-Personal decision
-Mitchell's letter

Watergate
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.’s gun and walkie-talkie
-News reports on contents of Hunt's safe
-Map, bugging device
-Hunt
-Ziegler's knowledge
-Richard M. Helms
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News leads
-Mitchell's resignation
-Compared to Social Security bill signing
-Maritime story
-Democrats' troubles
-Mitchell's resignation
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-Helen A. Thomas
-Dan Rather's conversation with Ziegler
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] discussion and decision
-Health
-John Mitchell

Ziegler left and the President talked with the White House operator at 1:00 pm.

[Conversation No. 746-17C]

[See Conversation No. 26-42]

[End of telephone conversation]

Telephone list

The President's July 4, 1972 speech
-Draft
-Press and electronic coverage
-Ziegler

The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 1:00 pm and
1:02 pm.

[Conversation No. 746-17D]

[See Conversation No. 26-43]

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 1:02 pm.

[End of telephone conversation]

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:00 pm.

The President’s schedule
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The President talked with an unknown man [Haldeman?] at an unknown time between 1:00 pm
and 1:02 pm.

[Conversation No. 746-17E]

Unknown person’s Haldeman's [?] conversation with Tricia Nixon Cox

[End of telephone conversation]

The President’s schedule
-Briefing books
-Ziegler

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:02 pm.