760–9

Conversation No. 760-9

Date: August 3, 1972
Time: 9:12 am - 10:41 am
Location: Oval Office

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


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The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Herbert G. Klein and his staff
-Klein’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Elaine (Schwartzenburg) Edwards
-Photograph session
-Forthcoming trip to Thomas B. McCabe, Jr.’s residence
-John N. Mitchell
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Robert H. Abplanalp
-Robert H. Finch
-Speech
-Forthcoming meeting on the Sequoia
-Finch
-Klein
-Clark MacGregor
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Bryce N. Harlow
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-John D. Ehrlichman
-Charles W. Colson
-Klein
-Frederic V. Malek
-California

Rose Mary Woods entered at 9:22 am.


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Woods left at 9:24 am.

Woods
-Ability to complete certain tasks
-Stephen B. Bull


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Ehrlichman entered at 9:44 am.

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Ollie Matson
-Matson’s forthcoming induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame
-The President’s meeting with Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Klein
-Ziegler
-Colson

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 9:44 am.

[Forthcoming meeting on the Sequoia]
-MacGregor
-Ziegler

The Administration’s policies
-George A. Smathers
-Ford Motor Company
-Henry E. Ford,II

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:00 am.

-Ford
-Smathers
-Support for the Administration
-Clark M. Clifford
-Passage of the Edward W. Brooke amendment
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew’s previous conversation with the
President
-The President's previous conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
-Vietnam negotiations
-Publicity of progress
-Possible effect on Brooke amendment vote
-Possible effect on negotiations
-Leonard Garment
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-James L. [?] Buckley
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-Kissinger’s conversations with Senators
-Charles H. Percy
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
-Kissinger’s previous assistance to Senators
-Agnew’s previous conversation with Kissinger
-Investigative agencies
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Department of Justice
-Investigations of the President after his terms as Vice
President
-Investigation of income tax returns
-Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC]
-News stories about investigations


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Watergate
-Washington Post article
-Headline

Government investigations
-Democrats
-Investigations of financial contributions
-George S. McGovern
-Democratic National Committee
-IRS
-Justice Department
-Anti-trust
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Tape Subject Log
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-Use of administration power
-Lawrence F. O'Brien, Jr.
-Strategy
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Previous investigations of the President
-1952
-Harry S. Truman
-1962
-1960
-The President’s previous meeting with Nikita S. Khrushchev
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Bureaucracy
-Tom C. Huston
-IRS
-Head [Johnnie M. Walters?]
-David M. Kennedy
-John B. Connally
-George P. Shultz
-Shultz
-The President’s view
-Connally
-Haldeman’s view
-Connally’s possible possession of IRS files
-Democrats
-McGovern
-O’Brien
-IRS
-Justice Department
-Defense Department
-Ehrlichman’s request
-McGovern's service record
-Carl S. Wallace
-Melvin R. Laird
-David R. Young, Jr.
-Daniel Ellsberg
-Cooperation
-Laird
-Shultz
-Richard G. Kleindienst
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-Shultz

Personnel in government
-Abe Fortas
-Johnson
-Staffing of government positions
-IRS
-Justice Department
-Treasury Department
-Johnson
-Malek
-Need for list of administration appointees
-Phillip S. (“Sam”) Hughes
-General Accounting Office [GAO]
-Bureau of the Budget
-Retirement
-Elmer B. Staats
-Harlow
-IRS
-Possible appointment in education position
-James S. Coleman
-The education establishment
-The President’s view
-National Education Association [NEA]
-Coleman
-University of California, Los Angeles [UCLA]
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Coleman
-Need for loyalty
-Unknown man from Colorado
-Civil rights

Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:44 am.

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Matson
-Photograph session

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:00 am.
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Personnel in government
-Personnel in education
-Coleman
-David J. Armor
-Harvard University
-UCLA
-Busing
-IRS
-Roger Barth
-Shultz

Ollie Matson, Mrs. Ollie Matson, Barbara Matson, Bruce Matson, Mamie S. Greene, and Henry
C. Cashen, II entered at 10:00 am. Members of the press and the White House photographer
were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Football
-California
-Washington Redskins

Introductions
-Bruce Matson
-Mrs. Ollie Matson
-Barbara Matson
-Greene

The President's previous visit to Pro Football Hall of Fame

Photograph
-Ollie Matson
-Playing weight

Football
-1969 Pro Bowl football
-[Photograph session]
-Defensive end
-Gino Marchetti
-Gene Brito
-Washington Redskins
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-Loyola University
-Ollie Matson
-University of San Francisco
-The President’s view
-Ollie Matson’s view

Ollie Matson’s residence
-Los Angeles
-San Francisco

Presentation of gifts by the President
-Cufflinks
-Presidential seal
-Pin
-Bracelet
-Tie bar
-Presidential seal
-Rug
-Ceiling

Tour of the White House

The President's reminiscence
-Los Angeles
-High schools
-Los Angeles, Manual Arts, Polytechnic, John C. Fremont
-The President’s football career

Ollie Matson
-Possible anti-narcotics efforts

Mrs. Matson
-San Francisco
-Matsons’ children
-Additional gifts

Ollie Matson et al., except for Haldeman and Ehrlichman, left at 10:09 am.

The President’s meeting with Ollie Matson
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-Press coverage
-The President’s schedule
-Additional meetings
-Sports coverage
-Black press

Ollie Matson
-The President’s view

Media coverage
-Black press
-Stanley S. Scott’s efforts
-Coverage of the President
-The President’s trip to Africa in 1960

Democrats
-McGovern
-Use of federal agencies
-Publicity

The President left at an unknown time after 10:09 am.

-Strategy
-O'Brien-Howard R. Hughes relationship
-Victor Riesel
-Jack N. Anderson
-Robert D. Novak
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-Bureaucracy
-Press
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Taxes

The President entered at an unknown time before 10:40 am.

-McGovern
-Image
-Price
-Thomas F. Eagleton
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Tape Subject Log
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-Strategy
-Jack Dempsey
-Louis Firpo
-O'Brien

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Investigations
-Staff efforts

Use of federal agencies
-Ziegler
-McGovern
-Investigation
-IRS
-Colson
-Shultz
-Strategy
-Press
-Possible external tip to Shultz
-O'Brien
-IRS report
-The President
-F. Donald Nixon
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Hughes Tool Company
-Payments
-Joseph N. Napolitan
-Income
-Status of O’Brien’s corporation
-Napolitan
-Hughes Tool payments
-Timing
-Payments to O’Brien and Napolitan compared to payments
to Donald Nixon
-Humphrey
-Strategy
-Dwayne O. Andreas
-[First name unknown] Cellucci [sp?]
-Henry L. Kimelman
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-Interior Department report
-Jews
-Mafia
-IRS
-Justice Department
-McGovern organization
-Incorporation
-John W. Dean, III
-Cabinet
-Reaction to Watergate
-Investigations
-Strategy
-1970
-William O. Douglas

Supreme Court
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming conversation with Warren E. Burger
-Ellsberg case
-Timing
-Effect on 1972 election
-Johnson
-Foreign policy
-Vietnam negotiations
-Douglas
-Strategy
-J. Edgar Hoover

Investigations
-Carl L. Shipley
-J. William Middendorf, II
-Colson
-Advertisements
-Oceanographic Fund case
-Edward C. Nixon
-SEC investigation
-William J. Casey
-Anti-trust
-Administration action
-Lawyers
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The President’s meeting with Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Colson

Governmental operations
-Spending ceiling
-Laird’s statements to the press
-Haldeman’s view
-McGovern
-Kissinger’s efforts with Laird
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Ziegler
-Press and Congress
-Effect on defense spending
-Ehrlichman’s previous Today show appearance
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Previous consultation with Laird
-Previous Cabinet meeting

Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:09 am.

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with John S.D. Eisenhower
-John Eisenhower’s birthday
-Money clip
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Bull left at an unknown time before 10:40 am.

Cabinet
-Laird
-List of possible successors
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Press reaction
-Connally
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Spending ceiling
-Possible statement
-Kissinger
-Weinberger
-William P. Rogers
-The President’s view
-Compared to Rush
-Haldeman’s view
-George W. Romney
-Desire to see the President
-Ehrlichman's role
-[Citizens for America]
-Barry M. Goldwater
-John W. Gardner [Common Cause]
-Future
-James D. Hodgson
-His future in the Cabinet
-Decision about second term
-John A. Volpe
-Post-election discussion
-Personnel decisions
-Romney
-Ehrlichman’s previous meeting with Hodgson
-Volpe
-Submission of resignation by entire staff
-Laird
-Spending ceiling
-Ehrlichman
-Weinberger
-Kissinger
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-Romney
-Forthcoming meeting with Ehrlichman
-Cabinet reappointments

Administration efforts to investigate political opponents

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with John Eisenhower and David R. Young, Jr.
-Ehrlichman’s possible participation

Ehrlichman left at 10:40 am.

-Forthcoming Sequoia meeting
-Finch
-Klein
-Ziegler
-Colson
-Malek
-MacGregor
-Robert J. Dole
-MacGregor
-Ehrlichman
-Kissinger
-Haldeman
-Forthcoming Youth for Nixon event
-Herbert Brownell
-Mitchell
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Forthcoming trip to McCabe residence
-Mitchell
-Florida compared to Camp David
-Golf

Haldeman left at 10:41 am.