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Conversation No. 778-5

Date: September 15, 1972
Time: Unknown between 8:36 am and 9:58 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (\"Bob\") Haldeman.


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Sale of wheat to the People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Earl L. Butz disclosure
-Department of Agriculture
-Leak
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Fact-finding attempt
-Charles W. Colson's knowledge
-Butz's knowledge
-Propriety of sale
-Possible problem
-Butz
-Administration's knowledge
-Circumstances
-The President's view
-Butz
-Colson

The President talked with John B. Connally between 9:02 am and 9:04 am.

[Conversation No. 778-5A]


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Alexander M. Haig, Jr. entered at 9:05 am.

Foreign policy
-William P. Rogers's statement
-Contact with Europeans
-State Department's attitude
-European Security Conference
-Announcement
-Soviet Union proposal for meetings
-European view
-State Department

House Armed Service Committee hearings
-Gen. John D. Lavelle
-Unauthorized North Vietnamese bombings
-Administration's stance
-Protective reaction
-Falsified reports
-Bombing of North Vietnam
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Testimony

Vietnam peace negotiations
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Status
-Schedule
-Meeting with Georges J. R. Pompidou
-Edward R. G. Heath's meeting with Kissinger
-Kissinger's meeting with Willy Brandt
-Status of negotiations
-State Department representative
-Meeting
-Rogers's reaction

Vietnam military situation
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-Quang Tri invasion
-Viet Cong
-Marine battalions
-Casualties
-Viet Cong offensive
-Haig's view
-Viet Cong military strength
-Food
-Sickness
-Military Region [MR] 1 area
-Hue
-Ammunition
-Effect of US military tactics
-Mining
-Bombing
-Blockade's effect
-World War I
-Civil War

Foreign policy
-Soviet Union grain deal
-New York Times article
-Soviet attitude toward Jews
-Effect
-American public opinion
-Value of trade agreement
-Most Favored Nation [MFN] status
-Congress filibuster
-Forthcoming meeting with Kissinger
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Vote

Haig left at 9:12 am.

Grain deal
-Public opinion
-Efforts by administration opponents
-John D. Ehrlichman's view
-Profit making
-Grain dealers
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Democratic Party press release
-Possible bugging of telephones
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] investigation
-Circumstances
-Fingerprints
-FBI view
-Type of device
-Jean Westwood
-Little red box discovery
-Edward Bennett Williams
-FBI investigation
-Little red box
-Possible bugging
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew's view

Watergate
-Indictments
-John N. Mitchell's meeting with Dwight L. Chapin
-Grand Jury testimony


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Watergate
-New report of bugging at Democratic Headquarters
-FBI inquiry
-Maurice H. Stans's libel lawsuit
-Demeanor
-Effectiveness
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Foreign policy
-Possible US-Soviet Union summit
-Press coverage
-Trade deal with Soviet Union
-Butz
-European Security Conference
-SALT II announcement
-Haldeman's view
-SALT I
-Timing


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Haldeman left at 9:58 am.