795–1

Conversation No. 795-1

Date: October 10, 1972
Time: 10:25 am - 11:53 am
Location: Oval Office

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

1972 campaign
-October 10, 1972 breakfast meeting
-Memorandum
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Clark N. MacGregor
-Tone
-Ehrlichman’s comments
-New Jersey
-Drugs
-State by state analysis
-William E. Brock, III
-Objective analysis
-Crime
-Gerald R. Ford
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Activities
-Community action programs
-Tone
-Haldeman’s notes
-Ehrlichman
-Polls
-University of Michigan
-Robert Teeter
-Issues
-South
-Taxes
-Connecticut
-Abortion
-Catholic vote
-Rhode Island, Michigan, New York
-Catholics
-Environment
-Ehrlichman and Domestic Council
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-Abortion, patriotism, environment, lifestyle, amnesty, busing
-Connecticut
-New Jersey
-[Gateway National Recreation Area]
-Pollsters
-Old Republican constituency
-White, Protestant, upper-middle income
-Donald H. Rumsfeld, Robert H. Finch
-Poles, Irish voters in Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Chicago,
Michigan, South, Midwest
-Samuel Lubell
-Patriotism
-News summary
-Hugh S. Sidey
-Louis P. Harris
-George S. McGovern
-Economic issue
-News summary
-William L. Safire
-Quote
-Herbert L. Klein
-McGovern
-Source
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Reference to the President
-MacGregor
-Ehrlichman
-Teeter polls
-Analysis of the issues
-Hard hats abortion, amnesty, US military, busing
-Edwin L. Harper
-Bruce Morton
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-McGovern
-Advice
-Media treatment


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Press relations
-Tricia Nixon Cox’s recent trip to New York
-Advance men
-Role
-McGovern press
-Ronald L. Ziegler, Klein
-Betty (Koplow) Kaplow
-Telephone call from the President
-Herbert E. Kaplow
-Letter from the President
-Philosophical groups
-The President’s view
-Leftists
-Rightists
-John Birch Society members
-Kaplow, Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-Tricia Nixon Cox’s recent trip to New York
-Arthur O. Sulzberger
-Klein
-Katharine C. Graham

Tricia Nixon Cox’s recent trip to New York
-Advance men
-Role
-Crowd
-Parade
-Press
-Press and media relations
-Herbert Kaplow
-McGovern
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
-Kathleen Beery [sp?]
-Demonstrators
-Compared to Chicago
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-Media coverage
-Slogan
-Gesture

Ziegler entered at 10:43 am.

Recent breakfast meeting
-Congressional leaders
-Spending ceiling vote
-Busing
-Cloture
-Ford
-Domestic issues
-MacGregor
-Ehrlichman
-Defense
-Busing
-Michigan
-Defense
-California
-Candidates
-Voter turnout effort
-MacGregor
-Attribution of statement
-Focus on issues

Henry A. Kissinger's schedule
-Impending arrival
-Vietnam negotiations
-William P. Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-New York Times story
-Rogers
-Laird
-Paris
-Saigon
-Source
-National Security Council [NSC]
-State Department
-Kissinger’s staff
-Col. Richard T. Kennedy
-Hanoi
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Press relations
-Klein
-Herbert Kaplow
-Mother-in-law's death
-Telephone call to Betty Kaplow
-Job loss
-Letter to Herbert Kaplow
-Tricia Nixon Cox’s recent trip to New York
-McGovern press
-Left wingers
-Conservatives
-Standards
-Instruction to Ziegler
-Klein
-Frank van der Linden
-Compared to Communists
-Kaplow
Presidential communications
-Safire
-Actions
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-James (\"Scotty\") Reston
-Ideological divisions
-Six Crises
-Klein
-1960 campaign
-John F. Kennedy's campaign
-Treatment of Klein
-Peter Lisagor
-Wife
-Nicholas P. Thimmesch
-Frank Cormier
-Hugh S. Sidey
-Possible misunderstanding
-President’s previous comment to Kissinger
-Communists
Watergate and campaign practices
-Washington Post
-Federal Bureau Investigation [FBI]
-Committee to Re-elect the President [CRP]
-MacGregor
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-Response to press
-L.[ouis] Patrick Gray
-Sidey
-Demonstrations
-Los Angeles
-Boston
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-William Loeb
-Edmund Muskie
-Corruption charges
-Cabinet officials

Ziegler left at 11:00 am.

-FBI
-Colson's office
-Donald Segretti
-Clawson
-\"Canuck\" letter
-Marilyn Berger
Vietnam negotiations
-Kissinger’s meetings
-Status
-Military and political issues
-North Vietnam interest in settlement
-Government of Vietnam [GVN]
-Kissinger’s position
-Security and military guarantees
-Progress
-Public statements
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Complexity and sensitivity
-Kissinger’s forthcoming repost to the President
-Public statements
-McGovern
-Rogers
-Cancelled press conference
-Laird
-Military issues
-Political issues
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Nine points
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-Response to political change

1972 campaign issues
-Tone
-White House staff
-Farm issue, grain issue


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Colson entered at 11:14 am.

Recent breakfast
-Format
-Crime issue
-Drugs
-Tone
-MacGregor
-Ehrlichman’s comments
-Crime, prices, Vietnam
-State by state analysis
-Northeast, South
-Social issues, welfare
-Teeter
-Domestic Council
-Harper
-Connecticut
-Issues
-Abortion
-Amnesty
-Buchanan
-Colson’s note
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-Thomas J. Meskill
-Aid to parochial schools
-Harper
-Rumsfeld
-Finch
-Old Republican constituency
-Kevin P. Philips
-Sources of strength
-Catholics, Italians, ethnics
-South, Mountain states, Plains states
-Issue appeal
-Patriotism, morality and religious faith
-South, white ethnic “urban ring”
-Mountains
-Harper
-Analysis discussed
-Sociological compared to political bent

Watergate and campaign practices
-Leaks
-Washington Post
-Colson’s office
-Clawson
-Berger
-\"Canuck\" letter
-Letter writing
-Segretti
-CRP
-FBI interview of Colson
-Advance men
-Colson's activities

Watergate
-G[eorge] Gordon Liddy
-Funds

McGovern campaign
-Demonstrators in Los Angeles
-Network coverage
-Tricia Nixon Cox’s recent rip to New York
-Media coverage
-Absence
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Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins photographs
-Circulation

McGovern campaign
-Tricia Nixon Cox’s recent rip to New York
-Compared to Chicago
-Columbus Day Parade
-International Ladies Garment Workers Union [ILGWU]
-Invitation to McGovern
-Jews
-Reaction by Italians

1972 campaign
-Future meetings with surrogates
-Recent breakfast meeting
-H. Allen Smith
-Richard G. Kleindienst's forthcoming law and order speech
-Detroit
-William H. Rehnquist, Jr.

Vietnam negotiations
-McGovern
-Forthcoming speech
-Laird
-Colson’s previous conversation with Laird
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Paris
-Bombing halt
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Forthcoming speech
-Fact sheet
-Radio comments
-Laird
-POWs
-R. Sargent Shriver’s claim
-Bombing and mining
-Effect
-US troop withdrawal
-Prevention of communism in South Vietnam
-POWs
-POW issue
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-Connally
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Kissinger
-Paris
-Progress in negotiations
-Comparision to Korean War negotiations
-Harry S. Truman
-Panmunjom
-US casualties
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-1952 election
-POWs
-Kissinger
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-1972 elections
-National interests

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Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:14 am.

The President's schedule
-Polish Ambassador [Witold Trampczynski]

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:53 am.


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POW issue
-McGovern
-News summary
-United Press International [UPI]
-Markham L. Gartley and mother
-David Dellinger
-Cora Weiss
-Edward Elias and Norris A. Charles
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Weiss
-Dellinger
-W. Ramsey Clark
-John G. Tower


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Demonstrators at Columbus Day Parade
-Network coverage
-Italian-Americans
-Doral Hotel comparison
-Democratic National Convention
-Tone
-Vietcong [VC] flags
-Slogans
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-Press, wire coverage
-New York Times headline
-Italian-Americans
-Jews
-Louis Stulberg

Issues
-Connecticut
-New Jersey
-Abortion
-Aid to parochial schools
-Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania
-Recent breakfast meeting
-Ehrlichman’s previous comment in Cabinet Room
-Environment
-Rhode Island
-Abortion bill in Connecticut legislature
-Abortion issue
-Ford
-Michigan
-Ehrlichman
-Harper
-Polls
-Blacks
-Permissiveness and morality
-Rhode Island
-Percentage of Catholics
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Herbert F. DeSimone
-Factories
-Social issues
-Recent breakfast meeting
-Ehrlichman’s comments
-Marijuana
-Drugs
-Amnesty
-Importance of issue
-John N. Mitchell
-Young people
-Catholics
-War service
-Draft dodgers
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-Vietnam, Korea, World War II
-Jack Dempsey
-Louis [Georges] Carpentier
-Public view
-The President as a Quaker
-College deferments
-Harvard University, Yale University, University of California,
University of California at Los Angeles [UCLA], Whittier College
-John Todd
-Veteran on television
-Support for the President
-Metromedia, Canada
-Domestic Council's role
-Pollsters’ understanding
-Teeter
-Richard M. Scammon
-Environment
-Harris
-Jewish background
-Catholics
-Stance on issues
-Amnesty, marijuana, Vietnam
-George H. Gallup
-Vietnam
-Albert E. Sindlinger
Economy
-Lubell
-Scammon
-Haynes B. Johnson
-Washington Post series
-Catholics
-Washington Post series
-Issues
-Perception of the President
-Democrats compared to Republicans
-Morality
-Empathy
-Work ethic
-Recent breakfast meeting
-Work ethic
-Mountain states
-Welfare
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-Ehrlichman, Richardson

An unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:53 am.

Congressional vote
-Busing cloture
-McGovern
-Hugh Scott

The President’s schedule
-Telegram

Haldeman and Colson left at 11:53 am.