Date: August 17, 1972

Time: 9:01 am – 9:47 am

Location: Camp David Study Table

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

[Conversation No. 203-5; one item has been withdrawn]

The President’s schedule

-Cancellation of trip to Washington, D.C.

Speech writing

-Progress

-Raymond K. Price, Jr.

-Staff

-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon’s material

-Rose Mary Woods’s trip to Camp David

-Mail

-Work pattern

-Logistics

-Weather

The President’s schedule

-The President’s forthcoming call to Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Veto of the Departments of Labor and Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]

Appropriation Act, 1973

-House of Representatives vote

Lyndon B. Johnson’s endorsement of George S. McGovern

-Press reaction

-Johnson

-The President’s view

-John B. Connally

-Briefings

News report

-McGovern’s dispatch of Pierre E.G. Salinger to Paris

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-Salinger’s meeting with the North Vietnames

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McGovern news report

-Salinger’s meeting with the North Vietnamese

-Prisoners of war [POWs] release

-Timing

-1972 election

-Media coverage

-McGovern’s denial

-Salinger’s view

-McGovern’s qualification

-Haldeman’s view

-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]

-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]

-Salinger’s meeting with the North Vietnamese

-Result

-McGovern’s involvement in foreign policy

-Briefings

-W. Ramsey Clark

-Washington Post coverage

-Television coverage

Vietnam

-McGovern’s policies

-Possible administration reaction

-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

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-Charles W. Colson

-McGovern

-R. Sargent Shriver

-Clark

-Colson’s view

-Timing

-Henry A. Kissinger

-Haldeman’s view

-Ronald L. Ziegler’s view

-Connally’s view

-Clark MacGregor’s view

-Colson’s view

-Connally’s view

-Possible speech

-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

-William P. Rogers

-The President’s view

-Timing

-Negotiations

-1968

-Timing

-Kissinger

-Republican National Convention

-Ronald W. Reagan

-Washington Post editorial

-Clark effort

-Colson

-Pollsters

-The President’s view

-Public awareness of Vietnam

-Network coverage

-Shriver

-McGovern

-Republican Convention

-Speech preparation

-Kissinger’s return

-Republican Convention

-Kissinger’s efforts

-Public relations

-Clark

-Salinger

-The Administrations’ possible briefings of McGovern

-Carroll Kilpatrick

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-Harry S. Truman quotation

-Bipartisan foreign policy

-Thomas E. Dewey

-Investigation of Paul C. Warnke

-Security clearance

-Necessity

-McGovern’s refusal of briefings

-Press reaction

-McGovern’s policies

-Possible Administration reaction

-Connally’s view

-MacGregor’s view

-Ziegler’s view

-Bryce N. Harlow’s view

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Vietnam

-McGovern’s policies

-Rogers

-Edmund S. Muskie

-Haldeman

-Kissinger

-Saigon

-Salinger

-Clark

-McGovern’s policies

-Possible Administration reaction

-Timing

-Rogers

-Reagan

-Republican Convention

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