Date: August 17, 1972

Time: 10:16 am – 10:54 am

Location: Camp David Study Table

The Camp David operator talked with the President.

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s return call

The President talked with Haldeman.

[See Conversation No. 203-13]

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[Duration: 35s ]

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Campaign practices

-Demonstrators’ antics

-The President’s recent conversation with Julie Nixon Eisenhower

-Administration’s plans

-George S. McGovern buttons

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Personnel

-John B. Connally’s view

-Wyatt Thomas Johnson, Jr.

-Lyndon B. Johnson

-Possible Administration job

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Administration attitude regarding McGovern’s Vietnam position

-Connally’s view

-McGovern

-Pierre E.G. Salinger

-R. Sargent Shriver

-W. Ramsey Clark

-The President’s view

-Inference in foreign policy

-Harry S. Truman quote

-The President’s previous comments in 1968

-Effect on negotiations

-Connally’s view

-Attack on McGovern

-The President

-William P. Rogers

-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

-Delivery and tone

-Gerald R. Ford

-Senate Foreign Relations Committee member

-Ronald W. Reagan

-Margaret Chase Smith

-George D. Aiken

-Tone

-Smith

-Vietnam as an issue

-Meat crisis

-Clark

-Shriver

-Forthcoming acceptance speech

-Polling

-Timing of reply

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-Republican National Convention

-Nelson A. Rockefeller

-Smith

-Senate Foreign Relations Committee member

-Connally’s Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW] speech

-The President’s view

-Rhetoric

-Partisansip

-Democratic orator

-Tone

-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

-Writing of speech

-Aram Bakshian

-Focus

-Ronald L. Ziegler

-White House involvement

-Herbert G. Klein

-Adolf Hitler reference by McGovern

-Administration reaction

-Clark MacGregor

-Charles W. Colson

-Ziegler

-Tone of Democratic campaign

-[Arnold] Eric Sevareid’s comment

-Robert J. Dole

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Media

-Ziegler

-Rebuttal to Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon interviewer [Marya McLaughlin]

-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]

-Forthcoming interview with Henry A. Kissinger

-Barbara Walters

-Virginia Sherwood

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