Date: August 17, 1972
Time: 10:32 pm – 10:51 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table
The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
[See Conversation No. 204-4]
The President’s forthcoming acceptance speech
-David R. Gergen’s effort
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Tax cut figures
-Price’s figures compared to Gergen’s figures
-The President’s view
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-Amounts compared to percentages
-1964, 1948
-1969
-Council of Economic Advisers [CEA]
-Impact of George S. McGovern budget on taxes
-$1000 per person welfare grant proposal
-Need for staff help
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-Aram Bakshian
-Lack of familiarity with the President, Haldeman
-Philosophical approach
-Price
-Andrews’s qualifications
-Bakshian’s qualifications
-John D. Ehrlichman’s view
-Environment
-Recitation of accomplishments
-Tone
-McGovern’s attack on US institutions
-Focus of McGovern attack
-Economy, foreign policy, law and order
-Use of convention forum
-Recitation of accomplishments
-Tax cuts, inflation, Legacy of Parks
-William L. Safire
-Division of speech
-Course
-Challenge
-Declaration of goals
-Listing of accomplishments
-Price
-Ehrlichman’s view of goals and accomplishments
-Economy
-Inflation, employment
-Wealth redistribution
-Question of approach
-Price
-Patrick E. O’Donnell [?]
-Bakshian
-Haldeman’s view
-John B. Connally’s view
-Audience scope
-The President’s view
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-Haldeman’s view
-Advertising
-Focus on domestic compared to foreign issues
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Soviet Union
-Middle East
-Africa
-Plans of the President compared to McGovern
-Democrats
-PRC, Soviet Union
-Military spending
-Gergen’s statistics
-Tax cuts
-Individuals
-Price’s draft
-1969