Date: October 30, 1972
Time: 5:00 pm – 5:40 pm
Location: Camp David Hard Wire
The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
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The President’s schedule
-Chicago trip
-Postponement
-Casualty toll in train accident
Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon entered at an unknown time after 5:00 pm.
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Mrs. Nixon left at an unknown time before 5:22 pm.
-Henry A. Kissinger
-John D. Ehrlichman
Lighting
Chicago train accident
-Situation
-Postponement of trip
-The President’s view
-The President’s drawing of crowds
-Media coverage
-Comparison to Atlanta trip
-1968 compared with 1972
-Security risk
-Absence during Vietnam settlement
-Richard B. Ogilvie
-Charles H. Percy
-Need for Chicago trip
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Tape Subject Log
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-Staff opinions
-Motorcade
-Media coverage
Vietnam
-Haldeman’s conversation with Kissinger
-Contingency plan
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-North Vietnamese message
-Kissinger’s reaction
-The President’s view
-Kissinger’s meeting with Dobrynin
-North Vietnamese position
-Contingency plan for breakdown of talks
-Strategy
-The President’s possible television message
-Explanation of negotiation’s status
-North Vietnamese military moves
-Pham Van Dong’s statement
-Coalition government
-Understanding
-North Vietnamese troop disposition
-Unilateral withdrawal
-Coalition government
-Troop withdrawal
-Cease-fire
-Coalition government
-Troop withdrawal
-Settlement possibilities
-Timing of settlement
-Quality of agreement
-The President’s forthcoming speech
-Future
-Vietnam
-Kissinger’s view
-Progress
-US commitment to peace with honor
-Forthcoming speech
-Instruction for Haldeman
-Kissinger
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-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Speechwriting
-Length
-Chicago cancellation
The President’s schedule
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Speech scheduling
-Urban speech
-Nelson A. Rockefeller appointment
-National Press Club
-John Cardinal Krol
-Scheduling
-Ehrlichman
-William T. Cahill call
-Conversation with Ronald W. Reagan
-House Resolution [HR] 1
-Welfare provision
-Results for Reagan
-Reagan’s goals
-Reagan
-The President’s view
Vietnam
-Press
-Kissinger’s opinion
-Liberal press
-Vulnerability
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Contingency for breakdown of talks
-Response
-The President’s involvement
-Briefing
-Television appearance by the President
Issues
-Opinions of Vietnam settlement
-Albert E. Sindlinger’s call to Charles W. Colson
-Samuel Lubell’s previous results
-John O. Davies’s statement about Lubell
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-George H. Gallup poll
-Davies’s mail analysis
-Corruption issue
-McGovern
-Democrats
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The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:00 pm and
5:22 pm.
[Conversation No. 222-13A]
[See Conversation No. 152-8]
[End of telephone conversation]
Chicago train accident
-Richard J. Daley’s location
-Percy
-Blood giving
-Christian Scientist beliefs
-The President’s view
-Blood giving
-Science and Health
Vietnam
-Possible peace settlement
-Administration efforts
-Voter support
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Tape Subject Log
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-Kissinger
-William F. Buckley, Jr. column
-Opinion of settlement
-Coalition government issue
-Importance
-Joseph W. Alsop’s column
-Agnew speech
-Scheduling
-Air time
-John B. Connally film
-Press relations
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The President talked with Daley between 5:22 pm and 5:23 pm.
[Conversation No. 222-13B]
[See Conversation No. 152-9]
[End of telephone conversation]
Schedule
-Cancellation of the President’s Chicago trip
-Daley’s cancellation of parade
-George S. McGovern
-Ogilvie
-Percy
-Possible meeting with the President
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-Revenue sharing issue
-Vietnam negotiations
Vietnam negotiations
-Status
-Kissinger’s nature
-The President’s view
-Reaction
-Price’s draft of speech for the President
-The President’s view
-Taxes
-Vietnam
-Length
-Filler for remaining time
-Possible commercial
-Mrs. Nixon
-Television exposure
-Possible settlement
-Liberal media’s reaction
-John Birch Society
-Public relations
-Administration strategy
-Kissinger
-Need for proper media coverage
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Rogers
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 5:22 pm.
Ehrlichman on the telephone
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:40 pm.
The President’s schedule
The President left at an unknown time before 5:40 pm.
Haldeman talked with the Camp David operator at an unknown time between 5:22 pm and 5:40
pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)
Haldeman talked with Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 5:22 pm and 5:40 pm.
[Conversation No. 222-13C]
[See Conversation No. 182-2]
The President entered at an unknown time after 5:22 pm.
[End of telephone conversation]
Common Cause case
-Release of names
-Maurice H. Stans
-Trial date
-Negotiated settlement
-Stans
-“Common Cause” people
-Judge
-Disclosure of donors
-Court order
-Benefits
-Preclusion of trial continuance before election
-Preclusion of disclosure of other donors
-Hugh W. Sloan, Jr. testimony
-Administration feeling
-Post-1972 election problem
-Ehrlichman
-John W. Dean, III
-Richard A. Moore
-Disclosure of material
-Nature of material
-Donors
-Richard Scaife
-Reason for Common Cause agreement
-Stans
Source of Democratic money
-Points to be made
-Loans
-Perception of loans
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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-Names
Vietnam
-Peace negotiations
-Administration strategy
-Kissinger
-Statement
-Saigon situation
-Pham Van Dong
-Coalition government
-Agreement violations
-Troop movement
-Coalition government
-Troop pullout
-The President’s view
Haldeman left at 5:40 pm.