Date: November 19, 1972
Time: Between 9:16 am – 9:29 am
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
Haldeman’s schedule
-Trip to Camp David
-Departure
The President’s schedule
-Trip to Camp David
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Trip to Florida
-Delay
-Meetings with Cabinet members
-Timing
-David M. Kennedy
-James D. Hodgson
-George Romney
-John A. Volpe
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Charles A. Wright
-Announcements
-John D. Ehrlichman
-William P. Rogers retention
-Changes in executive branch
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Kleindienst
-Announcements
-Defense Department
-Elliot Richardson
-William P. Clements, Jr.
-Hawks view
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-Under Secretaries
-Camp David
-Travel
-Thanksgiving
Second term reorganization
-Leak
-The President’s recent conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler
-Camp David
-Washington Star story
-Methods
-The President’s reaction
-Control of public relations [PR]
-Possible editorials
– Washington Star story
-Source
-Release
-Ehrlichman
-Sources of leaks
-Roy L. Ash
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-The President’s concern
-Context
-Leaks
-Control
-Charles W. Colson
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1972 election
-Republican candidates
-The President’s support
-Response to John B. Connally’s concern
-The President’s recent conversation with Patrick J. Buchanan
-Haldeman’s forthcoming conversation with Colson
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Colson
-Possible telephone call from Haldeman
-Location
-Virginia
Second term reorganization
-Rogers
-PR
-Ziegler
-Gerald L. Warren
-Ehrlichman
-Responsibilities
-Florida
-Administration capabilities
-Roger’s comment
-Colson’s comment
-Colson-Herbert Klein operation
-Republican National Committee [RNC]
-Attacks on critics
-Problems
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Ehrlichman
-Responsibilities
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Writing staff
-Ehrlichman
-Kissinger
-Administration capabilities
-Colson
-John B. Connally’s assessment
-Colson
-Compared to Kissinger
-Vietnam
-Model cities example
-Role after 1972 election
-New people
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Kissinger
-[Oriana Fallaci] interview, November 2 and 4, 1972
-The President’s recent conversation with Ziegler
-Kissinger’s recent conversation with Haldeman
-Possible effect
-Rogers
-References to the Peoples Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Credit for arrangements
-Public appeal
-References to President
-Public compared to private comments
-Rogers’s reaction
-Rogers’s recent conversation with Haldeman
-Washington Post
-Washington Star
-Peter Lisagor
-Haldeman’s reaction
-Forthcoming call to the President