Date: November 18, 1972

Time: 12:32 pm – 12:44 pm

Location: White House Telephone

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

Second term reorganization

-Haldeman’s recent meeting with William P. Rogers

-Rogers’ retention

-Conditions

-New appointments

-Foreign Service

-Promotions

-Loyalty

-Charles W. Yost

-The President’s role

-Changes

-Rogers

-Departure

-Timing

-June 1, 1973

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-European Security Conference

-Replacement

-Rogers’ departure

-Plans

-Timing

-Foreign Service

-Loyalty

-Roger’s conversation with the President

-Yost

-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan

-Conflicts with Henry A. Kissinger

-The President’s mediation

-Source

-Lying

-Defense Department

-Elliot L. Richardson

-Melvin R. Laird

-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]

-Congressional committees

-William P. Clements, Jr.

-HEW

-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger

-Defense Department

-The President’s role

-Charles W. Colson departure

-John B. Connally’s view

-Loyalty

-Connally’s view

-[Watergate problem]

-Timing

-Retention

-Problems

-Colson’s view

-Promotion

-Reorganization

-Colson’s position

-Haldeman’s dealings with Colson

-Compared to retention

-Merits

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-Interests

-Possible later problems

-Timing

-Future work with administration

-Personnel recommendations

-Peter J. Brennan’s possible position in the administration

-Transportation Department

-Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD]

-Size

-Interior Department

-Transportation

-Qualifications

-Example of Richardson

-Defense Department

-Compared to credentials

-Colson’s advice

-Job offer

-Paul Hall

-Maritime

Vietnam negotiations

-Settlement agreement

-Nguyen Van Thieu

-Problems

-Kissinger

-Message from Ellsworth F. Bunker

-US position

-Negotiations with North Vietnam

-Paris

-Stance vis-à-vis Thieu

-Agreement quality

-Thieu

-Posture

-Effect on agreement

-Vietnamization

-US withdrawal

-South Vietnam’s defense

-Possible collapse

-Congressional appropriations

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-Notification by the President

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The President’s schedule

-[Camp David]

-Timing

-Haldeman’s schedule

-Leonard Garment

-Recent conversation with the President

-Timing

-Peter M. Flanigan

-Haldeman’s schedule

-Herbert G. Klein

-Flanigan, Klein

Second term reorganization

-Flanigan

-Role

-Committee on International Economic Policy [CIEP]

-George P. Shultz

-Retention

-White House

-Personnel and agency functions

-Roy L. Ash

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-John W. Dean, III

-Regulatory agencies

-Flanigan

-Job offer

-Retention

-Circumstances

-Title