Date: December 11, 1972
Time: Unknown between 11:55 am and 12:14 pm
Location: White House Telephone
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H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with John B. Connally.
[See Conversation No. 819-2H]
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Republican National Committee [RNC]
-Chairman Robert J. Dole
-Resignation
-Senate role
-Kansas
-George H. W. Bush
-The President’s and Dole’s choice as new chairman
-RNC election, January 19, 1973
-Texas
-Full time chairman
Democratic National Committee [DNC]
-Robert S. Strauss statement on Meet the Press
-Connally’s conversation with Strauss
-Connally’s support in the party
-George S. McGovern
-Characterized
-Party’s moral standards
-“Crimes against society”
-Connally’s vote for the President
-Party censure
-Henry C. Wallace
-Strauss
-Deals
-Liberal opposition
-Party role
-Manager
-South
-Wallace
-Governors, members of Congress
-Short-term goal
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-Party unity
-Leaving party
-Third party
-McGovern
-Connally joining Republican Party
-Timing
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Connally’s schedule
-Trip
-Saudi Arabia
-Timing
-[Faisal, King of Saudi Arabia] Malik Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud
-Notification
-Iran