Date: July 26, 1972
Time: 9:02 am – 11:05 am
Location: Old Executive Office Building
The President met with Charles W. Colson, Manolo Sanchez and H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
Room temperature
-Curtains
Refreshments
Room temperature
-Air conditioning
Refreshments
Sanchez left at an unknown time after 9:02 am.
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[Duration: 10m 36s ]
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The President talked with George H.W. Bush.
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[Conversation No. 350-34A]
[See Conversation No. 27-71]
[End of telephone conversation]
State Department
Bush
United Nations [UN]
-The President’s schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Kurt Waldheim
-Bush’s view
-Treatment of US
-Compared to Ghana
-The President’s view
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The White House response to Thomas F. Eagleton story
The President’s schedule
-Call to Golda Meir
-Camera
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Eagleton’s health
-Republican and White House response
-The President’s instructions
-Robert J. Dole, Clark MacGregor
-Leaks
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White House staff
-Herbert G. Klein
-Kenneth W. Clawson’s role
-Colson
-Carlos D. Conde, Stanley S. Scott
-Meir telephone call
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.’s staff
-Loyalty to the President
-Colson’s staff
-Joe McGinniss’s book [The Selling of the President]
-Today Show
-Leonard Garment
-Frank J. Shakespeare
-Price
-Staff
-Management style
-Compared to Colson
-Accuracy of work
-Eloquence of work
-Compared to Lyndon B. Johnson’s and Dwight D. Eisenhower’s speeches
-Responses to letters
-Richard M. Scammon’s theory
-Republican woman in Illinois
-George S. McGovern
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Lawrence M. Higby entered at 10:05 am.
Instruction
Higby left at 10:06 am.
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Colson left at 10:08 am.
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The President’s schedule
-Press conference
-Eagleton’s health
-The President’s possible press conference
-Press coverage
-McGovern’s possible action
-Haldeman’s conversation with John D. Ehrlichman
-The President’s meeting with mayors July 25, 1972
-Ehrlichman
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-Revenue sharing
-Effect
-Democrats
-President’s leadership
-The President’s conversation with mayor [E.J. Garn] of Salt Lake City
-Motorcade
-1970
-Pierre Rinfret
-John Connally’s conversation with Haldeman
-John W. McCormack
-Saturday Evening Post
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins’s pictures
-Possible statement by the President
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Price
-Instruction for Haldeman
-Business Week
The President’s schedule
-Event at Connally’s ranch
George C. Wallace
-Contact
-Haldeman’s possible conversation with MacGregor
-Timing
-Possible call from Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
The President’s schedule
-Unknown person
Wallace
-Contribution to discussion of issues
-Busing
-News summary
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[Duration: 7m 20s ]
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Presidency
-Health of candidates
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-[Eagleton]
-Stress
-The President
-Credibility
-Ehrlichman
-[Eagleton]
-1966
-Press
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[Duration: 1m 23s ]
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Campaign practices
-Possible Republican actions
-Eagleton
-Veracity
-As issue
-McGovern
-Compared to Howard Hughes loan
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[Duration: 6m 30s ]
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The President’s schedule
-1972 election
-Thomas F. Railsback
-Railsback
-Donald W. Riegle, Jr.
-Unknown boy
-Price
-Brazilian Finance Minister [Antonio Delfin Neto]
-Kissinger
-Emilio Garrastuzu Medici
-Letter
-Brazilian economy
-Schedule
-Connally, Robert C. Seamans, Arthur F. Burns
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Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 10:40 am.
The President’s veto message
-Spending ceiling
Butterfield left at an unknown time before 11:09 am.
The President’s schedule
-UN
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Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 10:40 am.
The President’s veto message
-Timing of release
Air conditioning
-Engineer
Butterfield left at an unknown time before 11:05 am.
The President’s schedule
-Call to Meir
-Public relations
-Johnny Cash
-Wife [June Carter Cash]
-Drugs
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The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming press conference
-Briefing books
-Kissinger
-Format
-Television
Air conditioning
Haldeman left at 11:05 am.
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