Date: July 26, 1972
Time: 3:10 pm – 4:49 pm
Location: Old Executive Office Building
The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
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George C. Wallace
-Possible meeting with Alexander M. Haig, Jr. for briefing
-Defense budget
-Senate “Doves”
-George S. McGovern
-Clark MacGregor’s possible statement
-National defense and Vietnam War
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-“Doves”
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-Busing
-Republican platform
-News summary
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The President’s instructions to staff and party
-Republican reaction
-Press report
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The President talked with the White House operator at 3:26 pm.
[Conversation No. 350-46A]
[See Conversation No. 27-83]
[End of telephone conversation]
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COLSON ENTERED AT 3:28 PM.
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1972 campaign
-McGovern
-Views about aid to Greece
-Jews
Golda Meir
-Conversation with the President July 26
-Press coverage
-Tourism
-Morocco
McGovern
-Greek contract to purchase F-4s
-Cancellation
-Reason
-Mirages
-McDonnell-Douglas
-Greek reaction
-Effect
-Economic program
-Thomad F. Eagleton
-Greek reaction to statement
-Credit
-Effect
-McDonnell-Douglas
-St. Louis
-Missouri
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RONALD L. ZIEGLER ENTERED AT 3:42 PM.
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Campaign practices
-MacGregor’s statement in press conference
-The President’s knowledge of Eagleton’s problem
-Robert Pierpoint
-The President’s knowledge
-Letter from Sam Krupnick
-Colson’s conversation with MacGregor
-The President’s knowledge of Eagleton’s problem
-Ziegler’s forthcoming talk with MacGregor
-The President’s response
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Haldeman
-Conversations with MacGregor
-MacGregor’s statement
-White House response
-Use in campaign
-MacGregor’s statement
-Pierpoint
Ziegler left at 3:53 pm.
-MacGregor’s statement
-Pierpoint
-Ziegler
-MacGregor
-Nelson A. Rockefeller’s views
-Statements
-Herbert G. Klein, Robert H. Finch
Greece
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-McGovern’s statements
-Greek reaction
-Effect
-Sale of Phantoms
-Humanitarian aid
-Press reports
-St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Globe Democrat
-Unknown person
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Motives
-Views about aid to Greece, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi [Shah of Iran],
Chiang Kai-Shek
-Possible letter to grocers
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Ziegler entered at 4:15 pm.
Eagleton
-MacGregor’s statement about the President
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] television coverage
Ziegler and Colson left at 4:16 pm.
The President’s schedule
-Young farmers
-Federal Crop Insurance Act extension
-Robert J. Dole
-Kansas
-Possible signing ceremony
-Presidential pens
-Sequoia
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
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-Number
-State Dining Room
-Schedule
-Sequoia
Haldeman left at an unknown time before 4:49 pm.