Date: September 11, 1972
Time: 3:15 pm – Unknown before 5:25 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 2m 59s ]
The President talked with Charles W. Colson at an unknown time between 3:15 pm and 3:50 pm.
[Conversation No. 360-20A]
[End of telephone conversation]
End withdrawn item No. 1
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White House social events
-White House staff attendance
-State dinners
-Receiving line
-Arrangements
The President’s schedule
-The President’s trip to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania,
September 9, 1972
-[Catherine Pickering-Daniel Conte] wedding party encounter
-Los Angeles Times coverage
-Press reports
-Television [TV]
-The President’s schedule for forthcoming week
-Haldeman’s view
-Pennsylvania
-Types of events
-The President’s view
-Supermarkets
-Pennsylvania flood areas
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-The President’s role as the President
News coverage of Pennsylvania trip
-Picnic
-White House stewards
-Ronald L. Jackson
-New York Times story
-Unnamed black woman
1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany
-“Sugar” Ray Seales
-National attitude
-Compared to 1968 Olympic Games
-Patriotism
-Black athletes
-National anthem, Star-Spangled Banner
-Haldeman’s view
-Other events
-Star-Spangled Banner
-TV coverage
Middle East
-US vetoes in United Nations [UN]
-William P. Rogers
-George H.W. Bush
-Jews
-Press coverage
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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[Duration: 17s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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White House staff
-Residence staff
-Jackson
-Blacks
-Preston Bruce
-Haldeman’s view
-Blacks, Filipinos, Whites
-George Washington, Andrew Jackson
-Kitchen staff
-Jackson
-[Victorio M. Delacruz]
-Desserts
-Henry Haller
-The President’s view
-Desserts
-Seafood
-Filipinos, French
-De La Cruz
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-East Wing staff
-Mrs. Nixon
-Lucy A. Winchester
-Jackson
-Constance M. (Cornell) (“Connie”) Stuart
-Press relations
-Washington Post reporter
-Support
-Secret Service
-Military assistants
-Politics and public relations
Public relations
-Young voters
-The President’s image
-Media
-Kenneth S. Rietz
-The President’s accomplishments
-Trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Public relations
-J. Bruce Whelihan
-Pennsylvania
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Congressional relations
-Bryce N. Harlow
-John N. Mitchell
-Domestic Council
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Statement on the environment
-Health program
-Revenue sharing legislation
-Hugh Scott and Michael J. Mansfield
-Signing ceremony
-East room
-The President’s possible visit to Capitol Hill
-The President’s view
-Signing by the President
-Timing
Watergate
-Status
-Forthcoming indictments
-Seven defendants
-Response
-Clark MacGregor
-Statement
-Charles W. Colson’s recommendation
-Clark MacGregor
-Source in the President’s campaign
headquarters at 1701 [Pennsylvania Avenue]
-Public attention
-Herbert L. (“Bart”) Porter
-Effect of indictments
-Colson
-Hiss case
-Truman
-Red herring
-Forthcoming indictment characterized
-Scope of involvement
-G. Gordon Liddy, James W. McCord, Jr.
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Ties to Colson
-White House
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
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(rev. Oct-06)
-Reports
-William E. Timmons
-Republican national Convention
-Robert C. Odle, Jr.
-Counterfeit tickets
-Memorandum
-Wiretapping
-Timmons
-Plan to get radicals inside the Republican convention
-Lawrence E. O’Brien, Jr.
-F. Donald Nixon
-[Howard R. Hughes] loan
-Repayment
-Story
-Las Vegas Review-Journal
-Herbert Kalmbach’s meeting with Robert D. (“Bobby”) Baker
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Amanda Burden
-Boat
-Boston Globe story
-William Loeb
-Possible press conference
-Colson
-Campaigning with McGovern
-Burden
-Sign
1972 campaign
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-The president’s recent conversation with Colson
-Domestic Council
-The President’s view
-Need to attack
-The President’s schedule
-Pennsylvania
-Conte-Pickering wedding
-Conte’s background
-Italian-Americans
-Catholics
-Presbyterian Church
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-Maurice H. Stans
Watergate
-Maurice H. Stans
-Effect on the President’s friends and supporters
-Rose Mary Woods’s receipt of call from Gabriel Hauge
-Health, Education, and Welfare bill
-Veto
-McGovern
-As issue
-Hauge’s view
-McGovern
-Staff situation
-Charges
-Issues
-Food prices, inflation
-Israel
-South Africa
1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany
-Media coverage
-David David Eisenhower, II
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-Howard Cosell
-The President’s telephone call to Chris Schenkel
-Seales, 400 meter relay team
-Patriotism
-US Olympic Committee
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
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(rev. Oct-06)
-Black athletes
-Action by US Olympic Committee
-National attitude
-Haldeman’s view
-Schenkel’s comments
-ABC
-Schenkel
-Roone Arledge
-Wilt Chamberlain, Frank Gifford, Don Schollander
-Mark Spitz
-The President’s recent call to Schenkel
-Gold medals
-Possible telephone call
-Spitz’s coach
-Henry C. Cashen, II
Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 3:50 pm.
-Possible broadcast of the President’s recent call to Schenkel
-Authorization
-Transcript
-US-Soviet Union basketball game
-Clock, time
-Game
-Action
-Haldeman’s view
-TV coverage
-Spitz
-Black track and field athletes
-Seales
-Officiating
-Haldeman’s view
-Basketball, boxing, wrestling, diving
-Transcript of cable
-The President’s instruction
-Release
-Black athletes
-International Olympic Committee and US Olympic Committee
-The President’s comments
-National pride
-Soviet Union, East and West Germany
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
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(rev. Oct-06)
-Seales
-Suspension issues
-The President’s remarks
-US 400 meter relay team
-Suspension of athletes
-International Olympic Committee, US Olympic Committee
-Shirley Povich’s Washington Post column, September 11,
1972
-Seales
-Transcript
-International Olympic Committee
-Officiating
-Basketball
-Taping
-Notification of the President
-Officiating
Ziegler left at 3:55 pm.
-Blacks
-Seales, 400 meter relay team
-Possible reaction to the President’s comments to Schenkel
-Compared to the President’s November 3, 1969 speech and May 8,
1972 speech
-International Olympic Committee
-The President’s comments to Schenkel
-Ziegler
-Herbert G. Klein
-Possible reaction
-John F. Osborne
-Peter Lisagor
-National pride
-Soviet Union, East and West Germany, Japanese
-Judges
-Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia
-Officials
-Basketball, Boxing
-Boxing
-Seales
-Victory
-Mother
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
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-Style
-Schedule
-Officiating
-Basketball game between US and Soviet Union
-US team action on acceptance of the silver medal
-International organizations
-United Nations [UN]
-Officiating
-US sports fans
-The President’s recent conversation with Schenkel
-ABC
-Gifford’s comments
Press and media relations
-The President’s recent conversation with Colson
-Hobart Rowen’s son [Jim Rowen] and McGovern’s daughter
[Susan McGovern]
-Daniel L. Schorr’s brother
-McGovern
-Analogy to Henry Thomas
-Bias question
-Ehrlichman’s letter to the Washington Post
-Taxes
-Rowen’s story
-US basketball team analogy
-Bulgarian judge
-Referee
-Unknown editorial writer
-Rowen’s family relationship to McGovern
-Publication of letter
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Colson
-White House staff study
-Coverage
-Haldeman’s view
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-Washington Post
-New York Times
-Colson’s forthcoming call to William S. Paley
-Invitation to meeting of Colson, Paley, and Frank Stanton
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
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-Paley
-White House response
-Timing
-Kenneth W. Colson
-Possible speech
-Analysis
-Unknown person
-Accuracy in media
-American Enterprise Institute [AEI]
-Unknown group
-Deaths of Israeli athletes at Olympic Games
-The President’s statement [at Golden Gate Pier]
-ABC, NBC
-Lack of CBS coverage
-CBS
-McGovern
-Dan Rather
-CBS
-Colson’s forthcoming conversation
-Paley
-Schedule
-New York
-The President’s view
-White House response
-CBS
-Comparison to Robert F. Kennedy
-Colson
-Schorr
-Residuals question
-Ehrlichman
-Colson’s work
-Colson’s role
-NBC
-The President’s conversation
-Reporters and editors
-The President’s view
-1972 election
-Effectiveness of White House efforts
-Influence
-New York Times
-Osborne
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-White House access
-Ehrlichman
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Access question
-Cabinet officials
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Chou En-Lai
-Ziegler
-Wire services
-Reporting
-Golden Gate Pier story
-[NBC] and [ABC] coverage
-Rather
-McGovern
-CBS coverage
-Ziegler
-McGovern
-Ziegler
-Support
-Klein
The President’s schedule
-Klein group
-The President’s health
-Taxes meeting
-Ehrlichman
-George P. Shultz, Arthur F. Burns and Herbert Stein
1972 campaign
-Financial statement preparation for the President
-Public disclosure
-Ehrlichman’s role
-Agnew
-Public disclosure
-R. Sargent Shriver
-The President’s instructions
-Inclusion of spouses
-The President
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Agnew
-Elinor I. (Judefind) Agnew
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-McGovern, Shriver
-Eleanor (Stegebera) McGovern
-Eunice (Kennedy) Shriver
-Shriver family
-Sargent Shriver’s mother
-Sargent Shriver’s father
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