Date: August 14, 1972
Time: 4:40 pm – 5:15 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
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R. Sargent Shriver
-John Connally, Haldeman and William P. Rogers
-Attacks
-Shriver’s knowledge of Vietnam negotiations
-George E. Christian
-Henry A. Kissinger’s trips to Paris
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 4:45 pm.
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President’s forthcoming acceptance speech
-Amount of time in the President’s preparation
Forthcoming press conference by Ziegler
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW] and Department of
Labor appropriations bill
-Frank C. Carlucci
-The President’s schedule
-Economic affairs
-Congress
-Paperwork
-Republican National Convention
-The President’s forthcoming acceptance speech
-Legislative matters
-Veto decisions
-Economic policy
-Congress
-Meetings with Kissinger
-Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to South Vietnam
-The President’s forthcoming acceptance speech
-The President’s return from Camp David
-Timing
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Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-The President’s request for suggestions
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-The President’s forthcoming acceptance speech
-Speechwriters
-Forthcoming article
-New York Times Magazine
-Life
-Substance
-New York Times Magazine
-Readership compared with Life
-Interest
-The President’s second term
-Life
-Circulation, impact
-The President’s preference
-New York Times Magazine
-Distribution
-Life
The President’s schedule
-Economic matters
-Legislative matters
-Meeting with Kissinger
-The President’s forthcoming acceptance speech
Ziegler left at 4:55 p.m.
Federal firefighters
-Early retirement plan
-The President’s previous veto
-The President’s decision
-Support for plan
-Charles W. Colson, William E. Timmons, Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Request for veto
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger, Civil Service Commission,
Department of Defense
-Costs
-The President’s support
-Reasons
-Timmons
-Wage Board bill
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-John D. Ehrlichman
-Gerald R. Ford
-The President’s decision
-Weinberger’s view
Economy
-Meat prices
Ehrlichman’s report
Haldeman talked with an unknown person between 4:55 pm and 4:56 pm.
[Conversation No. 362-22A]
Firefighters’ bill
-Cole
-Ehrlichman
-The President’s signing
[End of telephone conversation]
Shriver
-The President’s view
-Knowledge of Paris negotiations
-Lyndon B. Johnson
Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 4:56 pm.
Telephone calls
-The President’s view
Firefighters’ bill
-Signing
Unknown document
-Rose Mary Woods
Telephone calls
-Letters
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Firefighters’ bill
Telephone calls
Butterfield left at 5:01 pm.
Shriver
-Colson
-Vietnam
-Peace offers
-Newspaper coverage
-Shriver’s knowledge
-Connally
-W[illiam] Averell Harriman – Cyrus R. Vance position
-Possible peace settlement
-Shriver’s role in peace negotiations
-Johnson
-Connally
-Christian
The President talked with the White House operator at 5:02 pm.
[Conversation No. 362-22B]
[See Conversation No. 29-67]
[End of telephone conversation]
The President’s forthcoming conversation with Haig
Shriver
-Role in peace negotiations
-Kissinger
-France
-Possible conversation with ambassador
-Early role in peace negotiations
-Role in peace negotiations
-Connally
-Christian
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-Rogers
-Report
-Statement of August 14, 1972
-Rusk
Watergate
-Haldeman’s meeting with John N. Mitchell
-John W. Dean, III
-Jeb Stuart Magruder’s testimony
-Indictments
-Timing
-Submission
-Republican Convention
-Clark MacGregor’s statement
-Timing
-The President’s forthcoming meeting with Kakuei Tanaka
-Grand jury
-Control
-Mitchell
-Harry S. Truman Administration
-Department of Justice
The President talked with Haig at an unknown time between 5:02 pm and 5:15 pm.
[Conversation No. 362-22C]
[See Conversation No. 29-68; one item has been withdrawn]
[End of telephone conversation]
Shriver
-Meetings with Kissinger about peace negotiations
-Kissinger’s denials
-Statements on previous talks with Kissinger
-The President’s European trip
-Secret meetings
-Kissinger and Haig
-Concern about issue of war
-Shriver as issue
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-Kissinger
-Secret trips
-Significance
-The President’s view
-Hanoi
-Japan
-Soviet Union
-Announcement
-Timing
Watergate
-MacGregor’s statement
-Grand jury
-Investigation
Kissinger
-Joseph C. Kraft article
-Significance of Kissinger’s trips
-Trips abroad
-Value
-Haig
-Negotiations
-Exposing record
-Possible effect
Draft
-The President’s memoranda
-End
-Date of announcement
-1972 election
-Melvin R. Laird’s position
-Haig
-January 1, 1973
-Armed Services Committee
-June [1973?]
The President and Haldeman left at 5:15 pm.
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