Date: November 2, 1972

Time: 5:35 pm – 6:38 pm

Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

The President’s forthcoming speech, “Look to the Future”

-Taping

-Problems

-Starts

-Camera

-Number of people in room

-Secret Service agent’s presence

-Duration

-The President’s schedule

-Number of words in speech

-William H. Carruthers

-Responsibility

-Duration

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1971 campaign

-The President’s schedule

-Candidate telephone calls

-Press coverage

-The President’s trip

-Timing

-Departure

-Meeting with Margaret Chase Smith

-Candidate telephone calls

-Edward W. Brooke

-List

-Congress

-John K. MacIver

-Wisconsin

-Thomas J. Meskill

-Connecticut

-William T. Cahill

-New Jersey

-Robert P. Griffin

-Michigan

-Robert W. Hirsch

-South Dakota

-Wesley Powell

-J. Caleb Boggs

-Delaware

-John G. Tower

-Texas

-Howard H. Baker, Jr.

-Tennessee

-Jack Miller

-Iowa

-Clifford P. Hansen

-Smith

-Henry P. Smith III

-Brooke

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-William L. Scott

-Virginia

-Value

-Ohio

-S. Fletcher Thompson

-Kansas

-Republican National Committee [RNC] Chairman

-Robert J. Dole

-Scheduling

-Length of calls

-Audiences

-Margaret Smith

-Gerald R. Ford, Hugh Scott, Winton M. (“Red”) Blount

-Colorado

-Gordon L. Alcott

-Value

-Purpose

-Arrangements

-Publicity

-Big States

-Illinois

-New York

-California

-Missouri

-Christopher S. (“Kit”) Bond

-Radio addresses

-Foreign policy

-Raymond K. Price, Jr.

-Scheduling

-Press release

-Polls

-Results

-Charles W. Colson

-Albert E. Sindlinger

-Shifts

Manolo Sanchez and Alexander P. Butterfield [?] entered at an unknown time between 5:35 pm

and 6:00 pm.

Dinner

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The President’s schedule

Sanchez and Butterfield [?] left at an unknown time before 6:00 pm.

-Sindlinger

-Questions

-Wording

-Analysis

-George S. McGovern votes

-Approval rating

-Performance

-Vietnam

-Wisconsin

-Compared to Illinois

-The President’s showing

-Changes

-Opinion Research Corporation [ORC]

[Pause]

1972 Campaign

-Speech

-Ronald L. Ziegler

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The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:35 pm and

6:00 pm.

[Conversation No. 390-14A]

Request for a call to John D. Ehrlichman

[End of telephone conversation]

National health insurance

-Compulsory compared to voluntary program

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-Ehrlichman’s knowledge

-The President’s forthcoming radio address on health policy

-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]

Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:35 pm and 6:00

pm.

[Conversation No. 390-14B]

[See Conversation No. 32-153A]

National health insurance

-Radio address on health policy

-Revision

-Ehrlichman

-Compulsory compared to voluntary program

[End of telephone conversation]

Haldeman talked with an unknown woman from Cole’s office at an unknown time between 5:35

pm and 6:00 pm.

[Conversation No. 390-14B]

[See conversation No. 32-153B]

[End of telephone conversation]

National health insurance

-Compulsory compared to voluntary program

-HEW

-Socialists

-Elliot L. Richardson

-Donald H. Rumsfeld

The White House operator talked with Haldeman at 6:00 pm.

[Conversation No. 390-14C]

[See Conversation No. 32-154A]

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The President talked with Ehrlichman between 6:00 pm and 6:04 pm.

[Conversation No. 390-14D]

[See Conversation No. 32-154B]

[End of telephone conversation]

National health insurance

-Ehrlichman’s and the President’s view

-Richardson

-Christian Science

-Haldeman’s view

-Christian Science

-Socialism compared to free enterprise

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1972 campaign

-Polls

-Vietnam

-Bombing halt

-The President’s speech, “Look to the Future”

-Tone

-Poll results

-Support for the President

-Impact of war’s end

-Speech

-Importance

-Peace with honor

Manolo Sanchez entered at 6:15 pm.

Dinner

Sanchez left at 6:15 pm.

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1972 campaign

-Vietnam

-Speech

-Tone

-Agreements

-Connally’s views

-Impact of election

-Hanoi, North Vietnam

-Moscow, Soviet Union

-Reporter

-McGovern

-Compared to Franklin D. Roosevelt

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-Hecklers

-San Diego incident at Vice President Spiro T. Agnew speech

-Assault on heckler

-Demonstrators

-Physical appearance of two men in altercation

-Archie Bunker analogy

-Jo Anne (Horton) Haldeman’s viewing

-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]

-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]

-Ziegler report

-Public relations [PR]

-The President

-Nassau

-San Francisco

-Liberty Island

-Julie Eisenhower and Tricia Nixon Cox

-San Diego

-Tone

-Agnew’s report

-Administration wives’ bus trip incident

-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger’s report

-Anne L. Armstrong

-Washington, DC

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-Jane (Dalton) Weingerber

-Fresno, California

-Conversation with unknown “Chicano”

-Motivation for heckling

-Payment by George S. McGovern campaign

-Television [TV] coverage

-Payment by McGovern campaign

-Press relations

-Lack of balance

-John S. (“Jack”) Knight

-Nicholas P. Thimmersch

Watergate

-Dirty tricks

-Donald H. Segretti

-Recruitment

-Responsibility

-Committee for the Re-election of the President [CRP]

-John N. Mitchell

-G[eorge] Gordon Liddy

-John Mitchell

-Martha (Beall) Mitchell

-Jeb Stuart Magruder

-Dwight L. Chapin

-Investigation

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 6:15 pm.

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:38 pm.

-Investigation

-Chapin

-Charles W. Colson

-Rowland Evans and Robert Novak column

-Liddy

-Mitchell

-Conversations with the President

-Colson

-1970 Campaign

-Segretti

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-Operation Sandwedge

-Herbert W. Kalmbach

-John J. (“Jack”) Caulfield

-Mitchell

-Responsibility

-Mitchell

-The President

-Chapin

-Colson

-Press relations

-The President’s reaction

-The President’s location

-Florida

-Involvement

-Segretti

-Liddy

-Mitchell and an unknown person

-Colson

-Finance Committee

-White House

-Chapin

-Segretti

-Recruitment

-Investigation

-Problems

-Chapin

-Segretti

-Chapin

-Mitchell

-Martha Mitchell

-1972 election

-Peter Flanigan’s views

-Possible TV appearance by the President

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1972 campaign

-Wisconsin

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-Illinois

-Minnesota

-Importance

-Minnesota

-Illinois

-Wisconsin

-William Proxmire, Gaylord Nelson

-Democratic governor

-Republican Party

-Decline

-Organization

-Catholic vote

-The President’s chances

-Minnesota

-Advertisements

-Number

-Radio

-TV

-NBC

-CBS

-Reruns

-Local stations

-Number

-Sale of time

-Prime time

-CBS

-Negotiations

-McGovern’s program

-Options

-Carruthers

-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

-CBS

-Vietnam

-Bombing halt

-1968 campaign

-William F. (“Billy”) Graham

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The President’s schedule

-Church services

-The President’s attendance

-Breakfast prayer meeting

-William F. (“Billy”) Graham

-White House staff

-Church services

-Photograph opportunities

-The President’s attendance

-Photograph opportunities

-Breakfast prayer meeting

-Graham

-Photograph opportunity

-Schedule

-Radio talks

Watergate

-Concern

-Republicans

-Democrats

-Attitudes

-Wilbur D. Mills

-J. William Fulbright

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1972 campaign

-President’s trip to Chicago

-Size of crowds

-Press coverage

-News wires

-New York Times

-Telephone calls

-Republican candidates

-The President’s popularity

-Scott

-Powell

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-Peter H. Dominick

-Robert C. (“Bob”) Wilson

-Identification with the President

-McGovern

-John J. Sparkman’s support

-Polls

-Changes

-Robert J. Dole

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Haldeman left at 6:38 pm.