Date: August 2, 1972

Time: 8:32 am – 10:25 am

Location: Oval Office

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

Films on presidential actions for the Republican National Convention

-Richard A. Moore’s involvement

-Haldeman’s concerns

-Content

-John D. Ehrlichman

-Domestic Council

-Script

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Films on presidential actions for the Republican Convention

-Design of films

-Blue-collar focus

-Tone

-Previous interview with the President

-Subjects of films

-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

-“Nixon the man”

-The President’s time in office

-Length of films

-Advantages

-Television

-Film on the President’s time in office

-The President’s televised address in the Soviet Union

-Tanya Savicheva story

-Use in film

-Possible use in the President’s forthcoming acceptance speech

-The President’s appearance in a Soviet cemetery

-Audience

-Compared to audience for the President’s forthcoming acceptance

speech

-Compared to audience for the President’s televised address in the

Soviet Union

-Images from the President’s trip to the Soviet Union

-Tanya

-Graves

-Flame at cemetery

-Tanya

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-Soviet children

-GUM department store

-The President’s appearance before Congress, June 1, 1972

-Foreign policy

-The President’s efforts to end the war in Vietnam

-The President’s appearance with US troops in South Vietnam, July 30,

1969

-Color film

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Films on presidential actions for the Republican Convention

-Content

-Edward R.F. Cox and Tricia Nixon Cox wedding footage

-Mrs. Nixon

-Chou En-lai with the President

-Film on the President

-Film on Mrs. Nixon

-Film on Mrs. Nixon

-Footage from wedding

-The President and Mrs. Nixon

-The President and Mrs. Nixon

-Beach scenes

-Mrs. Nixon’s previous trip to Africa

-Soviet Union

-People’s Republic of China [PRC]

-Film on “Nixon the man”

-Dinner honoring Edward K. (“Duke”) Ellington, April 29, 1969

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-The President’s piano playing

-The President’s conversation with Ehrlichman

-Legislation

-The President’s conversation with Haldeman

-Cabinet staffing

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Films on presidential actions for the Republican Convention

-Views of the President

-Harry S. Dent

-Robert J. Brown

-Ehrlichman

-The President’s family history

-Hannah Milhous Nixon

-Length

-Audience

-Possible uses

-Meetings

-Local television

-John F. Kennedy’s use of film in 1960

-Compared to Kennedy films

-David L. Wolper’s view

-Emotional impact

-Scarcity value of the President’s films

-Film scenes

-The President’s meeting with the Cabinet Committee on International

Narcotics Control, March 20, 1972

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-Level of heroin use

-The President’s trip to New York City, March 20, 1972

-Review of customs procedures

-Busing

-The President’s statement

-Ehrlichman

-Education

-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming review of the films

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The President’s schedule

-Possible trip to Thomas B. McCabe, Jr.’s residence

-Insects

-Possible meeting with James O. Eastland

-Possible trip to McCabe residence

-Republican National Convention

-Forthcoming meeting with senior advisors

-John B. Connally

-John N. Mitchell

-Herbert Brownell

-Connally

-Clark MacGregor

-Robert J. Dole

-Bryce N. Harlow

-Brownell

-Dole

-Connally

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-MacGregor

-Haldeman

-Charles W. Colson

-Connally

-Camp David

-Sequoia

-Camp David

-Timing

-Haldeman’s forthcoming conversation with Connally

Haldeman’s contact with individuals

-Connally

-William F. (“Billy”) Graham

-Lawrence M. Higby

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[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II’s attendance at Republican National Convention

-View of the Navy

-Secretary of the Navy

-John W. Warner

-Carl A. Hatch Act

-The President’s view of applicability to Eisenhower

-Presence of other service personnel

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General Accounting Office [GAO] investigation

-Scope

-Expenditures

-Ehrlichman [?]

-Contributions

-Expenditures

-Time magazine report

-William Proxmire

Watergate

-Jeb Stuart Magruder testimony

-Richard G. Kleindienst

-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III

-Investigation

-Magruder

-Plausibility of testimony

-Knowledge

-G[eorge] Gordon Liddy

Campaign

-Maurice H. Stans

-Budget controls

-Expenses for Watergate-related activities

-Magruder

-MacGregor

-Need for controls

-Frederic V. Malek

-Spending

-Murray M. Chotiner

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-The President’s view

-Personnel expenses compared to other expenses

-Advertising

-Budget Committee

-Haldeman

-Stans

-Uses of budget control

-Voter registration

-Balloons

-Emery boards

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 8:32 am.

Thomas F. Eagleton

-Photograph of son [Terry Eagleton] with the President

-Age of Terry Eagleton

-Timing of photograph

-The President’s trip to San Clemente

-Signing ceremony for Construction Safety Bill

-Cabinet Room

-The President’s autograph

-Rose Mary Woods

-Wire service photograph

-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins

-Compared to White House photograph

Bull left and reentered at an unknown time between 8:32 am and 9:30 am.

-The President’s request for a photograph enlargement

-Wire service photograph compared to White House photograph

-Request for photograph enlargement

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:30 am.

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Washingtonian Article [“Sex, Power, and Politics”]

-Patrick J. Buchanan

-Edward M. Kennedy

-Lyndon B. Johnson

-John F. Kennedy

-The President’s administration

-Secret Service agents

-San Clemente

-John Kennedy

-Prostitutes

-Incident

-Jacqueline (Bouvier) Kennedy

-Johnson

-Secretaries

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Washingtonian article

-Johnson

-Claudia A. (Taylor) (“Lady Bird”) Johnson

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-Dole

-Frederick G. Dutton

-Divorce

-Second marriage

-Children by a third woman

-Portrayal of the administration

-Secret Service views

-Stories from the administration of John Kennedy

-Pierre E.G. Salinger

-Theodore C. Sorensen

-Kenneth P. O’donnell

-Florida trips

-Buchanan’s view

[Allegation concerning George S. McGovern]

-Fort Wayne

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Washingtonian article

-Randy Agnew

-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

-Activities

-Kim Agnew

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Washingtonian article

-View of the President

-John F. Kennedy

-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo

-Key Biscayne

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 9:30 am.

Legislative matter [?]

-Schedule

Butterfield left at 9:33 am.

Washingtonian article

-Administration staff

-Edward L. Morgan

-John W. Dean, III

-Maureen (Kane) Dean

-Henry A. Kissinger

-Unknown staff member

-Unknown secretary

-Buchanan

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Administration staff

-Haldeman’s view

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The President’s schedule

-Possible meeting with Elaine (Schwartzenburg) Edwards

-Edwin W. Edwards

-Appointment of wife as senator

-Previous meeting with the President

-Thomas C. Korologos

-Russell B. Long

Press

-The President’s request for a bibliography of works attacking the President

-News summary

-Leonard Lurie

-Unknown book

-“Underground press”

-Graham

-Attacks on Johnson

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-The Running of Richard Nixon

-Haldeman’s view

-Reviews

-Compared to hate mail

-Compared to pornography

-Coverage of the President

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Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:33 am and 10:25

am.

[Conversation No. 759-2A]

[See Conversation No. 28-40]

Haldeman conferred with the President.

The President’s schedule

-Possible meeting with Mitchell and Brownell

-Walkers Cay

-Republican National Convention

[End of conferral]

[End of telephone conversation]

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Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:33 am.

Telephone call for Haldeman

-Mitchell

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:25 am.

Haldeman talked with Mitchell at an unknown time between 9:33 am and 10:25 am.

[Conversation No. 759-2B]

[See Conversation No. 28-41]

The President conferred with Haldeman.

The President’s schedule

-Forthcoming meeting with Mitchell, Brownell, Connally, and MacGregor

-Timing

-Mitchell’s schedule

[End of conferral]

[End of telephone conversation]

Mitchell’s concerns

-Martha (Beall) Mitchell

-The President’s conversation with John Mitchell, August 1, 1972

-Rose Mary Woods

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-Martha Mitchell’s actions with John Mitchell

-Watergate apartments

-Need for treatment

-New York

-Maine Chance

-Use of resort to treat alcoholism

-Golden Door

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The President’s contact with media

-Possible press conference

-Connally’s view

-Scheduling

-Timing

-Use of prime time

-William P. Rogers

-Possible press conference on August 10, 1972

-The President’s forthcoming acceptance speech

-Connally

-Republican platform committee meeting

-Possibility of televised press conference

-Office press conference

-Republican platform committee meeting

-Office press conference

-Revenue sharing bill signing

-Location

-East Room

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-Participants

-Governors

-Senators

-George S. McGovern

-Committee members

-Mayors

-County officers

-Senate leadership

-Senate committee members

-Use of East Room

-Participation of Connally

-Television coverage

-Ehrlichman

-Nelson A. Rockefeller

-Sense of accomplishment

-East Room

-Ronald L. Ziegler

-Interviews

The President’s schedule

-Haldeman’s forthcoming call to Connally

-Forthcoming meeting with the President

-John Mitchell

-Brownell

-John Mitchell

-Martha Mitchell

-The President’s forthcoming meeting with Connally, and Haldeman

-MacGregor

-Colson

-Haldeman

-Colson

-Possible meeting on the Sequoia

-Possible trip to the McCabe residence

-Rebozo

-Robert H. Abplanalp

-Security

-Previous reception for the Secret Service

-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

-Lack of alcohol

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-Robert H. Taylor

-Agnew

-John T. (“Jack”) Sherwood

-John Kennedy assassination

-Refreshments

-Previous Johnson reception

Secret Service

-Capability of agents

-Education

-Demeanor

-Travel

-PRC

-Soviet Union

-San Clemente

-Florida

The President’s schedule

-Tricia Nixon Cox [?]

-Possible meeting with Ehrlichman

Haldeman left at 10:25 am.