Date: September 15, 1972

Time: 11:26 am – 11:48 am

Location: Oval Office

The President met with Robert H. Finch.

Greetings

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Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 11:26 am.

The President’s schedule

-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

-Finch

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 11:48 am.

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Watergate

-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]

-Possible Indictments

-New report of bugging

-Public handling of issue

1972 presidential campaign

-Foreign policy

-The President’s point at recent breakfast meeting

-World travel

-George S. McGovern’s lack of experience

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

-Comparisons to the President

-Vice Presidential experience

-The President’s travel as a private citizen

-Economic issues

-Vietnam issue

-US peace proposals

-Return of Prisoners of War [POWs]

-Compared to Korean War

Vietnam War

-McGovern

-Peace proposal

-Finch’s view

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Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:26 am.

The President’s schedule

-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW] Commander

Finch’s schedule

-Plane to Syracuse

Haldeman

-Copy of John B. Connally speech

Parting remarks

Finch and Bull left at 11:48 am.