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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)
Date: September 15, 1972
Time: 3:15 pm – unknown before 5:27 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
Watergate
-Grand jury
-Justice Department
-Henry E. Peterson
-Press conference
-General Accounting Office [GAO] investigation
-Department statement
-Clark MacGregor
-Press statement
-Bugging accusation by Democrats
-John W. Dean, III
-Previous checking for bugs
-Little red box
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] inquiry
-Jean Westwood
-Edward Bennett Williams
-Contents
-Fire department employees
-Performance
-Hugh W. Sloan, Jr.
-Maurice H. Stans
-Robert C. Mardian
-Mardian
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 7m 27s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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1972 Presidential election
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Watergate statement
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Instruction to Haldeman for telephone call
-[Sequoia]
-Shelley A. (Scarney) Buchanan
Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 3:15 pm and 3:58
pm.
[Conversation No. 778-29A]
Request for Buchanan
[End of telephone conversation]
1972 Presidential election
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Visit to New Jersey
-Mrs. Nixon
Haldeman talked with Buchanan at an unknown time between 3:15 pm and 3:58 pm.
1972 Presidential campaign
-Watergate statements
-Mrs. Nixon
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Dean
-Sequoia
-MacGregor
-Republican party
[End of telephone conversation]
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 31m 27s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
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Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:15 pm.
The President’s schedule
-Peter H. Dailey’s arrival
Bull left at an unknown time before 3:58 pm.
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 27s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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Dailey and the White House photographer entered at 3:58 pm.
Greetings
Dailey’s schedule
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:58 pm.
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Refreshments
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 14m 58s ]
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:38 pm.
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
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Vietnam War
-The President’s role
-Ending of war
-Casualty figures
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 12m 35s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
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Public relations
-October 1972 announcements
-Trip to Soviet Union
-Trade agreement
-Film
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-Strategic Arms Limitations Talks [SALT] II
-European Security Conference
-Dailey’s role
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 7m 33s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
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Dailey’s schedule
-California
-Family
-Five children
-Glenn E. Wegner
-Idaho senate race
-Robert H. Finch staff
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 16
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 39s]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO.16
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1972 Olympic games in Munich, Germany
-Effect on US
-The President’s previous meeting with Republican leaders
-Patriotism
-Vince Matthews and Wayne Collett
-Preparation by US Olympic Committee
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-University of California at Los Angeles [UCLA]
-New York
-Rise in patriotism level
-Hundred meter dash
-Disqualified sprinters [Eddie Hart, Rey Robinson]
-Suspension of swimmer [Rick DeMont]
-Asthma drug
-Banned drug
-The President’s viewing
-Olympic judges
-Communist nations
-Boxing
-Diving
-Basketball
-UCLA
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 3m 2s ]
Dailey left at 4:38 pm.
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
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News summary
-[Ann Zur Schmiede’s] letter to Indianapolis [Star]
-Draft dodgers
-Vietnam
-Military aid
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9
[Personal returnable]
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[Duration: 59s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9
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Ronald Ziegler entered at 4:43 pm.
Watergate
-Indictments returned
-G[eorge] Gordon Liddy
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-White House responses
-Justice Department
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Investigation
-Grand Jury
-Media responses
-White House image
-MacGregor
-White House involvement
-Charles Manson case
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 10
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 43s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 10
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Henry A. Kissinger’s arrival
-Meeting with the President
-Meeting with the press
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-Secretary of State [William P. Rogers]
Ziegler left at 4:49 pm.
Ziegler in press briefing
-Ziegler’s comments to Haldeman
-Barry Serafin
-Administration race policy
-Questioning of Ziegler
-Campaign
-Korea
-Moral issue
-Vietnam
-Ziegler’s handling of press
-Administration’s handling of press
-The President’s view
-Lyndon B. Johnson’s handling of press
-Robert D. (“Bobby”) Baker scandal
-Walter W. Jenkins scandal
-Republican party
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 11
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 3m 47s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 11
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The President’s schedule
-Blair House dinner for Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher and Patricia R. Mosbacher
-Rose Mary Woods
-Rogers and Adele (Langston) Rogers
-State Department
-William Rogers birthday
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State Department
-Mosbacher
-Compared to Dailey
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 12
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 1m 49s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 12
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Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:49 pm.
Request for a call from MacGregor
-Secretary
-Press briefing
-Sanchez
-Dog
Bull left at an unknown time before 5:27 pm.
The President’s schedule
-Bill signing ceremony
-John Kyl
-Don H. Clausen
-George P. Shultz
-Dinner
-Secretaries of Treasury
-F Street Club
-Joseph W. Barr
-Camp David meeting
-John B. Connally
-Political judgement
Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:49 pm.
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MacGregor
-Network cameras
-Statement to press
-Herbert G. Klein
Bull left at an unknown time before 5:27 pm.
The President’s schedule
-Camp David meeting
-Merits
-Executive Office Building [EOB] meeting
EOB meeting
The President’s schedule
-Reception for Leonard B. (“Len”) Jordan, John Sherman Cooper, and Karl E.
Mundt
-Hugh Scott
-Republican senators and wives
-Scott’s home
-The President’s view
-Italian festival
-Gale Sayers
-Endorsement for the President
-Chung Hee Park
-South Korea
-Timing of meeting
-1972 Presidential election
-Relations with US
-Timing of meeting
-The President’s view
-New York
-John D. Rockefeller, IV
-Award dinner
-Outstanding Asian leader
-Meeting with the President
-Oval Office
-Election conflicts
-The President’s view
-Rogers
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-George H.W. Bush
-Opening of United Nations [UN] General Assembly
-International drug traffic and terrorism
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 14
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 2m 34s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 14
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The President’s schedule
-Possible meeting with American Medical Association [AMA] president [Dr. Carl
Hoffman]
-Photograph
-US-Soviet Union health agreement
-Trip to Soviet Union
-The President’s view
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 15
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 4m 4s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 15
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The President’s schedule
-Television broadcast
-European Broadcasting Union
-News conference
-Format
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-The President’s view
-Haldeman’s view
The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 5:27 pm.
[Conversation no. 778-29/779-1 continue on Tape 779]