Date: September 16, 1972

Time: 10:55 am – 12:50 pm

Location: Oval Office

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

The President’s forthcoming speech at the Conference on International Narcotics

Control

-Length

-John K. Andrews, Jr.

-Raymond K. Price, Jr.

-The President’s view

-Duration of speech

-Haldeman’s view

-Content

-Phrasing

-Need for headline

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Tape Subject Log

(rev. Oct-06)

-The President’s role in writing

-Haldeman’s view

-White House speechwriters’ abilities

-State Department

-The President’s view

-Length

-Department of State briefings

-Television [TV] coverage

-International drug traffic

-Administration policy

-Speech-writing process

-Andrews

-Letter

-The President’s efforts in writing speech

-Haldeman’s view

-Length

-Delivery

-Desired speech format

-Anecdotes

-Audience

-Compared to high school audience

-The President’s view

-Content

-Phrasing

-The President’s view

-Theme for the President’s speech

-Press reports

-Reporters

-Headlines

-Speech writers

-Phrasing

-General audience

-The President’s use of anecdotal speech

-International affairs audience

-Desired speech format

-The President’s view

-The President’s speech to International Monetary Fund [IMF]

-William L. Safire

-Timing

Speech writing

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Tape Subject Log

(rev. Oct-06)

-Need for editor

-Importance of headline

-Price

-Editorial abilities

-Editor’s role

-Haldeman’s view

The President’s forthcoming speech at the Conference on International Narcotics

Control

-Content

-Theme

-Length

-Effect on audience attention

-Washington, DC

-Audience

-Purpose of speech

-Format

-The President’s instructions to speech writer

-Anecdotal speech

-Recitation of the record on an issue

-Effectiveness

-John D. Ehrlichman

-Egil G. (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.

-Wording

-Catch-phrases

-Accomplishments and goals

-International affairs audience

-Number of countries

-Drug control officials

-Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs

-Purpose

-Length

US foreign policy

-The President’s recent conversation with Henry A. Kissinger

-William P. Rogers

-Interest in substance

-Rogers

-Interest in substance

-Concern about results

-Publicizing of results

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Tape Subject Log

(rev. Oct-06)

-Compared to Kissinger

-Details

-Announcements

-Effect on campaign

-US-Soviet Union Trade Agreement

-Strategic Arms Limitation Agreement [SALT] II

-The President’s policy

-Future promise in foreign affairs

-Compared to SALT I

-European Security Conference

-Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions [MBFR]

-US-Soviet Union trade agreement

-Final detail negotiations

-Positive news for the President’s campaign

-Administration’s accomplishments

-Compared to opposition’s accomplishments

-George S. McGovern

-Positive campaign ideas

-Price and wage program

-News summary

-1966 program

-Chances of success

-Food prices

-Response

-Herb Stein

-Donald H. Rumsfeld

-Compared to Lyndon Johnson’s guidelines

-Economic philosophy

-Walter W. Heller

-Food Prices

-Trickle-down effect

-Trickle-down effect on food prices

-Criticisms of the President

-The administration’s control of other prices

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Foreign policy

-Timing of announcements

-The President’s schedule

-Washington, D.C.

-Kissinger’s trip to Paris

-Vietnam peace negotiations

-Timing compared to the President’s trip to West Coast

-Media coverage

-Kissinger’s Paris trip

-Vietnam peace negotiations

-Moscow visit

-Buildup of expectations

Watergate

-Tactics

-Kissinger

-News coverage

-Statements by the Cuban defendants

-News summary

-Public’s belief in accusations

-Infiltration of communists

-John W. Chancellor

-McGovern response

-Direct challenge to Democratic National

Committee

-Communist influence

Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:55 am.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s schedule

-Philadelphia

-Possible change in flights

-Camp David

-Secret Service notification

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Tape Subject Log

(rev. Oct-06)

-Tricia Nixon Cox

-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

First Family’s schedule

-Changes

-The President’s arrival at Camp David

-Hagerstown

Haldeman’s schedule

-Ehrlichman

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:14 pm.

Haldeman’s schedule

-Meeting

Watergate

-Media coverage

-TV interviews of Watergate defendants

-Bernard Barker interview

-Informant role

-Communist conspiracy

-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]

-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]

-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]

-Coverage of Watergate

-Barker

-Defendant’s credibility

-Fear of McGovern

-Sell-out to Communists

-Henry Rothblatt

-Barker’s lawyer

-Interview of defendants

-Fear of McGovern

-Compared to Manolo Sanchez

-Cover-up charges

-Barker

-New York Times interview

-Motivation for cover-up

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 10:55 am.

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Tape Subject Log

(rev. Oct-06)

Watergate

-TV coverage

-Cubans indicted in Watergate

-Fear of McGovern

-Communists

-Democratic Party

-Newspapers

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:14 pm.

McGovern

-Loyalty to US

-Cubans

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 10:55 am.

Press relations

-Newspaper

-Cuba

-New York Daily News

-McGovern

-The President

-Democrats

-Communists

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:14 pm.

-1972 election

-McGovern

-Communism

-Vietnam

-Jane Fonda

-W. Ramsey Clark

-Jerry Rubin

-John V. Lindsay

-Support for McGovern

-Supporters

-Sanchez’s reading

1972 election

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(rev. Oct-06)

-Press releases

-The President’s financial statement

-Timing

-September 16, 1972

-Kissinger’s press conference

-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

-Seeing-eye dog

-TV coverage

The President’s forthcoming speeches

-Conference on International Narcotics Control

-Reading

-TV coverage

-Response to speech

-Need for votes

-Radio talk on senior citizens

-Taxes

-Headline-grabbing theme

-Radio talks

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The President’s economic program

-Rise in personal income

-Retail sales

-Stock market

-Rise in profits

-Public psychology

-Effect of 1972 election

-Status of the market at present

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Tape Subject Log

(rev. Oct-06)

-Capability of rise in Dow Jones Average

-Concern over market

Stock market

-Newspaper coverage

-Washington Star

-Associated Press [AP] story

-[Sterling F. Green ?]

-Paris peace talks

-The President’s view

-Average stockholder

-Sale of International Business Machines [IBM] stock

-Kissinger’s progress in Vietnam peace talks

-Predictions for future

-Discussion of rise in market

-Effect of more conservative government

-1972 presidential election

White House personnel

-John W. Dean, III

-Ehrlichman

-Haldeman

-Recruitment for the White House

-Frederic V. Malek

-Dean

-David R. Young, Jr.

-Ehrlichman

-Kissinger’s office

-Work assignments

-Haldeman and Nixon’s vision

-Krogh

-Work assignments

-The President’s meeting with tax experts

-John B. Connally

-George P. Shultz

-Stein

-The President’s view

-1968 election

-Opposition from Congress

-1968 election results

-Lack of mandate for the President

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(rev. Oct-06)

-Effect on policy-making

-Urban riots

-Hunger program

Future White House policies

-Conservative administration

-Cutbacks on programs

-Agricultural programs

-Cotton program

-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]

-Amount of outlays

-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]

-Education programs

-Child-care cutbacks

-Savings in budget

-Domestic Council staff

-New programs

-Benjamin Disraeli

-Ehrlichman

-Robert Blake biography [Disraeli]

-Party reform

-Effect of long period of reforms

-William Gladstone

-Franklin D. Roosevelt

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

-Lessons for Nixon’s second term

-New policies

-Government reorganization

-Connally

-Real gains of reform

-Needs of people

-Louis P. Harris’s theory

-Desire not to improve

-Blake’s analysis

-Nelson A. Rockefeller

-Ehrlichman’s staff

-New programs

-American people’s attitude

-End to experimental programs

-Retention of good programs

-Caspar W. Weinberger

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(rev. Oct-06)

-Study of budget

-City-orientation

-Compared to the President’s philosophy

-Housing and Urban Development [HUD]

-OEO

-Instructions from the President

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Watergate

-Proper campaign response

-Avoidance of fatalism

-The President’s view

-White House actions to change situation

-International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. [ITT]

Kissinger

-Concern over policy image

-Mining

-Cambodia

Need to look forward

-Positive attitude

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Tape Subject Log

(rev. Oct-06)

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George H. Gallup poll

-John S. Davies

-Contact with the White House

-Government work aspect of polling

-Gordon C. Strachan

-Importance of contacts within the White House

-Cooperation with the Gallup Poll organization

-The President’s use of the Gallup Poll organization

-Possible leaks of poll information

-Disclosure of polls to the President

-Motivation of pollsters

-Jack N. Anderson

-White House connections with pollsters

-Gallup poll

-Harris poll

-Motivation for polling

-Ties to power

-Gallup poll

-Anderson story

-Source of story

-Anderson

-Possible prosecution

-Timing

-Joint Chiefs of Staff

-Charles E. Radford

White House use of executive powers

-Reasons

-The President’s view

White House relations with press in second term

-Press’s attitude toward White House

-The President’s view

-Hugh S. Sidey

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Tape Subject Log

(rev. Oct-06)

-John F. Osborne

-News blackout

-Washington Post

-Government sources

-Business failure

-Effect of profits on editorials

-Charles W. Colson

-Trip to New York

-Effect on broadcasters

-Effect on news

-William S. Paley

-Frank Stanton

-The President’s letter to Screen Actors Guild

-Ronald L. Ziegler press conference

-Barry Serafin

-Intimidation of networks

-White House concern

-Questioning of Ziegler

-Re-run question

-Network operations

-Entertainment and news divisions

-White House intimidation of the networks

-Division of news and entertainment

-Benefits of decrease in re-runs

-Viewers

-Actors

-Hollywood

-Filmmakers

-Haldeman’s view

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:55 am.

First Family schedule

-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s return

-Tricia Cox’s return

-National Airport

-Edward R.F. Cox

-Cincinnati

-Mrs. Nixon

-Return time

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Tape Subject Log

(rev. Oct-06)

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:14 pm.

The President’s letter to Screen Actors Guild

-John Gavin

-Network practices

-Profits

-Station-ownership

-Profits for network

Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:55 am.

Tricia Nixon Cox telephone call

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:14 pm.

The President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox at between 12:14 pm and 12:19 pm.

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Economic situation

World situation

-Effect of 1972 Presidential election

-Vietnam war

-North Vietnamese attack

-Effect

-Haldeman’s view

-Kissinger’s effects

-Negotiations

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-Middle East

-Peoples Republic of China [PRC]

-Soviet Union relations

-Effect

-Focus

-Hypothetical Suez crisis

-Effect on polls

-Realities of international relations

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Henry Kissinger entered at 12:33 pm.

Recent press conference

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:33 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez and the President left at an unknown time before 12:35 pm.

Foreign policy

-Kissinger’s recent press conference

-Europe

-Questions by Jews

-Soviet-Jewish emigration

-US-Soviet Union

-Trade agreement

-Abrehem A. Ribicoff Amendment

-US position

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Tape Subject Log

(rev. Oct-06)

-Submission to Senate

-Jacob K. Javits

President entered at an unknown time before 12:35 pm.

-Length

-Crowd size

-European relations

-The President’s message to European leaders

-New vitality

-Moscow

-Peking

-Cornerstone of US foreign relations

-Possible trip by the President to Europe

-Contact with European leaders

-New diplomacy

-Economic ties

-New basis

-Press interest

-Press coverage

-Effect on McGovern campaign

-McGovern withdrawal of troops from

Europe

-Introductory statement

-US-Soviet Union relations

-Visit

-Meeting with Secretary General [Leonid I. Brezhnev] and President

-Results of Moscow summit

-Future negotiations

-Personal contact between US-Soviet Union leaders

-August 1972

-Decision making

Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 12:33 pm.

-Press stories

-Relations with Soviet Union

-Negotiations

-Vietnam

-Handling of press

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Tape Subject Log

(rev. Oct-06)

Ziegler left at an unknown time before 12:35 pm.

-US-Soviet relations

-The President’s messages to Brezhnev

-Economic relations

-European Security Conference and MBFR

-Stalemate problem

-The President’s message to Brezhnev

-SALT II

-Economic negotiations

-Kissinger’s contact with the President

-Progress

-Dates

-Categories

-Aleksai N. Kosygin

-Presence at meeting

-Brezhnev

-Vietnam negotiations

-Press questions

-Kissinger’s response

-Negotiations goals

-Ending of war

-Pace

-Le Duc Tho

-Transcript

-Desire to end war characterized

Israel

-Movement of troops into Lebanon

-Kissinger’s message to Israeli Charge D’Affairs

-Effect of troop movement

-Possible Egyptian response

Haldeman left at 2:35 pm.

-US aid

-Demarche

-Kissinger’s trip to the Soviet Union

-Appearance of collusion

-US-Soviet Trade agreement

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Tape Subject Log

(rev. Oct-06)

-Possible action in Congress

-Treatment of Soviet Jews

-Foreign pressure on US

-Angela Davis

-US response

-The President’s message to Israel

-Israeli troops in Lebanon

-US aid

-McGovern’s Israel policy

-US talks with Egyptians

-Anwar El-Sadat

-Murder of Israeli athletes

-Egypt

-Syria

-Motives for action vis-�-vis Lebanon

-Conditions

-Inheritance from previous Administration

-The President’s international rule

-Support

-Compared with Eisenhower

-Roosevelt as world leader

-Concept of foreign policy

-Strength of US

-Winston S. Churchill

-Joseph V. Stalin

-Dominance

-Other Nations

-Brezhnev’s foreign policy

-Chou En-Lai

-Konrad Adenauer

-Gen. Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle

-Churchill

-[Meunie] Harold MacMillan

-Compared to Europe

-The President’s grasp of policy

-McGovern as president

-Effect on

-PRC

-Soviet Union

-McGovern’s position

-PRC reaction

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-Unilateral US disarmament

-Effect on PRC

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Israel

-Kissinger’s possible message to Israeli Charge D’Affairs

-US position

-[Golda Meir]

-Movement of troops into Lebanon

-The President’s support of Israel

-Aid

-Rogers and Melvin R. Laird

-Rogers

-Gunnar V. Jarring mission

-Rogers and Laird

-February 1971

-Aid

-Airplanes

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Kissinger’s schedule

-Invitation to Camp David

-Meeting on Vietnam negotiations

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Kissinger left at 12:50 pm.