Date: September 26, 1972
Time: 9:50 am – 10:11 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
The President’s schedule
-The President’s forthcoming trip to New York
-The President’s forthcoming meeting with Max M. Fisher
-Advance teams
-John N. Mitchell
-White House staff
-Lawrence Goldberg
-Leonard Garment
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Mitchell
-Clark MacGregor
-Harry S. Dent
-Fisher
-Possible ambassadorship
-Efforts
-New York
-Michigan
-California
East-West Trade Relations Act
-Exit permits
-Ukrainians
-Number
-Charles Vanik’s amendment
-Exit tax
-Israel
-Aid
-Revision
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew’s schedule
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Press relations
-News Summary
-Campaign trips
-End the war vote
-Importance of presence
-Tie vote
-President’s experience
-News story
-Federal employees
Retired federal workers
-Support
-End the war amendment
-George S. McGovern
-Agnew
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[Duration: 3m 45s ]
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Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 9:55 am.
Press announcement
-New York
-The President’s forthcoming meeting with Jewish leaders
-Leak
-Rita E. Hauser
-Telephone call to Ziegler
-Content of remarks
-Possible leak
-Soviet issue
-United Press International [UPI]
-Associated Press [AP]
-The President’s schedule
-Democrats for Nixon
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Committee to Re-elect the President [CRP]
-Dinner
Ziegler left at 9:57 am.
-The President’s forthcoming meeting with Jewish leaders
-Agnew
-Jews
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:57 am.
The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Robert E. Merriam
Bull left at an unknown time before 10:11 am.
-Jews
-The President’s forthcoming meeting with Jewish leaders
-Timing
-Fisher
-Possible leaks
-Purpose
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
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[Duration: 1m 11s ]
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1972 election
-North American Rockwell contract
-Washington Star
-Orr Kelly article
-Interviews with business executives
-California
-Congress
-[McGovern]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-The President’s conversation with Charles W. Colson
-Melvin R. Laird
-National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]
-B-1
-Orange County plant
-Leaks
-McGovern
-Thomas V. Jones [of Northrop Corporation]
-Quote
-Dinner, September 27, 1972
-Haldeman’s forthcoming conversation
-Support
-Support
-Administration defense policies
-Los Angeles Times
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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[Duration: 2m 12s ]
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Watergate
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] hearings
-Stewart J.O Alsop
-Daniel L. Schorr
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Chappaquiddick
-Hearings
-James O. Eastland
-Wright Patman
-Democrats
-Committee members
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Maurice H. Stans, Hugh W. Sloan, Jr.
-Civil suits
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Criminal suits
-Strength as issue
-Press relations
-Alsop
-Schorr
-Alsop
-Washington Post
-Newsweek
-Kissinger
-Favor
-Analogy to Eligio (“Kika”) De la Garza
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT] agreement
-Vote
-Alsop
-Airplane flight to Republican National Convention
-McGovern
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 45s ]
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Haldeman left at 10:11 am.