Date: October 2, 1972
Time: 12:43 pm – 1:40 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Stephen B. Bull and Alexander P. Butterfield.
Ronald L. Ziegler’s schedule
Charles W. Colson
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
Bull left at an unknown time before 12:48 pm.
H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 12:43 pm.
Camp David accommodations and schedule
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin and Andrei A. Gromyko
-Birch Lodge
-William P. Rogers
-Dogwood Lodge
-Peter G. Peterson
-Earl L. Butz
-Rogers
-Dogwood Lodge
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Dogwood Lodge
-Birch Lodge
-Advantage
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Maple Lodge
-Yuli M. Vorontsov
-Soviets
-Americans
-Walter J. Stoessel Jr.
-Butz
-Peterson
-Mode of travel
-Gromyko
-Dobrynin
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-Rogers
Butterfield left at 12:48 pm.
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT] signing ceremony
-Breakfast
-Laurel Lodge
-Return to Washington DC
-Timing
-Embassy
-White House
Weather
-Outlook
Diplomatic Credentials Ceremony
-Number
-Length of time
Press relations
-Office press conference
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-John B. Connally
-Atlanta
-Cancelled trip
-George S. McGovern
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Campaign activities
-Briefing book
-Ripon Society study
-Soviet Jews
-Taxes
-Debate
-McGovern
-US-Soviet Union grain deal
-Campaigning
-State visits
-Expectations of House and Senate
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Congressional relations
-Endorsement letters
-James O. Eastland
-Opponent [Gil Carmichael]
-John L. McClellan
-Opponent [Wayne H. Babbitt]
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Eastland
-Support for the President
-Clarke T. Reed
-James H. Meredith
-Winthrop Rockefeller
-McClellan
-Health
-James Keogh
-Debt limit legislation
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Upcoming conversation with the President
-Strategy
-Ehrlichman
-Support letters
-The President’s recent conversation with Ehrlichman
An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time before 1:40 pm.
-Democrats
-Possible response
News coverage
-Republicans
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Presidential leadership
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-Presidential leadership
-Ehrlichman and Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Possible meeting with Democrats
-Possible telephone calls
-Telephone lists
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Haldeman’s schedule
Soviet Jewish emigration
-US Jews
-Potential problems
-Soviet exit visas
-The President’s recent conversation with Kissinger, Rogers
-Republicans
-Rogers’s view
-US foreign policy
-Support for the President
-Leadership
-Israel
-Votes
-Racism
-Blacks
Manolo Sanchez [?] entered at an unknown time after 12:48 pm.
Refreshments
Sanchez [?] left at an unknown time before 1:40 pm.
-Soviet exit visas
-Israel
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-Fiddler On The Roof
-The President’s view
-Propaganda
-World War II
-Adolf Hitler
-Exit visas
-Love Story
-Ukrainian Catholics
-Lithuanians
-Estonians
-Russia during the 19th Century
-Jewish music
-Support for the President
-Economic and social concerns
-Race
-Amassing and passing along wealth
-Quotas
-Israel
-Foreign policy
-Democrats
-Soviet Union
-Arabs
-Joseph C. Kraft
Congressional relations
-Veto of water bill
-Social Security
-Lowering age to receive benefits
-Veto
-Taxes
-Spending ceiling
-Recent meeting
-Taxes
-Ehrlichman
-Weinberger
-Republican Congressional leadership
-Gerald R. Ford
-Leslie C. Arends
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Polls
-Issues
-Importance
-The President’s positions compared to McGovern’s
-US-Soviet Union grain deal
-Iowa and national
-Veracity of charges
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Impact on voting preferences
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-The President compared to McGovern
-McGovern’s charges
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Grain deal
-Defense budget
-POW’s
-US-Soviet Union grain deal
-Defense budget
-Registered voters
-George G. Gallup and Louis P. Harris
-Gallup
-Administration poll
-Gallup and Harris
-US-Soviet Union grain deal
-Future question
-US-Soviet Union trade agreement
-Soviet Jews
-Exit visas
-Terminology
-Congress
-Other agreements
-Arms control
-Public interest
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Haldeman left at 1:40 pm.