Date: October 12, 1972
Time: 10:05 am – 10:33 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman at 10:05 am.
1972 campaign
-Expenses
-Vote letter
-Press coverage
-Committee for the Re-Election of the President [CRP]
-Franked mailings
-Fletcher Thompson
-Georgia
-Clark MacGregor
-Printed statement
-White House
-CRP
-Television [TV] and radio text
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-John B. Connally`s previous conversation with Haldeman
-Corruption charges
-Response
-Connally’s handling
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-Presidential campaigning
-[George S. McGovern] campaign
-The President’s role
-Counter-attack
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Press standards
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-Press standards
-Supporters of McGovern
-Attacks on the President and supporters
-Republican National Committee [RNC]
-Apparent methods used
-The President’s schedule
-Berkeley
-Flyers
-Damage
-Statue of Liberty
-Tricia Nixon Cox’s schedule
-[Columbus Day] Parade
-Shouting of obscenities
-Policy of media toward coverage
-Violence
-The President’s conversation with Charles W. Colson
-Connally’s view
-White House
-McGovern’s issues
-Vietnam War
-French embassy bombing
-Graft, corruption as issues
-Possible responses
-Specifics
-Context in history
-Double standard
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Richard (“Dick”) Tuck
-Record
-Distribution of editorial writers
-Comparisons
-Press and network coverage
-Possible reason
Henry A. Kissinger’s schedule
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-Vietnam negotiations
-Hanoi
-Cable from Kissinger
-Meeting with the President
-Discussion with Col. Richard T. Kennedy
-Possibility of meeting with William P. Rogers
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Kennedy
-Rogers
-Announcement
-Kissinger report
-Ronald Ziegler’s announcement
-Kissinger’s possible arrival time
-Haig
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Kissinger
-Hanoi
-Meeting with the President
-Publicity
1972 election
-Press relations
-CRP, Washington Post
-Press standards
-MacGregor
-Robert J. Dole
-Donald Segretti story
-St. Louis Post Dispatch
-New York Times
-McGovern
-Peace plan
-Washington Post
-Journalistic style
-Building dedication invitations
-The President’s order to Cabinet officers
-Rogers’s acceptance
-John N. Mitchell
-Maurice H. Stans
-Libel
-Administration stance
-Walter Washington
-Rogers
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Washington, DC jail takeover by inmates
-Blacks
-Grievances
-Judge’s [Albert C. Bryant’s] action
-Administration involvement
-News coverage
-Washington, DC
1972 election
-McGovern
-Vietnam speech, October 10, 1972
-Reaction
-Bombing of French consulate
-Public interest
-Casualty
-[Hanoi]
-Bombing accuracy
-Surface to air missile [SAM]
-Melvin R. Laird
-Washington Star editorial
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-Joseph C. Kraft
-Residual forces
-J. William Fulbright
-McGovern’s staff
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Bombing
-Thailand
-Rogers
-[Adm. John S. McCain, Jr.]
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The President’s responses to McGovern’s corruption charges
-Discussion of campaign practices
-In-office press conference
-Clawson
-[“Canuck”] letter
-William Loeb’s repudiation
-Colson
-Marilyn Berger
-Democratic Party activities
-Telephone calls from Los Angeles office, flyers from
Berkeley office
-Editorials
-Washington Post
-Chicago Tribune
-Orlando Sentinel
-St. Louis Globe Democrat
-Press standards
-Washington Post
-Rogers’s possible statement
-Possible effectiveness
-New York Times
Press and media relations
-Connally’s view
-Establishment
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-Newsweek
-Time
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-James Keogh
-Clawson
-Clawson
-Beliefs
-Buchanan
-Jewish background
-Kevin Phillips’s theme
-Buchanan theme
News briefing
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-Ziegler
-Kissinger’s meeting with the President
-Television [TV] coverage
An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 10:05 am.
Ziegler’s schedule
The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 10:24 am.
Campaign activities
-Tone
-Public reaction
-Watergate
Ziegler entered at 10:24 am.
The President’s schedule
-The President’s remarks at Atlanta reception, October 12, 1972
-TV and radio coverage
-Atlanta press pool
-J. William Theis
-Atlanta Journal-Constitution
-Cameras and lights
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Rogers’s schedule
-Kissinger’s schedule
-[National Security Council] [NSC]
-Reports
-Rogers
Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 10:26 am.
The President’s schedule
-[Atlanta]
Ziegler left at 10:28 am.
-Memoranda from John D. Ehrlichman
-Copies
-Guest list
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Haldeman left at 10:29 am.
First Family’s schedule
-Visits to the South
The President’s schedule
-Butterfield’s schedule
The President and Butterfield left at 10:33 am.