Date: October 24, 1972
Time: Unknown between 8:59 am and 10:04 am
Location: Oval Office
Alexander P. Butterfield met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
Haldeman’s injury
-Scratch
-Cause and circumstances
-Paper clip
The President entered at 9:05 am.
The President’s schedule
-Signing ceremony paper
-Possible meeting with John B. Connally
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:05 am.
The President’s farm speech
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
Butterfield and Bull left at 9:11 am.
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The President’s schedule
-Incident during October 23, 1972 trip
-Man with shotgun
Crowd control
Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:11 am.
John K. Andrews, Jr.’s farm speech draft
Bull left at an unknown time before 9:15 am.
Crowd control
-Safety of children
-Disabled people
-Haldeman’s, Ronald L. Ziegler’s actions
-Measures for motorcades
-Ohio
-Man with shotgun
-Publicity
-Effect
Public opinion
-Robert H. Finch’s view
-Vietnam
-The President’s safety
Demonstrators
-Types
-New York campaign trip
-America the Beautiful
-Campaign counter-measures
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-Condition of demonstrators
-Drug use
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The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:11 am and
9:15 am.
[Conversation No. 806-6A]
[See Conversation No. 32-14]
[End of telephone conversation]
Crowd control
-Reaction
-Ohio
-Schools
-Chicago
-Southern California
-Plans
-Announcement
-Finch
-Charles W. Colson
-Motorcade compared to airport rally
-Rallies
-The President’s future
-Southern California
-Motorcades
-Compared to Ohio and New York
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-Demonstrators
-Cancellation
-Security
-Vietnam
The President talked with Andrews between 9:15 am and 9:17 am.
[Conversation No. 806-6B]
[See Conversation No. 32-15]
[End of telephone conversation]
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Crowd control
-George S. McGovern supporters
-The President’s recent trip to New York
-Joseph M. Margiotta
-Hecklers
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Use of whistle
-Journalist son’s Cracker Jacks box
-The President’s predicament
-Colson
-The President’s demeanor
-News coverage
-Benefit of motorcades
-Public vision
-Compared to rallies
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Motorcade safety
-Chicago
-Police
-Ohio
-Police
-Reasons for possible cancellation
-Vietnam
-Presidential security
-Presidential health
-Announcements
-Crowd turnout
-Opposition
-Presidential safety
-Carroll Kilpatrick
-Earl Warren Commission
-Washington Post
-Recommendation
-Compared to rally
-Bubble top on car
-Weather
-Unexpected stops compared to preplanned route
Ziegler entered at 9:42 am.
Press photograph session of the President’s meeting with Henry A. Kissinger and
William P. Rogers
-Mood of meeting
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-Rogers
Ziegler’s forthcoming press conference
-Vietnam negotiations
-Progress
-Saigon embassy statement
-Kissinger’s meeting with the President
-Kissinger’s forthcoming press briefing
-Announcement
-North Vietnam
-Kissinger’s view
-Ziegler’s forthcoming conversations with Kissinger and the President
-Timing
Ziegler left at 9:46 am.
Motorcade safety
-Robert H. (“Bob”) Taylor
-Conversation with Haldeman, October 23, 1972
-Secret Service
-Positioning in motorcade
-Communication between the President and motorcade leader
-Stopping and starting
-Taylor’s view
-Communication between Taylor and Haldeman
-Communication between Taylor and the President
-Intercom
-Hecklers
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Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:46 am.
The President’s schedule
-Photographic session
-Pool press
-Length of time
-Instruction for Ziegler
Bull left at an unknown time before 10:04 am.
Photograph sessions
-Problem
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Presidential safety
-Kilpatrick
-Washington Post
-Recent column
-Possible motivation
-Rallies
-Compared to motorcades
-Consequences for attacked
-Lee Harvey Oswald
-George C. Wallace
-Arthur H. Bremer
-Motorcade
-Cancellation
-Vietnam
-Weather
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-Snow or wind
-Precautions
-Chrysler
-Bubble-top car
Watergate
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Issue
-Administration strategy
-Colson
-John N. Mitchell
-Daniel L. Schorr’s story on investigation
-John W. Dean, III
-Connection between investigations
-Journalistic methods
-Adminstration response
-Clark MacGregor
-Specific denials
-Possible lawsuit
-Deposition
-Specific denials
-McGovern’s handling
-McGovern
-Recent story
-Lack of specifics
Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:46 am.
The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Rogers
-Photograph session
-Length
Bull and Haldeman left at 10:04 am.