Date: March 14, 1973

Time: 11:10 am-12:25 pm

Location: Oval Office

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

Public relations

-John D. Ehrlichman’s recommendations

-Congress

-Henry A. Kissinger

-Presentation to veterans

Veterans legislation

-Donald E. Johnson

-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]

-Lobbying

-Programs

-Vietnam veterans

-Meetings with President of non-VFW veterans

-Problems

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-Unions

-Selection of participants

-Blacks

-Ordinary people

-President’s appearances

-Vocational educational centers

-Forbes Air Force Base

-Topeka, KS

-Veterans hospitals

-Meeting with Jobs for Veterans group

-Press coverage

-Prisoners of War [POWs]

-Focus of attention

-Employment

-Excess

-Opportunities

POW reception at White House

-Date

-H. Ross Perot

-Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope

-Knowledge of details

-Perot

-Sammy Davis, Jr.

-Regional television [TV] dinners

-Publicity

-Show for President and POWs

-Press coverage

-Private party

-Exploitation

-Briefing by Haldeman

-William P. Rogers, Kissinger

-Wives

-Photograph opportunity

-Ronald L. Ziegler

-Press coverage

-Disadvantages

-Press anger at non-admittance

-Hope

-Work with Les Brown

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-Organization of show

-Raquel Welch

-Ann Margret

-Davis

-Attendance by President

Subcabinet

-Briefing

-Format

-General background

-Ehrlichman

-President’s appearance

-State Department

President’s schedule

-Trader Vic’s

-Omissions

-Role of government speech

-State of the Union radio addresses

-Max M. Fisher

-National Association of Broadcasters [NAB]

-TV networks

-Station managers

-Conflict

-Clay T. (“Tom”) Whitehead

-Attendance at Bohemian Grove

-Rose Mary Woods

-Secret Service

-Press attention

-Lowell Thomas [?]

-Herbert C. Hoover event at Waldorf

-Wealthy audience

-Raymond K. Price, Jr. [?]

POW reception at the White House

-Ziegler

-Press attendance

-Entertainment

-Hope

-Press pool before reception

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-Private party

-Press coverage

-Handling of press

-Ziegler

-Reception line

-Hand shakes

-Vulnerability to press

-Exclusion of press

-Receiving line

-Early arrivals

-Tour of White House

-Music

-Organization

-Dinner

-Waiters

-Music

-Marine Corps Band

-Strolling Strings of the Air Force Band

-Entertainment

White House social events

-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

-Lucy A. Winchester

-Stephen B. Bull

-Complaints

-Entertainment

-Invitation list

-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s work

-Rex W. Scouten

-Loyalty

-Constance M. (Cornell) (“Connie”) Stuart

Visit by Nguyen Van Thieu

-Accommodations

-Cyprus shores [?]

-Private house

-Camp Pendleton

-Security

-Demonstrations

-Organization by Jane Fonda

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-Camp Pendleton

-VIP residence

-Staff accommodations

-San Clemente

-El Toro Marine Corps Air Station

-Camp Pendleton

-Location

-Demonstrations

-Washington, DC

-Spiro T. Agnew

-Handling

-Washington, DC

-San Clemente

-Schedule

-Dinner

-Mrs. Thieu

-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

-William Rogers

-Adele (Langston) Rogers

-Foreign ministers

President’s schedule

-Latin American trip

-Africa

-William Rogers’s trip

-Thieu visit

-Wife

-Foreign minister

-William Rogers

-William Rogers

-Attendance

-Adele Rogers

-Kissinger

-Attendance

-Thieu’s dinner for President

-President’s lunch for Thieu

-Mrs. Thieu

-Mrs. Nixon

-William R. Codus

-Activities

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John Ford dinner

-President’s schedule

-Head table reception

-Size

-Table hopping

-Dress

-Location

-Beverly Hilton

-Century Plaza

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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]

-Mrs. Nixon’s schedule

-Helicopter

-Dress

-Arrangements for dinner

-Rita De Santis

[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]

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President’s statements

-Speech

-Substitute for press conference

-Ehrlichman

-Format

-Substance

-Preparation

-Cabinet meeting

-Effectiveness

-Compared with press conference

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 11:10 am.

Delivery

-Executive Office Building [EOB]

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The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:25 pm.

Presidential statements

-TV press conference

-Compared with address to Congress

-Necessity

-Control over content

-Address to Congress

-Ehrlichman’s evaluation of effect

-Domestic issues

-Crime speech

-Hard line [?]

-Vietnam

White House staff

-Political orientation

-Domestic Council

-Advice

-Softness

-Patrick J. Buchanan

Press relations

-Watergate, Donald H. Segretti

-Wounded Knee incident

-Repression and shield laws

-Press interest

-Buchanan

-Congressional consideration

-Bangladesh

-Foreign policy

-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] negotiations

-Phase III

-Public interest

Congressional relations

-Importance

-President’s address to Congress

-Circumstances

-Topics of discussion

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-Vietnam settlement

-Budget

-Inflation

-Clean environment

-Cease-fire

-Cambodia

-Amnesty

-Merit

-Compared with TV press conference

-Ehrlichman

-Effectiveness with public

-Response of Congress

-Applause

Press conference

-Vietnam

-North Vietnamese troop build-up

-Liberal hopes

-Joseph W. Alsop

-US defeat

-Future of South Vietnam

-Kissinger

-Public apathy

-North Vietnamese offensive

-POWs [?]

-South Vietnamese strength

-Alsop

-Analysis of North Vietnamese strategy

-South Vietnam’s survival

-Use of military force

-Domestic speech

-Necessity

-Ehrlichman’s opinion

-Scheduling

Congressional relations

-Congressional leadership meeting

-Pete V. Domenici’s reaction

-Ehrlichman’s report

-Work with groups by White House staff

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-Chowder and Marching Society

-Haldeman’s meetings

-William E. Timmons

-Congressional leadership meetings

-Attendance

-Expansion

-Objections

Kissinger

Speech

-Work with President

-Audience

-Intelligence

-Format

-Text

-Personal touch

-POW wives

Press conferences

-Effectiveness

-Effect of hiatus

-Frequency, lulls

-Plans

-Alsop’s theory

-Flexibility of format

-Compared with Dwight D. Eisenhower

-Frequency

-Danger of overexposure of President

-President’s appearances, meetings

-Federal womens’ awards

-Patricia R. Hitt’s meeting with President

-Gains

-Meeting with John J. McCloy

-Value

-Length

President’s schedule

-Meetings

-Value

-Executives

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-Length

-Saturday events for Sunday news

-Activities

-Announcements

-Publicity

-News stories

-TV coverage

-Sunday newspapers

Watergate

-Problems

-Segretti case

-News interest

-Amount, duration

-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case

-Ziegler

-L. Patrick Gray, III

-Testimony

-Questions from Congress

-Opening of Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] raw files

President’s appearances

-Ehrlichman

-Veterans bill

-Consumer protection

-Congressional relations

-Publicity

-Veterans bill

-Speech

President’s schedule

-Activities

-Frequency

-Cabinet meetings

-Congressional leaders

-Frequency

-Publicity

-Domestic Council

-Value of meetings with President

-Cost of Living Council

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-Small meetings with President

-Value

-Counselors

-Cabinet meetings

-Value

-Ehrlichman

-Morale of officers

-Camp David meetings

-Social events

-Wives

-Subcabinet officers

-Dinners

-Wives

-Arrangements, location

-Finalization of schedule

-Congressional leaders meeting

-Value

-Bipartisanship

-Dinner

-Bryce N. Harlow

-Breakfast meetings

-Eisenhower compared with President

-Social events

-Theater

Watergate

-Segretti case

-Richard G. Kleindienst

-Source of problems

-Lack of Republican support

-John W. Dean, III

-Invitation to testify

-Republicans

-Appearance of nonpartisanship

-Public posture

-Need for support for President

-Kleindienst

-Lack of support

-Talk

-Ehrlichman, Dean

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-Justice Department

-John N. Mitchell

-Kleindienst

-Gray

Kissinger

-Speech

-Planning

-Response of audience

Haldeman left at 12:25 pm.