Conversation No. 592-10

Date: October 14, 1971
Time: 11:16 am - 12:25 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

     Charles W. Colson's schedule

     Hobart D. Lewis

     Neal B. Freeman

     Edith Efron's book
          -Freeman
                -DeVan L. Shumway
                -William F. Buckley
          -Bookstores
          -Possibility of making book a best seller
          -Controversy

Colson entered at 11:19 am.

               -Broadcast magazine
               -Clifford P. Hansen
          -House of Representatives
               -Clarence J. (“Bud”) Brown, Jr.
               -Torbert H. MacDonald
               -Harley O. Staggers
          -Buckley
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           -"Firing Line"
     -Mike Douglas show
     -Television stations
     -Congressmen
     -Dean G. Acheson
           -"Accuracy in Media"
           -Views
     -Network concerns
     -Efron
     -Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
     -Distribution of book
     -Louis Harris
           -Poll
     -Hubert H. Humphrey
     -Blacks
     -John P. Roche
     -New York Times
           -Forthcoming review
     -Washington Post

Book by Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak
    -Donald Oberdorfer, Jr.'s review
         -People's Republic of China [PRC]
         -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
    -Colson’s view
    -Melvin R. Laird
    -John D. Ehrlichman
    -Henry A. Kissinger
         -Foreign policy
    -Footnote
         -Colson
         -Massachusetts primary
               -Edward M. Kennedy
                    -Colson
                         -[Forename unknown] McCarthy
    -Evans

[Forename unknown] Pierce

Evans and Novak
     -William L. Safire
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            -Efforts
            -Robert H. Finch
            -Donald H. Rumsfeld

Efron book
     -Freeman
     -Irv Kupeiner's show
     -George Putnam
           -Los Angeles
     -Finances for Efron's travels

George Meany
    -Edward M. Kennedy
         -Chappaquiddick

Campaign practices
    -Patrick J. Buchanan
          -Campaign strategy
          -Edmund S. Muskie
          -Kennedy

Laird's activities

John N. Mitchell's activities

The President's previous meeting with Harris
     -National economy
     -John B. Connally
          -Ehrlichman
     -Peace
          -Kissinger
     -Administration issues
          -Colson

The President's schedule
     -Aircraft hijacking convention
          -John A. Volpe

The President's previous meeting with Harris
     -Poll
           -Haldeman
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          -Popular view of President
               -Laos
               -Campaign
               -Peace
                     -Vietnam War
                          -Networks
                                -CBS
                                -JoAnne Haldeman
                          -Washington Star
                                -Unnamed Prisoner of War [POW]
                                -Manolo Sanchez
                                     -POWs

Television networks
     -Sam J. Ervin, Jr. Committee hearings
     -Fred W. Friendly
     -Strom Thurmond
           -Performance
           -Media
     -Motorcycle accidents
           -Vietnam

Comments on the President's Soviet Summit announcement
   -Kissinger
   -War in Vietnam
         -Television
   -Ronald L. Ziegler
   -Democrats
   -Article by James Doyle
         -Democratic National Committee
         -Wage and price controls
               -Stock market
         -Trip to USSR
         -Trip to PRC
         -Birch Bayh
         -Harold E. Hughes
         -Supreme Court nominees
               -Robert C. Byrd
                    -Clement F. Haynesworth, G. Harrold Carswell
               -George S. McGovern
                    -Muskie
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                         -Byrd


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                   -Mike Royko's column
                        -Comparison of Nixon and Kennedy
              -Posters
                   -Campaign practices
                        -Kennedy

    Royko's column
        -The President
              -Kennedy

    News summary remarks
        -Boston Globe
             -Barry M. Goldwater
                   -Kennedy
        -Radio
        -Impact on popular opinion
        -Humphrey
             -Democrats

    George H. Gallup's poll
        -Timing of release
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    The President's accomplishments
         -Vietnam
         -PRC
         -USSR

    Networks
        -Ziegler, Herbert G. Klein
        -New York Times
        -Washington Star
        -Washington Post
        -Vietnam
        -David Brinkley
        -Haldeman
        -Vietnam
        -Soviet Summit announcement
        -Doyle

    Republicans in Congress
        -Goldwater
              -Kennedy
              -Administration involvement
        -Edward W. Brooke
        -Hugh Scott
        -Gerald R. Ford
        -National figures
        -Michael J. Mansfield amendment
              -Head count
                    -Clark MacGregor
                    -[Unintelligible name]
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               -United Press International [UPI]
               -[Forename unknown] Smith
     -Rumsfeld's views
         -Congress
               -Richard B. Russell
               -William Proxmire
               -Staff

The President's legislative accomplishments

Spiro T. Agnew
     -Visit to Greece

National economy
     -Stock market
     -Labor
           -Phase II
     -Retail sales
     -Paul W. McCracken
     -Sales
     -Harry Reasoner
     -Dan Rather
     -Jacob K. Javits

Cabinet
     -Connally
     -Agnew
     -William P. Rogers
     -[Unintelligible name]
     -Kissinger
     -Laird
           -Edward M. Kennedy
                 -John A. Scali
     -Maurice H. Stans
     -John A. Volpe
     -George Romney
     -Elliot L. Richardson
     -Rogers C. B. Morton
     -Franklin D. Roosevelt
           -Harold L. Ickes
     -Connally
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         -Democrat background
     -Rumsfeld, Finch

Robert J. Dole
    -Franklin C. Nofziger
    -Networks
           -Talk show
    -Wichita, Kansas

Republican spokesmen
    -The President's schedule
          -California
          -Cabinet
    -Dole
          -POWs
          -Vermont
                -Governor
                      -Federal Housing Administration [FHA]
                -Becker Poll
                -Importance
    -Finch
          -California
    -Patricia R. Hitt
          -Rose Mary Woods
          -Arkansas
          -Missouri
                -Gladys O'Donnell
                -Mary Roebling
    -Romana A. Banuelos
    -MacGregor
    -Bryce N. Harlow
    -Samuel L. Devine
    -Brown
    -Senators
          -Brooke
          -Javits
          -Charles H. Percy
          -Javits
    -Kissinger
    -Effect of polls
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     The President's schedule
          -Connally
          -Instructions to Haldeman
          -Dwight L. Chapin
                -Kissinger

     Ehrlichman

Colson left at 12:18 pm.

     Camp Hoover

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 12:19 pm.

     The President's schedule
          -Executive Office Building

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:24 pm.

     Colson
          -Compared to Mitchell

Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 12:19 pm.

     The President's schedule
          -Kissinger's schedule
          -Woods
          -Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jorgensen

Butterfield left at 12:24 pm.

Haldeman left at 12:25 pm.
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