Conversation No. 594-2

Date: October 18, 1971
Time: 8:45 am - 9:58 am
Location: Oval Office

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

     The President's schedule
          -Helicopter
               -Passengers
                      -The President’s instruction
               -Andrews Air Force Base
               -Passengers
                      -William P. Rogers
                      -John N. Mitchell

     News story
         -World Series game
               -The President's prediction
         -Richard A. Moore
               -Irish vote
                     -Ronald L. Ziegler
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Sports
     -Pittsburgh Pirates
           -The President’s prediction
                -Wire service story
           -Outcome of World Series
           -The President's telephone call
     -Washington Redskins
     -Popular psychology
     -Arkansas-Texas football game
           -Reaction of Arkansas players
     -Pittsburgh Pirates

Personnel
     -Look reporter
          -John D. Ehrlichman
          -Thomas R. Shepard, Jr.
               -Campaign
               -State Department
                     -Public affairs office
                          -Rogers
                                 -Objective
                          -[Forename unknown] Collins
                          -John Richardson, Jr.
               -Campaign
               -The President’s view

H. Rap Brown

“The Vantage Point”
     -Lyndon B. Johnson
     -John F. Kennedy
     -Ngo Dinh Diem
     -Media reaction

Press coverage of World Series
      -Disturbance in Pittsburgh
           -Earl Weaver
                 -Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
                 -Dan Rather

Supreme Court appointments
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-Nominees
    -Mitchell, Ehrlichman
    -American Bar Association [ABA]
          -Edward M. Kennedy
          -Herschel H. Friday
          -Mildred L. Lillie
                -Record as judge
          -Friday
                -Lawyer
                -Possible problems
                      -Potter Stewart
                      -Tom Wicker
                -Lillie
    -Ehrlichman
    -Mitchell
    -Southerner
          -[Unintelligible]
                -Florida
    -William H. Mulligan
    -Lillie
          -Political membership
          -Woman
                -Conservative Catholics
                      -John F. Kennedy
                -Bella S. Abzug
                -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
                -Public relations
    -Friday
    -Question of using the Court for political ends
          -Republicans
          -Friday
                -Mitchell
                -John L. McClellan
    -Wilbur D. Mills
          -Louis C. Wyman
          -New Hampshire primary
    -Richard H. Poff
          -Justice Department
                -Will R. Wilson
    -Mitchell
          -Friday
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          -John W. Dean, III
          -Ehrlichman
          -David R. Young, Jr.
          -Nominees
                -Mitchell
                      -Friday
                -Jew
                      -Edward H. Levi
                -Mitchell
                      -Friday
                -Age
                      -Lewis F. Powell
                -Friday
                -Age criteria
                -Friday
                -G. Harrold Carswell
                -Strategy
                      -Timing of announcement
                            -Press
                                 -Questions and answers [Q&A]

Media
    -Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
    -Allen S. Drury
    -Look magazine excerpt
    -Ziegler
         -Haldeman's daughter
         -Response to press
    -Look article
         -Haldeman's daughter’s view
               -Ziegler
         -Henry A. Kissinger

News summary
    -Lyndon B. Johnson’s book
         -Diem’s assassination
    -The President's visit to Charlotte, North Carolina
    -Washington Star story
         -Kissinger
         -Veracity of story
               -People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative
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                      -Rogers
           -The President’s role
           -Kissinger
                -Briefings
                -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
                -John A. Scali

The President's PRC trip
     -Media coverage
          -Scali
                 -Kissinger

Kissinger's trip to PRC
     -Dwight L. Chapin
           -Hawaii
           -Kissinger
           -State Department
                  -Alfred LeS. Jenkins
                  -John H. Holdridge
                        -Chinese language ability
           -PRC Summit
                  -Holdridge’s and Jenkins view
                        -Public relations
                  -Kissinger
                  -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
                  -Desires of Chinese
                        -Publicity
                             -Holdridge’s and Jenkins’ view
                  -Forthcoming Soviet Summit

Media
    -News story
          -Summit meetings
          -Kissinger
          -Soviet Summit announcement
    -New York Times
          -Lillie's husband, A. V. Falcone
          -Account
    -J. Edgar Hoover
          -Hugh Sidey
    -Chicago Sun Times
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           -Levi
     -P. G. Wodehouse
           -New York Mets
           -Richard M. Nixon
     -Plane crash
           -Dr. James E. Allen
                 -Wife
                 -Grand Canyon

The President's schedule
     -Contacts with the press
          -Ruth Voss
          -Robert Allen
          -Scali
                 -Kissinger
                 -Haig
          -Kissinger
     -Forthcoming trip to Disneyland
     -Kissinger's schedule
     -Troop announcement
     -Camp David
     -Republican Women's dinner
     -Disneyland
          -Possible press conference
     -Location of the President upon Kissinger's return
          -Florida
                 -Kissinger
     -Radio addresses
          -Veterans' Day
          -Raymond K. Price, Jr.
          -Year end Presidential perspective

Youth
    -Newsweek magazine
          -Peace
    -Fort Detrick
          -Cancer initiative
          -Military
    -William E. Brock III

The President's schedule
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     -Mitchell
          -Supreme Court appointments
     -Rogers and Haig
     -George P. Shultz, Ehrlichman, Haig, Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
          -Budget meeting

Supreme Court appointments
     -Nomination
          -Woman
                -Timing of announcement
                      -Confirmation hearings
          -Liberals
                -Jews
          -Levi
     -Weinberger
     -Republican Women event
          -Lillie announcement

The President's schedule
     -Delores Hope
          -Mrs. Nixon's schedule
     -Reception
          -Hospital
                 -William F. (“Billy”) Graham
          -Leslie T. (“Bob”) and Delores Hope

Economy
    -Business Council
         -Charles W. Colson
         -Publicity

Mrs. Nixon's schedule
     -Forthcoming trip to Africa

Public relations
     -Photographs of the President
            -Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
            -Bradford K. (“Fabian”) Bachrach
            -Arnold Newman
            -The President’ view
            -Unknown photographer from California
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           -Alexander P. Butterfield
           -Atkins
           -Bachrach
           -John B. Connally
           -The President's view

White House correspondence
     -Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
          -Charlotte, North Carolina

Public broadcasting
     -The President’s view
     -Frederic V. Malek
           -Report
           -Peter M. Flanigan
           -Colson
     -Programs
           -Subsidization
           -Sander Vanocer
           -Brookings Institute
     -George H. Gallup
           -Fred W. Friendly
     -Flanigan
     -Funding

Peace Corps
     -Robert H. Finch
     -Outside volunteer organizations
     -Malek
     -Finch
     -Director
     -Center for Voluntary Action
     -ACTION

The President's schedule
     -White House correspondents dinner
     -Dinner
          -PRC-USSR planning

Newsday magazine article
    -Ziegler
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          -Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak
     -Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
          -Possible suit
          -Ehrlichman
          -Schedule
          -Newspapers
                -Minneapolis, Los Angeles
                -Miami
                -Story
                     -Son-in-law
                          -Stock
                     -Veracity
                          -The President's finances
                                -Ehrlichman
                                      -Financial loss
                                -Stock quotations

Campaign financing
    -Lewis
    -Dwayne O. Andreas
         -Contribution
               -Hubert H. Humphrey
               -Rebozo
               -Rose Mary Woods
    -Herbert W. Kalmbach
    -Mitchell
    -Robert J. Dole
    -Woods
    -Rebozo
    -Maurice H. Stans
    -Republican National Committee [RNC]
    -Humphrey
    -Andreas

Media
    -Newsweek magazine
        -Gallup
             -Polls
                   -Political affiliations
                   -Campuses
                   -Edward Kennedy
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Polls
        -Louis P. Harris
        -Gallup
             -Press coverage
        -Opinion Research Corporation [ORC]
        -Colson

Administration tactics

Media
    -Cartoon about democrats
    -John Kennedy
    -Lyndon Johnson
    -Washington, DC
    -Supreme Court appointments
    -Polls
          -Carswell, Clement F. Haynsworth

US foreign relations
     -Haig
          -Kissinger
                 -Moscow
                      -The President’s view
                      -Vietnam
                      -Paris Summit
     -Chapin’s view of PRC trip preparations
          -Kissinger
          -State Department
          -Holdridge
          -Haldeman
                 -Kissinger
     -Diem
          -Johnson
          -Richard M. Helms

White House dinners
     -William McMahon
     -Indira Gandhi
     -Nihat Erim
     -Emilio Garrastazu Medici
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          -Guest list
               -Invitations

     The President's schedule
          -Robert F. Ellsworth
          -Haig
          -North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
          -Ehrlichman
                -Mitchell

Haldeman left at 9:58 am.