Conversation No. 798-15

Date: October 14, 1972
Time: 11:57 am - 1:27 pm
Location: Oval Office
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The President met with Stephen B. Bull and Raymond K. Price, Jr.

         Greetings

         Meeting participants
            -H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
            -John D. Ehrlichman
                 -Location

         Weather

Bull left at 11:56 am.

         Clothing
             -Sport coats

         The President's schedule
             -Camp David
                 -Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
                 -Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
                 -Robert H. Abplanalp

Ehrlichman entered at 11:57 am.

         Speeches
             -Foreign policy
                 -Vietnam

Haldeman entered at 11:58 am.

Manolo Sanchez entered at 11:58 am.

         Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:26 pm.

         Foreign policy speech
             -Foreign Affairs article by the President, 1967
                 -Vietnam
                 -Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China [PRC], Middle East, Europe
             -Conference of European Security and Cooperation
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    -Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT] II
    -US-Soviet Union trade agreement
    -Vietnam
         -Peking, Moscow initiatives
         -Henry A. Kissinger's schedule
             -Proposed timing of speech
             -Possibility of change in events
         -George S. McGovern
             -Foreign affairs handling
    -Timing
         -Kissinger’s schedule
         -October 29, 1972

Radio speeches
    -Philosophy of government
        -Paternalism
        -Tone
             -Spending ceiling
             -Crime and drug abuse
    -Non-partisan tone
        -Crime and drug abuse
        -Uplifting subject matter
             -The President’s trip to Atlanta
    -Programs for next four years
        -Press relations
        -Spending
             -Public expectations
    -Philosophy of government
        -Paternalism
        -New American Majority speech
        -Timing
             -Sunday newspapers
    -News value
    -Veterans
    -American farmer
        -Small town
             -Hannibal, Missouri
    -Busing
    -Education
        -Clark MacGregor
        -Aid to parochial schools
        -McGovern
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    -Lobby
         -National Education Association [NEA]
    -Finances
         -Property taxes
-Property taxes
    -Tax reform
         -Aid for the elderly
    -Timing
         -1972 election
         -Congressional adjournment
         -News value
    -Spending ceiling
    -Fiscal dividend
         -Federal bureaucracy restraint
         -Milton Friedman
         -Herbert Stein
         -George P. Shultz
         -Inflation
-American farmer
    -The President's trip to Ohio
    -Importance
         -Bryce Harlow
         -John C. Whitaker
    -Veterans
-Property taxes
    -Elderly
         -Personal subsidy
-Timing
    -Inflation
         -Costs
              -Debt, Social Security, wages
    -Crime
    -Paternalism
    -Tax reform
    -Veterans
-Copy of draft on taxes
    -Lewis A. Engman
    -Shultz, Stein
         -Decision by the President
    -Property tax
         -Value Added Tax [VAT]
-Property taxes
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              -Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations [ACIR]
              -Neil H. McElroy Commission
              -ACIR
              -Education financing
                   -McGovern
              -Federal government expansion
                   -Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW], Social Security
                          Administration [SSA], government payrolls
                   -Appropriations
                        -Wilbur D. Mills
                   -Shultz
                        -Tax reductions
                             -1969
                   -Fiscal dividend
                   -Engman and Shultz
              -William F. Safire
          -Foreign policy
          -“Look to the future”
          -Safire
              -Economic topics
                   -Los Angeles
                        -Urban affairs draft
                   -“Look to the future”
                        -Item for the weekend newspapers
                   -Foreign policy
                        -Ohio
                        -American farmer
                   -Newsworthiness
                        -Foreign policy
                   -Crime and drug abuse
                        -Timing
                             -Football, Meet the Press
                             -World Series
                             -Church


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       Radio speeches
           -Crime and drug abuse
               -Timing
                    -World Series
                    -Ratings
           -American farmer
           -Vietnam veterans
               -Timing
                    -Press coverage
               -Amnesty
               -Strong US
               -Volunteer armed forces
                    -Respect
                         -Law enforcement
           -Law enforcement officials
           -Crime and drug abuse
               -[Frank J. Tummillo]
               -Drug dealing
               -Mafia
               -Medals for law enforcement officials
                    -Tummillo
                         -Congressional Medal of Honor
                         -Medal of Freedom
                         -Presidential medal
                              -Freedom
                                   -The President’s Laredo, Texas speech
                              -Symbolism
                                   -Previous visit to the White House
                              -Citizens Medal
                    -J. Edgar Hoover
                    -Treasury Department
                         -Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
                    -Comparison to Vietnam combat medals
                    -Tummillo
                         -Citizens Medal
                         -Conversation with the President
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                  -Fordham University
              -New York
                  -Philadelphia
              -Treasury Department
         -Citizens Medal
              Congressional Medal of Honor
-American farmer
-Education
-Timing
    -American dream
         -California delivery
-Foreign policy
    -Kissinger's office
    -Lee W. Huebner
         -Draft
    -Style
-American farmer and Veterans speeches
    -Significance
-Tax
    -Timing
-Education
-Equal opportunity
    -Work ethic, job training, women
-1972 election issues
    -Safire
    -The President’s nomination acceptance speech
    -Controversy
    -McGovern
    -John B. Connally
         -Tone
              -The President’s instructions on speeches
-Equal opportunities
    -Education
-Urban affairs
    -Government responsiveness
    -Revenue sharing
    -Great Society programs
    -New Federalism
    -Draft for Ehrlichman
    -Crime
         -Washington, DC
         -Address on Crime and Drug Abuse
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        -Welfare rights
            -Arrests
                 -Democrats for Nixon
        -Ehrlichman’s draft
        -Equal opportunity
            -Education
        -Harvard University urbanologists
        -Revenue sharing
        -John V. Lindsay
        -Quality of life
        -1970 State of the Union address
        -Environment
            -Water bill veto
        -Press relations
        -McGovern
            -Position
                 -Staff paper
    -One subject approach
        -Timing
            -1972 campaign conclusion
    -Length
        -Disclaimer
    -The President's office in Camp David
        -Address on Crime and Drug Abuse

1972 campaign
    -The President's schedule
        -Congress
            -Consideration of bills passed
                 -Number
        -Radio addresses
        -New York
            -Timing of announcement
        -Regions to be covered
        -Congressional relations
        -Speech schedule
        -Action on bills
            -Tax increase
            -The President’s consultations with Domestic Council, William E.
                   Timmons, Congressional leaders

Revenue sharing signing ceremony
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-Timing
    -Wires
-Philadelphia
    -Demonstrators
         -Democrats
    -Independence Hall
         -House of Representatives hall
              -Advantages
    -Frank L. Rizzo
    -Philadelphia City Hall
    -Security
         -Rizzo
    -Milton J. Shapp
         -Invitation
    -Reception for the President
         -Rizzo
    -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
         -Possible appearance
    -Mayors wives
         -[Unknown person]
         -Wilmer D. Mizell [?]
         -[Unknown person]
         -Tampa [Dick A. Greco, Jr.]
         -Connally’s statement
              -Monterrey, California
                   -Democrat Mayors for Nixon
-Independence Hall
    -Shapp
    -Hecklers
    -Motorcade
    -Invitees
         -Carpenters Hall
         -Senate, House of Representatives
         -Legislation's cosponsors
         -Mills
         -Huey Long
         -Russell B. Long
    -Timing
         -Television coverage
         -Rizzo
              -Crowd control
                   -Police involvement
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                     -Blacks
        -Shapp
            -Editorials
        -Independence Hall
        -Courtyard
        -Hecklers
        -Liberty Bell
            -Receiving line
            -Declaration of Independence
            -Signing of the Constitution
            -Rizzo’s appeal to the President
        -Rizzo
            -R. Sargent hriver anecdote
                 -Allegation
                      -Unknown woman
                           -Channel 3 Westinghouse [KYW-TV]
            -Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
                 -Housing commissioner position
            -Press relations
            -Independence Hall
                 -Upcoming telephone call from Ehrlichman to Rizzo
                 -Announcement
                 -Invitation to the President
                      -Telephone call from Rizzo to the President

1972 campaign
    -The President’s schedule
        -Bills

Speeches
    -Work ethic
        -American working men
        -Labor Day
        -Ehrlichman’s view
    -The President's decision making
        -Price’s staffer’s suggestion
             Television [TV]
                  Oval Office
        -McGovern
        -Oval Office
             -TV
                  -Comparison with radio speeches from Camp David office
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    -Renewal of American spirit
    -Urban affairs
    -American farm
    -Murray Weidenbaum
        -Speech
            -Bringing the nation together
                 -St. Louis, Missouri

International relations
     -The President’s accomplishments
         -Vietnam war
         -Recent visitor’s comment
              -Japan–PRC relations
                   -The President’s trip the PRC
         -PRC–Soviet Union initiatives
              -North Korea-South Korea relations
              -Romanians, Poles
              -Czechoslovakia
     -Potential of war
         -India, Pakistan
              -Jews
              -Arabs
              -Communism
     -Soviet Union, PRC
     -Vietnam, Korea

The President's philosophy of differences
    -Old, young
    -Men, women
    -Blacks, whites
    -Gen. Walter R. Tkach, doctors from the PRC
    -World leaders
        -Chou En-Lai, the President
        -Leonid I. Brezhnev, the President
    -The President's 1967 Foreign Affairs article
    -The President's approach contrasted with McGovern's
        -Soviet Union
             -Interests
    -College campuses
        -Jobs
        -Faculties
    -The President's philosophy of differences
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    -The Great Society
    -Civil War
    -Blacks
        -White Southerners
        -White Northerners
        -Commonality of interest
            -Economics
            -Harry S. Ashmore quote

The South
    -Southern strategy
    -Lyndon B. Johnson
    -The President’s education
    -Gen. William T. Sherman
        -Gone With the Wind
            -March on Atlanta
    -Reconstruction
    -Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
        -Sherman
            -Edwin Stanton
    -Southern pride
    -Northerners
        -Linwood Holton
        -Donald H. Rumsfeld
        -Sidwell Friends School
            -Black quota
                  -Whittier College
        -Sensitivity of Southerners
            -Unknown woman
                  -Comment to the President
        -Southern strategy
            -Appointment of judges
                  -Busing
        -Politicians
            -Richard B. Russell
            -John C. Stennis
            -Long
                  -Jacob Javits
        -Democrats
            -George C. Wallace
                  -Connally
            -The President
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                -Race
            -Defense issue
            -McGovern
                -Supporters
                      -Lifestyle
                -Morality, patriotism
        -Race
            -Michigan
            -Alabama
            -Schools
                -Desegregation
                -Taxes on private schools
        -Respect for the law, Presidency
            -Labor
                -George Meany, Shultz
                      -Edward R.G. Heath
                      -Conversations with the British, 1970
            -Comparison with British
                -Sir Anthony Barber
                -Wage and price controls
                      -Labor unions
                           -Arthur F. Burns
                           -Meany
                -Public opinion
                      -Meany
                            -McGovern
                               -Popularity
                               -Patriotism

Speeches
    -Themes
        -The American spirit
        -New American Majority
            -The President’s trip to Atlanta
            -Franklin D. Roosevelt's coalition
                -South, North
                -City bosses, intellectuals
                -Labor, wealthy
            -Group appeal
                -Italian-Americans, Polish-Americans, Southerners
                -Midwesterners
                     -The President’s parents
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     -Far Westerners, Upper New Yorkers
-Basic American values
-Patriotism
-Moral, spiritual values
-Permissiveness
-Work ethic
     -Welfare
-The South
     -Regional meeting
     -Vietnam war
          -The President’s November 3, 1969 speech
          -Cambodia
          -May 8, 1972 military action
          -Universities
     -Compared with other areas of support
          -National defense
          -Ethnics, mountain, farm areas
          -Educated suburban areas
               -Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago
          -May 8, 1972 action
               -Establishment reaction
                    -Business community
                        -Stock Market
                    -Educators, college presidents
                    -Media
-Sources of support for the President
     -View of elites
     -South, ethics, labor, farmers, cattlemen
     -San Diego, Orange County
     -Foreign policy
-Robert Teeter
     -Evanston, Pasadena, San Marino, Arcadia
-Catholic vote
     -Abortion issue
-South
     -Racism
-Priority of issues
     -Patriotism
     -Morality
     -Religion
     -Material issues
          -Taxes
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                              -Prices
                                   -McGovern
                                       -Welfare proposal
                              -Wages
                                   -Labor
                              -Business

David C. Hoopes entered at 1:26 pm.

        The President’s schedule
            -Congressional adjournment
                -Conference
                     -Debt ceiling bill
                -Timmons’s view
                -Timmons's telephone calls

Price, Ehrlichman, Haldeman, and Hoopes left at 1:27 pm.