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Tape Subject Log (rev. Nov-03)

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Conversation No. 798-1 Date: October 14, 1972 Time: Unknown between 8:48 am and 9:00 am Location: Oval Office The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule -Meeting with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman -News summary

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:00 am.


The President's schedule -Request for copy of document

-Deletions Bull left at an unknown time before 9:00 am.

Nixon Presidential Library and Museum

Oval #798

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Conversation No. 798-3 Date: October 14, 1972 Time: 9:00 am - 10:01 am Location: Oval Office The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

Radio Address on Crime and Drug Abuse, October 15, 1972 -Length -Raymond K. Price, Jr. The President’s schedule -John D. Ehrlichman Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:00 am.

The President's schedule -Meeting with Henry A. Kissinger -Meeting with doctors from the People's Republic of China [PRC]

-Time allotted on official schedule -Translation

-Meeting with Soviet official [Timofey B. Guzhenko] -Kissinger


Congressional relations -Adjournment

-Senate -House of Representatives

-House Resolution [HR] 1 -Spending ceiling bill

-Conference -Wilbur D. Mills

The President's schedule

-Radio address on Federal Spending, October 7, 1972 -Timing

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 9:00 am and 9:30 am.



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[Conversation No. 798-3A]

The President's schedule -Radio Address on Federal Spending

-Length -Purchase of radio broadcast time [End of telephone conversation] Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:00 am. -Draft of Radio Address on Crime and Drug Abuse -The President’s upcoming trip to Camp David -John K. Andrews, Jr. -Length Bull left at an unknown time before 9:30 am. -Tone

Congressional relations

-Adjournment -Water bill -Possible veto override -Quorum -Edward M. Kennedy's possible committee investigation [of Watergate] -Sine die -Ehrlichman

Vietnam negotiations -Leak source -Kissinger’s concern

-William P. Rogers -State Department

-Settlement timing -1972 election

-Media relations -Tape of alleged Vietnam veteran -George S. McGovern -Morning shows

-American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC] -Boston talk show



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-Timing -Unknown talk show host -Quality -Leak source -Kissinger’s concern

-Rogers -North Vietnamese

-Le Duc Tho -Sweden -Haldeman’s forthcoming conversation with Rogers -State Department -Kissinger’s plan for cease-fire -Coalition government

-State Department -Coalition governments -Rogers -Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] -Haldeman’s view -Executive Office Building [EOB] -Kissinger

-Kissinger’s travels -Hanoi -Saigon

-Nguyen Van Thieu -Possible television [TV] appearance -The President’s possible statement

-Alexander M. Haig, Jr. -Thieu

-The President's schedule -TV appearance

-Kissinger’s possible press briefing -Press interpretation

Cabinet and Congressional leaders meeting

-Possible call back for meeting -Timing

-Broadcast -Kissinger’s briefing

Vietnam negotiations -Haig compared to Kissinger

-Thieu



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-North Vietnam -Position

-Readiness for settlement

The President's schedule -Rose Mary Woods

-Camp David -Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo -Robert H. Abplanalp -Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis

-Access to the President -Woods’s telephone call to the President -Alexander P. Butterfield, Bull, Dwight L. Chapin

-Tricia Nixon Cox, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon -Woods -Instructions for the White House operators The President’s family -Kissinger, Haldeman, Woods -Problems -Haldeman’s possible conversation with Woods

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-Woods -Butterfield, Bull, Chapin -White House operators -Haldeman’s role

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Stock market -Manipulation

-Haig -Changes

-Kissinger's Vietnam negotiations -Jews -Opportunities to make money -Short-term gain -Tax

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1972 campaign practices -Edmund G. Muskie

-Possible suit -Peter Lisagor

-Richard (“Dick”) Tuck -McGovern campaign

-Corruption speech -Seattle -TV coverage



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-Tone -Detroit News -Response

-White paper on Corruption -Attack mode

-John B. Connally’s view -Poll numbers -Barry M. Goldwater -Comparison -Corruption issue -Vietnam War issue -Sympathy -Party line -Richard J. Daley -Level of support -Patrick J. Buchanan -Connally’s appearance at an auction King Ranch auction -Ehrlichman Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:00 am.

President's schedule -Ehrlichman -Kissinger -Doctors from the PRC


Connally -Auction meeting -Politics -Democrats for Nixon

-Idanell (Brill) (“Nellie”) Connally

Establishment -Disassociation from McGovern -Vietnam War peace plan

-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston, Joseph C. Kraft -Positions

-Buchanan’s view



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-Differences on the issues -William S. White

Ehrlichman entered at 9:30 am.


-Conference on debt ceiling -Timing

-House of Representatives version of spending limit -Senate

-Michael J. Mansfield statement -HR 1

-Mills -Russell B. Long

-Conference on debt ceiling -Senate

-Taxes -Press coverage -Veto possibility

-Water bill -Veto possibility

-Senate -Possibility of signing -Spending ceiling -The President’s view

Watergate

-Kennedy -James O. Eastland

-Senate rules on investigation -Fredrick C. LaRue -Republicans on the sub-committee -Roman L. Hruska -LaRue -Trial -Attorney General-Senate Judiciary Committee relationship

-Investigations -Effect on cases -US attorney -Publicity



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Congressional relations -HR 1 and water bill -Timing of possible veto messages -Quorum -Pocket veto -Absentees on Senate vote -Loss of support -Foreign policy issues compared to domestic issues

-B. Everett Jordan, Charles H. Percy, Jacob K. Javits, Robert W. Packwood, Mark O. Hatfield, William B. Saxbe

-Percy -Consumer legislation

-Recent telephone calls to Ehrichman -Request for a meeting with the President

-Thomas C. Korologos meeting with Percy -Cloture failure

-TV criticism of the White House -Packwood, Hatfield, Javits

-Administration’s stance -Percy, Javits -Percy -Illinois

-Thomas J. Houser -John N. Mitchell -Percy

-Nixon-Roman C. Pucinski bumper stickers -Special fund expenditure -Alderman -Vito Marzullo -Number -Television -The President's trip to Chicago

-Media coverage -Airport

-Mrs. Nixon, Tricia Nixon Cox, Julie Nixon Eisenhower -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

-Pucinski -Vietnam position -1972 campaign -1972 campaign finances -Compared to Pucinski -Administration support



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-Primary, meeting, photograph session, letters -Kissinger -Fund raiser -Nixon-Pucinski bumper stickers -Future administration relations -Republican National Convention

-Illinois delegation -Leslie C. Arends

-William E. Brock, III -The President’s view -Clifford P. Case -Edward W. Brooke

-Position on the President's policies -PRC

-Case Percy amendment

-Welfare reform -Benefits to Illinois, New York

-Henry L. Bellmon's amendment -Cost -Long’s statement -Benefits to Illinois

-Hearing -Christian Scientist background

-Gen. Douglas MacArthur -Consumer legislation -Request for a meeting with the President -White House staff -St. Louis airport

Administration position Missouri

-Christopher S. (“Kit”) Bond -Richard B. Ogilvie

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The President’s schedule -Congressional relations -Adjournment -Telephone calls -Camp David

-George P. Shultz -Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger

Camp David -Radio Address on Crime and Drug Abuse -Public interest -Absenteeism charge

US-Soviet Union maritime agreement

-Kissinger Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:30 am.

The President's schedule -Chinese doctors


US-Soviet Union maritime agreement -Peter G. Peterson -Negotiations -Possible link

-New York Times article -Peterson

-[Timofey B. Guzhenko] -Shipping price -Peterson Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:30 am.

Instruction -Woods



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Ehrlichman and Haldeman left at 10:01 am.

Conversation No. 798-4 Date: October 14, 1972 Time: 10:03 am - 10:39 am Location: Oval Office The President met with an unknown man at 10:03 am. Henry A. Kissinger entered and the unknown man left at 10:03 a.m. Stephen B. Bull entered at 10:04 am.

The President's schedule -Chinese doctors

-Dr. John Hogness -Dr. Wu Wei-jan -Photograph opportunity -Press -Gifts -Cuff links

Bull left at 10:04 am.

The President's and Kissinger’s schedule -Camp David -Radio Address on Crime and Drug Abuse, October 15, 1972 -Meetings -Paris

Hogness, Dr. John R. Kernodle, Dr. Edward E. David, Jr., Gen. Walter R. Tkach, James H. Cavanaugh, Wu Wei-jan, Fu Yi-chen, Lin Chiao-chih, Wu Hsueh-yu, Li Yen-shan, Chu Chuan-yan, Liu Shih-lien, Han Jui, Chou Kuan-han, Chang Shu-shun, Hsu Chia-yu, Wang Lien-sheng, Lu Tsung-ming, and Tai Tseng-yi entered at 10:04 am.; members of the press and the White House photographer were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Introductions



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[Photograph session] -Dr. Wu

James B. ("Scotty") Reston -Operation -Birthday

The President's welcome remarks

-Scientific and medical exchanges between the People's Republic of China [PRC] and US -The President's trip to Peking

-Cure for diseases -Cancer -US research program begun in 1971 -The President’s conversation with PRC leader -The best medical minds working for a cure -Importance

-Health facilities -The President's health

-Appendix US visit

-Arrangements

PRC -Women doctors -Numbers and quality -Compared to male doctors

Gift presentations -Pins -Presidential seal -Cuff links -Presidential seal

The President's regards to PRC leaders -Chou En-lai

Gift from PRC -Bonsai tree -Age PRC leaders regards to the President -Chou En-lai



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Mao Tse-tung White House tour

Everyone except Kissinger left at 10:19 am.

US-PRC relations -Recent meeting with Chinese doctors

-Chou En-lai -Schedule and treatment of visitors

-Mao Tse-tung -Vietnam War

US-Soviet Union maritime agreement

-New York Times -Timing of treaty signing -Leak -Negotiations -Peter G. Peterson -Soviets -Shipping price

-Peterson -Previous conversation with Kissinger -Shipping price

-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin Previous meeting with Kissinger -Peterson -Leonid I. Brezhnev -Lend-lease agreement -Peterson

-Publicity -Peterson’s efforts

US-Soviet Union trade agreement -Timing -Kissinger's schedule Kissinger’s schedule -The President’s schedule -Camp David -Possible photograph opportunity



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Vietnam negotiations

-Nguyen Van Thieu -Relations with the President -Possible statement -Ellsworth F. Bunker

-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr. -Kissinger’s view

-State Department -Coalition government -Media speculation -Hanoi

-US strategy -Reduction of bombing -Timing

-Sorties -Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Xuan Thuy -Changes

-Thieu -Bunker -The President’s trustworthiness

-Settlement announcement Content

-Kissinger -Hanoi -Saigon -Possible leak

-Relationship to 1972 election -Thieu’s survival -Possible coup -Possible military activity -Comparison to India

-Kissinger's schedule -Saigon

-William H. Sullivan -Xuan Thuy -William P. Rogers -Sullivan -Communications

-Political aspects -1972 election

-Thieu



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-Hanoi -Publicity -Effect -Kissinger's schedule -Saigon

-Paris -Le Duc Tho

-Post-1972 election possibilities -Bombing halt -Kissinger's schedule scenario

-Saigon -Thieu

-Sullivan’s schedule -Bangkok, Vientiane, Phnom Penh -Kissinger’s possible trip to Hanoi

-Phillip C. Habib -South Korea

-Hanoi -Cease-fire -Hanoi

-Bombing halt -Twentieth Parallel -Announcement -Compared to leak -Reaction -Navy, Army, Air Force

-Procedure for proposed action -Saigon -Washington, DC

-The President's television appearance -October 25, 1972

-Cease fire, October 26, 1972 -Kissinger’s view of Hanoi trip -Pressure for settlement

-Laos, Cambodia -Le Duc Tho -Peking trip -Thieu

-Agreement possibility -Possible scenarios -State Department and Sullivan -International commissions



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-Semantics -Agreement quality -Media relations -Hanoi -Political statement -Possible leak -The President’s possible statement -Transportation -Power unit

-French consulate -Areas of discussion with Thieu

Kissinger left at 10:39 am.

Conversation No. 798-5 Date: October 14, 1972 Time: Unknown between 10:39 am and 10:42 am. Location: Oval Office The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule -Henry A. Kissinger's return -John D. Ehrlichman, William E. Timmons -Alexander P. Butterfield

-Speech draft Bull left at an unknown time before 10:42 am.

Conversation No. 798-6 Date: October 14, 1972 Time: Unknown between 10:39 am and 10:42 am Location: Oval Office



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The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Speech -Text -Rose Mary Woods


-Departure for Camp David -Congressional adjournment

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 10:42 am.

Conversation No. 798-7 Date: October 14, 1972 Time: 10:42 am - 10:56 am Location: Oval Office The President met with John D. Ehrlichman and William E. Timmons.


-Water bill -Possible veto -Michael J. Mansfield, Hugh Scott -Previous telephone calls -Override possibility -Spending ceiling bill -Quorum possibility -Possible override -Possible return of Senators and Congressmen

-Water bill -Possible veto

-Gilbert Gude -Pocket veto -Public relations -Override

-House Resolution [HR]1 -Titles



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-Senate -Russell B. Long

-Filibuster -Welfare -Title IV

-Spending limit -Senate

-Mansfield -Adjournment

-HR 1 -Debt ceiling -Continuing appropriations

-George H. Mahon -Telephone call from [Carl B. Albert]

-Mansfield -Previous conversation with Albert -Gerald R. Ford -Previous conversation with Timmons -Return after recess -Retrieving Congressmen back to Congress -Marshals

-Water bill -Veto possibility -Possible override -HR 1

-Howard H. Baker, Jr. -Spending limit

-Quorum possibility -George S. McGovern -Appearance -Possible override

-Water bill -Edmund S. Muskie

-Letter -Legislative history

-Discretionary spending -Veto message

-Quorum possibility -Veto message -Taxes

Ehrlichman and Timmons left at 10:56 am.



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Conversation No. 798-8 Date: October 14, 1972 Time: Unknown between 10:56 am and 10:58 am Location: Oval Office The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 31-44]


Instruction Bull left at an unknown time before 10:58 am.

Conversation No. 798-10 Date: October 14, 1972 Time: 10:58 am - 11:01 am Location: Oval Office The President talked with Raymond K. Price, Jr. [See Conversation No. 31-45]



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Conversation No. 798-11 Date: October 14, 1972 Time: Unknown between 11:01 am and 11:17 am Location: Oval Office The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Vietnam negotiations -Agreement -Public statements -Effect on Saigon -Possible television appearance by the President

-Nygyen Van Thieu -Settlement provisions

-Vietnam -Recognition of independence

-Cease-fire -US

-Mine removal -Views of agreement

-William H. Sullivan -Melvin R. Laird -Comment to aide at the Pentagon -Robert LaFollette

-Withdrawals -Timeframe

-US advisors, military attaches, civilian personnel -US bases

-Vietnam -Laos, Cambodia

-Military aid -Replacements -North Vietnam -Prisoners of War [POWs] -Christmas -Missing in Action [MIAs] -Prisoners held by South Vietnam

-Thieu -Length of time for potential settlement



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-South Vietnam -Self-Determination

-National Council of National Reconciliation and Concord -Functions -Consultations -Coalition government -Thieu -[Committee of National Reconciliation] [NCR]

-Thieu -National Liberation Front [NLF] -Provisional Revolutionary Government [PRG]

-Recognition -Meeting with the President

-Midway Island, Hawaii, Asia -Timing after the election -Kissinger’s possible trip to Hanoi -San Clemente Timing of meeting

-Reunification -International Commission of Control and Supervision [ICSS] -North Vietnamese

-Motives -Bombing, mining

-Alexander M. Haig, Jr. -People’s Republic of China [PRC] -Soviet Union -PRC supplies -Bombing

-Troops in South Vietnam -Le Duc Tho -Previous conversation with Kissinger

-Haig -NLF

-Views -Demobilization -Haig -Message -Armistice compared to permanent peace

-Moscow

The President's schedule -Soviet official [Timofey B. Guzhenko]



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-Peter G. Peterson -Peter M. Flanigan

-US-Soviet Union maritime agreement Kissinger left at 11:17 am.

Conversation No. 798-12 Date: October 14, 1972 Time: 11:19 am - 11:31 am Location: Oval Office The President met with Henry A. Kissinger. The President talked with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman at an unknown time between 11:19 am and 11:31 am. [Conversation No. 798-12A]

The President's schedule -Meeting with Soviet official [Timofey B. Guzhenko] -Meeting with Raymond K. Price, Jr. -Education speech -Memorandum

-John D. Ehrlichman -Charles W. Colson

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam negotiations -Le Duc Tho

-Message -French -Airport attaché channel -State Department -Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] -Democratic Republic of Vietnam [DRV] -Return of prisoners held in South Vietnam -Nguyen Van Thieu



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-Xuan Thuy -North Vietnam

-Relations with US -A “new era” in relations

-Kissinger’s response -Prisoner release -National Council of National Reconciliation and Concord

-Thieu -Possible action -Criminal sentences

-Possible civilian bloodshed -Settlement announcement

-Kissinger's Schedule -Hanoi -Timing -1972 election

-Settlement provisions -Cambodia and Laos

-Recognition of independence -Foreign bases -Military activities -Troops, advisors, military personnel -Cease-fire

-Continuation of war -Thieu’s objection statement -North Vietnam -Possible status at the end of 1973

-Cambodia -Prisoners of War [POW’s] bombing -Need for supplemental aid from Congress -Thieu

-Economic, military, moral support by US -Options -Congress -US public support -Polls -Communist government in South Vietnam

-Ellsworth F. Bunker Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:19 am.




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-Guzhenko -Peter G. Peterson -Photograph opportunity -Peter M. Flanigan


-US-Soviet Union maritime agreement

Vietnam negotiations -Thieu

-Political implications in US -1972 election -Economic and military assistance

-League of American Families -POWs -Situation

-Kitty Hawk -Race riot

-Thailand bases -Meeting with the President

-San Clemente -Mrs. Thieu

-Hawaii -Casa Pacifica

Kissinger’s schedule

-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin’s message for the President Kissinger left at 11:31 am.

Conversation No. 798-13 Date: October 14, 1972 Time: 11:33 am - 11:53 am Location: Oval Office The President met with Timofey B. Guzhenko, Anatoliy F. Dobrynin, Peter G. Peterson, and



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Peter M. Flanigan ; the White House photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings -Peterson

[Photographic session]

US-Soviet Union maritime agreement -Negotiations -Difficulty -Rates -Moscow -The President’s meeting with Leonid I. Brezhnev -Congress -Peterson, Flanigan

-Implications -Continuation of constructive relationship

-Political matters -Probability of closer relations

-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin, Andrei A. Gromyko -Julie Nixon Eisenhower

-Visit to Soviet ship [Tovarishch] -Baltimore -Reception from Soviet Union sailors

-Possible visit to Soviet Union -[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II -Brezhnev

-Tricia Nixon Cox -Possible visit to Soviet Union

-Work -Peterson

-The President’s trip to the Soviet Union -Julie Nixon Eisenhower

-Baltimore visit to Tovarishch -Visits

-New York -Leningrad

-The President's schedule -Future trip to Soviet Union

-Wines -Kiev



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-Ukraine -Georgia

-1966 vintage -California, New York -Kotovsk

-Guzhenko’s efforts

Gifts -Cuff links -Presidential seal

Private message from Dobrynin -Henry A. Kissinger The President’s possible travel on Soviet Union ship Guzhenko et al. left at 11:53 am.


The President's schedule -Meeting with Raymond K. Price, Jr., John D. Ehrlichman, H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman


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.

Conversation No. 798-16 Date: October 14, 1972 Time: Unknown between 1:27 pm and 1:30 pm Location: Oval Office The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

The President's schedule -Executive Office Building [EOB]

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:30 pm.

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