Conversation No. 136-1

Date:  Unknown between June 29 and July 22, 1972
Time:  Unknown
Location:  Camp David Study Table (telephone)

An unknown man talked with the Camp David operator.

	Request for return call

Conversation No. 136-2

Date:  Unknown between June 29 and July 22, 1972
Time:  Unknown
Location:  Camp David Study Table (telephone)

An unknown man talked with the Camp David operator.

	Request for return call

Conversation No. 136-3

Date:  Unknown between June 29 and July 22, 1972
Time:  Unknown
Location:  Camp David Study Table (telephone)

An unknown man talked with the Camp David operator.

	Request for return call

Conversation No. 136-4

Date:  July 22, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:23 and 1:42 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table (telephone)

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See Conversation No. 197-7]

	Request for Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 136-5

Date:  July 22, 1972
Time:  1:42-2:17 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table (telephone)

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 197-8]

	Colson's schedule

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	Economic news
		-Networks
		-Washington Post
		-New York Times comments
		-Press coverage
		-Consumer Price Index [CPI], Gross National Product [GNP]
		-Herbert Stein

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Conversation No. 136-6

Date:  July 22, 1972
Time:  Between 2:17 and 2:25 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table (telephone)

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See Conversation No. 197-9]

	Request for Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 136-7

Date:  July 22, 1972
Time:  Between 2:17 and 2:25 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table (telephone)

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

[See Conversation No. 197-10]

	Kissinger's location

	Ken Jamieson's previous call to John B. Connally

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	SAUDI ARABIA

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	-Kissinger’s call to Connally

	Connally
		-Location
		-Schedule
		-Charles W. Colson
		-Forthcoming television interview
			-Talking points
			-Appointment to President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board [PFIAB]
		-Disarmament
			-Senate

	Vietnam military activities
		-Quang Tri operation
		-Planned North Vietnamese attack
		-Military strategy
			-Lam Son operation
		-Briefing for President
			-Importance of air power
			-Situation in North Vietnam

	President's previous conversation with Colson
		-Jack N. Anderson's column in Washington Post
			-Hanoi comment on George S. McGovern

	McGovern
		-Possible reply to Anderson's column
		-US casualties in Vietnam as issue
			-Administration response

	Weather

	Kissinger's schedule
		-Stewart J. O. Alsop

Conversation No. 136-8

Date:  July 22, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:31 and 2:37 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table (telephone)

The President talked to the Camp David operator. 

[See Conversation No. 197-11]

	Request for Ronald L. Ziegler

Conversation No. 136-9

Date:  July 22, 1972
Time:  2:37-2:44 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table (telephone)

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

[See Conversation No. 197-12]

	Vice President Spiro T. Agnew's previous press conference
		-Length
		-Wire service coverage
		-Campaign activites
			-Wire service report
			-The Vice President’s role
			-George S. McGovern's positions
				-Marijuana
				-Amnesty for draft evaders
				-Welfare
				-Foreign policy
		-Agnew's selection
		-Possible candidacy in 1976
		-Agnew’s schedule

	Ziegler's conversation with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
		-McGovern's telegram to Carl B. Albert
			-Ziegler’s possible response
			-Clark MacGregor's forthcoming statement
				-McGovern's vote in 1964
					-Michael J. Mansfield amendment
				-John O. Pastore's remarks
				-Differences between President and McGovern
				-National interest
				-Possible wording
					-Defense policy
					-Domestic policy
					-The President’s view
			-Television coverage
			-President's record on debates
			-MacGregor's statement

Conversation No. 136-10

Date:  July 22, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:44 and 2:46 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table (telephone)

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See Conversation No. 197-13]

	Request for H. R. Haldeman.

Conversation No. 136-11

Date:  July 22, 1972
Time:  2:46-2:47 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table (telephone)

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

[See Conversation No. 197-14]

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	Haldeman’s schedule

Conversation No. 136-12

Date:  July 22, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:47 and 3:57 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table (telephone)

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See Conversation No. 197-15]

	Request for Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 136-13
Date:  July 22, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:47 and 3:57 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table (telephone)

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See Conversation No. 197-16A]

	Henry A. Kissinger's location
		-Stewart J. O. Alsop

	Cancellation of call

	Return call

Conversation No. 136-14

Date:  July 22, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:47 and 3:57 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table (telephone)

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

	Request for Tricia Nixon Cox

Conversation No. 136-15

Date:  July 22, 1972
Time:  3:57-3:59 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table (telephone)

The President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox.

[See Conversation No. 197-17A]

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Conversation No. 136-16

Date:  July 22, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:59 and 4:20 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table (telephone)

The President talked with the Camp David operator. 

[See Conversation No. 197-17B]

	Request for Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 136-17

Date:  July 22, 1972
Time:  4:20-4:23 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table (telephone)

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

[See Conversation No. 197-17C]

	President's schedule
		-Representatives of Baltic Republics
			-Possible meeting with the President
				-The President’s view
			-Soviet Union reaction
			-Possible meeting with Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
			-Lithuanians

	Kissinger's conversation with John B. Connally

	Invitation to Kissinger

Conversation No. 136-18

Date:  July 23, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:15 and 10:52 am
Location:  Camp David Study Table (telephone)

The President talked with the Camp David operator.
 
[See Conversation No. 196-1]

	Request for Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 136-19
Date:  July 23, 1972
Time:  10:52 am – 11:37 am
Location:  Camp David Study Table (telephone)

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 196-3]

	Public relations
		-John B. Connally
			-Schedule 
				-Meet the Press
					-Colson’s efforts
			-George S. McGovern
				-Face the Nation
			-Thomas F. Eagleton
				-Issues and Answers
			-Preparation for interview

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	Washington Star
		-Circulation among blacks
		-Washington Post
		-Management
			-New York Times
			-The President’s view

	Washington Post
		-Katharine L. Graham
		-Compared with Chicago Daily News
		-News coverage
			-Effect
		-Legislative leaders
			-Effect of news coverage
			-The President’s view
		-White House staff

	Previous meeting in State Dining Room
		-Colson’s view

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	George P. Shultz
		-Meeting with Robert W. Packwood
			-International Brotherhood of Teamsters
		-James D. Hodgson’s previous meeting with Packwood
		-George Meany
		-Laurence H. Silberman
		-Schedule

	Colson's conversation with Hodgson
		-Hodgson's press conference
			-Colson’s view
		-A Congressional vote
			-The President's view
			-Michael J. Mansfield
			-House Labor Committee
				-[Carl D. Perkins]
			-West Coast dock strike
			-Democrats' actions

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	Packwood
		-Colson's previous conversation with Hodgson
			-Need for press conference
			-Meeting with Packwood
		-New bill
			-The President’s view
		-Railroad Act
			-Meany
			-Reforms
			-Possible question in President's press conference
				-Patrick J. Buchanan
		-Possible meeting with the President
		-Cabinet
-White House staff
		-William E. Timmons
		-Statement
		-Lack of business support for President's policies
			-Railroad interests
			-Trucking interests
			-Vietnam
			-National defense
			-Compulsory arbitration
				-Farmers
					-Grain sales
						-Administration policies   

	Soviet grain shipments
		-Jesse M. Calhoon
		-Thomas W. Gleason
		-Colson’s previous meeting with Hodgson
			-Union cooperation
				-Longshoremen
				-Teamsters
				-Operating engineers
				-Seafarers
		-Shultz
			-Dock strikes
			-Union cooperation

	Packwood
		-Teamsters
			-Einar O. Mohn
		-Press
			-Meany
			-Shultz
		-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial
		Organizations [AFL-CIO]

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Conversation No. 136-20

Date:  July 23, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:37 am and 12:18 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table (telephone)

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See Conversation No. 193-6]

	Request for Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Conversation No. 136-21

Date:  July 23, 1972
Time:  12:18-12:25 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table (telephone)

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

[See Conversation No. 196-8]

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Conversation No. 136-22

Date:  July 23, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:25 and 12:26 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table (telephone)

The President talked with the Camp David operator.
 
[See Conversation No. 196-9]

	Request for H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Conversation No. 136-23

Date:  July 23, 1972
Time:  12:23 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table (telephone)

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

[See Conversation No. 196-12]

	The President’s schedule
		-John B. Connally’s forthcoming interview on Meet the Press
		-Haldeman
			-Location
		-George S. McGovern’s interview on Face the Nation
		-Connally

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	Vice President Spiro T. Agnew's previous press conference
		-Press coverage
		-Haldeman’s view
		-Jacob K. Javits
		-Length

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	Watergate
		-G. Gordon Liddy
			-Stories in Washington Post and Washington Star
				-Reason for firing
					-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]

Conversation No. 136-24

Date:  July 23, 1972
Time:  1:40 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table (telephone)

The President talked with John B. Connally.

[See Conversation No. 196-18]

	Connally's appearance on Meet the Press
		-Questions
			-Hobart Rowen
			-Democrats for Nixon
		-Quotation from Hamlet
		-Connally's style
		-Questions
			-Smithsonian agreement on the dollar
				-Rowen
				-Georges J. R. Pompidou
					-The President and Connally’s previous meeting
					   with Pompidou in the Azores
			-Economy
			-Vietnam
				-US military activity
				-George S. McGovern's statement
		-Television reception at Camp David
		-Connally's suit
			-The President’s view

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	Bruce Smathers's letter to Tricia Nixon Cox
		-George A. Smathers
			-Possible assistance to Administration
			-Connally's view
			-President's possible call to Smathers

Conversation No. 136-25

Date:  July 23, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:40 and 2:01 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table (telephone)

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See Conversation No. 196-22]

	Request for H. R. Haldeman

Conversation No. 136-26

Date:  July 23, 1972
Time:  2:10 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table (telephone)

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

[See Conversation No. 196-23]

	President's previous call to John B. Connally
		-Questions during Connally’s interview
			-Jerald F. (“Jerry”) terHorst
			-Meet the Press
			-Quotation from Hamlet
			-1972 Election
				-Connally's support for Democrats
				-Spiro T. Agnew

	George S. McGovern
		-Television interview questions
			-Lack of support
-Union support
				-Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson
					-McGovern’s view
						-Richard J. Daley
		-Thomas F. Eagleton's television interview
			-Union support
		-Television interview questions
			-Labor support
			-Polls
				-George H. Gallup
			-Vietnam
			-Greece
				-Connally's interview
			-Vietnam
				-Negotiations
					-McGovern’s view
					-Henry A. Kissinger
					-Political manipulation by President
						-The President’s previous trip to the People’s
						   Republic of China [PRC] and the Soviet Union
				-Connally's statement on McGovern's policy
			-Thailand
				-Presence of US troops
					-McGovern's position
			-Debates with President
				-McGovern's change of position
				-Eagleton's statement
			-Vietnam
				-US aid to Nguyen Van Thieu
			-Income tax redistribution plan
				-Welfare reform
				-Tax reform
			-David Shoumacher, David S. Broder, Bruce Morton
				-Broder's questions
					-Daley
					-Finances
					-Truman, Johnson
		-Compared with Connally's interview

	Weather

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Conversation No. 136-27

Date:  July 23, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:10 and 2:14 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table (telephone)

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See Conversation No. 196-24]

	Request for Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 136-28

Date:  July 23, 1972
Time:  2:35 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table (telephone)

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 196-25]

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	Colson's schedule
		-John B. Connally
			-Television appearance
			-Jake Jacobson
			-Schedule
				-Colson
				-Henry A. Kissinger
				-President
			-Finances
			-George C. Wallace
				-Schedule
					-Thomas F. Eagleton

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Conversation No. 136-29
Date:  July 23, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:35 and 3:08 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table (telephone)

The President talked with the Camp David operator. 

[See Conversation No. 196-28]

	Request for George A. Smathers
		-Telephone number

Conversation No. 136-30

Date:  July 23, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:35 and 3:08 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table (telephone)

The President talked with the Camp David operator.
 
[See Conversation No. 196-29]

	Request for Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 136-31

Date:  July 23, 1972
Time:  3:27 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table (telephone)

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

[See Conversation No. 196-30]

	Weather
		-Washington, DC
		-Camp David
		-Henry Brandon's pool

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	President's forthcoming meeting with Japanese
		-Announcement
		-Timing
		-Arrangements
			-Location
				-The President’s view
			-Hotels
			-Reception
			-Pearl Harbor
		-Kakuei Tanaka
			-Age
			-Possible meeting with John H. Holdridge
				-Leaks
				-Robert S. Ingersoll
		-Trade pact
			-William D. Eberle
			-Timing of announcements
			-Final negotiations 

	President's schedule
		-Italians
		-President of Italy [Giovanni Leone]
			-Timing of visit
				-The President’s view

	Vietnam military activities
		-North Vietnamese military dispositions
			-Military Region I
			-Quang Tri
			-Need for South Vietnamese troop withdrawal
				-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
				-Possibility of defeat
				-Kissinger’s view
				-The President’s instructions
				-Kissinger's meeting with Melvin R. Laird and
				     Thomas H. Moorer
				-North Vietnam troop movements
					-Kissinger’s view
			-Compared to Stalingrad and Battle of Bulge
			-Kissinger's cable to Frederick G. Weyand
			-Possible press reaction
			-Bombing
				-North Vietnamese casualtes

	President's previous conversation with Haig
		-Press reports
		-South Vietnamese troop withdrawal
			-The President’s view
			-Weyand and John W. Vogt, Jr.
			-South Vietnamese retreat
			-President and Kissinger
			-Nguyen Van Thieu
				-Quang Tri
-Effect on negotiations
-Responsibility
-Lam Son
-Tchepone
	-Dispersal of effort
							-The President’s view
			-Concentration of forces
				-Weyand
				-Kissinger and Haig
				-B-52s

	Vietnam military activities
		-Peace negotiations
		-Weyand
		-North Vietnamese capability
			-Weather
				-Effect
			-Sir Robert Thompson's statement
				-Timing of North Vietnamese offensive
				-Motive
					-US election
					-US-Soviet Union summit

Conversation No. 136-32

Date:  July 23, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:27 and 4:03 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table (telephone)

The President talked with the Camp David operator.

[See Conversation No. 196-33]

	Request for Manolo Sanchez

Conversation No. 136-33

Date:  July 23, 1972
Time:  4:03 pm
Location:  Camp David Study Table (telephone)

The President talked with Manolo Sanchez.

[See Conversation No. 196-34]

	Instructions for secretary
			-President's schedule
				-Departure time