Conversation No. 743-1

Date:  June 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:45 and 9:37 am.
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:37 am.

Conversation No. 743-2

Date:  June 27, 1972
Time:  9:37-10:06 am.
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming press conference
-Timing
-Congressional adjournment
			-Ziegler’s comments to press
				-Congressional adjounrment
				-Social Security bill
				-Television

	Ziegler’s press briefing
		-Appointments
			-Military Assistance Command, Vietnam [MACV]
				-Gen. Frederick C. Weyand
					-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Clark MacGregor
-Caspar W. Weinberger
			-Debt ceiling briefing
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Raw agricultural products
-Forthcoming meeting with John D. Ehrlichman

Baseball greats list
-Hugh Casey
-The President's article
			-Distribution
			-Associated Press [AP]
			-Radio
-Rowland Evans
-AP
			-Timing of release
			-AP

H. R. Haldeman entered at 9:40 am.

Television audio problems
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
-The President's filmed statement

Stephen B. Bull entered at 9:41 am.

The President's schedule
		-Meeting with Ehrlichman

Bull left at 9:42 am.

Ziegler left at 9:42 am.

Television audio problems

	The President’s schedule
-Association of Counties
-Statement by the President
				-Revenue sharing
	-Spiro T. Agnew
-Flood
				-Ehrlichman
-Size
-Relations with Administration
-Vietnam War
-Statement by the President
				-Welcoming remarks
-Foreign policy compared with domestic policy
					-Revenue sharing
					-Vietnam
					-Administration spokesman
	-Meeting schedule

John N. Mitchell
-Location
-Richard A. Moore
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-Necessity for control
				-Access to press
-Health
-Press coverage
	-Jack Lynn(?)'s call to Moore
	-Helen A. Thomas
-Moore’s comments to editor
					-Editor’s response 
-Immediate future

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	Martha Mitchell
		-John Mitchell

Watergate

Edward C. Nixon's schedule
-Visit to black church
	-Leonard P. Garment
			-The President’s previous visit in 1960
	-John F. Kennedy
-Appearance at church convention
-Militants
			-Edward Nixon’s remarks

Scheduling of public appearances
-Black audiences
			-The President's view
-Hispanics
-Cesar E. Chavez
		-The President's view
	-The President's family
-Robert H. Finch
-Edward Nixon’s public activities

Henry A. Kissinger's activities
		-Congress

The President's schedule
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]

Ehrlichman entered at 9:58 am.

-George W. Romney
			-John A. Volpe
-George P. Shultz
-John B. Connally, Jr.

Haldeman left at 9:58 am.

-Meeting with Republican senators
-Debt ceiling
-Shultz, Caspar W. Weinberger
-Revenue sharing
-Shultz
-Ehrlichman's meeting with Jacob K. Javits
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-House formula
-House Resolution [HR] 1
-Work requirement
-Senators' philosophy
-Agreement with the President
-Russell B. Long's proposal
-Senate bill
-Administration view
-Administration's role in preparing
-Wallace F. Bennett
-Criticism
-Elliot L. Richardson and James D. Hodgson
-Cost
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Robert Meyers
-Long
-Compared to HR 1
							-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-The President's position
							-Support for legislation

Ehrlichman left at 10:06 am.

Conversation No. 743-3

Date:  June 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:06 and 10:08 am.
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Senators
			-Cabinet Room

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:08 am.

Conversation No. 743-4

Date:  June 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:28 and 11:30 am.
Location:  Oval Office

The President met Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Press photographs
-Forthcoming meeting with Senators

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:30 am.

Conversation No. 743-5

Date:  June 27, 1972
Time:  11:30-11:57 am.
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Elliot L. Richardson, John S. Millis, Theodore Cooper, Kenneth R. Cole, Jr. and James H. Cavanaugh. 
[Members of the press and White House photographer were present at the beginning of the meeting.]

Introductions

Photographs

Cooper’s forthcoming trip to Moscow

US-Soviet Union Cooperative Health Program on Disease
		-The President's view
			-Richardson’s role
-Cancer
-Heart disease
-The President's view
				-Support for program
-Cooper's previous visit to Moscow
-Agreement with Soviet Union
	-Statistical data
-William P. Rogers, Boris V. Petrovsky
-Dr. E. I. Chazov and Dr. Cooper 
-Soviet diet
-Priority
-Incidence in certain areas of Soviet Union
-The President's meeting with Poles
-Exercise
-Dr. Paul Dudley White
-Walking
-The President's visits to Camp David
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Diet
-Comparison to the Soviet Union
-Richardson's memorandum to Henry A. Kissinger
-System 
-Soviet health problems
				-White [First name unknown]
				-The President's view
					-Compared with US
-Cancer legislation
-Millis's role
-Heart diseases
-Variety and relationships
-Forthcoming recommendations
				-Funding allocation
				-Facilities
				-Communication
				-Education
-Education
-Doctors
-Public
-Problems
-Use of fear
				-Weight
				-Diet
				-Smoking
				-Youth
-Due date for report
-Need for education about health
-Reader's Digest
-Television potential
-Human biology courses in high school and college
				-The President's view
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:30 am.

	The President’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:57 am.

-Competition for curricular time
					-The President's view
						-Social studies

Presentation of gifts by the President

Millis, Cooper, Richardson, Cole, and Cavanaugh left at 11:57 am.

Conversation No. 743-6

Date:  June 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:57 am. and 1:50 pm.
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

The President's list of baseball greats
-Tape
			-Names

H. R. Haldeman entered at 12:03 pm.

-John R. (“Jackie”) Robinson
-Statistics
			-The President’s recollection

Woods left at an unknown time between 12:03 and 12:06 pm.

-Track and field
-James C. ("Jesse") Owens
-Skill as athlete
			-The President's view

The President's schedule
-Congress's schedule
			-Delay
-California
-Thelm C. (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule
-Chicago
-Congress
	-Social securityand debt limit bill
		-Camp David
		-Congress

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 12:06 pm.

Documents for President’s signature

The President's schedule
-Spiro T. Agnew's appearance before Jaycees
-The President's experience as Vice President
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Appearances by the President

Butterfield left at 12:10 pm.

Pending legislation
-Welfare reform
-Russell B. Long
-Revenue sharing
-Michael J. Mansfield resolution
-Timing
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Timing
-Kissinger

Association of Counties
-Appearances by George S. McGovern, Edmund S. Muskie,
	 Hubert H. Humphrey, Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson, James B. Allen, 
	 George C. Wallace
-Muskie
			-Busing
-Vietnam

The President left at an unknown time after 12:10 pm.

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Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 12:10 and 12:56 pm.

[Conversation No. 743-6A]

Number of attendees at a function [Association of Counties]
-David N. Parker
		-The President’s remarks
			-Vietnam

[End of telephone conversation]

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The President entered at an unknown time before 12:56 pm.

The President’s schedule
	-Association of Counties
-Revenue sharing
-Agnew's remarks

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 12:10 and 12:56 pm.

	[Conversation No 743-6B]

	Association of Counties meeting
		-Agnew’s remarks
			-Revenue sharing

[End of telephone conversation]

-Timing
		-Location
-Possible topics for the President's remarks
		-The President's view
		-Mayors meeting
			-New Orleans
			-The President's view
		-Association of Counties

The President's statement on meat prices
-Technical problems with networks
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] objection to format
			-Ronald L. Ziegler
	-Sabotage
-Teleprompter
-Format
-Single camera
-Compared to previous statements
-Press coverage on meat quotas
-Los Angeles Times article

	Public relations
		-Efforts
-Political
-Charles W. Colson, Patrick J. Buchanan
-Economy
-Buchanan's memorandum
-Administration's strength
					-National Security

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming press conference
-Pending legislation

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White House staff
-Youth
-Woods
-Buchanan, John P. Sears, Leonard Garment
-Kevin P. Phillips
			-Domestic policy
		-Youth
			-Political beliefs
		-Jeffrey Bell
		-Buchanan

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	Public relations efforts
		-White House staff
	-Kissinger
	-John D. Ehrlichman
	-Myles J. Ambrose

The President's schedule
-Association of Counties
-Agnew's schedule
-Previous visit to flood area

News leads
-Democratic platform
-Meat prices
		-Vietnam War
		-President’s press conference
			-Timing
		-Price controls

Arthur F. Burns's letter
-The President's view
-John B. Connally
-American people 
-Need for leadership
-The President’s actions
					-Trips to the People’s Republic of China [PRC] and Soviet Union
					-Mining of Haiphong Harbor
-McGovern and Wallace

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Kissinger entered at 12:56 pm.

Kissinger's meeting with commentators
-Ehrlichman

Kissinger's conversation with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Grain sales
-Timing
-Arrangements
-Maritime Union
-Peter G. Peterson, Colson
-Thomas W. ("Teddy") Gleason

Kissinger's schedule
-Meeting with Senators
-Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr., Ernest F.(“Fritz”) Hollings
-Kissinger's Peking trip
-Charles H. Percy, Charles MacMathias, Jr. Hollings
				-Mansfield amendment
					-Possible vote
-Future meeting

Vietnam peace negotiations
-Forthcoming meetings
-Chances for success
-McgGovern

The President left at an unknown time after 12:56 pm.

-US bombing around Hue
-Effects

Kissinger's schedule
-John W. Chancellor

The President returned at an unknown time before 1:12 pm.

Vietnam military situation
-Letter from North Vietnamese soldier
-Morale
-McGovern
-Threat of military action after election

Vietnam peace negotiations
-Acceptable options
-McGovern
-North Vietnamese strategy
-Cease-fire
-Release of prisoners of war [POWs]
		-Possible administration actions
		-Cease-fire
			-POWs
			-North Vietnam
			-Advantages
			-North Vietnam
-Gloria Emerson
-Commentary
			-Kissinger’s view
		-Press coverage
			-Effect
				-Support for the President

Kissinger's schedule
-The President's schedule

The President's forthcoming press conference
-Announcement on draftees
-Ziegler
-Melvin R. Laird

National Security Council [NSC] Consultant
-Carter [First name unknown]
-Speech at Brookings Institute
			-View of administration policy
				-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]

John d. Lavelle situation
-Press reports
-Compared to Daniel Ellsberg situation
-Number of violations
			-Effect
			-North Vietnam protests
		-Actions

Kissinger's schedule
-Chancellor
-CBS
	-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.

Kissinger left at 1:12 pm.

The President's schedule
-Association of Counties
-Agnew
-Ehrlichman
-Association of Counties meeting schedule

Kissinger
-Value of activities
-McGovern

Welfare
-Raymond K. Price, Jr. and Buchanan
		-Administration action
-Attack on McGovern
		-House Resolution [HR] 1
		-Abraham A. Ribicoff's proposal
		-McGovern’s proposal
		-HR 1
		-Democrat platform

The President's schedule
		-Association of Counties
			-Ehrlichman’s view

The President's article on baseball greats

The President talked with Woods at an unknown time between 1:12 and 1:26 pm.

[Conversation No. 743-6C]

-Spelling of names
-Ziegler
-Elroy Face

[End of telephone conversation]

-Instructions for Haldeman to call Ziegler

. Haldeman talked with Ziegler at an unknown time between 1:12 and 1:26 pm.

[Conversation No. 743-6D.]

[See Conversation No. 26-12]

[End of telephone conversation]

-Hugh Casey
		-Face

Ziegler entered at 1:26 pm.

-Face
-Correct first name
-Mase Brown
-Casey

Ziegler left at 1:27 pm.

-Face

Woods entered at 1:27 pm.

-Brown, Casey
-Marjorie P. Acker
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II's handwriting

	[No conversation]

The President left at 1:29 pm.

Manolo Sanchez entered at 1:29 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:36 pm.

The President entered at an unknown time before 1:36 pm.

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between
1:29 and 1:36 pm.

[Conversation No. 743-6E.]

[See Conversation No. 26-13]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President talked with Ziegler between 1:36 and 1:37 pm.

[Conversation No. 743-6F.]

[See Conversation No. 26-14]

[End of telephone conversation]

Robinson
-Owens's record

Baseball greats

Ziegler entered at 1:41 pm.

-Spelling of Jim Konstanty's name
-Ronald Perranoski
-Los Angeles Dodgers
-The President's article
-Sporting News
-Wire services
-Clifford Evans
-Tom Subject [?]
-AP
-Sporting News
-Sports Illustrated
-Washington Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times,
 Philadelphia Inquirer
-Evans
-Timing of article
				-The President’s possible remarks to Evans
-Frank Robinson
-Lefty Grove
-Hoyt Wilhelm
-Bob Feller
-Hank Greenberg
-Baseball Writers Association
-Arky Vaughn
-The President's article
-Newspapers
-Magazines
-AP

Ziegler left at 1:43 pm.

The President's schedule
-Association of Counties
-William F. ("Billy") Graham

Haldeman left at 1:50 pm.

Conversation No. 743-7

Date:  June 27, 1972
Time:  1:55-2:36 pm.
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Woods.

George A. Murphy's birthday
			-Gift

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 1:55 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez's health

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:36 pm.

Letter from David M. I. Kendall 
	-Meeting with Ferdinand E. Marcos
	-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
				-Reply

Rev. Theodore S. Hesburgh
-Letter to the President
-Civil Rights activities
				-Woods view

Duke University

Letter from John A. Volpe
	-The President's visit with Volpe's son

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John N. Mitchell
-Meeting with Woods and Robert H. Finch
-Martha (Beall0 Mitchell
				-Press coverage
	-Incident in 1968
		-Woods, H. R. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman
						-Publicity
	-Press reporting
	-Health
		-Injection
	-Effect of John Mitchell’s resignation
-Cabinet
					 -Invitations to White House
-Richard G. Kleindienst's swearing-in ceremony
				-Martha Mitchells comments to press
						-Helen A. Thomas reporting

Helen H. Thomas
-Interview with Rose Mary Woods
-Stories on the President's family
-"News" defined

John Mitchell
-Options
				-Martha Mitchell
-Interest in the President's re-election
-Martha Mitchell
-Daughter Marty	
						-Gift from Woods
-Actions
						-Comments to press
						-Telephone calls to White House
				-Woods view
				-Statements to press
				-Press

Letter from Vernon A. (“Dick”) Walters

Adm. Hyman G. Rickover's letter to the President
	-The President's letter on death of wife

Report from Richard M. Helms
			-Finland
			-Helms
				-The President’s trip to the Soviet Union
						-Henry A. Kissinger

Howard Seeger of US News and World Report

Loren Begg
	-Copies

Goldthwaite Dorr's 96th birthday

Samuel I. Hayakawa
	-Haig

The President's schedule
	-Unknown woman [Alice Bumlecher ?]
				-Possible meeting

The President's forthcoming acceptance speech
-People who influenced the President's life
-Wallace Newman
-Paul Smith
-J. Hershel Coffin and Rev. Garland Moore

Planting of tree at Connecticut State Capitol
-Harry S. Dent

	   Jeane L. Dixon
-Soviet Union and Japan
-Yamato Steel Company
-Panama Canal
-Haig

Taft Schreiber
-Asa V. Call
-Campaign contributions
-Wood's call to Call

Frank [Ledman ?]
-Letters to the President
			-Support

Unknown man [Lou Michols?]
-Letter on Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] director
-J. Edgar Hoover
				-Nichols’s view
-The President's view
				-Possible response
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III

Gifts to the President from Saudi Arabian Minister of Defense [Sultan ibn Abd al-Aziz]
-Letter of thanks
				-Previous visit with the President
						-Melvin R. Laird
				-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
				-Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Tricia Nixon Cox
				-The President’s appreciation

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	Files
			-Disposition
				-Woods
		
		White House gifts
			-Mrs. Nixon 
				-Gift from Nikita S. Khrushchev
						-Painting
				-Other gifts
			-Gifts to the President
				-Disposition
						-The President's view
				-Mrs. Nixon   
			-White House cuff links
				-Cost
				-Gifts to visitors
			-White House tie tac

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Letters to the President 
	-“Checkers” speech
	-Destruction by Murray M. Chotiner
-Ruth (Almond?) and Loie Gaunt
			-The President’s files
				-Disposition

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-Martha Mitchell
-Health
				-Woods view

Finnish report

Jeane Dixon's husband's letter (James L. Dixon)

Press
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Sam Houston Johnson

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-John Mitchell

The President and Woods left at 2:36 pm.