H. R. Haldeman Diaries, 1/18/1969 - 4/30/1973. H. R. Haldeman Audio Diaries, 11/30/1970 - 4/30/1973

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H. R. Haldeman Diaries, 1/18/1969 - 4/30/1973. H. R. Haldeman Audio Diaries, 11/30/1970 - 4/30/1973

1970-1973

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This series consists of audio diaries spoken in narrative form. The audio diaries detail the President's schedule and trip itineraries including summits and state visits, speeches and press conferences, and meetings or telephone calls with heads of state, Cabinet members, labor leaders, members of Congress, representatives of the Armed Forces, Federal agencies, staff from the Office of the President and White House Office, press and reporters. In the diaries, Haldeman describes relations among the President and his senior advisors, and documents personnel management decisions and Presidential appointments. Government reorganization is covered in some detail particularly as it relates to senior White House staff positions, the federal budget, and appropriations. Haldeman notes the President's deliberations on second-term appointments; the appointment of women, Latin Americans, and African Americans to senior advisory and senior management positions; and discussions about candidates to fill two vacant seats on the Supreme Court and the directorship of the Federal Bureau of Investigation upon the death of J. Edgar Hoover. The diaries also note the Administrations response to leaks of national security information particularly related to the Pentagon Papers and the President's policies with respect to Vietnam and South Asia. Haldeman discusses the President's 1972 presidential campaign strategies, speeches, and press conferences; relations with Republic National Committee Chairman Robert Dole and Committee for the Re-Election of the President Chairman John Mitchell; potential running mates including Vice President Spiro T. Agnew and John B. Connally; and leading opposition candidates George Wallace, Pete McCloskey, George McGovern, and Thomas Eagleton. Haldeman documents public events and private meetings covering the entire scope of issues in which the Nixon White House engaged in during the years 1970-1973. Among the main domestic policies, issues, and legislative initiatives he describes in this series are: busing for school integration; collective bargaining and labor strikes; anti-war demonstrations; organized crime and drug control; supersonic transport planes; taxation; welfare reform and social security adjustments; wage and price controls; the Watergate Affair; youth, the military draft, and the 26th Amendment to the Constitution. Foreign policy topics include the President's summit meetings with Soviet Union Premier Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet Jews, grain sales, and negotiations on strategic arms limitations; the President's Vietnam War policies including aerial bombing and troop deployments in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, the Calley Case, peace negotiations, the repatriation of American prisoners of war, and the War Powers resolutions; foreign aid and international finance; trade negotiations with Japan; military tactics and peace negotiations related to the India-Pakistan conflict and the Middle East; the President's visit to the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China's membership in the United Nations. Haldeman frequently describes findings in public opinion polls. For each audio diary entry, Haldeman briefly notes in an audio tape log the date, the President's travel itinerary and meeting schedule, and the main topics discussed; the logs thus serve as a chronological index to the audio cassette diaries.

36 audio cassette tapes

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