H. R. Haldeman Diaries. 1/18/1969 - 4/30/1973. H. R. Haldeman Handwritten Diaries

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H. R. Haldeman Diaries. 1/18/1969 - 4/30/1973. H. R. Haldeman Handwritten Diaries

1969-1970

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/12005659

This series consists of daily diaries handwritten in narrative form. The diaries detail President Richard Nixon'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, and the general public. Haldeman describes relations among the President and his senior advisors and documents personnel management decisions and Presidential appointments including Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren E. Burger and Harry A. Blackmun. Among many individuals about whom Haldeman frequently writes in the diaries are Henry A. Kissinger, William P. Rogers, John D. Ehrlichman, Melvin R. Laird, Dwight L. Chapin, Ronald L. Ziegler, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, Herbert G. Klein, Arthur F. Burns, Patrick J. Buchanan, Bryce N. Harlow, J. Edgar Hoover, Patrick J. Moynihan, Robert Finch, and John N. Mitchell. Haldeman documents public events and private meetings covering the entire scope of issues in which the Nixon White House engaged in 1969 and 1970. Among some of the main domestic policy topics frequently noted in this collection are Apollo space missions; appropriations and expenditures; anti-war demonstrations; executive branch and White House reorganization; legislation related to Social Security benefits, drugs and crime, taxation, employment, postal reform, military draft, and revenue sharing; political campaign strategies and elections; public opinion polls, the press, and public relations; Presidential messages; supersonic transport planes; and welfare reform. Foreign policy topics noted by Haldeman include negotiations on strategic arms limitation, anti-ballistic missiles, and chemical and biological weapons; the President's policies for Vietnam including troop deployments, My Lai, peace negotiations, and the November 3, 1969 speech; North Korea's air strike on a U.S. Navy reconnaissance plane; aerial bombing of Cambodia; foreign aid and international finance; and negotiations on the status of Okinawa, Japan.

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