Date: October 15, 1972
Time: 9:16 am – 9:24 am
Location: Camp David Study Table
The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.
[See Conversation No. 220-11]
Congress
-Adjournment
-The President’s conversation with William E. Timmons
-House of Representatives, Senate
-Legislation
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming briefing
-Water quality bill
-Spending limitation
-Social Security bill
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming conversation with Stephen Kurzman of
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)
-Welfare reform
-Budget
-Increase
-Possible number
-Possible vetoes
-Social Security legislation
-Welfare provisions
-Timmons
-Title III
-Titles I and II
-Washington Post
-Budget increase
-Spending limitation
-George S. McGovern’s welfare proposals
-The President’s second term
-Proposed changes
-Cuts
-Comparisons to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration
-Welfare reform
Charges
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming briefing
-Watergate
-US-Soviet Union grain deal
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Response by the Administration
-Charges against Chapin
-Washington Post
-Joseph “McCarthyism”
-Joseph N. Welch
-Protection of colleague in 1954
-Comparisons
-Journalistic standards
-Washington Post, New York Times
-Reporting of campaign
-Campaign practices
-Charges
-Adolf Hitler
-Editorial reaction
-James G. Blaine-Grover Cleveland race
-Comparisons to current election
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)
-Bombing of campaign headquarters
Press relations
-The President’s California property
-Los Angeles Times
-New York Times
-Story by Wally Turner
-Response
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming briefing
-Financial disclosure
-The President’s compared to R. Sargent Shriver
-Eunice (Kennedy) Shriver
-Disclosure
-George S. McGovern