Date: November 18, 1972

Time: Unknown between 7:45 am and 9:39 am

Location: Camp David Hard Wire

The President dictated a memorandum for the file.

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Second term reorganization

-Cabinet

-William P. Rogers

-Confrontation

-Melvin R. Laird and Peter G. Peterson

-Henry A. Kissinger

-Reaction

-Difficulties

-Rogers

-Problems

-Intelligence, background

-Competence

-Ego

-Rogers

-Problems

-Career

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-Personality

-Press, television [TV]

-Charm

-Kissinger

-Prominence in foreign policy

-Conflicts with Rogers

-State Department role

-Downgrading

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

-John Foster Dulles’s role

-State Department

-Problems with bureaucracy

-Laird

-Departure

-Terms

-Elliot L. Richardson

-Blue Ribbon Panel

-Defense Department

-Deputy Secretary of Defense

-William R. Hewlett

-David Packard

-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]

-Elliot Richardson

-Capabilities

-Public relations [PR]

-Goals

-Budget cuts

-Loyalty

-Deficiencies

-Members of the Establishment

-Opposition to staff and budget cuts

-Higher education

-George P. Shultz

-George H. W. Bush

-Report

-George S. McGovern’s comments on George Meany

-Role in Democratic Party

-Meany

-Attitude toward the President

-Peter G. Peterson

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-Relation with Charles H. Percy

-Loyalty

-Job offer

-Qualifications

-Commerce Department

-Charles W. Colson

-Retention

-Role in second term

-Vulnerabilities

-Departure

-Replacement

-Retention

-Problems

-Watergate

-Congress

-John B. Connally’s advice

-Attacks on White House

-Executive Privilege

-John D. Ehrlichman

-Peter F. Flanigan

-Departure

-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

-Weakness of defense

-Problems

-Protecting the Presidency

-Eisenhower

-Harold E. Talbott

-Secretary of the Air Force

-Removal

-Reasons

-Death

-Sherman Adams case

-The President’s role

-Eisenhower’s role

-Scandals

-Caution

-Questions about the President

-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Kissinger

-Political issue

-Carl Vinson [?]

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-Joseph McCarthy

-Issues versus individuals

-Role in Watergate

-Donald H. Segretti

-Innnocence

-Ehrlichman

-Confirmations

-Political attacks

-Earl L. Butz

-Walter J. Hickel

-Richard G. Kleindienst

The President’s schedule

-Meeting with Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo

-San Clemente

-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

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-Meeting with Paul W. Keyes

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