Date: August 3, 1972
Time: 5:00 pm – 5:57 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.
Greetings
Refreshments
Ehrlichman
-Health
Tennis court and swimming pool
The President talked with an unknown person [H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman?] at an unknown time
between 5:00 pm and 5:30 pm.
[Conversation No. 353-24A]
The President’s schedule
-Meetings with representatives of Committee for the Reelection of the President
-Young people
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-Women
-Ethnic groups
-Herbert G. Klein
-Ehrlichman
-Staffers
-Young people
-Women
-Ethnic groups
Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon’s schedule
-Forthcoming trip to Hawaii
-Meeting with Elaine (Schwartzenburg) Edwards
The President’s schedule
-Edwards
-Mrs. Nixon
[End of telephone conversation]
The President’s schedule
-Edwards
-Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
-Team of administration officials
-Federal, state, and local officials
-Flood damage
-Ehrlichman’s view
-The President’s tour
-Effect of relief bill
-Questions
-Milton J. Shapp
-Elmira, New York
-Damage
The President’s previous conversation with John B. Connally
-A possible press backgrounder by Ehrlichman
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS] investigation of the President
-1962
-The President’s unwillingness to engage in politically motivated
investigations
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-Lyndon B. Johnson Administration officials
-The President’s politically unpopular actions
Administration personnel
-Early days of the Administration
-The President’s view
-Ignorance
-Lack of an electoral mandate
-Broad base of appointees
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-Cabinet
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-Sub-cabinet appointees
-The President’s view
-John F. Kennedy
-Cabinet
-William P. Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Jack F. Kemp
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Support for the President
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Frederic V. Malek
-Future Plans
-IRS, Treasury, Justice Department
-Appointments
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-Henry L. Kimelman
-Investigation of New Jersey Democratic political machine
-John N. Mitchell
-Cabinet departments
-National Democrats
-Ehrlichman’s talk with Mitchell
-Localities and states
-Possible Republican control of Senate or House of Representatives
-Congressional investigations
-Effect of investigations
-Harry S. Truman
-The President
-Alger Hiss case
-Recruitment of attorneys for committees
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh
-Power of counsels to committees
-Robert F. Kennedy
-Rogers
-Cabinet
-George W. Romney
-Departure
-Appointments
-Romney
-Michigan
-John A. Volpe
-New York
-Romney
-Walter J. Hickel
-Future appointments
-Timing
-1972 election
-Names
-Sub-cabinet
-White House staffers
-Haldeman
Watergate
Howard R. Hughes loan
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-IRS investigation
-Lawrence F. O’Brien, Jr.
-George P. Shultz
-A report
-F. Donald Nixon
-John Meyers
-[First name unknown] Cleveland
-A mining claim in Nevada
-Publicity
-Don Nixon
-O’Brien
-Joe Napolitan
A 1961 IRS investigation
-The President’s book [Six Crises]
-The President’s reaction
-Effect on the President and Mrs. Nixon
Hughes loan
-O’Brien’s possible call to Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
-Watergate
-Napolitan
-Possible investigation
-Shultz
-Roger Barth
-Possible I.R.S. deputy general counsel
-Possible action
-Barth
-Possible investigations
-Shultz
-Possible undersecretary of Treasury
-Charls E. Walker
Economy
-Food prices
-Increases
-Charles W. Colson’s report
-Farm income
-Earl L. Butz
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-Increases
-Complaints
-Cattlemen
-Wholesale prices
-Controls
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-John B. Connally
-Publicity
-Possible price freeze
-Butz’s view
-Future discussion
-Arthur F. Burns
-Unemployment
-Consumer demand
-Food stamps
-Social Security, taxes
-Impact
-Food prices
-Ehrlichman’s informal poll
-Possible controls
-Meat
-Vegetables
-Meat
-Possible price controls on hides
-The President’s previous conversation with Congressmen
-Shultz
-Peter G. Peterson
-Department of Commerce
-Butz
-Meat
-Price freeze at the retail level
-Middle class
Appointment
-William T. Coleman
-Moynihan
-Refusal of Administration offers
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Businessman-innovator, educator
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-Unknown man
-Right to read program
-Samuel E. Wyly
-Professional educators
-The President’s view
-Columbia University School of Education
-University of California
-Connally
-Unknown man
Economy
-Possible freeze on corporate profits
-Impact on stock market
-Ehrlichman’s memorandum to Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Price controls on profit margins
-Labor’s complaints
-Possible effect
-Political impact
-Ehrlichman’s talk with an unknown group, August 3, 1972
-Business community
-Farmers
Richard G. Kleindienst
-Possible speeches
-Crime
-Law enforcement
-Drugs
-Schedule
-Speaking engagements
-Audiences
-Professional law associations
-Mitchell
-Labor unions
-Women’s clubs
-Television coverage
-Ehrlichman’s view
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Future plans
-Possible retirement
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-Republican convention
-Possible attendance
-Possible riots
-The President’s view
-Effect of ITT case
-Family
-Responsibilities
Rogers C.B. Morton
-Role at Republican convention
-Platform Committee, Rules Committee
Volpe
-Efforts for the Administration
-The President’s second term
Romney
Richardson
-Value to administration
-Political orientation
-Compared to Shultz
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Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 5:30 pm.
Items for President
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-Report by Herbert Stein
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA] mid-year review
-The President’s review
-Timing
-Edits to report
-Rate of inflation
-Food prices
Butterfield left at 5:34 pm.
M.G. (“Gene”) Snyder
-Call to John D. Ehrlichman
-Fund raising
-Position on pending railroad bill
-Son
-Delay
-Timing
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:34 pm.
The President’s meeting on Sequoia
-Time
Bull left at an unknown time before 5:57 pm.
Snyder
-Support for Administration position
-Railroad bill
Economy
-Stein and Shultz
-Food prices
-Farmers
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Zosimo T. Munzon entered at an unknown time after 5:34 pm.
The President’s briefcase
Monzon left at an unknown time before 5:57 pm.
Raymond K. Price, Jr. [?]
Shultz [?]
The President left at an unknown time after 5:34 pm.
[No conversation]
The President entered at an unknown time before 5:57 pm.
[Unintelligible]
The President and Ehrlichman left at 5:57 pm.