Date: March 11, 1973

Time: 10:47 am-10:57 am

Location: White House Telephone

John D. Ehrlichman talked with the President.

Ehrlichman’s schedule

-Issues and Answers appearance

-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

President’s schedule

-Cost of Living Council meeting

-Instructions regarding surpluses

-Earl L. Butz

-General Services Administration [GSA]

-Elliot L. Richardson

-Defense Department

-GSA

-Unnamed Official

-Stockpile

-Butz

-John T. Dunlop

“Issues and Answers”

Gridiron Dinner

-Prisoners of War [POWs]

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-Experiences

-Viet Cong

-Solitary confinement

-President’s conversation with Haldeman

-George S. McGovern’s speech

-John Phillip Sousa

-Conversation with Newbold (“Newby”) Noyes, Jr.

-Comparison with previous years

-Harshness of recent dinners

President’s positions on Congressional bills

-Media coverage

-New York Times

-Catch phrases

-Washington Post

-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]

-Political value

President’s radio talks

-Benefits

-Media coverage

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-Newspapers

Gallup Poll

-Washington Post

-Cost of living

-Drugs

-Crime

-Cost of living

-US News and World Report

-Federal government’s role

-Spending

-Crime

-Compassion

-Prison system

-Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe

President’s conversation with Noyes

-“New Majority”

-Noyes’ view

-Qualities

-Base instincts

-McGovern support

-The “Old Establishment”

-Compassion

-White House staff

-John F. Kennedy

-Lyndon B. Johnson

President’s relations with Blacks

-Lack of media response

-New Orleans

-Meetings in Oval Office

-Conversation with Ehrlichman

-Walter F. Washington

-Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.

-Hubert H. Humphrey

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Food surpluses

-Butz’s statements

-Consumer attitude

-Administration’s position

-President’s role

-Farmers

-Bureaucracy