Date: December 14, 1972
Time: 3:29 pm – 6:01 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Charles W. Colson.
Vietnam negotiations
-US bombing north of 20 Parallel
th
-Purpose
-Settlement agreement
-Status
-North Vietnam’s delays
-Congressional relations
-Expectation of administration caution
-Henry A. Kissinger’s press conference
-Tone
-Blame on North Vietnam
-Timing
-B-52s
-Hanoi
-Targets
-Power plants, marshaling yards
-Duration
-Possible speech by the President
-Timing
-Congressional reconvention
-Proposals
-Vietnamization
-Settlement agreement
-Political basis
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-US troop withdrawal, cessation of US bombing and mining
-Timing
-Congressional relations
-North Vietnam’s position
-Nguyen Van Thieu’s position
-Withdrawal of North Vietnamese troops from South Vietnam
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-North Vietnam’s position
-Delays
-Congressional relations
-Kissinger
-The President’s role
-Kissinger’s resignation threat
-Conversation with the President
-The President’s trips to the People Republic of China [PRC] and
Soviet Union
-1972 election
-Kissinger’s “peace is at hand” statement, October 26, 1972
-The President’s position
-Peace
-Type
-Timing
The President talked with Arthur Krock between 3:32 pm and 3:35 pm.
[Conversation No. 383-6A].
[See Conversation No. 34-83]
[End of telephone conversation]
The President’s telephone calls
-Krock
-J[ean] Paul Getty
-Birthday greetings
-Wealth
-Krock
-Health
-Effect
-Journalists
-Krock
-Otis Chandler
-Health
Vietnam negotiations
-North Vietnam’s position
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(rev. June-08)
-Kissinger
-The President’s position
-Tone
-Settlement agreement
-The President’s place in history
-Timing
-1973 Inauguration
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Colson’s analysis
-Tone
-Kissinger
-US bombing
-Location
-Hanoi, Haiphong
-North of 20 Parallel
th
-Polls
-1972 campaign
-Kissinger’s press conference, October 26, 1972
-Louis P. Harris
-War as an issue
-Casualties
-Draft
-US bombing
-Duration of war
-US troops
-Number
-Possible statement by the President
-Press relations
-John Chancellor
-[Arnold] Eric Sevareid
-Breakdown
-Timing
-1972 election
-Kissinger
-North Vietnamese actions
-Settlement agreement
-The President’s position
-US bombing north of 20 Parallel
th
-B-52s
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(rev. June-08)
-Hanoi
-Thieu
Public relations [PR]
-Issues
-Vietnam War
-George S. McGovern’s position
-Compared to the President’s
-1972
-Compared to 1968
-Albert E. Sindlinger’s poll
-Crime and drugs
-Inflation
-Vietnam War
-Press relations
Vietnam War
-Press relations
-US bombing north of 20 Parallel
th
-Hanoi, Haiphong
-Compared to US bombing, December 1971
-Newness
-Cambodia and Laos
-May 1972
-B-52s
-Television [TV]
Vietnam negotiations
-PR
-The President’s announcement
-Timing
-Continuation of US bombing and mining
-Cessation
-US troop withdrawal
-POWs
-Peaceniks
-Congressional relations
-Possible Michael J. Mansfield proposal
-Effect
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-Cut off of aid to South Vietnam
-Effect
-South Vietnam’s survival
-McGovern’s position
-1972 election
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1972 election results
-Missouri
-Delay
-Richard M. Scammon
-Arizona
-Socialist Workers Party
-Missouri
-New York
-Missing states
-Scammon’s view
-Compared to Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1964 results
-New York, Arizona
-Scammon
-Missouri
-Percentage
-New York, Arizona
-Scammon
-Socialist Workers Party
-Rounding percentages
-Missouri
-Massachusetts, Rhode Island
-Pennsylvania
-New York
-Michigan
-Missouri
-Pennsylvania
-West Virginia
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PR
-Analysis of 1972 election
-Scammon
-Compared to Harris
-The President’s trips to the PRC and the Soviet Union
-Effect
-Peace and progress
-Public perception of the President
-Liberalism
-Competence
-Conservatism
-Public perception of the President
-Centrism
-Economy
-Welfare
-Busing
-Crime
-Permissiveness
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-The President’s success
-Labor
-Catholics
-Blue collar
-Independents
-Democrats
-Compared to Barry M. Goldwater
-Republicans
-Compared to Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Republicans
-Democrats
-Labor
-“New Majority”
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-Businessmen
-Professionals
-Compared to previous elections
-Manual labor
-Polls
-[George H.] Gallup
-Harris
-Issues
-Peace
-Food prices
-The President’s family
-Compared to George S. McGovern’s family
-McGovern’s personality
-Support for the President
-Men and women
-Polls
-Gallup
-Blue collar
-Compared to Harris
-Catholics
-Compared to Eisenhower
-Labor
-Independents
-Professionals
-Labor
-Democrats
-John F. Kennedy
-Goldwater
-Catholics
-Eisenhower
-New York
-Pennsylvania
-Johnson
-New York
-Goldwater
-California
-The President’s schedule
-Review of results
-Trip to Florida
-Timing
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-Vote certification
-Arizona
-Scammon
-Missouri
-Arizona
-Check on results
-California
-John Birch Society
-John G. Schmitz
-Michigan
-Pennsylvania
-Margin of victory
-Antiwar opposition
-Cynicism
-New York
-Watergate
-Albert E. Sindlinger
-Call to Colson
-McGovern
-Theodore H. (“Teddy”) White
-Meeting with Colson
-Southern strategy
-Northern strategy
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Watergate
-Possible television [TV] appearance by the President
-[White’s] view
-Colson’s view
-The President’s involvement
-PR
-Handling
-Timing
-Summer 1972
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-[Loss of Dorothy Hunt]
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-Colson’s conversation with Hunt’s lawyer, [William Bittman]
-Note
-Relationship with the President
-Possible letter
-Colson’s conversation with Bittman
-Robert D. (“Bobby”) Baker
H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 4:03 pm.
The President’s schedule
-Reception for 1972 election supporters
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Colson’s schedule
-John A. Volpe
-Speech
Movie
-The Emigrants [Utrandrarna]
-Haldeman’s viewing
-Washington Circle
-The President’s viewing
-Swedish language
-Colson’s Swedish grandfather
-Photography
Fitzsimmons
-Reception for 1972 election supporters
-Harold J. Gibbons
-International Brotherhood of Teamsters
-1972 campaign
-Schedule
Colson’s schedule
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1972 election
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-Results
-Compared to Johnson
-Mistakes
-New York
-Arizona
-Missouri
-Electoral college
-Scammon
-California
-Schmitz vote
-Idaho, Oregon, Washington
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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Location of an item
Copy
Second term reorganization
-Labor Department
-Under Secretary
-Possible woman appointee [Gertrude Michaelson?]
-Peter J. Brennan
-First term
-Brennan
-Democratic affliation
-Jewish background
-New York
-Colson’s checking
-Florence P. Shientag
-Background
-Fiorello H. Laguardia
-Article in New York Times
-Drug abuse
-Possible position
-Chief of Protocol
-Background
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-Judge
-Husband, Monte Sideman
-Reception for 1972 election supporters
-Possible positions
-Under Secretaryship
-Colson’s conversation with Shientag
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Assistant Attorney General
-Counsel
-John A. Scali
-Ambassadorship to United Nations [UN]
-Announcement
-Timing
-Meeting with the President
-Brennan
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC] offer
-Leonard Goldenson
-Meeting with the President
-Meeting with Haldeman
The President’s schedule
-Reception for 1972 election supporters
-Attendance
-Politicians
Second term reorganization
-George D. Webster
-Tax law
-John H. Alexander
-Establishment
Scali entered at 4:15 pm.
Greetings
Manolo Sanchez entered at 4:15 pm.
Getty
-Birthday greetings by the President
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(rev. June-08)
-London
Refreshment order
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:52 pm.
Scali ambassadorship to the UN
-George H. W. Bush
-Relationship with the President
-Charles W. Yost
-Relationship with the President
-State Department
-Kissinger
-State Department
-US delegation to UN
-Shirley Temple Black
-Jewell S. Lafontant
-Staff
-Appointments
-Bureaucracy
-State Department
-Scali’s experience
-Loyalty
-Bush’s actions
-Scali’s role
-Press relations
-Relationship with Kissinger, William P. Rogers
-Foreign Service
-Relationship with the President
-US-Africa relations
-State Department
-South Africa
-Hypothetical US military action
-State Department
-Bureaucracy
-African representation at UN
-Press relations
-Black Africa vis-à-vis white Africa
-Apartheid
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(rev. June-08)
-Rhodesia
-Chrome
-Great Britain
-Black leadership
-Demogoguery
-Soviet Union, PRC
-US-Soviet Union, US-PRC relations
-The President’s trip to the PRC
-Middle East
-Appearances
-Possible solution
-Great power politics
-US public opinion
-Hijacking resolution vote
-Henry Cabot Lodge
-The President’s view
-George Cabot Lodge
-Role
-Soviet Union
-PRC
-Press relations
-UN staff
-Bureaucracy
-The President’s policies
-ABC
-Colson
-Announcement
-Effect
-State Department
-Press relations
-Scali’s experience
-Haldeman and Colson
-US foreign policy
-Trips to the Soviet Union, PRC
-White House
-National Security Council [NSC], State Department
-PR, Press relations
-Purpose
-Compared with Brennan appointment
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(rev. June-08)
-Labor Department
-Yost
-Loyalty
-Foreign Service
-Bush
-Foreign policy
-Press relations
-Foreign Service Officers
-Loyalty
-State Department
-Scali’s role
-Testimony before Senate Committee
-Bush
-Trips to the PRC, Soviet Union, Europe
-Work in White House and State Department
-Africa
-Cabinet rank
White House staff
-Counselors
-Robert H. Finch and Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Finch
-Future plans
-California governorship
-Rumsfeld
-Future plans
-US Senate, Illinois
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Polls
NATO ambassadorship
-David M. Kennedy
-Rumsfeld
-Cabinet rank
Scali’s ambassadorship to the UN
-Cabinet rank
-Lodge
-Eisenhower
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-Compared to participation
-Scali’s position
-Rogers and his successor
-NSC meetings
-Budget
-Cabinet meetings
-Pay
-Prerequisites
-Scali’s gratitude
-Scali’s New York contacts
-Scali’s coverage of UN
-Secretary of State
-Nikita S. Krushchev
-UN
-Relationship with the US
-Responsibility to the President
-Loyalty
-FSOs, State Department
-Work with Kissinger
-Work with new Secretary of State
-Work with Rogers
-Scali’s TV contract offer from ABC
-Goldenson’s offer
-Terms
-Special correspondent
-World tour
-White House
-Announcement
-Scali’s reply to Goldenson
-New York
-Italian-Americans
-Scali’s conversations
-Scali’s background
-Fiorello H. LaGuardia
-Jesse M. Unruh
-Mother [Lucy (Leone) S. Scali]
-Scali’s role on White House staff
-Scali’s background
-Previous jobs in Canton, Ohio
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(rev. June-08)
-The President’s visit to Canton
-Education
-Financial status
-Scali’s work habits
-Announcement
-Timing
-Goldenson meeting
-Press relations
-News magazine, networks
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-ABC meeting
-Checking
-William E. Timmons
-Consultation with Senators
-Bush
-Scali’s retention [as Special Consultant to the President]
-Payroll
-Scali’s financial status
-Social functions
-Entertainment
-Social functions
-Yost
-Bush
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Types of parties
-Financing
-Yost
-Bush
-The President’s possible appearance at UN
-The President’s previous appearances
-New York elite
-Bush
-Italian-Americans
-Support for the President
-Opposition to the President
-Upper East Side
-Waldorf Towers Hotel
-John V. Lindsay
-New constituency
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(rev. June-08)
-Bush
-The President’s view
-Donald McI. Kendall compared to David Rockefeller
-Education
-Wife
-[Sigrid Irmgard (Baroness Ruedt von Collenberg) “Bim”
Kendall]
-Rockefeller
-Council on Foreign Affairs
-Kissinger
-Support for McGovern
-Kendall
-Bernard J. (“Bunny”) Lasker
-John Loeb
-Donald T. Regan
-James F. Cleary
-John J. McCloy
-Old compared to new elite
-Bush’s background
-Yale University
-Prescott Bush
-Brown Bros., Harriman & Co.
-Wealth
-Texas
-Scali’s relationship with the President
-Scali’s residence
-Waldorf
-Press relations
-Tone
-New York Daily News
-Compared to New York Times
-ABC
-Compared to Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Pauline Frederick
-Reports
-Scali’s role
-US foreign policy
-Vietnam negotiations
-Status
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-US bombing and mining north of 20 Parallel
th
-North Vietnam’s delays
-Congressional relations
-Africa
-Middle East
-European Security Conference
-Economic matters
-PRC
-Soviet Union
-Interest in policy
-Compared to interest in the President
-Announcement
-Timing
-Vietnam War
-Reseeding of mines
-Propaganda
-Hanoi
-Details
-Congressional relations
-Position
-Social demands
-Social elite
-Scali
-Ambassadorial appointments
-Tenure
-Secretary of State
-Cabinet
Scali left at 4:52 pm.
Scali
-Enthusiasm for appointment
-Compared to other appointees
-Rogers
-Lucy Scali
-Attendance at mass as St. Patrick’s Cathedral
-Possible meeting with Terence Cardinal Cooke
-Possible meeting with [Pope Paul VI] Giovanni Battista Motini
-Possible meeting with Cooke
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(rev. June-08)
-Italian-American background
Second term reorganization
-Italian-Americans
-Eugene A. Cafiero
-Vice President of Chrysler Corporation
-Reception for 1972 election
-Republican orientation
-Work with Michael P. Balzano, Jr.
-Secretary of Transportation
-Unknown person
-Reception for 1972 election supporters
-List of possible appointees
-Arrival in Chrysler airplane
-Scali’s ambassadorship to the UN
-Democratic appointments
-Anthony J. Celebrezze
-Status
-Compared to Secretary of Transportation,
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
[HEW]
-Herbert G. Klein
-Possible job offer from Goldenson
-ABC
-Partisanship
-James C. Hagerty
-Possible job offer from William S. Paley
-CBS
-Salary
-Colson’s conversation with Paley
-Press relations
-TV
-1972 campaign
-Administrative ability
-Press relations
-TV
-Repetition
-Image
-Questions and answers [Q & A]
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(rev. June-08)
-Number
-Possible job
-CBS
-NBC
-John Chancellor
-CBS
-Colson’s conversation with Paley
-Klein’s credentials, integrity
-Administration opposition
-Second term
-Colson’s conversation with Paley
-Sander Vanocur
-Timing
-Media bias
-Fairness, balance
-Daniel L. Schorr
-Dan Rather
The President’s schedule
-Reception for 1972 election supporters
-Hand-shaking
-Dinner
John D. Ehrlichman entered and Colson left at 5:03 pm.
Second term reorganization
-Scali’s ambassadorship to the UN
-Scali’s meeting with the President
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with J. Stanley Pottinger
-Private practice
-Appointment
-Scali’s meeting with the President
-Responsibility
-The President
-Secretary of State
-Foreign Service
-Lucy Scali
-Italian-Americans
-Celebrezze
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-Volpe
-Cabinet rank
-Prerequisites
-Foreign Service
-Rogers
-Joseph T. Sneed
-Announcement
-Reaction
Press relations
-Ehrlichman’s press conference
-The President’s first term
-The President’s conversation with Haldeman
-George W. Romney, Volpe, John B. Connally, George P. Shultz
-“Lead”
-Ehrlichman’s press conference
-“Lead”
-Duration
-Domestic affairs
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Foreign affairs
-Klein
-Kenneth W. Clawson
Second term reorganization
-Clawson
-Ziegler’s office
-Domestic affairs
-Ziegler’s office
-Foreign affairs
-James Keogh
-Duties at US Information Agency [USIA]
-Ziegler’s office
-Foreign affairs
-Andrew Volkavich
-Cables
-Kissinger’s office
-The President’s trip to the Soviet Union
-Frank J. Shakespeare
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-Loyalty
-FSO
-Possible ambassadorship
-Physical appearance
-Compared to Roy L. Ash
-The President’s trip to the Soviet Union
-Embassy
-Knowledge of Russian and other European languages
-Education
-Age
Candidates for public office
-Preferred ages
-House of Representatives
-Senate
-The President’s approval
-House of Representatives and Senate
Second term reorganization
-Federal judges
-The President’s reconfirmation list
-Justice Department response
-Possible legislation
-Senate Judiciary Committee
-Sallyanne Payton
-Stephen B. Bull
-Office of Legal Counsel
-White House
-Washington, DC
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Transportation Department appointment
-Washington Star editorial
-Washington, DC
-Payton
-Black appointees
-Possible job
-Judgeship
-Justice Department
-Qualifications
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-Law school record
-US District Court
-US District Court
-Lafontant
-Washington, DC
-White House
-Staff
-James T. Lynn
-Payton
-Justice Department
-Sneed
-General Counsel
-Age
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-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Chief of staff
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
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Second term reorganization
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon’s staff
-Haldeman’s meeting with Constance M. (Cornell) (“Connie”) Stuart
-Stuart’s departure
-Staff director for Mrs. Nixon
-Press Secretary
-Marge Byers
-Haldeman’s meeting
-Attitude
-Robert G. Dixon, Office of Legal Counsel, Justice Department
-Italian-Americans, blacks
-Height
-Constitutional law specialization
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(rev. June-08)
-Work with John W. Dean, III
-Quality
-Michael P. Balzano, Jr.
-Promotion
-Appointments
-Needs
-The President’s supporters, New Majority
-Scali
-State Department
-Colson’s and Haldeman’s role in appointment
-Scali’s role
-Note to Haldeman
-Colson
-Cafiero
-Reception for 1972 election supporters
-Italian-American background
-Chrysler Corporation
-Work for President in 1972 election
-Italian-Americans
-Transportation Department
-Italian-Americans
-White Anglo-Saxon Protestants [WASPs]
-Colson’s list
-Frederic V. Malek
Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 5:03 pm and 5:55 pm.
[Conversation No. 383-6D]
-Cafiero
[End of telephone conversation]
Second term reorganization
-Edward David, Jr.
-National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]
-George P. Shultz
-Woman appointees
-Dixy Lee Ray
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(rev. June-08)
-Atomic Energy Commission [AEC]
-Florence Shientag
-NASA
-David
-James Fletcher
-David
-Compared to Fletcher
-Haldeman’s telephone call to Shultz
-Fletcher
Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:03 pm and 5:55
pm.
[Conversation No. 383-6B]
Request for a call to Shultz
[End of telephone conversation]
Second term reorganization
-AEC
-Ray
-Symbolism
-Compared to Maritime Commission
Haldeman talked with Shultz at an unknown time between 5:03 pm and 5:55 pm.
[Conversation No. 383-6C]
Second term reorganization
-David
-AEC
-Status
-NASA
-Supersonic Transport [SST]
Press relations
-Ehrlichman’s press conference
-Tone
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
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-The President’s conversation with Haldeman
-Compared to 1972 campaign
-Rather
-Partisanship
-Advocacy
-The President’s opposition
[End of telephone conversation]
Second term reorganization
-David
-AEC
-Budget
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Energy research and development [R & D]
-John C. Whitaker
-Interior Department
-Whitaker
-Conversation with the President
-Plan
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with Shultz
-Ehrlichman’s and Shultz’s conversations with Peter M. Flanigan
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-George D. Webster
-Conversation with Colson
-Mismanagement suit by First Western
-Savings and Loan Association, 1967
-Retaliatory suit
-Appeal
-Tax deficiency assessments
-Tax-exempt associations
-Business deductions
-Cattle
-Tax deficiency assessments
-Shultz
-Confirmation problems
-Dean’s recommendation
-Colson
-Shultz
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-Tax lawyers
-Tax deficiencies
-Alexander
-Dean’s recommendation
-Webster’s personality, loyalty
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Colson
-Justice Department
-Holdovers
-Ivy League
-Number
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-White House relations
-Kissinger
-Arms Control and Disarmament Agency [ACDA]
-Secor D. Browne
-Robert D. Timm
-Browne
-ACDA
-Karl R. Bendesten
-Age
-Qualification
-Philip J. Farley
-Kissinger, Rogers
-Harold Agnew
-Los Alamos Laboratory
-Staff budget
-Bendesten
-Jackson
-Staff recommendations
-Bendesten
-Kissinger
-Farley
-Agnew
-William A. Nierenberg
-Director at Scripps Institute at La Jolla
-Edward Teller and Jackson
-Teller and Jackson
-Teller
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-Agnew
-Jackson
-Bureaucracy
-Qualifications
-Strategic issues
-Government, administrative experience
-Compared to Agnew
-Politics
-Support for the President
-Agnew
-Current position
-Los Alamos
-Antiballistic missiles [ABMs]
-Requirements
-Reform
-Spokesman
-Congressional relations
-ABM
-U. Alexis Johnson
-Reform
-Spokesman
-Bendesten
-Age
-Reform
-Age
-ACTION
-Wallace H. Johnson
-General Counsel
-Congressional relations
-Loyalty
-Law Enforcement Assistance Administration [LEAA]
-General Service Administration [GSA]
-Hugh Scott’s staffer [Robert L. Kunzig]
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with Scott
-Arthur F. Sampson
-Malek’s view
-Kunzig
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with Scott
-Johnson
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-Congressional relations
-Dr. Robert L. DuPont
-Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe
-Under Secretary level
-Frank C. Carlucci
-Ash’s recommendation
-State Department
-Rogers’s recommendation
-Deputy Assistant Secretary for Administration
-William J. Casey
-Tenure
-Transitional period
-Carlucci’s loyalty
-Casey
-Agency for International Development [AID]
-Daniel Parker
-Loyalty
-Casey
-AID
-President of Sero [?] Corp., Bedford [first name unknown]
-Litton Industries
-Ash
-Charles D. (“Tex”) Thornton
-Possible black appointee [Thomas A. Wood]
-TAW International Leasing, Inc.
-Africa, Latin America
-[Decision Systems, Inc.]
-[Gillette exectutive] [Walter Hunnewell, Jr.]
-FSO
-FSO in Eisenhower administration
-Age
-Education
-Harvard University, M.B.A.
-Wood
-Background
-Michigan
-A Litton executive
-Background
-Education
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-California Institute of Technology
-Harvard University M.B.A.
Budget
-1974
-The President’s schedule
-Possible meeting
-Cabinet
-Shultz
-Timing and location
-Camp David
-Cuts
-Vietnam War
-Defense Department
-Supplemental
-1974, 1973
-Printing
-1974
-Colson [?]
The President’s schedule
-State of Union address
-Second term reorganization
-Assistant Secretaries, Under Secretaries
-Ambassadorships
-West Germany
-Martin J. Hillenbrand
Ehrlichman’s schedule
-Press conference on the President’s first term
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Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-W[illiam] Averell Harriman’s comment
-1976 election
-Future in politics
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The President’s 1972 victory
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Ehrlichman’s press conference on the President’s first term
-Press relations
-Attendance
Second term reorganization
-Congressional relations
-Ash
-Meeting with Najeeb E. Halaby
-Plans
-Release
-Timing
-Congressional relations
-Reconvention
-January 1973
-Consultations
-Congressional relations
-Gerald R. Ford
-Breakfasts
-Republicans
-William M. Colmer
-Meetings
-The President’s role
-Scott
-Afternoon meetings
-The President’s schedule
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-The President’s habits
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-Effect
1972 election
-Results
-New Jersey
-Votes for the President compared to votes for Clifford P. Case
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with Linwood Holton
-Busing
-Questions at Ehrlichman’s press conference
-Welfare reform
-Busing
-Minorities
-The President’s first term
-Busing
-The President’s position
-1972 campaign
Ehrlichman left at 5:55 pm.
Second term reorganization
-Ambassadorships
-Stans
-Labor
-Leonard C. Meeker
-Age
-Labor
-Einar Mohn
-James Suffrage
-Blacks
-Orville Pitts
-Sweden
-Washington, DC City Council
-Leroy Jefferies
-Liberia
-Dr. Edgardo Buttari
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-Ecuador
-Phillip V. Sanchez
-Panama
-Ecuador
-Kissinger
-Relations with Cuba
-Fidel Castro
-Paraguay
-Guyanna, Ghana
The President and Haldeman left at 6:01 pm.
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