Date: February 14, 1973
Time: 4:06 pm – 5:25 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
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The President met with George H. W. Bush and Anne L. Armstrong.
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Seating arrangements
Julie Nixon Eisenhower
Bush’s report
-The President’s note
-New Jersey
-Conversations with Armstrong, H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-South
-1974 elections
-1976 elections
Richard G. Lugar
-Charles A. Mosher [?]
-Qualities
-Options for office
-Constituency
-Support for administration
Bush
-Travel
-Compared to Robert J. Dole’s chairmanship
-Sioux City, Iowa
-Rotary Club
-Chairmanship of Republican National Committee [RNC]
-Travel
-Limitations
-Alaska, Hawaii
-RNC operations
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-Robert C. B. Morton
-Dealing with the RNC
-Responsibilities
-National spokesperson
-Focus
-1974 election
-Competitive states, candidates
-Speeches
-Number
-Lincoln’s birthday
-Gerald R. Ford
-Grand Rapids
-Speeches in District of Columbia
-Cabinet members, Spiro T. Agnew
-Effective speakers
-Leslie C. Arends
RNC
-Bush’s duties
-State chairman
-Committee personnel
-Weaknesses
-Financial condition
-Pat Wilson
-Contributions
-Albert L. Cole
-Fundraising
-Direct mailing
-Small donations
-Woman appointee
-Janet J. Johnston
-Associations with Ronald W. Reagan
-Newspaper account
Republican Party’s political ideology
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-Conservative
-Gircher
-Liberal
-Jacob K. Javits
-Centrist
-William E. Brock, III
-New Hampshire visit compare with Tennessee visit
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Pragmatism
-Choice of candidate
-New York
-Conservative
-James L. Buckley
Rockefeller
-Meeting with Bush
-New Majority
-[First name unknown] Dominto
-Italian New York Secretary of State
-Heritage group head for RNC
-Freedom Fighter group
-John N. Mitchell
Italians
-Republican gains
-Italian candidates
-Compared to Eastern Europeans
-Irish
-Poles
-Democratic political viewpoint
-Freedom fighters
-Rockefeller
-Edward J. Derwinski
Rockefeller
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-Conversation with the President
-Franklyn C. Nofziger
-Note signed by President
-Frank Leonard
-Letter
-Retention on staff
-Fundraising
-Staff morale
H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 4:06 pm.
Russell B. Long
-Meeting with the President
-Monday Letter
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Mailing list
-Quality of writing
-Support
Campaigning
-Controversy
-Publicity
-Timidity
RNC publications
-New Majority
-Dole
-Compared to Bush
-Monday Letter
-Negative publicity
-Letter from Bush
-Conciliatory tone
-Monday Chairman’s letter
-Big contributors
-Direct mailing
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-Small number
-Cole
-Periodic release
-Contents
-Important issues
-International monetary situation
-Recipients
-Maurice H. Stan’s list
-Democrats
-Friendly editors
-Political leaders
-State chairman
-Coordination of RNC and Senate campaign committees
-Brock’s cooperation
-Kenneth S. Rietz
-New Majority campaign
-Reports to Bush
-Congressional cooperation
-Problems
-House committees
-Robert C. (“Bob”) Wilson’s removal
-Clarence J. (“Bud”) Brown, Jr.
-Conflict with Wilson
-Brown’s meeting with Bush
-Rietz
-Brock
-Duplication of efforts
-Animosity between Congress and White House
-Wilson
-Bush’s call to Ford
Finances
-Congress
-Departure date
-Brown
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-Alaska
-Brown’s management style
-Duplication of efforts
-Complaints
-1974 campaign compared with 1972 campaign
RNC finances
-Congressional complaints
-Stans’s report as refutation
-Surpluses
-Senate campaigns
-Request for funds
-Wilson
-1972 election
1972 election
-Democratic Party split
-Landslide
-Vietnam issue
-May 8, 1972
-George S. McGovern
-Republican candidates for Congress
-Style
-Age
-Demeanor
-Harry F. Byrd, Jr.
-Endorsement
-Goddard [?]
New Majority strategy
-Finances
-State committee complaints
-Haldeman
-Staff
-Patronage
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-Haldeman as access point
-Press coverage
-Joseph C. Kraft
-Jobs, patents
-Bush’s political role
-Harry N. Dent’s advice
New Jersey election
-William T. Cahill
-Endorsement
-Strength
-Charles W. Sandman, Jr.
-President’s supporter
-Conservative
-Compared to Nofziger
-Clifford P. Case
-Liberal
-Cahill
-Irish Catholic
-The President’s compared with Bush’s role in endorsement
-President’s note
-Cahill’s visit
-Governors’ meeting
-Sandman
-Visit to RNC
-Bush’s meeting at Congress
-Obfuscation
-The President’s support for Cahill
-The President’s explanation
-John N. Mitchell’s prior endorsement
North Dakota election
-Milton C. Young
-Age
-William L. Guy
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-Bush’s call to Brock
-The President’s view
-Age of candidate
Youth
-Elected officials
-Need in Republican Party
-Reagan and Rockefeller
-Age
-Re-election prospects
-Ages of presidents
-Rockefeller compared with Reagan
-Vitality
-Effects of television [TV]
-1976 candidacy
-Reagan, Rockefeller
-Agnew
1976 campaign
-Haldeman
-RNC role
-The President’s conference
-Presidential candidates
-Support for Republicans in the 1974 election
-Early campaign favorites
-Reagan
-Rockefeller
-Agnew
-Nomination for 1976 Presidential campaign
-Campaigning for Congressional candidates in 1974
-Fundraising
-Connecting with future state delegates
-Fat Cats
-Mississippi
-The President’s recommendations
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-Fundraising
-Independent
-RNC chairman’s role
-Bush’s meeting with Reagan in New Orleans
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Campaigning
-Incumbents
-Brock
-Young
-Offers of federal appointment
-Older candidates
-Gordon L. Allott
-Jack R. Miller
-Cabinet positions
-Secretary of State
-Secretary of the Treasury
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Timing
-Sensitivity
-Leaks
-Current Cabinet official
-North Dakota
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Candidates in state primaries
-North Dakota
-Mark Andrews
-Statewide appeal
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-Age
-Ohio
-William B. Saxbe
-Support for incumbents
-William J. Keating
-New York
-Jacob K. Javits
-Support for incumbents
-Primaries
-Saxbe
-Speculation on candidacy
-Support during primary compared to general election
-Timing
-Political mine field
-Friends of Administration
-Saxbe
-Voting record
-Compared with Robert Taft, Jr.
-Bush’s role
-Pragmatism
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-RNC support
-Charles E. Goodell
-President’s failure to support
-John Rousselot
-John Birch Society
-Refusal of support from administration due to Vietnam War issue
-Ronald L. Ziegler
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-Javits
-Administration’s support
-Buckley
-Alternative to Goodell
-Senate elections
-Impact on Administration
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
-Support by the President
-Senate votes
-Liberal Republicans
-Goodell
-Support for all Republican candidates
-Mathias’s campaign
-William E. Timmons
-Relationship with Bush
-Percy
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Women
-Equal Rights Amendment [ERA]
-Ratification through state legislatures
-Pressure on state legislatures
-Arizona
-Use of President’s statements
-Support by Republican Party
-Active minority
-Pragmatic approach
-Referendum
-President’s support
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-Spokeswoman
-Jayne B. Spain
-Katherine K. Bidwell [?]
-Youth
-Phyllis Schlafley
-Founders Forum
-Opposition to ERA
-Publicity
-Funding
-John Birch Society
-George C. Wallace
-Support for ERA
-Administration’s position
-Statements by President, Bush
-Moderate women’s position
-State legislatures
-President’s position
-Draft of Letter
-President’s position
-Circulation
-Use by RNC
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Statement in support
-Publicity
-President’s view
-Democratic Party
-Support for ERA
-Republican Party
-Support for ERA
-Open door
-Schlafley
-March
-RNC
-Committee organization
-Illinois
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-Pennsylvania [?]
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1974 campaign
-New Majority
-Congressional support
-Support for Administration’s legislative agenda
-Party changes compared with RNC development
-Bush’s role
-Joe D. Waggoner, Jr.
-Support for the President
-Discussions with Brown, Wilbur D. Mills, Ford
-Gillespie V. (“Sonny”) Montgomery
-Mississippi
-Law suit
-Support for the President
-Knowledge of foreign affairs
-Bush’s leadership style
-Study report on Party structure
-Byrd
-John B. Connally
-Impact on office-holders
-Wagginer
-Symbolism
-Impact on elections
-Congress
-RNC’s role
-Bush’s conversation with Byrd
-Mills Godwin
-Linwood Holton
-Bush’s pursuit of Byrd
-Holton’s endorsement of Godwin
-Holton
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-President’s view
-Bush’s call
-Byrd’s influence
-Godwin
-Byrd’s endorsement
-Victory
-Nixon’s Republicans, Democrat’s support
-President’s position
-Pressure to leave race
-Holton’s opinion of Godwin
-Racism
-President’s view
-Holton
-Support for Civil Rights
-Virginia, Tennessee, Texas, New York
-[Unintelligible name]
-Lieutenant Governor
-Godwin
-Meeting with Bush
-State chairman
Politics
-Disillusionment
-Liberal argument
-1972 election
-Press relations
-Republican Party
-Optimism
Byrd
-Support
-Bush’s role
-Discussion with Governor’s Association
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-Future appointment
-Ambassadorship
-Judgeship
-Cabinet, sub-Cabinet
-Service secretary
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Candidate recruitment
-Procedures
-Problems
-Brock
-President’s confidence
-House of Representatives
-Disaster
-Rietz’s role
-Brown
-Rietz’s schedule
-Targeting districts
-Incumbents
-House Campaign Committee
-RNC
-Bush’s parallel role
-Rietz
-Evaluations
-Murray M. Chotiner
-1946 role in committee establishment
-Richard Jackson
-Assistance
-Knowledge of mechanics
-Relationship with RNC
-Advisor role
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-Meeting with Rietz
-Talent plan for state legislatures
-Chotiner’s role
-Compared with Congress
-Fundraising initiative
-Talent recruitment
-Committees at district level
-Fact-finding role
-California Republican Committee
-President’s early career
-Selection as candidate
-Wilson
-Fundraising compared with recruitment
-President’s early career
-Selection of Committee of 100
-Chotiner
-State, county committee members
-Business
-Women representatives
-Blacks, Jews
-Mexican representation
-Mormons
-Brown
-Travel
-Texas, Massachusetts
-Congress members
-Collaboration between districts
-Districts
-Important people
-Collaboration
-Rising stars
-Junior Chamber of Commerce
-Rotary Club
-POWs
-The President’s conversation with Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
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-POWs’ transition to civilian labor force
-POWs as candidates
-Success against anti-war candidates
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Agnew
-Travel
-Meeting with Cabinet
-Timing
The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:07 pm and
5:25 pm.
[Conversation No. 412-8A]
[See Conversation No. 43-82]
[End of telephone conversation]
Byrd
POWs
-Moorer
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Pentagon lunch reception
-Heroism
-Appreciation
Moorer
-Inaugural parade
-Jeers
-Patriotism
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The President talked with Stephen B. Bull at an unknown time between 4:07 pm and 5:25 pm.
[Conversation No. 412-8B]
[See Conversation No. 43-83]
[End of telephone conversation]
POWs’ return
-Public impression
-Col. Robinson Risner
-Support for the President
-Moorer’s meeting with the President
-Dispatch
-Public release
-Timing
-POWs’ support for the bombing
-North Vietnamese attitudes
-Impact of bombing
-Cora Weiss
-POWs’ comments
-Significance
-Mrs. James Mulligan
-Support for the President
-Courage of the President
-Hostility of critics
-Moorer’s report
-North Vietnamese reactions
-Bombing
-Perception of the President
POW wives
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-Identification of POWs
-The President’s speech
-Families supporting withdrawal
-National League of Families
-Opponents of President’s policies
-Minority
-Television [TV] coverage
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Press coverage
-Distortions
Amnesty
-Divisive issue
-Public opposition outside Washington, DC
-POWs’ opinion
-Congress
-Bill
-Reluctance to raise
-Pat [no last name]
-President’s reaction
-Moorer
-Impact on armed forces
-Abraham Lincoln
-Amnesty policy
-South compared with the North
-Carl Sandberg
-Poem
-Edward DeBertello
-Deserters
-New York draft protests
-Imprisonment
-Pardon
Foreign policy
-Bush’s UN experience
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-Credibility
-Middle East
-Foreign and domestic cities
New isolationists
-World War II
-Nazis
-Marshall Plan
-Aid to Greece and Turkey
-Split personality
-Allied bombing of Germany
-Dresden, Hamburg, Cologne
-Deaths
-Compared to German bombing of Great Britain
-Adolf Hitler
-Compared to US bombing of North Vietnam
-Far Right
-Isolationists
-Pro-Nazis
-Left wing
-Isolationists
-Communists
-Socialists
-Prime Ministers
-Credibility in Europe
-Credibility in Middle East
-Jewish support
-Intervention in Middle East
-Ambassador from Yugoslavia
-Talks with Bush
-Support for the President
-Josip Broz Tito
-Credibility
-Israel
-Support for the President
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-Opposition from US Jews to bombing
-Arabs
-Allies
-Japan, Europe
-US role in security
-Missiles
-US will to use
-Necessity
-Demonstration
-US credibility
-Soviet Union, People’s Republic of China [PRC]
Bombing of North Vietnam
-Reaction
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-Criticism
-Image of President
-Thomas Grey (“Tom”) Wicker, New York Times, Walter
L. Cronkite, Jr., Harry Reasoner, David Brinkley
-“Mad men”
-Joseph C. Kraft
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-December 1972 bombing
The President, Bush, Armstrong, and Haldeman left at 5:25 pm.