Date: May 1, 1973

Time: Unknown after 6:33 pm – 6:45 pm

Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

President’s schedule

Roy Ash entered and the unknown person left at 6:33 pm.

White House staff

-Ash’s role

-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

-Scheduling

-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.

-Domestic policy

-Personnel

-Spiro T. Agnew

-Office of Management and Budget’s [OMB] purpose

Watergate

-President’s speech

-Effect

White House staff

-Ash’s role

-Stephen B. Bull

-Frederic V. Malek

-Budget

-Cole

-Haldeman’s role

-Staff meetings

-Power struggle

-George P. Shultz

-Quality

Cabinet

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-Elliot L. Richardson

Government managers

-Competence and performance

-OMB assessments

White House staff

-William P. Rogers’s relations with. Henry A. Kissinger

-Timing of Rogers’s departure

-Ash’s meeting with Kissinger

-Ash’s conversations with State Department officials

-John B. Connally’s role

-1976 Presidential election

-Confidence

-Defense Department

-Haldeman’s job [Chief of Staff]

-Haldeman’s job

-Staff process

-Loyalty

-Agnew

-Future role

-Quadriad

-Domestic Council

-Roles of Haldeman and Ehrlichman

-Shultz, Kissinger, Ash and Bull

-Kissinger

-Cooperation

-Reorganization

National economy

-Price controls

-Ash’s opposition to price freeze

-Future effects

-Shultz

-Free enterprise

-Stock market

-Reaction to President’s speech

Ash left at 6:45 pm.

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