Date: September 18, 1972

Time: 4:19 pm – 4:30 pm

Location: Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.

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Welfare reform

-Eliot L. Richardson’s position

The President’s schedule

-Congressional leaders meeting, September 19, 1972

-Briefing paper on bills

-Henry A. Kissinger

-Israeli issues

-Water bill

-Don H. Clausen

-Edmund G. Muskie

-Lawyers

-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO] bill

-Mandatory spending

-Presidential approval

-Hugh Scott

-Gerald R. Ford

-Possible veto

-Congress

-White House staff

-Legal Services Board

-Objections

-Career Assistance Program [CAP]

-Spending

-The President’s view

-Veto override

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:19 pm.

-Ronald L. Ziegler’s request for meeting

-Theodore H. White

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:25 pm.

-Congressional leaders meeting

-Bill

-William E. Timmons’s opinion

-Sustaining veto

-Congressional relations

-Effect of veto

-Ehrlichman’s role

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-Appropriations bills

-Highway Act

-Airports bill

-Consumer safety

-Minimum wage

-Consumer agency

-Child care

-Employee health benefits

-Welfare reform

-Water pollution

-War powers

-OEO bill

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OEO bill

-Mandatory spending

-Budget

-Four programs

-Briefing paper

-Scott

-Cutbacks

-The President’s view

-Joseph W. Alsop

-Environment

-Water bill

-Possible veto

-Withholding funding

-Courts

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The President’s schedule

-Ziegler

-Bull

Ehrlichman left at 4:25 pm.