Date: October 3, 1972
Time: 10:59 am – 11:31 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.
House Resolution [HR] 1
-Forthcoming telephone call from Elliot L. Richardson to the President
-The President’s recent conversation with Republican Congressional leaders
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Adlai E. Stevenson, III
-Amendment
-Similarity to HR 1
-The President’s recent conversation with Republican
Congressional leaders
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HEW
-Welfare rolls
Water bill
-Office of Legal Counsel
-Mandatory spending
-Pocket veto period
-Options
-Pocket veto
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Mandatory spending
-Possible problems
-Possible telephone calls to congressional leaders
-Veto possibility
-Caspar W (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Legal
-Opinions
-Veto override
-Mandatory spending
-Justice Department
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Option
-Veto
-Pocket veto
-Veto message
-Press
-Taxpayers
-Television [TV] broadcast
-Radio speech
-Spending
-Taxes
-Water quality
-Difficult decisions
-Possible choices
Richardson
-HEW bureaucracy
-Liberal views
-Charles H. Percy
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-Job performance
-Support for HEW programs
-Compared to Robert Finch
-Welfare
-Political decision
-HEW
-Stevenson amendment
-Titles I, II, III
-Cost
-HR 1
-Political decision
Social Security legislation
-Veto possibility
-Titles I, II, III
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Title IV
-Mills
-Increase
-Retirement age
-Administration actions
-Delay
-Public relations
-House of Representatives
-Limitation on spending
-Republicans
-George H. Mahon
-Mills
-Senate
-Limitation on spending
-Chances for approval
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Washington Post
-Partisan election issue
-Gulf of Tonkin resolution comparison
-Chance of success
-Taxes
-Veto of Titles I, II, III possibility
-Payroll taxes
-Older Americans
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-Check increases
-Letter from the President
-Washington Post
-Article on campaign
-Comments
HR 1
-Richardson
-Telephone call to the President
-Cabinet
-Political decisions
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming telephone call
-The President’s decision on veto
-Titles I, II, III
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Forthcoming conversation with Ehrlichman
-Titles I, II, III
-Recommendation to sign
Press conference
-Ehrlichman’s and Weinberger’s report on the President’s meeting with Republican
Congressional leaders
-Ronald C. Ziegler
-Andrei A. Gromyko
Media relations
-George S. McGovern’s corruption charges, October 2, 1972
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew’s response
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
-The President’s conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Ziegler
Previous conversation with the President
-Herbert G. Klein
-1968 election
-Patrick J. Buchanan’s analysis of press coverage
-Analysis of coverage
-Eleanor (Stegeberg) McGovern
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon’s trips
-Moscow
-Peking
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
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-Television [TV] coverage
-McGovern
-1964 election
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Comparisons
-McGovern
-The President signing of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT], October 3,
1972
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Anti-ballistic missiles [ABM]
-Historic summit battles
-Congressional leadership, ambassadors
-Agnew
-Cabinet
-1968 election
-Compared to 1972 campaign
-Buying advertising time
-Position papers
-Radio
-McGovern
-Debate
-Corruption charges
-Effect
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Interview, October 2, 1972
-Press corps
-Scrutiny
-Congress
-Scrutiny
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-US-Soviet Grain deal
-Watergate
-Integrity
-Discussion of corruption
FBI
-Gray’s personnel management
-[Wesley G. Grapp]
-Los Angeles
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-Dress code
-Adm. Elmo L. Zumwalt, Jr.
-Insubordination
-Stock speculation
-[Robert K. Kunkel]
-Washington
-Grapp
-Los Angeles
-Stock transactions
-Ehrlichman’s view
Media relations
-1968 campaign
-Compared to news coverage in 1972
-NBC
-Agnew
-Eleanor McGovern
-CBS
-Rationale for coverage
-1972 election
-Possible outcome
Washington Post
-Invitations to dedication of new building
-Acceptance by members of administration
-President’s instructions
-John N. Mitchell
-Maurice H. Stans
-William P. Rogers
-Cabinet officers
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-White House staff
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-Rogers
-Ehrlichman’s invitation
-Response
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
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Domestic policy
-Administration actions
-Social Security signing
-Necessity
-Weinberger
-Black lung
Foreign policy accomplishments
-Peking
-Moscow
-Vietnam war
-The President’s May 8, 1972 announcement
Press relations
-Washington Post
-Haynes B. Johnson
-Compared to Joseph C. Kraft
-Kraft
-Story
-Summits
-Swing vote
-News summaries
-President’s campaign activities
-Press corps
-Support for the President
-Ehrlichman’s possible backgrounder
-New York Times
-Integrity
-McGovern
-Amnesty
-Permissiveness
-Abortion
-Legalization of marijuana
-Vietnam
-Defense
-Mandate
-McGovern’s position
-Criticism of the President
-Demonstrations
-Vietnam
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-Cambodia
-May 8, 1972 decision
-Amnesty
-Marijuana
-1972 election
-1972 campaign
-McGovern
-The President’s activities
-R. Sargent Shriver
-Edmund S. Muskie
Revenue sharing ceremony
-Signing of legislation
-Independence Hall
-Philadelphia City Hall
-Milton J. Shapp
-White House
-Shapp
-Possible negative story
-The President’s recent SALT signing ceremony
-Introductory by the President
-Agnew
-Length of ceremony
-Warren E. Hearnes
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Gladys N. Spellman
-Mayors
-Richard G. Lugar
-Frank C. Rizzo
-Guest lists
-Citizens Committees for Revenue Sharing
-Reception
-Pens
-Timing
-News coverage
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Photographs with mayors
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Property taxes
-Syracuse, New York
-Announcement
-1972 Election
-Timing
-President’s possible statement
-Meeting with Robert E. Merriam
-Federal taxes
Ehrlichman left at 11:31 am.