Date: October 18, 1972
Time: 11:12 am – 11:43 a.m.
Location: Oval Office
The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.
The President’s speeches
-Domestic Council papers
-Education
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Aid to parochial schools
-Busing
-Parochial school aid
-John F. Cardinal Dearden of Detroit, Michigan
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Terence Cardinal Cooke of New York
Domestic issues
-Issue papers from Domestic Council
-Themes
-The President’s presentations
-Ohio
-Kentucky, West Virginia
-Appalachia
-Black lung disease
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-The President’s rural development accomplishments
-Strip mining
-Denver, Colorado
-Quality of life
-Environmental issues
-Congressional record on passage of the President’s legislation
-Baseball analogy
-Water bill
-The President’s veto message
– [Spending limitation rejection by Congress]
-Education
-Economy
-Prices
-Employment
-Health
-Economy
-Taxes
-Spending
-Withholding of funds
-Veto message
-Veto messages
-The President’s possible radio talk
-Denver
-Chicago
-Presentation of issues
-Preparation of issue statements
-Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin
-Structural unemployment
-The President’s meeting with Beurt and Mrs. SerVaas from the Saturday
Evening Post
-Study of the unemployed
-Identity
-Causes
-Blacks
-Unemployment compensation, welfare
-The President’s conversation with Gale E. Sayers
-Day care centers in Chicago area
-Welfare
-Votes
-Day care proposals
-Reworking of previous statements
-Congress
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Statement of accomplishments and lack of accomplishments
-The President’s forthcoming trip
-Non-passage of health bill
-Non-partisan tone
-Goals
-The President’s accomplishments
-Theodore H. White
-Welfare, revenue sharing
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with White
-Welfare reform
-Congress
-The President’s veto message
-Spending limitation rejection by Congress
-Reaction
-Welfare
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] report
-Russell B. Long’s role in legislation action
-News summary
-House Resolution [HR] 1
-Themes
-The President’s administration’s plans
-Progressiveness
-Taxes, government
-Ehrlichman’s briefings
-Presentation of domestic issues
-Comparison to 1968
-Radio talks
-Policy
-Economic revitalization of the South
-The President’s Atlanta speech
-Regional focus
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Oakland
The press
-Opposition to the President
-Ratio
-Edith Efron’s analysis
-Release of information by the administration
Blacks
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Sayers
-The President’s meeting
-Robert J. Brown’s tactics
-Support for the President
-Sammy Davis, Jr.
-Support for the President
-Possible meeting with the President or telephone call
-Publicity
-Reaction
-Chicago
-George S. McGovern’s supporters
-Carl B. Stokes, Morris Dees
Washington, DC
-Rev. Walter E. Fauntroy
-Home rule
-Campaign
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr., Ancher Nelson
-John L. McMillan
Presentation of domestic issues
-The President’s radio speeches
-Length
-Veto messages
-Portfolio
-Methods of presentation
-Leaks
-Newspapers
-Domestic issues
-Publics’ concerns
-Vietnam War
-Possible settlement
-Crime, drugs
-Tone
-Congress
-Water bill
-Tax issue
-Rhetoric
-McGovern’s vote on bill
-Ehrlichman’s statement
-Thomas E. Eagleton
-Domestic Council’s work
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Administration accomplishments and efforts
-Credit
-Press attitudes towards the administration’s proposals
Congressional relations
-Attitude toward the administration’s proposals
-Defensive posture by White House
-White House staffs’ work
-Thomas C. Korologos
-Spending limitation
-Ehrlichman’s schedule
-House of Representatives
-Disorder
-Carl B. Albert, [Thomas] Hale Boggs, Gerald R. Ford
-Water bill
-Ford
-Action
-House compared to the Senate
-Interest group pressure
-Media coverage
-Taxes, inflation
-Tax on clean water
-George P. Shultz
-Soap
-Bryce H. Harlow
-Payment for program
-Value-added tax [VAT], Excise tax
-Manufacturers
-Labeling
-Prospects
-Spending limits
-Possible announcement
-1972 election
-Taxes
-Withholding of funds
-Taxes
-Vetoes
-Water bill and spending habits
-Presidential latitude
-Ehrlichman’s statement
-Department of Labor, Department of Health, Education and
Welfare [HEW] bill
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Increases caused by Congressional budget action
-The President’s schedule
-Camp David
-Briefcases
-The President’s trip to the People’s Republic of China
[PRC]
-Ehrlichman, William E. Timmons
-Bills
-Photographic session
-Legislative issues
-Domestic Council
-Philadelphia
-Vetoes
-Story
-Ehrlichman’s background briefing of wire services
-Bill inventory
-Photograph session to show the President’s workload
-Briefing books and notebooks
-The President’s trip to the PRC
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Ehrlichman, Timmons
Ehrlichman left at 11:43 am.