Date: January 3, 1973

Time: Unknown time between 11:30 am and 1:00 pm

Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman at an unknown time after 11:00 am.

Second term reorganization

-Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.

-Atomic Energy Commission [AEC]

-Office of the Science Advisor

-Outside job opportunity

-Meeting with the President

-The President’s schedule

-1973 Inauguration

-David M. Abshire

-David

-AEC

-Special recognition

-James D. Hodgson

Departure

John D. Ehrlichman

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Haldeman talked with Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 11:00 am and 1:00 pm.

[Conversation No. 831-6A]

Hodgson

-Plans

[End of telephone conversation]

Second term reorganization

-Hodgson

-New position

-Robert H. Finch

-Governor

-Law firm

-Charles W. Colson

-Size

-Miscalculations

-Reception for Californians

-Blair House

-Leonard K. Firestone

-Conversation with Haldeman

-Murray M. Chotiner

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-Congressional races

-Chotiner’s assistance

-Contributions

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-Donald H. Rumsfeld

-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]

-Herbert G. Klein

-Walter H. Annenberg

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-James S. Copley

-Gannett news service

-Retention

-Counselor

-Ronald L. Ziegler

-Advocacy

-Compared to Colson

-Local editors

-Problems

-Publishers

-National Security Council [NSC]

-Henry A. Kissinger

-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

-Departure

-Gen. Brent B. Scowcroft

-The President’s confidence

-Haig’s departure

-Kissinger

-Scowcroft

-Abilities

-Office management

-White House staff cuts

-Raymond K. Price, Jr.

-John K. Andrews, Jr.

-Reassignments to agencies

-Price

-Use of White House

-Ziegler

-Kissinger’s staff

-Haig

-Responsibilities

-Chad

-Upper Volta

-Colson

-Klein

-Ziegler

-Kissinger

-Price

-Visits by departing staffers

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The President’s schedule

-Cabinet

-The President’s meeting with new Secretaries

-Confirmations

-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield

Roberto Clemente memorial fund

-Pittsburgh Pirates

-Daniel M. Galbreath

-Willie Stargell

-Dave Giusti

-The President’s schedule

-Meeting

-Timing

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:00 am.

The President’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:00 pm.

Clemente memorial fund

-White House staff awareness

-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan

-George Allen

-Harry S. Truman

-Baseball

Second term reorganization

-Price

-David R. Gergen

-Lawyer

-William L. Safire

Anne L. Armstrong

-Office space

-Office of Emergency Preparedness [OEP]

-George A. Lincoln

-Replacement

-Contribution on foreign policy

-NSC

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-Kissinger

-Space Council

-Books on presidency

-Clinton Rossiter

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

-Franklin D. Roosevelt

-Institutionalization

-Truman

-Eisenhower

-Consolidation

-NSC

-Cabinet

-Vice Presidency

-Clearing the President’s schedule

-Roy L. Ash

-Camp David

-Ehrlichman’s briefing

-Congressional relations

-Cabinet

-George P. Shultz

-Economics

-Details

-Cut in White House staff

-Office space

-Counselors

-Staff

-Deputy for Haldeman

-Ehrlichman

-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.

-Alexander P. Butterfield

-Lawrence M. Higby

-Past chiefs of staff

-Sherman Adams

-Jerry Persons

-Bryce N. Harlow

-Qualifications

-Political sophistication

-Age

-Young men

-Butterfield

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-Ziegler

-Dwight L. Chapin

-Stephen B. Bull

-Bruce A. Kehrli

-Responsibilities

-Scheduling

-Baseball

-Big decisions

-Truman memorial service

-Assistants to the President

-Staff meetings

-Timing

-Shultz, Ehrlichman, Ash, Kissinger, William E. Timmons, Ziegler

-Purpose

-The President’s memorandum

-Meeting with Shultz

-Ehrlichman, Kissinger

-Ash, Shultz

-Agency responsibilities

-Treasury Department

-Office of Budget and Management [OMB]

-Responsibilities

-Shultz

-Counselor

-Differing role

-Testimony before Congress

-Ehrlichman, Kissinger

-OMB

-Secretary of Treasury

-Counselors

-Deputy for Haldeman

-Higby

-Responsibilities

-Chapin

-Butterfield

-Bull

-Responsibilities

-Qualifications

-Alter ego

-Bull

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-Frederic V. Malek

-Potential

-Prospects

-Subcabinet appointments

-Dave N. Parker

-Qualities

-Presence

-Scowcroft

-Higby

-Butterfield

-Timmons

-Appearance

-Bull

-Thomas Hart

-Thomas C. Korologos

-Timmons

-Appearance

-Ziegler

-Compared to Gerald L. Warren

-Kenneth W. Clawson

-William J. Baroody, Jr.

-Colson’s departure

-Replacement

-Congressional relations

-Timmons

-Clark MacGregor

-George H.W. Bush

-Ehrlichman

-Shultz

-Ash

-Qualities

-Washington Post

-Retention

-Announcement

-Allegation

Watergate

-Colson

-Watergate involvement

-Haldeman’s knowledge of involvement

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-E. Howard Hunt, Jr. and G. Gordon Liddy

-Perjury

-Colson

-John N. Mitchell

-Knowledge

-Jeb Stuart Magruder and Liddy

-John W. Dean, III

-Magruder

-Mitchell and Colson

-Early involvement

-Purpose of break-in

-Financial information

-Convention

-Haldeman’s knowledge of Watergate

-Hunt

-Knowledge

-Liddy

-Possible testimony

-Magruder

-Possible testimony

-Hugh W. Sloan, Jr.

-Suspicions

-Job

-Dean

-Involvement in Watergate

-Magruder

-Bicentennial Commission

-Trial

-Date

-Pleas of defendants

-Congress

-Plans to investigate

-Edward M. Kennedy staff

-Donald H. Segretti

-Henry M. Jackson

-Sam J. Ervin, Jr.

-President’s strategy

-Colson

-Dwight L. Chapin

-Colson

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-Value to administration

-Travel

-Break-in

-Motives of defendants

-Mitchell’s role in Watergate

-Colson

-Magruder

-Liddy

-Role in Watergate break-in

-Edward M. Kennedy bugging

-Protection/surveillance of Kennedy

-Report

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-Assignment of Secret Service agent

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-Future report

Second term reorganization

-New Cabinet

-New assignments

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-William E. Simon

-Peter J. Brennan

-Claude S. Brinegar

-Anne L. Armstrong

-New responsibilities

-Republican National Committee [RNC]

-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr. [?]

-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

-Employment in White House

-Salary

-Press relations

-Ziegler

-Spokesperson

Rose Bowl Parade

-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

-Television [TV] coverage

-Applause of audience

-Propriety of appearance

-George Allen

Second term reorganization

-Rose Mary Woods

-Mood

-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

-Marjorie P. Acker

-Armstrong

-Health

-Gen. Walter R. Tkach

-Cabinet dinner

-Mood

-Invitations

-Colson

-Maurice H. Stans

-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

-Armstrong

-Appointment

-Cabinet

-Californians

-Patricia R. Hitt

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-RNC

-Texas

-Californians

-Claude S. Brinegar

-Caspar W. (“Cap”)Weinberger

-Ash

-Rose Mary Woods

-Relations with other staff members

-Butterfield

-Bull

-Camp David

-People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip

-Nellie L. Yates

-Value to the President

-Stans

-Wiley T. Buchanan, Jr.

-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

-Bull

-Relationship with Woods

-Butterfield

-New responsibilities

-Thomas Hart

-Ziegler

-Responsibilities

-1972 campaign

-Quotas

-Social office

-Old friends, family

-Stans

-Brother

-Health

-Haig

-Woods’s staff

-Acker

-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo’s advice

-Handling

-Grievances

-Rebozo’s advice

The White House renovation

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-[First name unknown] Jones

Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:00 am.

The President’s schedule

-Telephone calls

-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield

-Hugh Scott

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:00 p.m.

White House renovation

-Shelving

-Lighting

-Lyndon B. Johnson

-Chair for the President

-Mrs. Nixon

-Desks

-Dwight D. Eisenhower desk

-Residence

-Mrs. Nixon

-Third floor

-Johnson’s bar

-Kitchen

-Dining room

-Rex W. Scouten

-Bureaucrat

-Loyalty

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-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

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-Changes in White House

-Bowling alley

-Sauna

-Whirlpool

-Scouten

-Improvements

-Expense

White House automobiles

-Woods

-Driver

-Access

-Staff access

-Ash

-OMB

-Armstrong

-Department limousines

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Congressional seat

-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II

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Woods

-Mood

-The President’s call to Edmond S. Muskie

-Invitations

-Involvement

-Old friends

-1973 Inauguration

Press relations

-Kissinger

-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston

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-Newspaper column

-John A. Scali

-[First name unknown] Wells [?]

-Max Frankel

-New York Times

-Ziegler

-Telephone calls

-Loyalty

-Letters from Harvard associates

-Vietnam negotiations

-Kissinger’s morale

-Mood

-Washington Post

-Congress

-Ash

-Investigation

-New York Times

-Reston

-Colson

-American Enterprise Institute [AEI]

-News summaries

-Patrick J. Buchanan

-Size

-Orientation

-Human Events

-New Republic

-Martin Z. Agronsky

-Wire services

-Television networks

-Washington and New York

-Washington Post

-New York Times

-Richard (“Dick”) Wilson

-Agronsky

-Kissinger

-Ehrlichman, Shultz, Ash

-Value

-Wall Street Journal

-Christian Science Monitor

-News magazines

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-Attitudes

-Value

-Time

-Newsweek

-U. S. News and World Report

-The President’s habits

-Congressman, Senator and Vice President

-Condensation

-Projection of positive image

-1972 election victory

-Staff morale

-Vietnam War

-Bombing of North Vietnam

-Ziegler

-Settlement

-Kissinger

-Meetings with the President

-Concurrence with the President’s policies

-Attitude toward bombing

-Compared to the President’s attitude

-Paris negotiations

-Reston article

-Haldeman’s response

-Agreement on bombing

-The President’s appearance on TV

-Cables

-Paris negotiations

-Advocacy of bombing

-Reston

-Motives for article

-The President’s conversation with Ziegler

-Bombing of North Vietnam

-Impact on country

-Reston

-TV

-Congress

-1972 election victory

-Impact on supporters

-John B. Connally, William F. (“Billy”) Graham

-Resumption of negotiations

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-L. A. Times

-Editorials

-Criticism

-[First name unknown] Murphy

-Tony Day

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:00 am.

The President’s schedule

-Telephone call

-Mansfield, Hugh Scott

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:00 pm.

The President left at 1:00 pm.