Date: January 8, 1973
Time: Between 10:50 am and 1:45 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman at 10:50 am.
Summary of conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler
-President’s staff for social functions
-Haldeman
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Roy L. Ash
-Blair House
-Kennedy Center
-White House theatre
-Thomas W. Braden social
-Kissinger
-Joseph W. Alsop
-John A. Scali
-Visitors
John B. Connally
-Living quarters
-Jamaica
-Houston
-Florence, Italy
-Idanell (Brill) (“Nellie”) Connally
-Meeting with the President after Inaugural
-Schedule
-Jamaica
-Press coverage
-Congress
-Robert C. Byrd
-Meeting with President
-Cabinet appointments
-Impoundment of funds
-Advice for Congress
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-Need for President to act
-Congressional reorganization
-William E. Timmons
-Responsibilities
-Power
-Stewart J. O. Alsop’s article
-Cooperation with President
-Spending
-War
Relations with Congress
-Connally
-Timmons’s personality
-Ehrlichman
-Kissinger
-Senators invited to White House
-Byrd
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Timmons
-Need for action by
-Ehrlichman
-George P. Shultz
-Ash
-Timmons
-Ziegler
Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Developments
-Ehrlichman
Cabinet swearing-in
-Walter J. Hickel
-Policy
-Congressional action
-Confirmation
-Claude S. Brinegar
-Caspar W. (`Cap”) Weinberger
-James T. Lynn
-Connally
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-Peter G. Peterson
-Earl L. Butz
-Weinberger
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Shultz
-Families
-Connally
-Cabinet meeting
-Pictures
-Hickel
-President’s participation
-Ash
Ash
-Attacks
-Reaction
Church service
-Rose Mary Woods
-Conversation with the President
-Anna C. Chennault
-Ministers
-President and Vice-President
-Nixon and Agnew families
-Cabinet members
-Wives
-Chief Justice
-Wife
-Inaugural Committee
-J. Willard Marriott
-Congressional escort committee
-House and Senate leadership
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-Supreme Court
-Undersecretaries
-Chairman of Joint Chiefs
-White House staff
-Woods
-Assistant Secretaries
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-George W. Romney
-John A. Volpe
-William P. Rogers
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Inaugural Committee
Constance M. (“Connie”) Stuart
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Employment tenure
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-Woods
-Reference to unidentified woman
-Marge Byers
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Need for press secretary
-Ziegler
-Mrs. Nixon
-Replacement of Stuart
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Ehrlichman
-Meeting with President
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:31 am.
Ambassadorships
-Leonard C. Meeker
-Canada
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-Adolph W. Schmidt
-John Safer
-W. Clement Stone
-Brussels
-Argentina
The President left at an unknown time between 10:50 and 11:31 am.
Haldeman talked with an unknown person between 10:50 and 11:31 am.
[Conversation No. 835-8A]
Ambassador list
Ehrlichman entered at 11:31 am.
Pat Lynch
-Energy job
The President returned at an unknown time after 11:31 am.
FBI Directorship
-Timing
-L. Patrick Gray
-Illness
-Lynn
-Compared to Gray
-Environmental Protection Agency [EPA]
-Gray
-Staff problems
-Alternative positions
-Ambassadorship
-Bonn, Germany
-Office of Emergency Preparedness [OEP]
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Watergate
-William D. Ruckelshaus
-John N. Mitchell
Appointments
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-Subcabinet level
-Agency level
-George Cook’s son
-Daniel W. Cook
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Bernard J. (“Bunny”) Lasker
-Hamer H. Budge
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Budge
-[First name unknown] Newson
-Connally
-Daniel W. Cook
-Seattle law practice
-Connally
-Flanigan
-William J. Casey
-James R. Schlesinger
-Atomic Energy Commission [AEC]
-Dixie Lee Ray
-Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC]
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with Frederic V. Malek
-Requirements
-Ronald H. Walker
-National Park Service
-Swearing-in
-Retreat facilities
-[John] Calvin Coolidge
-Herbert C. Hoover
-Warren G. Harding
-Ted Stevens and family
-Camp David
-Cape Cod
-Maryland Eastern Shore
-Virgin Islands
-Yellowstone
-John C. Whitaker
-Ben Hertzog
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Lyndon B. Johnson
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-White House lighting
-Coco Lobo
-Alaska
-Visiting officer’s quarters
-Health club
-Massage parlors
Lame ducks
-Gordon L. Allott
-Hugh Scott
-Jack R. Miller
-Appointment possibilities
-SEC
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-George D. Webster
-Possible ambassadorship
-Latin America
-Jamaica
-Trinidad
-Dominican Republic
-Postal Commission
-President’s interest in
-Judiciary position
-Scott
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Gray
-Possible ambassadorship
Government reorganization
-Representative Frank J. Horton
-Representative Chet Holifield
-Ervin
-Timmons
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-Schedule
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-“The Today Show” appearance
-Last meeting with the President
-Black lung
-William H. Rehnquist
National Republican Committee office
-George H. W. Bush
-Congress vs. the President
-Staff
-Condition of offices
-[First name unknown] Ackerman
-Robert C. (“Bob”) Wilson
-Josephine Goode
Spiro T. Agnew
-Bush
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Harry S Truman funeral
-New York Republican Party
-Jacob K. Javits
-Malcolm Wilson
-State Legislature
-Ronald Reagan
-1974 and 1976 plans by Rockefeller
-Need for distance for the President
-Bush
-The President’s statement
-Rockefeller
-Agnew
White House political liaison
-Bush
-Wilson
-John W. Rollins
-Wilson
-Financial assets
-Contributions
-Albert L. Cole
-Bush
-Fund raising
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-Webster
-Fund raising dinners
-Cost
-Lack of effectiveness
-Edward W. Carter
-Los Angeles
-Lasker
-Profitability
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-Cole
Priorities for Ehrlichman
-Congressional reorganizations
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Cole and Malek
Appointments
-Timing
-Erhlichman and Haldeman
-Responsibilities
-SEC
-Daniel W. Cook
-AEC
-Ray
-Schlesinger
-Holifield
-Schlesinger
-John D. Pastore
Inter-departmental appointments
-Executive privilege
-Counselors
-Ervin
-Flanigan
-Energy coordination
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-Butz
Press questions
-Ehrlichman
-War
-Consultations with Congress
-Herbert G. Klein
-Budget cuts
-Watergate
-Hugh S. Sidey
-Ehrlichman’s knowledge
-President’s knowledge
-FBI inquiry
-John F. Kennedy assassination
-White House investigation
-Results
-Klein
-Donald H. Segretti
-Richard (“Dick”) Tuck
-Vietnam
-Klein
Sidey
-Attitude towards Administration
-Kennedy
-Theodore Sorenson
-“Agronsky and Company”
-“Meet the Press”
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-James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.
An unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:29 pm.
Media critics
-President’s views
-Kissinger
-Critics
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-Georgetown
-Harvard
-Vietnam negotiations
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Kissinger
-Agronsky show
-Buchanan
-Johnson
-Press
-Relations
-Kissinger
-Richard A. Moore
-Crosby S. Noyes’s column
-President’s consulting columnists
-Johnson
-Kennedy
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Truman
-Kennedy
-Johnson
-Vietnam
-Truman
-Atomic Bomb
-Korean War
-Noyes
-TV compared to writing press
-The President’s position
-Compared to Congress’ position
-1948 Election
-Truman
-Congress
-Vietnam War
-Time magazine
Haldeman and Ehrlichman left at an unknown time after 11:31 am.
Ehrlichman entered at an unknown time before 12:29 pm.
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Haldeman entered at an unknown time before 12:29 pm.
Vietnam
-Rogers’s meeting with Vietnamese officials
-Steven B. Bull
-Col. Richard T. Kennedy
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Col. Richard T. Kennedy
Magazine Cover stories
-Congress
Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:31 am.
Col. Richard T. Kennedy
Bull left at an unknown time before 12:29 pm.
Magazine cover stories
-The President’s press relations
Clay Whitehead
-Networks
-President’s orders
-Staff communications
Col. Richard T. Kennedy entered at 12:29 pm.
Rogers
Melvin R. Laird
Vietnam negotiations
-Rogers
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-South Vietnam
-Kissinger
-Rogers
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-Policy
-Fund cut-off
-South Vietnam
-Congress
-President’s letter to Thieu
-Agreement
-Congress
-Notes from the President
-Kissinger
-Ambassador
-Rogers
-Ambassador
-Publicity
-Effects on negotiations
Kennedy left at 12:35 pm.
Reorganization
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Rogers
-Laird
-Kissinger
-Congress
-Cole
-FBI
Press domestic briefing
-Ehrlichman
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-Format
-Civil rights
-Questions
-Relation to President’s press conferences
School orientation
-February 1973
-Cabinet, subcabinet, agency heads
-Administration heads
-Purpose
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-Policy
-Working with White House
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Testimony
Congressional relations
-Timmons
-School for Congressmen
-Administration supporters
-J. Bennett Johnston, Jr.
-Louisiana
-Assessment
-John J. McFall
-Vietnam
-California
-Support for the President
-Thomas P. (“Tip”) O’Neill
-John Brademas
-New York Times article
-McFall
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-Richardson
-Administration pressures
-Department of Health, Education and
Welfare, [HEW]
-Department of Housing and Urban Development
[HUD]
-O’Neill
-Gerald R. Ford
-Wilson
-Political career
-Elizabeth A. (“Betty”) Ford’s conversation with Jeanne
Ehrlichman
-Abilities
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Illinois Senate 1974 campaign
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] assignment
-John B. Anderson
-Charles H. Percy
-Byrd
Timmons
Clark MacGregor
Haldeman
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Wage and price controls announcement
-Shultz
-Polls
-New York Times
-Economy
-Vietnam
-Audio tape by President
-Timing
-Shultz
-Schedule
-Press reaction
National economy
-Joseph W. Barr
-Former Secretary of Treasury
-Assessment of President’s program
-Congress
-Government spending in 1957
-George M. Humphrey
-Economy
-Housing
-Moratorium
-As political issue
-Unemployment
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-Taxes
-Unemployment
-Percentages
-Election implications
-Government spending
-Rockefeller defense contract
-Southern California
-Orange County
-Government spending
-Unemployment
-Long Island
-Defense contracts
New York politics
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-Rockefeller
-Governor
-New York City mayoralty contest
-Arthur Levitt
-New York Comptroller
-Margaretta (“Happy”) Rockefeller
-John V. Lindsay
-Javits
-Italian policeman candidate
-Javits
-Possible Senate primary opposition
-Future career as Senator
-Age
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Age of Congressmen
-Republican Congressmen
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-William A. Steiger
Democrats
-Wives
-Johnston
-William D. Hathaway
-Maine
-Margaret Chase Smith
Physical appearance of Congressmen as a factor of electoral success
-Senator from Iowa
-Compared to Miller
-Senator from Colorado
-Allott
-Wife of Colorado Senator
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-Wilson
-Connally
-MacGregor
-Bush
-Allott
-Miller
-Smith
-J. Caleb Boggs
-Kentucky
-Louis B. Nunn
Personality of Congressmen and electoral success
-Senator from Colorada
-Allott
-Environmentalist
-Allott
-Wife
-MacGregor
-Oklahoma election
-Mayor Hubley [?]
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[First name unknown] Johnson
-Dewey F. Bartlett
President’s 1972 victory and coattail effect
-Jesse A. Helms
-Peter V. Domenici
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-William L. Scott
-Helms
-National defense
Watergate rundown
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Guilty plea
-Earl J. Silbert
-Jail
-Others [Watergate burglars]
-Henry B. Rothblatt
-G. Gordon Liddy
-Innocent plea
-James W. McCord, Jr.
-No first-hand knowledge
-John W. Dean, III
-Immunities
-Cubans
-Congress
-Grand Jury
Martin (“Marty”) Schram story
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Embassies
-Chilean embassy
-Newsday story
-CIA project officer
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Dean
-1968 place bugging
-Strategy
-Congressional investigation for 1968 and 1972
elections
-Problems of Senators
1968 FBI plane bugging
-Washington Star
-Johnson
-George E. Christian
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Cartha D. DeLoach
-Role in bugging
-Possible testimony
-Concern about FBI
-Johnson
-Lyndon B. Johnson concern
-Letter to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Christian
-Connally
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Politics
-Robert S. Strauss
-President’s desire to stay removed from situation
-Connally
-Vice Presidential nomination
-Republican Party
-Agnew
-1976 Republican nomination
-Connally
-Agnew
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-William E. Brock, III
-Connally
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-Bush
-Anne L. Armstrong
-Need for Haldeman conversation with Connally
-President’s desire not to see Connally on Watergate
-President’s desire to meet with Connally on other subjects
-Middle East
-Oil
-President’s relationship with Connally
Connally and Agnew
-Strength
-President’s successor
-Agnew
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Energy situation
-Connally
-Algeria
-Import bank
-Henry Kerns
-Cties Service Corp.
-Saudi Arabia
-Soviet Union
-Oil
-Algeria
Watergate
-Johnson and 1968 plane bugging
-Evidence
-Press
-Washington Star
-Congress
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-FBI employee [DeLoach]
-Mitchell
-Hoover
-Bugging
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-Johnson and White House telephone lines
-Mitchell
-DeLoach
-Donald M. Kendall
-Vietnam
-Other Johnson bugging
-Hunt’s recruit
-Edmund S. Muskie
-George M. McGovern
-Gary W. Hart
-Political sabotage
-Hunt
-Liddy
-Congress
-Johnson material
-Mitchell
-Christian
-Johnson
-Mitchell
-Muskie
-Hunts recruit
-Hunt
-Bugging hypothesis
President’s schedule
Ehrlichman
-Press briefings
Ehrlichman left at 1:28 pm.
Ehrlichman
Klein
-Effectiveness
-Counselor
-Move to White House Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Ziegler
-Office
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-William J. Baroody, Jr.
-Armstrong
-Director of communications
-Desire for California move
-New York, Washington DC, Midwest
-San Jose School of Journalism
-Political aspirations
-Republican Party
-Robert H. Finch
-Political supporters
-James S. Copley’s job
-Helen Copley
-Personnel and Guidance
-Schedule C
-Public Information Office [PIO]
-Propaganda machine
-Clawson
-Charles W. Colson
-Ziegler
-Clawson
-Role as spokesman
-Contact with editors and publishers
-Woods
-Clawson
-Colson
Webster
-Employment possibilities
-Office of Emergency Preparedness [OEP] job
-Colson
-Haldeman’s conversation with Colson
-G. Harrold Carswell
-Opposition
President’s schedule
-Ziegler
The President and Haldeman left at an unknown time after 1:28 pm.
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Haldeman left at 1:42 pm.
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