Date: January 9, 1973

Time: 11:09 am – 1:23 pm

Location: Oval Office

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman met with Frederic V. Malek and Stephen B. Bull; the White House

photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Staff schedules

Photographs

-Ollie Atkins

The President entered at 11:10 am.

Birthday greetings

Maurice J. Williams

-Photograph

-Wife

-Location

-Press room

Bull and the photgrapher left at an unknown time before 11:36 am.

Second term reorganization

-The President’s confidence in Malek

-Management skills

-Loyalty of appointees

-Priority

-Compared to intelligence

-Internal Revenue Service [IRS] appointment

-George D. Webster

-Charles W. Colson

-Requirements

-Loyalty

-Tax lawyer

-Roger Barth

-Jews

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-Herbert Stein

-Loyalty

-Tax lawyer

-Chicago

-[First name not unknown] Seidman [?]

-[First name not unknown] Allabrandi [?]

-Northern Corporation President

-Alaman [?]

-Importance

-Webster

-Colson

-Personnel management

-Schedule C appointments

-Campaign loyalists

-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]

-Malek as Deputy

-Roy L. Ash

-George P. Shultz

-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger

-Purpose

-Shultz

-Performance

-Weinberger

-Performance

-Ash

-Manager

-Malek

-Value

-Department of Transportation

-Claude S. Brinegar

-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.

-Staff

-Management reorganization

-Malek’s plans

-Domestic Council

-Staff cutbacks

-OMB

-White House staff

-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]

-White House staff

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-Career staff

-Secret Service

-Military aides

-Assistant Secretary for Administration within each Department

-Duties

-Defense

-Ash

-George W. Romney

-Shultz

-Commerce Department

-OMB

-Regional officers

-Administration loyalists

-Inspectors General

-Departments

-State Department

-Labor Department

-Peter Brennan

-Picture of the President

-Fitness reports

-Assistant Secretaries for Administration

-OMB

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:10 am.

The President’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:36 am.

Second term reorganization

-Inspector generals

-Defense Department

-State Department

-William J. Casey

-Ambassadors

-Tricia Nixon Cox

-Frank J. Shakespeare

-Foreign Service

-Frank C. Carlucci

-Armed Services

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-Quality of Personnel

-Enticements of recruiting

-Compared to 1969

-OMB

-Staff transfers

-New recruits

-Criteria for employment

-Political sensitivity

-Nepotism

-OMB

-Peter M. Flanigan

-Ambassadors

-Recruitment

-Shared philosophy

-Regional concerns

-Harvard Law School

-Harvard School of Business Administration

-Harvard School of Medicine

-Henry A. Kissinger and Foreign Service

-Harvard School of Political Science

-Quality

-Harvard School of Diplomacy

-Quality

-Pacifism

-Montana State

-Unknown man

-Under Secretary of Labor

-Czech

-Career history

-Yale University

-Harvard Law School

-Cambridge University

-Brennan

-Regional considerations

-Harvard University

-Yale University

The White House photographer, Ash, John D. Ehrlichman entered at 11:36 am.

Second term reorganization

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-Loyalists

Malek left at 11:36 am.

The White House photographer left at an unknown time before 12:14 pm.

Ash’s responsibilities

-Shultz

-Stein

-Economic policies

-Quadriad member

-Wage and price controls

-Spokesman for economic forecasts

-1972 economy

-Predictions for 1973 and 1974

-Congressional spending

-Shultz

-Stein

-Ehrlichman’s memorandum

National economy spokesmen

-Shultz

-Labor-Management Committee

-Wage and price controls

-Farmer

-Food prices

-Congressional spending

-Threat to prosperity

-Full employment budget

-Tax increases

-Ash’s background

-Businessman

-Non-businessmen

-Shultz

-Weinberger

-John B. Connally

-Litton Industries

-Others

-Economists

-Stein

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-Treasury Department

-Arthur F. Burns

Burns

-Performance

-1972 campaign

-Discount rate

-Money supply

-Effectiveness

-Possible relationship with Ash

-Status as economist

Ash

-Washington Post

-Criticism

-The President’s advice

-Noah Dietrich

-Character

-Status in administration

-Confirmation

-Relationship with Cabinet

OMB

-The President’s conversation with Malek

-Budget emphasis

-Shultz

-Weinberger

-Lack of management concerns

-Shultz

-Weinberger

-Personnel

-Budget man

-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.

-Management emphasis

-Malek

-Budget concerns

-Samuel M. Cohen

-Professionalism

-Congressional liaison

-Bryce N. Harlow

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-Congressional constituencies

-Meeting

-Harlow

-Ehrlichman

-Ash

-Shifts in job assignments

-Congressional relations

-Cabinet officers

-British Cabinet

-Elliot L. Richardson

-Department of Health, Education , and Welfare [HEW]

-Advocacy

-Defense Department

-Weinberger

-HEW

-Budget officers

-Lack of political judgment

-White House intervention

Budget

-Domestic Council

-Ash’s political judgment

-Reviews

-Earl L. Butz

-James T. Lynn

-Cabinet members with political judgment

-Butz

-Lynn

-Weinberger

-Richardson

-Clark MacGregor

-Rogers C. B. Morton

-Brinegar

-Krogh

-Ash’s relations with Congress

-Eldon B. Mahon

-John C. Stennis

-Wilbur D. Mills

-Impoundment

-Strategy

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-Unemployment

-George W. Romney

-Housing

-Paul H. O’Neill

-Speech

-Lynn

-Impoundment

-Outside assistance

-Carlucci

-Congressional support

-Joseph W. Barr

-Former Secretary of the Treasury

-Shultz

-Former Budget Directors

-Meet the Press

-Thomas Jefferson

-Weinberger

-Briefing paper

-Presidential reaction

-Tax increase

-Congressional reaction

-Analysts reaction

-Taxes

-Weinberger

-Inflation

-David M. Kennedy

-Public relations [PR] strategy

-1974 budget presentation

-Weinberger

-Ash

-Ebenezer Scrooge

-Bipartisan Congressional leaders meeting

-Republican Congressional leaders meeting

-1973 budget

-Support for impoundment

-Kleindienst

-Legality of impoundment

-Taxes

-“No new taxes”

-Polls

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-Gallup

-Taxes

-Spending

-Tax increase

-Social programs

-Thomas J. Meskill

-Connecticut budget

-Nelson A. Rockefeller

-New York

-Polls

-Austerity budget

-Framing the issue

-Domestic spending

-Defense cuts

-Impoundment

-Presidential justifications

-Congressional relations

-Mahon

-Russell B. Long

-Consultation

-Appropriation committees

-New structure

-Henry S. Reuss

-William E. Brock, III

-Mills

-Litton contribution

-Mills School of Public Administration

-University of Arkansas

-Speech

-Taxes

-707 analogy

-OMB

Henry A. Kissinger’s telephone call

-Birthday greetings

Ehrlichman and Ash left at 12:14 pm.

Kissinger’s letter

-Vietnam settlement breakthrough

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-Protocols

-October agreements

-Congressional relations

-Saigon

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown item after 12:14 pm.

The President’s schedule

-William P. Rogers

-Col. Richard T. Kennedy

-Ash

-Cole

-Richard Kennedy

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:20 pm.

-Free days

-Press conference

-Florida

-Appointment times

-Cabinet

-Members of Congress

-Malek

-Donald McI. Kendall

-Types of meetings

-Unscheduled afternoons

-Bull

-Responsibilities

-Haldemen’s responsibilities

Richard Kennedy entered at 12:20 pm.

Henry A. Kissinger’s letter

-Vietnam settlement

-Distribution

-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

-Richard Kennedy

-Rogers

-William H. Sullivan

-Melvin R. Laird

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-Ronald L. Ziegler

-Press relations

Vietnam settlement

-Prospects

-Kissinger

-Optimism

-North Vietnamese negotiating stance

-Timing

-Congress

-Press

-Canada

-US ­ South Vietnam relations

-Nguyen Van Thieu

-South Vietnamese people

-Thieu in October

-Haig

-Kissinger

-Birthday greetings

-Report

-Secrecy

-Kennedy’s role

-Haldeman’s role

-Presidential directives

-Birthday gift

-Negotiating strategy

-Haig

-Timing for trip to Saigon

-Political agreement

-Kissinger’s schedule

-Haig’s trip

-Disclosure to Haig

-Creighton B. Abrams

-Kissinger

-Rogers

Kennedy left at 12:30 pm.

The President’s schedule

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Cole entered at 12:31 pm.

Birthday greetings

Relations between Ehrlichman and Cole

-Ehrlichman’s PR activities

-Congressional relations

-The President’s confidence in Cole

Unknown person entered at an unknown time after 12:31 pm.

Lunch

Unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:22 pm.

Cole’s duties

-Ehrlichman

-Presidential schedule

-Haldeman’s duties

-Bull

-Paperwork

-Memoranda length

-National Security Council [NSC]

-Details

-Memoranda

-The President’s interest

-Staff Secretary

-Further information

-News summaries

-Paper flow

-Ehrlichman’s duties

-Cole’s role

-The President’s schedule

-Bull

-Ehrlichman’s views

-Impoundment

-Personal meetings

-Domestic Council

-Bryce N. Harlow [?]

-Undersecretaries

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-Assistant Secretaries

-Training program

-Cole’s age

-Speeches

-Ehrlichman

-State of the Union

-Radio speeches

-Raymond K. Price, Jr.

-William E. Timmons

-Congressional relations

-Radio messages

-Capital punishment for drug dealers

-Rockefeller

-Polls

-Public support

-Civil libertarians

-Motives

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-Contacts with White House

-Ehrlichman

-The President’s interest

-Fight on drugs

-Justice Department

-Public support

Contracts for New York

-Ehrlichman

-AX contract

-Experimental fighter

-Northrup in California

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-Fairchild in Long Island

-Competition

-Presidential intervention

-Competition

-Robert Seamans

-Long Island economic impact

-Grumman

-Fairchild

-Northrup

-California

-Grumman

Frank L. Rizzo

-The President’s concern

-Schools

-Grant system

-Treatment by Milton N. Shapp

-Federal actions

-Pennsylvania

-Education money

-HEW

-Philadelphia

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-Shapp

-1972 election support

-1973 Inauguration

-Personal problem

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-Political plans

-Governor

-Personal problem

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The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:03 pm and

12:52 pm.

[Conversation No. 836-9A]

[See Conversation No. 35-104]

[End of telephone conversation]

Romney

-Transition

-Lynn

-Weinberger

National economy

-Spending

-Taxes

The President talked with the White House operator at 12:52 pm.

[Conversation No. 836-9B]

[See Conversation No. 35-105]

[End of telephone conversation]

Letter to Mills

Spending

-Charles W. Colson

-Congressional relations

-Kenneth W. Clawson

-Ziegler

The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 12:52 pm and

1:22 pm.

[Conversation No. 836-9C]

[See Conversation No. 35-106]

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[End of telephone conversation]

Romney

John A. Volpe

-1972 campaign

-Ambassador

-Secretary of Transportation

Relations between Ehrlichman and Cole

-Paperwork

-Priorities

Cole left at an unknown time before 1:22 pm.

The President’s schedule

-Free time

-Meetings

-Cabinet, Quadriad, NSC

-Counsellors

-Congress

-Business labor

-John B. Connally

-John N. Mitchell

-Kissinger

-Colson

-Kissinger

-Telephone call

-Birthday wishes

-Cable

-Conversation with Haldeman

-Gratitude to the President

-Vietnam settlement

-Breakthrough

-Thieu

-North Vietnamese

-Conversation with the President

-Haig

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Herbert G. Klein

-Meeting

-Counselor for communications

-New job

-Press story

Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:52 pm.

Ziegler’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:22 pm.

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:52 pm.

Dishes

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:22 pm.

Klein

-Responsibilities

-Counselor for communications

-Cabinet meetings

-NSC meetings

-Press secretary

-Salesman for administration

-Programming Cabinet

-Executive Office Building [EOB]

-Frank Dale

-Uses

-Rose Mary Woods

-Opposition

-Preston Wolfe

-1972 Campaign

-Office of Communications

-Press Office

-Colson’s office

-William J. Baroody, Jr.

-Special Assist to the President

-Letters to editor

-Herbert G. Klein

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-“Attack group”

-Responsibilities

-Staff

-Employment possibilities

-California job

-James S. Copley

-Press coverage

-Baroody

-Anne L. Armstrong

-Staff

-Bicentennial

-Bicentennial Commission

-Counselor to the President

-Executive Director

-Chairman

-David Mahoney

The President’s schedule

-Florida trip

-Vietnam settlement

-Negotiations

-Kissinger

-Haig

-1973 Inauguration

-The President’s work

-Inaugural speech

-Personnel

-Congressional messages

-Cabinet meeting

-Congressional leaders meeting

-Budget

-State of the Union speech

-Florida schedule

-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo

-Swimming

-Appearance

-Sun

-Television

-Inaugural activities

-Concert

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-Balls

-Inaugural speech

-Parade

-Trip to Soviet Union

-1972 election

-Inaugural activities

-Parade

-TV coverage

-Balls

-Miss America contest

-Church service

-Radio coverage

-Popularity

Roses

-Delivery

Haldeman left at 1:22 pm.