Date: January 25, 1973
Time: Between 5:00 pm and 6:58 pm
Location: Oval Office
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The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman.
Meeting
-William F. Rhatican
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Talking paper for the President
-William E. Timmons
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Budget concerns
-Entitlement programs
-Previous work
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:00 pm.
Talking papers
-Ehrlichman
Bull left at an unknown time before 5:09 pm.
Meeting with George P. Shultz, Roy L.Ash, and Ehrlichman
Meeting with the President’s counselors
-Ehrlichman
-Kissinger
Cabinet
-Melvin R. Laird
-Participation during meetings
-Future format of meetings
-Budget
-Weinberger
-Legal justifications of impoundments
-Richard G. Kleindienst
Spiro T. Agnew
-Contacts with Senators
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 5:00 pm.
Kissinger’s schedule
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The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:09 pm.
Agnew
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Conversations with Haldeman, Kissinger, and John N. Mitchell
-Trip
Foreign Policy
-Defense
-Intelligence
-Defense
-Possible 1974 budget cuts
Meetings format
Kissinger entered at 5:09 pm.
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:09 pm.
Refreshments
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:34 pm.
Agnew
-Trip to Southeast Asia
-Vietnam negotiations
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Alexander M. Haig
-Kissinger
-The President’s letters
-Bombing halt
-Pictures
-Meeting with the President prior to Inauguration
-Vietnam negotiations
-Kissinger in Paris
-Egypt
-Anwar el-Sadat
-Federal-state relations committee
-Iran
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-Oil consortium deal
-Visit to Moscow
-Vietnam
-Dean Rusk’s eulogy of Lyndon B. Johnson
-Nixon’s trips as Vice President
-Substance
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Agnew
-Role with Senate
-Schedule
-Trip to Asia
-Indonesia, Malaysia
-Relations with White House
-Charles H. Percy
-Removal as head of intergovernmental group
-Ehrlichman, Haldeman, and Ronald L. Ziegler
-The President’s Vietnam settlement speech
-Kissinger
-Congress
-Changes in behavior
-Outlook
-Staff
-Cabinet meeting on 1974 budget
-Role with Congress
-Rusk’s eulogy of Johnson
-Johnson’s foreign travel as Vice President
-Norway
-Finland
-Johnson’s support for the President
-Intergovernmental relations
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Bicentennial
-Revenue sharing
-Iran
-Negotiations
-John B. Connally
-Moscow
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT] negotiations
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-Kissinger
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Loyalty of Vice Presidents
-Nixon and Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Johnson and John F. Kennedy
-Hubert H. Humphrey and Johnson
-Agnew and Nixon
-December bombing of Vietnam
-National security briefings
Legislative leaders meeting
Elliot L. Richardson
-National Security Council [NSC]
Agnew
-Trip to Asia
-Economic reconstruction of Vietnam
-Report to Cabinet
-Shultz
-Indonesia, Cambodia, Southeast Asia
Kissinger left at 5:34 pm.
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1972 Election
-Agnew
-Selection as Vice President
-Connally
-Mitchell
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Agnew
-Role in administration
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-Bicentennial
-Anne L. Armstrong
-Leonard Garment
-Government appropriations
-Irving Kristol
-John Mitchell
-[First name unknown] Diamond
-Professor
-John Q. Wilson
-Edward C. Banfield
-Wilson
-The President’s role in history
-Self-reliance
-Revenue sharing
-Administration officials
-Fact-finding
-Rockefeller
-Benefits
-Staff needs
-Tex McCrary
-William L. Safire
-Richard A. Moore
Tax cuts
1974 budget
-The President’s cuts
-Johnson’s funeral service
-Great Society
-Blacks
-Military guard
Agnew
-Presidency
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1976 Presidential Campaign
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-Rockefeller
-Ronald W. Reagan
-William E. Brock, III
-Percy
-Agnew
-Connally
-Rockefeller
-Conversation with Ehrlichman
-Frank Leonard’s memo.
-Republican National Committee
-Editor of Monday Magazine
-Thomas W. Braden article
-Leonard’s memo
George H. W. Bush
-Joan Braden
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Ehrlichman’s conversation with Percy
-Relations with White House
-Qualifications
Confirmation of Presidential assistants
-Percy
-Director of Cost of Living Council
-Shultz
-Press office
-John T. Dunlop
-Council on International Policy [CIEP]
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Domestic Council
-National Security Council [NSC]
-OMB
-Delegation of powers
-Ehrlichman, Kissinger, and Peter M. Flanigan
-Legislation
-Gerald R. Ford
-Andrew Johnson’s impeachment
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-Abraham Lincoln
-Edwin Stanton
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with William P. Rogers
-Sherman Adams
Republican leaders
-Hugh Scott
-Ash
-William F. Knowland
-Compared to Ford
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Ford
-“Meet the Press”
-Relations with White House
-Harlow
-Ford
-Scott
-Ford
-Relations with White House
-Rose Mary Woods
-Governors
-Cole
-Rockefeller
-Reagan
-Weinberger
Confirmation of Presidential assistants
-Mood of Congress
Administration’s press relations
Letters from President
-Donald M. Kendall
-Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak
-Ziegler
-Harlow
-Eisenhower
-Recipients
-Labor, business, editors
-Vietnam
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-Content
-Edward E. David, Jr.
-Desmond J. Barker, Jr.
Reorganization plan to Congress
-Executive Office of the President
Agnew’s trip
Briefings
-Budget
-Economy
Television [TV]
-Ehrlichman
-“Today Show”
-“CBS Morning News”
-Peter J. Brennan
-Qualities
-James T. Lynn
-TV presence
-George H. W. Bush
-Qualities
-Armstrong
-Weinberger
-Shultz
-TV capabilities
-Hobart Rowen
The President’s schedule
-State of the Union message
-Radio address
-Televised introductions
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Economic State of the Union
-Possible veto message
The President’s speech
-Vietnam settlement
-The President’s style
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-Compared to Ray Price
State of the Union address
-Cole
-Price
Samuel J. (“Sam”) Ervin, Jr.
-Executive privilege
-Kissinger
-Percy
-Jacob K. Javits
-Kissinger testimony
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-John E. Moss
Tax reform
-Shultz
Energy
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Flanigan
-Problems
-Maldistribution
-Refining capacity
-Iran
-[Shah of Iran] Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
-Connally
-Richard M. Helms
-J. William Fulbright
The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:34 pm and
6:18 pm.
[Conversation No. 842-13A]
[See Conversation No. 36-112]
[End of telephone conversation]
Energy
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-White House assignment
-Charles J. DiBona
-Shultz, Kissinger, and Ehrlichman
-Flanigan
-Need for decisions
-The President’s schedule
-Florida
-Woods
Trade
Price
-Preparation of speeches
-Franklin R. Gannon
-Quality of work
The President talked with Helms between 6:18 pm and 6:22 pm.
[Conversation No. 842-13B]
[See Conversation No. 36-113]
[End of telephone conversation]
Personnel
-Frederic V. Malek
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-William D. Ruckelshaus
-[First name unknown] Curran
-Head of New York Crime Commission
-Experience
-Qualifications
-DiBona
-Ruckelshaus
-L. Patrick Gray
Labor Department
-Brennan
-Shultz
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Welfare reform
-Poll
Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 6:22 pm.
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The President’s schedule
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-The President’s health
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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:58 pm.
Welfare reform
-Blacks
-Weinberger
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-Food stamps
-Office of Economic Opportunity
-Domestic Council operation
-Reagan
-Costs of social programs
-Weinberger
1974 Budget
-Agriculture
-Higher education
-Change in grant program
-Weinberger
-Richardson
-Kristol
-University of California faculty
-Quotas
-Plopchik [?]
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-Patrick J. Buchanan
Blacks
-Johnson
-Administration’s programs
-Civil rights law enforcement
-Jobs
-Social mobility
-Psychology
-Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.’s meeting with Ehrlichman
-Conference at Johnson Library
-Possible meeting of black leaders with the President
-Symbolism
-The President’s meeting with Ralph Abernathy
-Moynihan
-The President’s meeting with Black Caucus
-Jordan
-Qualities
-Limousine seating arrangements
-Whitney M. Young
-Communist leaders
Gannon
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Robert H. Finch
-Price
Ehrlichman’s conversation with C. Gregg Petersmeyer
-Background
-David N. Parker
Staffing
-Delays
-Assistant secretaryship positions
-Charles W. Colson’s suggested personnel
-Connally
-People recommended
-Sid Richardson law firm
-Martin E. (“Marty”) Underwood
-Johnson
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-Ehrlichman
-Agnew
-Ruckelshaus
-Richard Scaife
-Colson
-Shultz
-The President’s role
-Charles McC. Mathias
-John Connally
Connally as possible President
-George Christian
-Qualities
-Sherman Adams
Agnew
-Staff
Rockefeller’s plan
-Value for administration
-George W. Romney
-Letter to Ehrlichman
-Lenore Romney’s activities
-Age
Presidency
-Age
-Rockefeller
-Romney
-Eisenhower
-William Henry Harrison
-James Buchanan
Staffing
-Malek
-OMB
-Jerry H. Jones
-Bush
-Congress
-Governors
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-Timmons
The President’s schedule
-Wilbur D. Mills
-The President’s possible visit to Arkansas
-Domestic Council
-Weinberger
-Cabinet members
-Romney
-John A. Volpe
-Maurice H. Stans
-Agnew
-Disarmament
Haldeman and Ehrlichman left at 6:58 pm.