Date: February 6, 1973
Time: 12:51 pm – 1:23 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Stephen B. Bull.
Item for President [?]
Bull left at an unknown time after 12:51 pm.
President’s meeting with [Hussein, King of Jordan] Hussein ibn talal
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-[Queen Alia]
-Age
Vietnam War
-US bombing of Laos
-Congressional relations
-Gerald R. Ford
-Air Force
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Defense Department
-Court martial
[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II’s discharge from Navy
-Haldeman’s conversations with Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft, David Eisenhower
-Commanding officer[s]
-March release
-Cmdr. Craig S. Campbell
-Captain
-Secretary of the Navy [John W. Warner]
-Routine application for early release
-Processing early release
-Special action
-Scowcroft’s meeting with Warner
-Special action
-Options
-Preferences for release date
-Ship yard
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Haldeman conversation with Campbell
-Appearance of special consideration
-March release
-Duty time
-Junior Grade [JG] officers
-Potential problems
-Early release
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-Numbers
-Handling
-Navy
-White House involvement
-Haldeman’s conversation with David Eisenhower
-David Eisenhower’s section chief
-Scowcroft
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The President’s schedule
-President’s conversation with Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-David Eisenhower
-trip to California
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President’s schedule
-Meeting with Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Agnew’s schedule
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:51 pm.
President’s schedule
-Barber
Bull left at an unknown time before 1:23 pm.
President’s schedule
-Agnew
-President’s forthcoming trip to San Clemente
-Congressional relations
-Recess
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-Impoundment [?]
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Timing
-Presidential signing
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Air Force One
-Reconvening
-House, Senate dates
-President’s return to Washington, DC
-Kissinger
-Energy policy [?]
-Frank E. Fitzsimmon’s possible meeting with President
-Charles W. Colson
-Golf tourname
-Peter J. Brennan
-Labor Executive Committee meeting in Miami
-President’s appearance
-Possible Cabinet meeting
-Weinberger’s swearing-in
-Hearings
-Breakfast
-Cabinet wives
-Camp David
-Breakfast for Cabinet
-Compared to leadership meeting [?]
-Briefing materials
-Presentation
-Congressional leadership meeting
-Hugh Scott
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Length
-Charts
-Roy L. Ash
-Compared to George P. Shultz
-Simplicity
-President’s conversation with Ehrlichman
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-Ehrlichman
-Compared to Kissinger
-Involvement in issues
-Chart
-Remembering
-Budget statement
Press relations
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Impoundment
-[Washington Post] story
-Inaccuracy
-Networks, newspapers
-President’s actions compared to previous
administration
-Understanding
Budget
-Ziegler’s conversation with Haldeman
-Complexity
-Process, appropriations, expenditures, authorizations
-Jews [?]
-Taxes
-Prices
-Shultz
-Testimony to Congress
-Tax increases, inflation
-Public opinion
-Spending
George H. Gallup poll
-Spending
-Approval of President
-Highest rating
-Rise since 1972 election
-Publication
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-News summary
-Vietnam
-Support for the President
-Timing
Watergate
-John N. Mitchell
-Meeting with Haldeman
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Committee hearings
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Wiretaps
-Dwayne Andreas
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Talk with Ervin
-Ervin
-Constitutional authority
-Investigation
-Amendments to charge to committee
-Harlow
-John G. Tower, Robert P. Griffin, William E. Brock, III
-Threat to party system
-Republican amendments
-Numbers on committee
-Ervin Committee
-Number of members
-Senate Ethics Committee
-Republicans
-Scott
-Recommendations
-Roman L. Hruska
-Brock
-Griffin, Tower
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Democrats’ wiretapping
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-John F. Kennedy
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Edward G. (“Pat”) Brown
-Amendments
-Purpose
-Partisanship
-Preparations
-Counsel
-Minority
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Daniel B. Brewster
-Vance Hartke
-Investigation
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Other nominee
-Harvard graduate
-Ehrlichman’s recommendation
-William D. Ruckelshaus
President’s schedule
-Possible Cabinet meeting
-Public relations
-Scheduling
-Breakfast
Public relations [PR]
-Speeches, briefing
-President’s role
-Ziegler
-Making political points
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Ehrlichman
-Lee W. Huebner [?]
-Improving quality
-Simplicity
-Compared to definitiveness
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-Daily points to make
-Number
-Agnew
-Ehrlichman
The President and Haldeman left at 1:23 pm.