Date: March 6, 1973

Time: Unknown between 6:05 pm and 7:01 pm

Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

President’s activities for day

-Value

President’s meeting with mayors

-Announcement [?]

-Cabinet room

-Mayors of Detroit; Columbus, Ohio

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Party switch

-Louis Welsh [Mayor of Houston]

-John B. Connally

-Thomas G. Corcoran’s opinion on timing

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Corcoran

-Irish Blarney

-Success

-Letter from Anna C. Chennauly

-Scheduling of meeting

-Haldeman’s analysis

Housing and Urban Development [HUD] Undersecretary

-Announcement

-Nominee

-William Sidey [?]

-Withdrawal of name

-Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC] violation

-Floyd H. Hyde

-James T. Lynn’s support

-Civic relations [?]

-Value to administration

-1972 campaign

President’s visits to various departments

-Cabinet officers’ requests

President’s schedule

-Time for reflection, rest

-President’s meetings with financial supporters

-Maurice H. Stans

-Value

-Scheduling

-Sponges

-Cabinet

-Congress

-Farewell meetings

-White House staff

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-Assistant secretaries

-Value

-Scheduling problems

-Tour of country

-Regional meetings, press briefings

-John D. Ehrlichman’s recommendation

-Value

-Spiro T. Agnew

-Effectiveness

-Public visibility

-Chicago

-Visit

-Value

-Press briefings

-Speeches, questions

-Regional press conference [?]

-Tours of the country

-Ehrlichman

-Novelty

Cabinet

-Lack of leadership

Congress

-Lack of support

Agnew

-Tours of country

Surrogate advocates plan

Dinner for supporters

-Stans

-Format

-Handshakes

-Movement of people

-Seating

-Receiving line

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-Meal service

-Guest list

-President’s dealings with guests

-President’s presence

-Arrival, departure

-Avoidance of being cornered

-Arrangements

-Stephen B Bull

-Stans

-President’s departure

President’s legislative agenda

-Publicity campaign

-Press [?]

-Regional coverage

-Cabinet

-Conferences

-Novelty value

-New ideas

-President’s role

-Media briefings

-Value

-Political campaigning

-Editorials

-President’s schedule

-Ehrlichman

-Lack of time

-Meeting with mayors, Urban League [?]

-Deletions

-Florida

-William J. Baroody, Jr.’s operation

-Herbert G. Klein [?]

-President’s opinion of memorandum

-Effectiveness of program

-Newspaper advertisements

-Mail to Congress

-Compared to Bryce N. Harlow’s, Charles W. Colson’s operations

-Lack of excitement about budget cuts, taxes

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Congressional relations

-President’s meetings with congress members

-Haldeman’s meeting with Clark MacGregor, Harlow, and William E.

Timmons

-Harlow’s idea

-Ranking leadership

-Timmons’s criticism

-Congressional complaints

-Carl T. Curtis’s support for appointee

-Congressional problems

-Harlow’s approach to congressional relations

-Weekly meeting

-Agenda

-Breakfast meetings

-Leaders meetings

-Bipartisan meetings

-As needed

-Energy, aid to Vietnam, trade

-Weekly meeting

-Steady content

-John G. Tower

-Timmons’s, Haldeman’s opinion

-Problems [?]

-President’s meeting with Hugh Scott

-Ehrlichman’s account

-President’s approach

-President’s meetings with congress members

-Harlow’s suggestions

-Cancellations

-Ranking members

-Leadership

-Breakfast

-Social events

-Value

-Limitations

-Breakfast meetings

-Value

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-Comparison with Dwight D. Eisenhower’s handling

-[First name unknown] MacPherson

-Personal ties

-Meetings with Scott, Gerald R. Ford

-Leadership

-Bipartisan

-Haldeman’s meeting with MacGregor, Harlow, and Timmons

-MacGregor

-President’s meetings with ranking Republicans

-Republican members of House Appropriations Committee

-Concentration on House

-Agreement

-Congressional mood

-Lobbyist influence

-Regional publicity campaign

-President’s tour

-Effect on Congress

-Ehrlichman’s tour

-Detroit Economic Club

-Chicago

-Ehrlichman’s suggestions

-Congressional attendance

-Purpose of tours

-Angew’s role

MacGregor

-Morale

White House staff

-Hard work

-Effect of contact with Congress

-Apologies

Press briefings

-Format [?]

-Eisenhower period

-John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson period

-Frequency

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Dinner for supporters

-President’s departure

-Manner

-Stans

-Expectations of guests

State dinners, Evenings at the White House

-Handshakes

-Reception line

-Seating

-Del E. Webb

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 7:01 pm.