Date: March 20, 1973

Time: 10:29 am – 10:30 am

Location: Oval Office

The President met with Hugh Scott and Ronald L. Ziegler.

Congressional relations

-Speech

-Freshman Congress members

-Congressional leaders

-New ideas

Leslie C. Arends and William E. Timmons entered at 10:30 am.

Watergate

-John W. Dean’s testimony

-Cooperation

-Story in newspaper

-White House cooperation

-Guidelines

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-Appearance of White House staff before Watergate

-Executive privilege

-Scott’s statement

-John W. Dean, III’s testimony

-Cooperation

-Story in newspaper

-Scott and Arends’ statements

-White House cooperation

-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]

-Grand Jury

-Guidelines

-Appearance of White House staff before Congressional committees

-Comparison with Sherman Adams

-Dean

-Legal status

-Written interrogatories

-Alger Hiss case precedent

-Harry S Truman’s order

-J. Edgar Hoover

-Earl Browder

-Truman’s orders to FBI

-Separation of powers

-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.

-Compared to Supreme Court

-William O. Douglas

-Pornography decision

-Confidentiality of aides

-Emphasis on positive positions of administration

-Television

-Power of committees

-Scott’s research

-Power of Subpoena

-Precedents

-Senate’s powers

-Vote of Senate to compel testimony

-Court test

-Separation of powers

-Delays

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-White House cooperation

-Full disclosure

-Guidelines

-Republican complaints

-Public relations

-Problems

-Need for Republican Congressmen to help

Public relations

-Food costs

-Milk producers

-Cattle growers

-President’s support

-Support for President

-Wilbur D. Mills, Robert C. (“Bob”) Wilson

-President’s moves on diary and meat imports

-Stockpiles

-Repeal of tariffs

-Food costs

-President’s actions against special interests

-Emphasis on successes

-Budget issues

-Need for restraint

-Cost of living

-Tax increase

-President’s vetoes

-Reasons

-Defense spending

-Increased appropriations for vocational rehabilitation

-Higher taxes

-President’s increases

-Appropriations

-Pete V. Domenici, James L. Buckley, William E. Brock III

-Veto support

-Jacob Javits

-George D. Aiken

-Republican support for President’s veto

-Democratic support

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-Harry F. Byrd, Jr.

-Cost of living

-Higher taxes

-Fluctuations

-Farmers

-Increases in future

-Price freeze

-Policy

-Labor

-Stockpile releases

-Malaysia, Bolivia

-Lumber

Congressional relations

-Republican leadership

-Expression of concerns to President

-Gerald R. Ford

Watergate

-White House disclosures

-Cooperation of White House

-Concern for separation of powers

Scott et al. left at 10:46 am.