Date: April 11, 1973
Time: 12:34 pm – 1:20 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.
Watergate
-White House counterattack
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Availability
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Public relations
-Need for staff
-Research
-John W. Dean, III
-Charles W. Colson
-Robert J. Dole
The President talked with Gerald R. Ford between 12:35 pm and 12:39 pm.
[See Conversation No. 893-16A]
[See Conversation No. 44-145]
President’s telephone call to Ford
-Albert H. Quie
-Polling numbers [?]
-Older Americans
-Need for flexibility in negotiating with Democrats
-Changes
-Stephen Kurzman
-Ford
-Grand Rapids, Michigan
-White House Staff meeting
-Quie
-James H. Cavanaugh
-Negotiations
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-Older Americans Bill
-Disabled Americans bill
-Veterans bill
-Veto option
-Administration negotiations with Quie
-Conversation with Ford
-Ford’s call to Ehrlichman
-Veto vote
-Republican complaints
-White House event for Congressmen
-Republicans’ support for vetoes
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Quie
-Political deals
-Influence
Watergate
-White House counterattack
-Haldeman
-1972 campaign violations by Democrats
-President’s ignorance
-Buchanan
-Public relations [PR] campaign
-Goals
-Violence
-Funding violations
-John N. Mitchell
-Ehrlichman’s conversation
-Maurice H. Stans
-New York Daily News story
-Paul L. O’Brien as attorney
-Robert S. Strauss’s conversation with Mitchell
-Ervin’s future conduct of hearings
-O’Brien’s role
-Perjury
-Alger Hiss
-Possible justification by Mitchell
-O’Brien
-Politics
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-News stories on forthcoming testimony
-Effects of possible testimony
-Haldeman
-Investigation of funding
-Ervin Committee
-Minority report from Howard H. Baker, Jr., and Edward J. Gurney
-Roles of Baker and Gurney
-Baker
-Restraint on Sam J. Ervin, Jr.
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with Ervin
-Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
-Leonard Garment’s opinion
-Relations with Ervin and Baker
-Scheduling of witnesses
-James W. McCord, Jr.
-Haldeman
-Ehrlichman’s draft of ground rules
-McCord
-Colson
-Possible positions for White House
-Investigation
-Search for the truth
-Results of White House investigation
-Garment
-Search for truth
-Reasons for Garment’s presence
-Haldeman’s possible testimony
-Possible positions for White House to take
-Garment’s role
-Dean
-Interrogatories
-Fred D. Thompson
-Samuel Dash
-White House position on testimony
-Possible subpoena
-Forthcoming negotiations, April 11, 1973, between John D. Ehrlichman
and committee
-Size of staff
-Division of labor
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-Ervin
-Age
-Dash
-Witness schedule
-McCord
-Sentencing by John J. Sirica
-Sirica’s role
-Buchanan
-[First name unknown] Wilson [?]
-White House counterattack
-Roscoe Drummond
-Members of press favorable to President
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:34 pm.
President’s schedule
-Meeting with Haldeman
Bull left at an unknown time before 1:20 pm.
Watergate
-Ehrlichman’s meetings
-Cabinet
-White House staff
-Statements
-Haldeman
-Defense to White house staff
President’s schedule
-April 13, 1973, Cabinet meeting
-Postponement of meeting
-Forthcoming meeting with Congressional leaders
-April 19, 1973 Cabinet meeting on energy
-Party April 12, 1973
-Invitation to Cabinet
-Economic news
Economy
-George P. Shultz’s memo
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-President’s schedule
-Weekend reading
-Pierre Rinfret’s advice
-Strict controls
-Arthur F. Burns
-Forthcoming memo from Ehrlichman
-Burns
-John B. Connally
-Meeting with John W. Dean, III [?]
Ehrlichman’s meeting with Burns
-Inflation
-Herbert Stein’s view
-Change
-Inevitability
Equilibrium
-Remedies
-Effect on boom
-Harm
-Rinfret
-Stock market
-Attention span of Wall Street
-Bernard J. (“Bunny”) Lasker
-Effects of news reports
-Market fluctuations
-Lebanon
-Vietnam
-Analysts
-Controls
-Effects
-Israel and Palestine
-Market fluctuations
Watergate
-Garment
-Presence at Ervin hearings
-Effect
-Legal approaches to Ervin hearings
-Haldeman
-Effects of possible testimony
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-Republicans’ demand for resignation
-Effectiveness
-Joseph C. Kraft
-Possible meeting with leading Republicans
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Paul J. Fannin
-Seeking advice before testimony
Ehrlichman’s schedule
-Tax policy meeting
Watergate
-Haldeman
-Effects of possible testimony
-Comparison with Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Grand Jury
-Witness schedule
-Dean
-Dwight L. Chapin, Gordon C. Strachan, Donald H. Segretti
Ehrlichman’s schedule
-Tax message
-Rescheduling of Cabinet meeting
Ehrlichman left at 1:20 pm.