Date: May 17, 1973

Time: 12:26 pm – 12:45 pm

Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ralph J. Perk, George H. W. Bush, Kenneth R. Cole, Jr. and James H.

Falk.

Greetings

Arrangements for press photograph

Perk’s accomplishments

-Veterans

-Jobs

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Perk’s forthcoming election

-President’s support

-Air waves

-Cleveland, Ohio

-Polls

-Numbers

-Perk

-John J. Gilligan

-Gilligan

-Taxes

-Previous year’s vote on amendment

-Vote of confidence

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Watergate

-Washington, DC

-Press coverage

-Popular mood

Members of the press and the White House photographer entered at an unknown time after 12:26

pm.

Press coverage

-Discussion points

-Pleasantries

-Cleveland Browns

Bush

The press and the White House photographer left at an unknown time before 12:45 pm.

Cleveland

-Possible action by administration

-Budget

-Unemployment

-Compared with Detroit

-Federal revenue-sharing

-President’s message

-Bureaucracy

-Defense by Perk

Emergency Employment Act [EEA]

-President’s support

-Funding

-Extension

-Manpower

-Federal revenue-sharing

-Flexibility

-Timing of announcement

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Cleveland

-City Council

-Political make-up

-Unemployment

-Funds from administration

-Timing of announcement

-City Council

-Mayor

-Board of Education

-Polls

-Bush

Perk’s possible statement regarding meeting with the President

-Watergate

-Administration’s activities

-Embarrassment

-Foreign policy

-Peace

-World War II

-Soviet Summit

-Europe

-Domestic programs

-Inflation

-Federal budget

-Administration’s attitude

-1972 election mandate

-Peace

-Prosperity

-War

-Inflation

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1972 campaign

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-Tricia Nixon Cox

-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s visit

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Watergate

-Administration’s activities

-Bush’s recent trip

-Lincoln, Nebraska

-Tuscon, Arizona

-President’s message

-Public reaction

-Cabinet meeting

-Revenue-sharing

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Republican Party

-Political success

-Mayorship

-Annapolis, Maryland

-Black vote

-Oakland, California

-[First name unknown] Reading [?]

-Alexandria, Virginia

-Administration’s handling of Watergate

Perk’s forthcoming election

-Cleveland Press

-Cleveland Plain Dealer

-Thomas V. H. Vail

-Cleveland Press

-Roy Howard

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-Scripps-Howard Company

-New York

-Perk’s opponent

-Finances

-Message from President

-Vail

-Herbert G. Klein’s possible calls

-Jack Howard

-Thomas L. Boardman

-Cleveland Press

-Proximity to President

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Presentation of gifts by President

-Golf balls

-Seal

-Cufflinks

Bush

President’s schedule

-Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty

-Visit to Cleveland

-Joseph Cardinal Slipyj-Kobernickyj-Dyckowsky

-Hungarian, Ukrainian voters

-New Majority

-National Security Council [NSC]

Perk et al. left at 12:45 pm.

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