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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