Date: May 18, 1973
Time: 10:15 am – 10:40 am
Location: Oval Office
President met with Robert H. Finch.
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Politics
-Finch
-Political plans
-Governorship
-Alan Cranston
-Incumbency
-Power
-Senate
-Ronald W. Reagan
-John B. Connally
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Connally
-Possible political activities
-Primaries
-Stumping
-New Hampshire
-Rockefeller and Reagan
-Southern states
-New Hampshire
-Wisconsin
-Indiana
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-Reagan
-California
-Political activities
-Effect of presidential candidacy focus on party at large
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-Possible political activities
-Watergate
-Chappaquiddick
-Democrats
-Possible candidates for president
-Kennedy
-California
-Finch
-Political plans
-President’s views
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Energy
-President’s perspective
-Popular confusion
-Vacations
-Gas
-Automobiles
National economy
-Booming prosperity
-Inflation
-Employment
-Compared with 1971
-Possible recession
-Combined with inflation
-Finch’s conversation with George P. Shultz, May 17
-Finch’s candidacy
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Watergate
-John W. Dean III’s allegations
-Goal of President’s opponents
-John D. Ehrlichman, H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John N. Mitchell
-Possible White House response
-President’s resignation
-Dean
-Contacts with President
-Role
-Subornation of perjury
-Jeb S[tuart] Magruder
-Funds for defendants
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-CIA
-President’s beliefs
-Possible White House response
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Possible White House response
-President’s resignation
-Effects
-Foreign policy
-Agnew
-Don Budge
-Strategy
-President’s schedule
-Norfolk speech and Prisoner of War [POW] dinner
-Handling of domestic issues
-Henry A. Kissinger’s cables
-Soviet summit
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Ronald L. Ziegler’s press briefings
-Dean
-Contacts with Finch
-Relationship with Mitchell
-Arthur Krock’s statement
-Popular beliefs regarding President
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Finch’s commencement speech at Rockford College
-1960s
-Difficulty
-President’s accomplishments
-Optimism
-Stronger system
-Crime
-Safety
-Arms control
-Middle East
-Foreign policy
Finch
-Political plans
-Timing
Watergate
-Effect on President
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Possible legal action
-Mitchell
-Possible legal action
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Effects on possible defendants
-Bobby G. Seale case
-Hearsay
-Maurice H. Stans’s mind
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Finch
-Political future
-Relations with Reagan
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Finch left at 10:40 am.