Date: May 23, 1973
Time: 12:27 pm – 12:55 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Robert J. Dole.
Dole’s schedule
-Soviet Union visit
-George H. W. Bush
Watergate
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:27 pm.
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Refreshment
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:35 pm.
Watergate
-Dole’s and Clark MacGregor’s role
-Political effects
Energy
-Oil companies
-Alaska Pipeline Bill
-Ted Stevens
-Pitch
Watergate
-Republican National Committee chairmanship
-George H. W. Bush
-Dole
-White House response
-White Paper
-Need for guidance for Republicans
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Bryce N. Harlow’s view
-President’s conversation with Harlow, May 21
-Popular support for the President
-Dole’s speech to dairymen in Chicago
An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time between 12:27 pm and 12:35 pm.
-Allegations against the President
-White House response
-President’s activities
-Forthcoming Illnois visit after meeting with Georges J. R.
Pompidou in Iceland
-Visit to Norfolk, Virginia, May 19
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-Popular opinion
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-[William] Stuart Symington
-White House response
-White Paper
Dole’s health
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Dole’s political future
-Campaigning
-Robert Docking
-Senator status
-Seniority
-Centennial meeting
-Campaigning
-Midwestern states
President’s activities
-Norfolk, Virginia
-Mississippi
-Midwestern states
-Illinois
-Ohio
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Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
George H. W. Bush and William E. Timmons entered at 12:35 pm.
President’s previous meeting with congressional leaders
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-Alaska pipeline
-John B. (“Jack”) Anderson
-Canada
-Pierre E. Trudeau
-Negotiations
-Canadian pipeline
-Amount of oil
-Alaska
-Bill
-Republican leadership meeting
-Ted Stevens
-Construction effort
-Ted Stevens
-Construction effort
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Dole’s political future
-Docking
-Governorship
-Team length
-Kansas
-Fundraising
-Ewing Kaufman
-Fundraising
-Nancy Ross [?]
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President’s schedule
-State visits
-Iceland trip
-Economy
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-William R. Tolbert, Jr.
-Liberia
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Soviet Union
-Independence Day
-Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
-Pakistan
-Mohammad Reza Pahlavi [Shah of Iran]
-Iran
-Kakuei Tanaka
-Kaufman
-Invitation
-Kansas City Royals
Bhutto
-Visits
-United Nations [UN]
-Security Council
-Speaking engagements
-Crowd
-University of California
US-Pakistan relations
-Allies
-India
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Soviet Union
-India
Dole’s schedule
-Possible foreign trip
-Timing
-Congressional session
-Camp David
-Pleasure trip
-Moscow trade fair
-Jim Pearson
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-National Security Council [NSC]
-United States Information Agency [USIA]
-Trade fair
-US representative
-Moscow
-Support for President
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Jacob K. Javits’s forthcoming election
-Conservatives
-Republicans
Joseph A. Margiotta
-Bush
-Speaking engagement
-New York
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Joseph A. Margiotta
-Organization of the President’s Madison Square Garden speech
-George S. McGovern
Watergate
-1972 election
-Campaign practices
-McGovern
-Congressional response
-Carl T. Curtis
-Bush’s statement to press, May 21
-White House response
-White Paper
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-Press coverage
-Bush’s conversation with Martin Schramm
-Press reaction
-Press reaction
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] and national security
-National security
-Public opinion
-Frank L. Rizzo and members of Congress
-Republican response
-Haldeman’s meeting with Ehrlichman, Richard M. Helms and Lt. Gen. Vernon
A. Walters
-Purpose
-Walters’s subsequent conversation with L[ouis] Patrick Gray III
-John W. Dean III
-Meeting with Walters
-Curtis’s reaction
-Press reaction
-Schramm
-Republicans’ response
-[Unintelligible congressman], [Harold?] Collins and Samuel L. Devine
-Hugh Scott’s and Gerald R. Ford’s meeting with press
-National security
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Possible statement
-National security
-Popular opinion
-President’s opponents
-Dean’s role
-White House response
-White Paper
-Republicans’ response
-Possible joint congressional conference
-Scott and Ford
-National security
-Secrecy
-Importance for foreign policy
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-Impact of leaks on Prisoner of War [POW] return and Vietnam
War settlement
-Daniel Ellsberg
-White House response
Bush’s schedule
-POW dinner
-Invitation
Dole et al. left at 12:55 pm.