226–24

Conversation No. 226-24

Date: November 18, 1972
Time: Unknown between 7:45 am and 9:39 am
Location: Camp David Hard Wire

The President dictated a memorandum for the file.


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Second term reorganization
-Cabinet
-William P. Rogers
-Confrontation
-Melvin R. Laird and Peter G. Peterson
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Reaction
-Difficulties
-Rogers
-Problems
-Intelligence, background
-Competence
-Ego
-Rogers
-Problems
-Career
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 226-24 (cont’d)

-Personality
-Press, television [TV]
-Charm
-Kissinger
-Prominence in foreign policy
-Conflicts with Rogers
-State Department role
-Downgrading
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-John Foster Dulles’s role
-State Department
-Problems with bureaucracy
-Laird
-Departure
-Terms
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Blue Ribbon Panel
-Defense Department
-Deputy Secretary of Defense
-William R. Hewlett
-David Packard
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-Elliot Richardson
-Capabilities
-Public relations [PR]
-Goals
-Budget cuts
-Loyalty
-Deficiencies
-Members of the Establishment
-Opposition to staff and budget cuts
-Higher education
-George P. Shultz
-George H. W. Bush
-Report
-George S. McGovern’s comments on George Meany
-Role in Democratic Party
-Meany
-Attitude toward the President
-Peter G. Peterson
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 226-24 (cont’d)

-Relation with Charles H. Percy
-Loyalty
-Job offer
-Qualifications
-Commerce Department
-Charles W. Colson
-Retention
-Role in second term
-Vulnerabilities
-Departure
-Replacement
-Retention
-Problems
-Watergate
-Congress
-John B. Connally’s advice
-Attacks on White House
-Executive Privilege
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Peter F. Flanigan
-Departure
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Weakness of defense
-Problems
-Protecting the Presidency
-Eisenhower
-Harold E. Talbott
-Secretary of the Air Force
-Removal
-Reasons
-Death
-Sherman Adams case
-The President’s role
-Eisenhower’s role
-Scandals
-Caution
-Questions about the President
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Kissinger
-Political issue
-Carl Vinson [?]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb.-08)

Conversation No. 226-24 (cont’d)

-Joseph McCarthy
-Issues versus individuals
-Role in Watergate
-Donald H. Segretti
-Innnocence
-Ehrlichman
-Confirmations
-Political attacks
-Earl L. Butz
-Walter J. Hickel
-Richard G. Kleindienst

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-San Clemente
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

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-Meeting with Paul W. Keyes

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