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  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • John D. Ehrlichman
  • Wilbur D. Mills
January 24, 1972
Conversation No. 317-6
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)




Date: January 24, 1972
Time: 1:51 pm - 3:00 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.

Frank L. Rizzo
-Recent meeting with the President and Ehrlichman, January 24, 1972
-Meeting with the President
-Ward leaders
-Salary
-Pennsylvania budget
-Subsequent meeting with Ehrlichman
-Pennsylvania Congressmen
-Patronage
-Rizzo's control
-Relations with White House
-George P. Shultz and Leonard Garment
-Pennsylvania

[The President talked with Wilbur D. Mills between 1:52 pm and 1:56 pm.]

[Conversation No. 317-6A]

[See Conversation No. 19-42]

[The President talked with Mills's granddaughter at an unknown time.]

[The President talked with Mills at an unknown time.]

[The President talked with Abbie L. (Daigh) Mills at an unknown time.]

[The President talked with Wilbur Mills between an unknown time after 1:52 pm and 1:56 pm.]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's previous conversation with Wilbur Mills
-Abbie Mills and Wilbur Mills's granddaughter
-Ages
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 317-6 (cont.)


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 5m 43s ]


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Federal programs
-Funding
-Rizzo
-Low income housing
-George W. Romney
-Chicago
-Romney
-Robert H. Finch

Romney
-Future
-Conversation with Ehrlichman
-Church
-Public service


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 48s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

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Campaign financing
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 317-6 (cont.)


-Walter H. Annenberg
-Financial contribution
-Deal with White House


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 2m 12s ]


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Frank T. Bow
-Political plans
-Meeting with the President
-Age

National economy
-Unemployment
-December 1971 figures
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Political staff
-By region and state
-South
-Texas
-Florida
-West
-California
-News summary
-Oregon
-Washington
-Colorado
-North Dakota
-East
-Connecticut
-New Jersey
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 317-6 (cont.)


-New York
-Pennsylvania
-Midwest
-Ohio
-Illinois
-Michigan
-California project
-Ohio and Illinois
-Pennsylvania
-Rizzo
-William J. Green
-Philadelphia
-[Milton J. Shapp]
-New York
-New York City
-Compared with California
-Nelson A. Rockefeller's welfare program
-Federal money
-California
-Federal money
-Ohio
-John J. Gilligan
-Illinois
-Ohio
-US Senate and House
-Gilligan
-Political prospects
-Illinois
-Richard B. Ogilvie
-Richard J. Daley
-California
-November 1971 figures
-Shifting patterns
-California
-New York
-Connecticut
-Texas, Florida, Illinois
-Demography
-Black teens, Puerto Ricans and minority women
-New York City
-Married heads of households
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 317-6 (cont.)


-Ehrlichman's possible discussions
-Charles W. Colson, John N. Mitchell and Haldeman
-Texas and Florida
-South
-Atlanta
-Blacks
-Menial labor
-North
-Women
-Unions

Rizzo
-Instruction for Ehrlichman
-Domestic Council
-Rizzo's constituency in other cities

Busing
-Edward L. Morgan's memorandum
-Richmond case
-Judge [Robert R. Merhige, Jr.]
-Lyndon B. Johnson appointee
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Administration position
-State of the Union address
-Local control of local schools
-Constitutional amendment or legislative proposal
-Democratic National Convention
-Result
-Political polarization


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 8s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5

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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 317-6 (cont.)




Rizzo
-Blacks' views
-Philadelphia police
-Meeting with the President
-Photograph
-Announcement to Philadelphia press
-Federal money
-Hugh Scott's administrative assistant
-1972 election
-Ehrlichman's possible conversation with Scott
-Congressional seats
-Annenberg's influence
-Campaign financing

Annenberg
-Nomination as Ambassador to Great Britain
-Withdrawal
-Father
-Religion
-British Ambassador John Freeman
-Conversations with Ehrlichman
-Rizzo

Rizzo
-Recent meeting with the President
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming call to Annenberg
-Pittsburgh
-Labor leaders
-Colson

Rockefeller
-Call to Ehrlichman, January 22, 1972
-State of the Union Address
-Value Added Tax [VAT]
-Federal funding for transportation
-VAT
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew’s briefing of executive committee of
governors
-Agnew’s Cabinet briefing
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 317-6 (cont.)



VAT
-Sales tax
-Ehrlichman's possible conversation with the Vice President
-Administration line
-Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations [ACIR]
-Democrats
-Options
-Agnew
-States
-Calvin L. Rampton's views
-Tax rebates
-Agnew’s views
-Rockefeller

Agnew
-Possible conversation with Ehrlichman

Legal services
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Congressional action
-Board of Directors
-[Lois G. Forer]
-Rizzo
-Appointment by Shapp
-Legal suit against Philadelphia
-Police court
-Board of Directors
-The President's appointment
-Government control
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Egil G. (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.’s and Richard H. Nordahl's views
-Public view
-Possible veto

Kissinger
-Military security files
-Allegation
-Haldeman
-Kissinger's conversation with Melvin R. Laird
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 317-6 (cont.)


-Laird's possible action
-Possible White House action
-Jack N. Anderson
-Ehrlichman
-Laird


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 1m 40s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6

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Howard R. Hughes
-Book hoax
-Payment of $625,000 to \"Helga Hughes\" [Edith Irving] by McGraw-Hill
-Switzerland
-Lawrence F. O'Brien, Jr.
-Humphrey's son-in-law
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Loan to the President's family


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 1m 14s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 317-6 (cont.)


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 2m 2s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8

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1972 election
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Possible financing by administration
-California


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 1m 54s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9

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Yeoman Charles E. Radford
-Possible revelation of information
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Comments to acquaintances
-Conversations with Anderson
-Radford's conversations with [Forename unknown] Cole [sp?]

Watergate
-Wiretaps
-Anderson
-Unknown woman at State Department
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 317-6 (cont.)


-Unknown man
-Background
-Eugene J. Carroll, Jr. [?]
-Relations with Radford
-Expansion
-Unknown woman at State Department
-Sensitivity of position
-Unknown man
-Reports
-Ehrlichman's perusal
-David R. Young, Jr.
-Kissinger
-Unknown man's conversation with Carroll [?]
-Radford's transfer
-Unknown yeoman
-Transfer
-Reason
-White House action
-Clearance
-Access to documents

Responses to administration's opponents
-Attacks

Richmond busing case
-Newspapers' reaction
-The President’s State of the Union address
-Linwood Holton's views

The President's State of the Union Address
-Tone
-Delivery


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 12
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 1m 26s ]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 317-6 (cont.)


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 12

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US foreign policy
-The President's role
-Kissinger
-1972 election
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Soviet Union
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-India-Pakistan relations
-PRC
-Analogy to Great Britain's role in nineteenth century
-PRC
-Press coverage
-PRC, Japan, Soviet Union
-PRC
-Soviet Union
-Détente
-Japan
-Visit By Andrei A. Gromyko
-Defense
-Soviets
-Trade
-The President’s forthcoming trip to PRC
-PRC
-Soviet Union
-Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-State Department
-Soviet Union
-Polls
-1972 election
-Economy
-“Generation of peace”

Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Herbert Stein
-Paul W. McCracken
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 317-6 (cont.)



John B. Connally
-Relationship with Ehrlichman
-Relationship with Peter M. Flanigan
-Views of Peter G. Peterson
-Commerce Department
-Presidential statement
-Connally's conversation with Ehrlichman
-Relationship with Flanigan
-Compared with relationship with Peterson
-Drug enforcement
-Eugene T. Rossides
-Treasury Department
-Bureaucracy
-Justice Department
-Krogh
-Schedule
-Flanigan's role
-Use of White House staff
-Conversation with Ehrlichman
-Possible conversation with the President


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 14
[Privacy]
[Duration: 1m 45s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 14

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Unknown people
-Richardson [?]

The President's forthcoming peace plan proposal speech
-Scheduling
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 317-6 (cont.)


Ehrlichman left at 3:00 pm.
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