352–26

Conversation No. 352-26

Date: August 2, 1972
Time: 2:53 pm - 5:36 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
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John B. Connally entered at 2:59 pm.


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John N. Mitchell
-Marriage
-Problems
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-Rose Mary Woods’s comment


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Appointments in the second term
-Edwin W. Pauley
-Henry Salvatori
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
-Samuel W. Yorty
-Secretary of Defense
-Secretary of Navy
-Secretary of Army
-[Robert F. Froehlke]
-Jesse Unruh
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-Mayor of Los Angeles
-Salvatori
-Unruh
-Talk with Haldeman
-Yorty
-Previous dealings with administration
-Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense
-Secretary of Army
-Secretary of Defense
-Melvin R. Laird
-William P. Clements, Jr.
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Clements
-Deputy Secretary of Defense
-Importance
-Clements’s desire for job
-Experience
-Blue Ribbon Defense Panel (Gilbert W. Fitzhugh
Commission)
-Secretary of Defense
-Laird
-Appointments
-Cabinet
-John F. Kennedy
-Law
-Clements
-Deputy Secretary of Defense
-Rush
-Yorty
-Los Angeles Times


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George C. Wallace
-Funding assistance
-Supporters
-Meeting with Connally
-Costs of campaign
-Charles S. Snider
-Supporters
-William France
-Unknown person [Donald McI. Kendall?]
-Charles W. Colson
-France
-John O. (“Jack”) Marsh, Jr.
-Snider
-Press conference
-Connally
-France
-Hardhats
-Republican National Committee
-Snider
-Publicity for support for the President
-France
-National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing [NASCAR]
-Republican National Committee
-Desire for financing of activities
-Staff size
-Airplane
-Connally's proposal for Wallace supporters
-Organization
-New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan
-Snider
-Desire for job
-Colson
-Wallaceites for Nixon organization
-Finance
-Problems
-Jewish Democrats
-Italians
-Plans for press conference
-Republican National Convention
-Platform committee
-Snider
-Need to absorb or split up
-Committee to Re-elect the President [CRP]
-George Christian
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-Desire for separate operation
-Magazines, communications, fundraising
-France
-Part in the President's campaign
-Funding assistance
-Airplane
-Snider
-Funding assistance
-Airplane, staff
-Duration
-[American Party] convention
-Call to White House
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Briefing
-Delay
-[Sunrise at Campobello]
-Snider
-Gubernatorial ambitions
-Alabama
-Meeting with Connally
-Airplane
-Crowds
-Wallace shooting


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Connally left at 4:28 pm.


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The President talked with Marjorie P. Acker at an unknown time between 4:28 pm and 4:43 pm.

[Conversation No. 352-26A]
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Instruction for Woods [?]

[End of telephone conversation]

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:28 pm.

The President's schedule
-The President’s call to an unknown person

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:43 pm.

California supporters
-Colson, Mitchell
-Taft Schreiber
-Pauley
-Salvatori
-Deal
-Colson
-Yorty
-Position in administration
-Secretary of Army
-Pauley
-Connally
-Democratic legislators


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The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:28 pm and 4:43
pm.

[Conversation No. 352-26B]

Request for a return call
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[End of telephone conversation]

John D. Ehrlichman
-Meeting with the President

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:28 pm and 4:43 pm.

[Conversation No. 352-26C]

Ehrlichman to come to Executive Office Building [EOB]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President’s schedule
-Peter M. Flanigan

The President talked with unknown person (Woods?) at an unkown time between 4:28 pm and
4:43 pm.

[Conversation No. 352-26D]

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[END OF TELEPHONE CONVERSATION]

Ehrlichman entered at 4:43 pm.

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Haldeman left at 4:45 pm.

Hijacking
-Robert Teeter

Connally
-Indictment of Jake Jacobsen
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-Instructions to Richard G. Kleindienst
-Connally's evaluation of effect
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Ehrlichman's investigation of files
-Help for Connally

OEO legal services bill
-Jacob K. Javits
-Meeting with John Ehrlichman
-Possible concessions
-The President's intent on signing
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew's view
-Opposition
-Ehrlichman's response to Javits
-Implications
-Advantages
-Drawbacks
-Possible signature

Railroad bill
-Letter from George A. Smathers
-Ehrlichman’s meeting with Smathers
-Unions, railroads and transportation groups
-Smathers's support for the President
-Problems of endorsement
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo

Grumman Aerospace Corporation
-F-14
-Meetings with Willard F. (“Al”) Rockwell, Jr.
-Space shuttle
-Subcontracts
-Mitchell, Kleindienst
-Pressure
-Contract extension
-Rush
-1972 election
-Defense supplemental
-Timing
-Notification of Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Negotiations with Rush
-Credit for administration
-Publicity
-Rockwell
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-Subcontracts
-New York Post, New York Daily News, Newsday
-The President
-William P. Rogers [?]
-Impact on election
-Rockefeller

Food prices
-Call to Ehrlichman from D.K. Johnson
-Kleberg family
-Connally
-Prices from packers to growers
-Drop
-Administration action
-Consumers
-Reason
-Cattle surplus
-Administration action
-Dealings with packers
-George P. Shultz
-Flanigan, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Ehrlichman
-Expertise
-Ehrlichman
-Domestic Council
-The President’s possible involvement
-Possible controls
-List of leaders
-Meeting
-Leading companies
-Cudahy, Wilson, Swift, Armour
-Meeting with administration
-Earl L. Butz
-Publicity
-Price drop to consumers
-Public relations
-Ehrlichman's conversation with Teeter
-Albert E. Sindlinger
-Freeze
-Administration action
-Deadline for a freeze
-Republican National Convention
-90-day freeze
-The President’s [August 15, 1971] announcement
-Retail level
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-Impact on farmers
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA] economists
-Unknown people
-The President's power
-Necessity
-Timing
-Republican National Convention
-Announcement
-August 15, 1971
-Press conference
-Date
-Timing with convention
-Prime time
-Sense of crisis
-Purpose
-Impact
-Butz’s possible reaction
-Backlash
-Timing with 1972 election
-August 15, 1971 announcement
-Statement on inflation
-Food prices
-Supplies
-Shultz
-Impact on economic issue
-Unemployment
-Arthur F. Burns
-Support
-Impact on farmers, cattle growers
-Butz

Busing
-Constitutional amendment
-Moratorium
-William M. Colmer
-Number of votes
-John B. Anderson
-Meeting with Ehrlichman
-Opposition
-Colmer
-Support
-Vote in House of Representatives
-Marlow W. Cook
-Liberals
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-Opposition
-Cook
-Administration position
-Need for action before opening of school
-Opposition to constitutional amendment
-Moratorium
-Rules Committee
-Cook
-Administration position
-Interest in issue
-Opposition to legislation
-Anderson
-Constitutional amendment
-Dangers
-Administration opposition
-Reasons
-Congress
-Adjournment
-Delay of action
-Senate
-Issue
-Local importance
-Teeter
-Michigan
-Publicity
-Voter awareness
-William G. Milliken
-Robert P. Griffin
-Donald W. Riegle, Jr.
-Constitutional amendment
-Republican platform
-Court rulings
-Circuit courts
-Supreme Court
-Corpus Christi, Texas
-Austin, Texas
-Denver, Colorado
-Indianapolis, Indiana
-Administration response
-Controversy
-Peak
-Timing
-Moratorium
-Effectiveness
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-Constitutional amendment
-Timing
-House bill
-Moratorium
-Republican National Convention
-House action
-Senate
-Chance of passage
-Senate
-Compared to constitutional amendment and Equal Educational
Opportunities Act of 1972
-House

Water bill
-Howard H. Baker, Jr. meeting with Ehrlichman
-Baker support for bill
-The President’s schedule
-Reasons
-George S. McGovern
-Costs
-Compared to defense
-Taxes, inflation
-Edmund S. Muskie, Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Status in Congress
-George H. Mahon
-Administration position
-Problems
-Leverage
-Costs to government and industry
-Veto
-Baker
-Support
-Authorization
-Environmental standards
-Water purification facilities
-Municipalities
-Reimbursement
-Political implications
-McGovern
-Hugh Scott, Gerald R. Ford
-Veto
-Cost reduction
-Cost reduction
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Education institute
-Nominees for head
-Unknown person
-Elliot L. Richardson's recommendation
-Daniel P. Moynihan
-Civil Rights Commission
-Problems
-Busing
-Unknown person
-OEO
-James S. Coleman
-Recent position on busing
-Criticism of Supreme Court
-The Public Interest
-Moynihan

David J. Armor
-Firing from Harvard University
-Position with administration
-Possible teaching appointment
-University of Los Angeles [UCLA]
-Moynihan
-Possible call from Ehrlichman
-Busing
-Harvard University
-Liberals

Press relations
-Unknown person
-Washington Post


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The President and Ehrlichman left at 5:36 pm.