Date: April 20, 1972
Time: 11:48 am - 12:03 pm
Location: Oval Office
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The President talked with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon between 11:48 and 11:52 am.
[Conversation No. 714-11A]
[See Conversation No. 23-48; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation.]
John D. Ehrlichman entered at an unknown time after 11:48 am.
[End of telephone conversation]
Budget
-Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT]
-Previous cuts
-Defense contracts
-Weapons
-Amount
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 11:52 am.
Refreshment
Ehrlichman's schedule
-Speech
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:02 pm.
Budget
-Ehrlichman's review
-George P. Shultz's figures
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Higher education
-Current state
-Cuts in subsidies
-Science
-Ideology of teachers
-Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.
-Possible resignation
-Science
-Cuts
-Percentage
-Approach
-Shultz
-MIT
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-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW] contracts
-Transportation Department contracts
-Research
-Grants
-Subject
-Cuts
-Defense contracts
-Inventory
-Weinberger
-Stanford University
-Review of contracts
-Higher education
-Cut in grants
-Contracts
-Penalty clauses
-Non-renewal of grants
-Instructions to departments
-Cuts in grants
-Weinberger
-University of Chicago
-Teaching assistants
-Austerity
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Shultz's memorandum
-Austerity budget
-Instructions to Weinberger
-National Science Foundation [NSF]
-Cuts
-Amount of funding
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Cuts
-Support
-Peter G. Peterson
-Weinberger
-Cuts in taxes
-NSF
-MIT
-NSF
-Cuts
-Management contract
-Lincoln Labs
-Higher education
-Cuts in grants for teaching assistants
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-Minimums
-Exceptions
-Defense example
-Weinberger
-Loopholes
-Protests
-Handling
Ehrlichman's schedule
-Speech
-American Enterprise Institute [AEI]
-William J. Baroody, Jr.
-Police officials
-Press coverage
-Charles W. Colson's analysis
Press
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Network news subjects
-Vietnam, International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT], economy and John B.
Connally's speech
-Sunday stories
-Ehrlichman's dealings
-Story on crime
-Picture of the President
-Story
-Law Enforcement Assistance Act [LEAA]
-Other stories
-Exploitation