752–13

Conversation No. 752-13

Date: July 25, 1972
Time: 2:29 pm - 3:04 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.

Federal budget
-Speech
-Message to Congress
-Ehrlichman's forthcoming backgrounder
-The President's schedule
-Press conference
-Public interest
-Testimony of July 25, 1972 by George P. Shultz and Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-[Message to Congress]
-The President's schedule
-Possible speech
-Preparation
-Message to Congress
-Weinberger
-[John B. MacDonald]
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Writing style
-Veto strategy
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-Weinberger's views
-The President’s view
-San Clemente
-Tax increases
-Spending cuts
-Water bill
-Possible spending ceiling on Congress
-George S. McGovern
-The President's possible statement
-Taxpayer
-Taxes, prices
-Congress
-Fiscal responsibility
-Rural development bill
-Memorandum
-Possible signing
-Views of Clayton K. Yeutter and Earl L. Butz
-Food prices
-Beef, chicken
-Butz
-Standing with farmers
-1972 election
-Recommended strategy for White House
-Food prices
-Cattlemen

1972 campaign
-Food prices
-Food stamps
-McGovern
-Bill
-Administration signing
-Use
-Bill
-Publicity
-The President’s handling
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Alternatives
-Commodities
-Possible White House position
-Consumer buying power

Pending legislation
-Rural development bill
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-Authorization
-Appropriations
-John C. Whitaker's paper
-Conference committee's report
-Costs
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
-Possible veto
-Legal services
-Jacob K. Javits
-Possible veto
-Continuing resolution

OEO
-Phillip V. Sanchez
-Performance
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Support from administration
-Campaigning
-Mexican-Americans

Pending legislation
-Rural bill
-Butz
-The President’s efforts
-Fargo, Des Moines
-Constituencies
-Farmers
-Older Americans
-OEO
-McGovern

1972 campaign
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Role
-Alaska, mountain states, South
-Statement about youth and war
-Meeting with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and President, July 21, 1972
-Memorandum
-White House staff
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Edward L. Morgan
-Domestic Council
-Harlow
-Agnew’s staff
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-Credentials
-Rural development bill
-Butz
-McGovern
-Possible veto
-Weinberger

George W. Romney
-Meeting with Ehrlichman, July 22, 1972
-Possible replacement
-Rumsfeld
-Circumstances
-Other Cabinet members
-Timing
-Housing scandal
-Mortgage companies

Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD]
-Possible replacement for Romney
-Rumsfeld
-OEO
-Possible future
-Model cities
-Budget
-Instructions for Rumsfeld
-Model cities
-Community development department
-Special revenue sharing list
-Rumsfeld

Pending legislation
-Water bill
-Possible veto
-Private industry
-Possible statement
-Forthcoming message
-Budget
-Education bill
-Status
-Timing


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Leslie Bacon
-Seattle
-March 1971 bombing of US Capitol
-Indictment for perjury
-Judge's order regarding wiretaps
-Wiretaps
-John N. Mitchell
-Number
-May Day demonstrators
-Disclosure
-Effect
-Advisability
-Justice Department
-White House staff’s view
-Indictment
-Leak
-The President’s view
-Indictment
-William T. Becks
-Harry S. Truman

The President's schedule
-Preparation of talking points
-Domestic matters
-Drugs, parks
-News briefings
-Price's staff
-Phraseology on drug abuse
-Football metaphor
-Ehrlichman's conversation with Haldeman
-Phraseology
-Politics
-Facts
-Programs
-Code words, slogans, one-liners
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 4m 46s ]


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Jake Jacobsen
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-John B. Connally
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Justice Department investigation
-Informer
-Partner
-John G. Tower
-Possible White House action

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:29 pm.

The President’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:04 pm.

-Analogy to Thomas E. Stephens case
-Legal problems
-Dwight D. Eisenhower Administration
-Prosecution of Truman official [Matthew J. Connelly]
-Harry H. Vaughan
-T. Lamar Caudle
-Five-percenters
-Timing
-Ehrlichman's forthcoming conversation with Kleindienst
-Stephens
-Investigation halt
-Leonard W. Hall
-Harlow
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The President’s notes

1972 campaign
-McGovern
-Staff
-Press
-Mistakes

Narcotics
-Executive order
-Shultz

1972 campaign
-McGovern

Ehrlichman left at 3:04 pm.