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Conversation No. 773-17

Date: September 8, 1972
Time: 12:22 pm - 1:05 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.

Greetings

Political meeting
-John N. Mitchell

Tax issue
-Statement
-The President’s view
-Knowledge
-Conversation between Ehrlichman and John B. Connally
-The President’s view
-Arthur F. Burns
-Idea of political decision
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-Wealthy
-Property tax
-Elderly
-Tax increase
-Tax reform
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Herbert G. Klein
-Pierre E.M. Salinger
-James C. Hagerty
-The President’s view
-George P. Shultz, Milton Friedman
-Changes
-Proposal
-Tax credits
-Individuals
-Local government
-Idea of deductions
-Confusion
-Long term goals proposal
-Reduction of property taxes
-Fixed income
-Tax credit
-Phase II
-Political viewpoint
-Shultz
-Taxing the wealthy
-The President’s view
-Results
-Poll indicators
-The President's analysis
-Type of issue
-Minimum tax
-Growth of government
-Friedman
-Reduction of growth
-Methods
-Direction of expenses
-National priorities
-Inflation growth, real growth
-Controlled expenditures
-Goals
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-Time duration
-Counties and states
-Revenue sharing
-Tax credit
-Duration
-Direct relationship with government
-Year
-Education system
-Aiding the educators
-School bonds
-Shultz’s view
-Elderly and pensions
-Effect of tax credit on local government
-Raising property taxes
-Revenue sharing
-The President's position
-Shultz
-Type of issue
-Proposed position on issue
-Tax payers
-Possible meeting between the President and Richard G. Merriam
-Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations [ACIR]
-Value added tax [VAT]
-Timing
-Issue on tax credit
-Timetable
-Results of meeting
-Outlook
-Publicity

Watergate
-Lawrence F. O'Brien, Jr.
-Income
-Dates
-Harold R. Hughes
-Adjusted gross income
-Income sources
-Ducor industries
-Dates
-Sources
-Knowledge
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-Release
-Gary Hart
-Press story by Herman M. (“Hank”)Greenspun
-Release of information
-Idea of placing information
-Hart
-Greenspun
-Democrats
-Possible allegations against F. Donald Nixon
-The President’s view
-Story
-Date

Water quality bill
-Shultz
-Forthcoming vote
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Veto
-Effect
-Inflation
-Funding
-John C. Whitaker
-Final version of bill
-Forthcoming negotiations
-Whitaker’s view
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Conservatives
-Result of vote
-Budget
-Funding control

US economic policies
-Tax issue
-Pressure from Congress
-Present position
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Food prices
-George S. McGovern
-Wholesale Price Index
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Actual meaning
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-The President’s view
-Public effect
-Shultz
-Handling of bureaucrats

Herbert G. Kalmbach
-Robert D. (“Bobby”) Baker
-Need for information
-Ehrlichman’s efforts
-The President’s instructions
-Involvement of Democrats
-O'Brien
-The President's conversation on the Sequoia
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-US attorney in Louisiana
-Senate race
-John McKeithen
-Republican
-Politics
-Kleindienst
-Right wing compared with left wing on staff
-Baltimore attorney
-Connally
-Conversation between Kalmbach and Ehrlichman

James Roosevelt and John A. Roosevelt
-Federal Communications Commission [FCC]
-Nicholas Johnson
-Possible resignation
-Labor Commission
-Labor Committee
-James Roosevelt
-Travel to Europe
-US bicentennial celebration
-David J. Mahoney, Jr.
-Conversation with Ehrlichman
-Kenneth W. Cole, Jr.
-Slogans
-Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill and Atlantic
Charter
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-Idea of Nixon charter
-Comparison to Declaration of Independence


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Watergate
-O’Brien
-Team of investigators
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Story
-Prices
-Republicans and Democrats
-The President’s view
-Impact on average person
-Impact of intellectuals
-Impact on the President's image
-The President’s view
-Ehrlichman's analysis
-Clark MacGregor

Campaign issues
-Republican National Committee
-Fundraising
-Robert J. Dole
-Strategy
-Democratic funding services
-Combined meeting
-Forthcoming Cabinet meeting
-Topics
-Vietnam War
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-William P. Rogers
-Louis P. Harris poll
-Adminstration policy
-Charles W. Colson
-Melvin R. Laird
-Strategy for 1972 campaign
-Legislative leaders
-Colson
-Laird
-Rogers
-The President’s position
-Campaign strategy
-Topics to be discussed
-US–Soviet Union grain deal
-McGovern
-Adminstration response
-Ehrlichman's analysis
-Farmers of America
-George Meany
-Taxes
-Watergate
-Defense
-Peter G. Peterson
-Public responses to accusations
-Maurice H. Stans
-Labor people's reactions
-Businessmen's reactions
-Labor relations
-McGovern
-Nixon compared with McGovern
-Henry Kimelman
-Joseph W. Alsop
-McGovern
-Discrepancies in budget
-Alsop
-Gifts
-Professor [name unknown] [Pomerantz?] from
Harvard University
-Kimelman
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Public relations
-Earl L. Butz's handling of grain deal charge
-MacGregor
-Handling
-Watergate issue
-Questions to Ehrlichman
-Responses

Watergate
-Deposition
-Information about Ehrlichman's conversation with
Colson
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Watergate break-in
-Call from Secret Service to Ehrlichman
-Five people caught breaking into Democrat
National Committee
-Hunt
-White House staffer
-Time of call

Tax issue

Water pollution bill
-William E. Timmons
-Funding
-The President’s view
-Possible veto
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Taxes
-Conservatives
-Shultz and Burns
-Forthcoming meeting
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming conversation with Connally

The President and Ehrlichman left at 1:05 pm.