828–6

Conversation No. 828-6

Date: December 27, 1972
Time: Unknown between 10:12 am and 10:44 am
Location: Oval Office

The President replayed a portion of his dictated memorandum to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

[This is a continuation of Conversation No. 828-5]

The President resumed dictation.

The President’s schedule
-Meetings with foreign leaders
-Timing
-Vietnam War
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Meeting with George P. Shultz
-The President’s conversation with Shultz
-Timing
-Tax and trade policy
-Meeting with John D. Ehrlichman
-The President’s conversation with Ehlichman
-Domestic initiatives
-Timing
-Meetings with Shultz and Ehrlichman
-Cabinet meeting
-Timing
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-Attendance
-Congressional leadership meeting
-Timing
-Republicans
-Bipartisan meetings
-Frequency
-Vietnam War
-Meeting with Michael J. Mansfield
-The President’s conversation with Mansfield
-Timing
-Republican leadership meeting
-William E. Timmons’s recommendation
-Reorganization plans
-Ehrlichman’s recommendations
-Meetings
-Exceptions
-Master schedule
-January-June 1973

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:12 am.

Copy of memorandum

Memoranda
-Kissinger
-Mailing

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Clay T. (“Tom”) Whitehead
-Charles W. Colson
-Timing
-Meetings
-Postponement
-The President’s dictated memorandum to Haldeman
-1973 Inauguration

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:44 am.

The President replayed a portion of his dictation.
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The President resumed dication.

The President’s schedule
-Master schedule
-January-June 1973
-Heads of State visits
-Foreign trips
-Europe
-Stag dinners
-Maurice H. Stans
-Evenings at the White House
-1972 campaign
-State dinner
-1972 campaign
-Contributors
-Church services
-Press conferences
-Trips
-Domestic
-Foreign
-White House correspondents, Gridiron dinners
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Political people
-Kissinger
-Ehrlichman
-George P. Shultz
-Timmons
-Breakfasts, lunches, dinners, briefings
-Political people
-Second term
-Special interests
-Haldeman’s conversations with Ehrlichman, Timmons, Shultz,
Kissinger, George H. W. Bush and Stans
-Labor and ethnic groups
-Haldeman’s conversation with Colson
-John B. Connally
-1972 campaign
-Contributors, political people
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-Committee to Re-elect the President [CRP]
-Colson-Connally group
-Congress, governors, mayors
-Ehrlichman
-Administration personnel
-Celebrities
-Media
-Presidential Commission
-President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board [PFIAB]
-Cabinet Room
-Use
-Productivity Commission
-Labor
-Administration personnel

The President changed dictabelt tapes.


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The President’s dictated memorandum to Haldeman
-Introduction to second part
-Previous tape

The President resumed dictation.

The President’s schedule
-Planning by Haldeman
-Master schedule
-Telephone calls
-First term
-Colson
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-Timmons
-Harry S. Dent

The President replayed a portion of his dictation.

The President resumed dictation.

The President’s schedule
-Master schedule
-Telephone calls
-Colson
-Dent
-Effectiveness
-White House social affairs
-Dinners
-Stans
-Financial contributors
-Government officials
-Clark MacGregor’s recommendations
-Priorities
-Number per day
-Recommendations
-Birthdays, anniversaries
-Parties
-Letters

National Security Council [NSC] staff
-Second term reorganization
-Cuts
-Haldeman’s possible meeting with Kissinger
-List
-Loyalists
-Departments
-Retentions
-Priorities
-White House
-Direction of effort
-Handling of problem
-The President’s role
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-Report from Haldeman

Second term reorganization
-Intelligence
-Memorandum from Ehrlichman
-Dr. James R. Schlesinger’s report
-Schlesinger’s role vis-à-vis Kissinger’s role
-Instruction for Haldeman
-Authority
-NSC
-Congressional relations
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-The President’s efforts
-Schlesinger’s report
-Implementation
-Kissinger’s relationship with Haig
-PFIAB
-Haldeman’s possible meetings with Kissinger, Ehrlichman and Schlesinger
-Management
-Ehrlichman’s recommendation
-Roy L. Ash
-Independent study
-Recommendation
-Schlesinger’s memorandum
-Weakness
-Haldeman’s conversations
-Overlap in functions
-Expenditures by Defense Department
-Number of CIA personnel
-Quality
-Quantity
-“Liberal establishment bureaucracy”
-State Department
-Cuts
-Attitudes
-Foreign policy
-Georgetown
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Conversation No. 828-6 (cont’d)

-State Department
-Recommendations
-Timing