401–16

Conversation No. 401-16

Date: January 9, 1973
Time: Unknown between 3:09 pm and 4:25 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

Haldeman's meeting with Richard M. Helms

Melvin R. Laird

The President's conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler
-Francis L. Dale
-Possible job
-Washington Star

Charles W. Colson entered at 3:10 pm.

The President's birthday

Washington Post
-Future

Washington Star
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-Possible sale
-Television TV station (WMAL)
-William F. Buckley
-Martin Agronsky
-Rivals
-Possible sale
-Financial status
-Television station (WMAL)
-Value
-Problems
-Dale
-Morning newspapers
-Compared to afternoon newspapers
-Circulation
-Washington Post
-Effect of sale of Washington Star
-TV Station
-Problems of morning newspaper
-Compared to evening newspaper
-Advertising
-Circulation

Otis Chandler [?]
-Los Angeles
-Advice to Colson
-Letter to the President
-Chandler family [?]

Watergate
-Legal case
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-1973 Inauguration
-Washington Post
-Katharine L. Graham

Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Nomination for commissioner
-George D. Webster
-Conversation with Colson on confirmation
-The President's conversation with Haldeman
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-Example for others
-Webster
-Confirmation possibilities
-George P. Shultz
-John B. Connally
-Background
-Statement to newspapers
-Russell B. Long
-Webster
-Partisanship
-Chairmanships of Lawyers for Nixon
-John H. Alexander
-Requirements for commissioner
-Compared to Federal Communications Commission [FCC]
-Securities Exchange Commission [SEC]
-Colson's recommendation
-John W. Dean, III
-Lawsuit problem

The President talked with Lenore Romney between 3:24 pm and 3:25 pm.

[Conversation No. 401-16A]

[See Conversation No. 35-116]

[End of telephone conversation]

IRS commissioner
-Requirements
-Webster
-Tax payments


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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]

-The President’s and Colson’s experiences
-Loans

[End of segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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-Qualities
-Alexander
-Investigation of the President's friends
-Dependability
-Timing
-Webster
-Knowledge
-Exchange of correspondence
-Work ethic
-Colson's conversation with Haldeman

Webster
-Possible SEC or Federal Trade Commission [FTC] position
-Qualities
-Support of business
-Donald McI Kendall
-Confirmation possibilities
-Compared to IRS

William J. Casey
-Confirmation with SEC

Webster
-Possible commission appointment
-SEC
-Compared to Lewis Engman
-IRS
-Compared to FTC

Engman
-Qualities
-Work on revenue sharing
-Age
-Compared to Webster
-Compared to [First name unknown] Fitzpatrick
-Telephone call from the President
-Credentials
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-Philadelphia

Webster
-FTC
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Letter
-Leonard Garment [?]
-Conversation with Colson
-Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Alternative position for Engman
-Assistant secretary
-SEC
The President’s appointments
-Choices
-Casey
-Recommendation of Connally's
-Federal Power Commission
-Civil Aeronautics Board [CAB] appointee
-Robert D. Timm

The President's schedule
-Inaugural speech
-Staffing
-Recommendations from Colson and Haldeman
-Timing

Replacement for Colson
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-Age
-Management skills
-Buchanan
-Management skills
-Compared to Clawson
-William J. Baroody
-Readiness
-Training
-Colson’s presence
-Importance
-Clawson
-Buchanan
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-Baroody
-Advantages
-Responsibility
-Intelligence
-Clawson
-Compared to Baroody
-Campaign work

Frederic V. Malek
-Political work
-Representatives of \"New Majority\"
-Nixon loyalists
-Ethnic candidates
-Peter J. Brennan
-Secretary of Labor
-Undersecretary of Commerce
-Background
-General Electric [GE]
-Lists of possible appointees
-Qualifications
-Business background, political acumen
-Accomplishments
-Compared to Dwight D. Eisenhower administration
-Colson's experience
-Brennan
-Labor Department
-Departments
-Roy L. Ash
-Director, Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Confirmation possibilities
-Reorganization plan
-The President's conversation with Ehrlichman
-Congressional relations
-Chet Holifield
-Compared to first term
-Sequoia, Camp David, airplanes
-Efforts evaluated

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 3:25 pm.
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Refreshments

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 4:11 pm.

The President's appointments
-Colson's future role
-Malek
-Political loyalty
-Confirmations
-William P. Rogers
-Justice Department
-Honors program
-Eisenhower's judicial appointees
-Earl Warren, Potter Stewart, William J. Brennan, Jr.
-Missouri judge
-[First name unknown] Whitaker
-New York judge
-Death
-Corporate lawyer
-Hugo L. Black [?]
-John M. Harlan
-Stewart
-Ohio
-Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr.
-Compared to Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
-Corporate executives, lawyers, businessman
-Democrats
-Professors, lawyers, journalists
-Political orientation
-Speeches
-Voters

News story on a black sniper
-Washington Post
-Wire services
-Witnesses
-Racism

American Civil Liberties Union [ACLU]
-Washington Post, New York Times
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-Civil rights of a group
-Racism

Brennan
-Comments on nomination in an editorial
-Thomas W. Braden
-“Patrick J. Brennan”
-New coalition
-Democrats
-George S. McGovern
-Walter F. Mondale
-Racial discrimination
-Snobbery

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time before 3:25 pm.

Southern strategy
-Importance
-Democrats
-Labor
-Column
-Election
-Braden
-Richard M. Scammon [?]

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:25 pm.

Charles G. (\"Bebe\") Rebozo
-Location
-Meeting with the President

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:11 pm.

The President’s schedule
-Request for a car
-Location
-Escort
-Timing
-Limousine
-Glass divider
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Conversation No. 401-16 (cont’d)

-Location

Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 3:25 pm and 4:11
pm.

[Conversation No. 401-16B]

[See Conversation No. 35-117]

[End of telephone conversation]

Haldeman talked with Stephen B. Bull at an unknown time between 3:25 pm and 4:11 pm.

[Conversation No. 401-16C]

[See Conversation No. 35-117]

The President's schedule
-Ride with Rebozo
-Requirements
-Timing

[The above portion of the office conversation took place simultaneously with Conversation No.
401-16C]

[End of telephone conversation]

Ehrlichman talked with the President between 4:11 pm and 4:15 p.m.

[Conversation No. 401-16D]

[See Conversation No. 35-118]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Don Johnson, Russell Train, Counsellors

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:15 pm and
4:16 pm.
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Conversation No. 401-16 (cont’d)


[Conversation No. 401-16E]

[See Conversation No. 35-119]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's birthday
-White House staff observance

The President talked with Rebozo between 4:16 pm and 4:17 pm.

[Conversation No. 401-16F]

[See Conversation No. 35-120]

[End of telephone conversation]

Car location

[The above part of the office conversation took place simultaneously with Conversation No. 401-
16F]

The President's birthday
-White House staff observance
-Timing
-Bull
-Roses

Watergate
-Guilty pleas
-G. Gordon Liddy
-Demands for trial
-Reasons
-Other defendants
-James W. McCord, Jr.
-Liddy
-Possible effects of trial
-Congressional investigation
-Immunity
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Conversation No. 401-16 (cont’d)

-Contempt charge
-John’s [last name unknown] view
-Surveillance

The President, Haldeman, and Colson left at 4:25 pm.