Secret White House Tapes

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405–9
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • H. R. Haldeman
  • Stephen B. Bull
January 25, 1973
Conversation No. 405-9

Date: January 25, 1973
Time: 9:05 am – 9:34 am
Location: Executive Office Building

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

President's speech on 1974 budget
-Preparation
-George P. Shultz
-5-

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-09)

Conversation No. 405-9 (cont’d)

-Vietnam settlement
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Congressional relations
-Spiro T. Agnew [?]
-Roy L. Ash
-Strategy
-Congressional relations
-Details compared to overall concept
-Programs
-Taxes
-Congress
-Cabinet meeting
-Ehrlichman
-Ash
-Earl L. Butz
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Timing
-Ehrlichman
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Timing
-William E. Timmons, Ash
-President's revisions in drafts
-Continental Divide
-Method of press coverage
-Ehrlichman, Ziegler
-Relation to Vietnam settlement
-Congress
-Ehrlichman's work with John A. Volpe
-Agnew
-Strategy
-Timmons
-Method of press coverage
-Radio, television [TV]
-President's response to draft
-Cabinet meeting
-Agnew [?]
-Volpe

Lyndon B. Johnson’s funeral
-Claudia A. (“Lady Bird”) Johnson
-6-

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-09)

Conversation No. 405-9 (cont’d)

-Photographs with President
-President's role
-Military attache, Claudia Johnson
-Wreath-laying

President's speech on 1974 budget
-Length
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Method of press coverage
-Publicity
-Congressional relations
-Ehrlichman's view on importance
-Vietnam settlement

1974 budget meeting
-Shultz's role
-President's role
-Taxes

Cabinet meeting
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Peter J. Brennan
-Ability
-Morton
-Value
-George W. Romney
-Frederick B. Dent
-George H. W. Bush
-Inclusion in future meetings
-Agnew

Stephen B. Bull entered at 9:34 am.

Lyndon Johnson’s funeral
-Departure time for President
-Logistics
-Claudia Johnson and family
-Weather in Texas

President's speech on 1974 budget
-7-

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-09)

Conversation No. 405-9 (cont’d)

-Revisions
-Price
-Length

President, Haldeman, and Bull left at 9:35 am.
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405–9

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