416–1

Conversation No. 416-1

Date: February 27, 1973
Time: 2:48 pm-3:40 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman; the recording began while the conversation was in
progress.

General revenue sharing
-President's commitment
-Purpose
-Budget cuts
-Impact on revenue sharing

Community action agencies
-Funding
-Federal government
-States
-Model Cities
-Funding
-Special revenue sharing
-Local option
-Philadelphia
-Value
-Localities
-Transitional funds

Public service employment
-Herbert Stein
-Concerns
-Funds
-Cutoff
-Unemployment
-Needs
-Detroit, Seattle
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-Unspent funds
-Need
-Mayors
-Special revenue sharing

Budget cuts
-Problem areas
-Governors
-Highways
-Water pollution
-Highway Trust Fund
-Roads
-Changes
-Public opinion
-Water pollution
-States
-Impact of funds
-Inflation
-Governors
-Rural Electrification Administration [REA]
-Compromises
-Ancher Nelsen
-Richard M. Fairbanks III
-Poor

Rate of interest
-Level
-REA bank
-Proposal

Governors
-Complaints
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-John C. West, John R. William
-Nelson A. Rockefeller, Ronald W. Reagan

Anne L. Armstrong
-Conversation with Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Surrogate operation
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-Budget cuts
-Refusal
-Reasons
-Purpose
-Agnew’s responsibilities
-Golf
-Initial refusal to see Armstrong

Agnew
-Ehrlichman's telephone call
-Arthur J. Sohmer [?]
-Visibility
-Areas of interest
Cities, counties
-Quality of work
-Cole
-Briefing
-Agnew's presence

President’s schedule
-Ehrlichman’s schedule
-Domestic issues
-Foreign policy

Henry A. Kissinger
-Briefing

President's attendance at briefing
-Foreign policy
-Defense budget
-Federal funds allocation
-Detroit
-Hanoi
-Questions
-Kissinger
-Presence at briefing
-Defense budget
-Attacks
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Congressional relations
-Ehrlichman’s schedule
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-William E. Timmons
-Ehrlichman's role
-Strategy
-Timmons
-Clark MacGregor
-Manner
-Skill as operative
-Ehrlichman
-Domestic affairs
-Talk with Haldeman
-Strategy
-Domestic Council
-Cabinet members
-Cultivation of Congress members
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Earl L. Butz
-Timmons

Budget cuts
-Support in country
-Business
-George H. W. Bush
-Louis P. Harris poll
-Congress

Social programs
-Public preferences
-Tax increases
-Publicity
-Haldeman
-Opinion Research Corporation [ORC] poll
-Administration efforts
-Republicans
-Democrats
-Limitations
-Administration strategy
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Ehrlichman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 2:48 pm and 3:40 pm.

[Conversation No. 416-1A]

Car

Ehrlichman's trip to Capitol Hill
-Tom [surname unknown]
-Hugh Scott

[End of telephone conversation]

Ehrlichman's trip to Detroit
-Reception
-Press relations
-Questions
-Social programs
-Aid to North Vietnam

Ehrlichman's meeting in New York
-Press questions
-Aid to North Vietnam
-Peter G. Peterson
-Press relations
-Energy
-Interest
-Tax, trade, interest rates

Aid to North Vietnam
-Parochial attitudes
-Germany

Budget
-Amounts
-Waste

Ehrlichman left at 3:40 pm.
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