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Conversation No. 423-3

Date: March 27, 1973
Time: 11:00 am - 1:30 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.

Wounded Knee
-Incident status
-Plan for resolution
-Kenneth R. Cole Jr.'s working group
-Justice Department
-Interior Department
-US Marshall
-Wounds
-Chances of survival
-Deterioration of situation
-Indians, Blacks
-Massive show of force
-Military action
-Use of army
-Fears
-Estimate of losses
-Public relations [PR] problems
-Government explanation
-Preparations
-US Marshall
-Wounding
-Publicity
-Sniping
-Dale K. (“Kent”) Frizzell
-Assistant Attorney General
-Interior Department
-US Marshall
-Viciousness
-Meeting with Indians
- Frizzell
-Handling of situation
-White House staff involvement
-Handling of PR
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-Advantages
-Long-run disadvantages
-Display of action
-Ehrlichman’s role
-Leonard Garment
-Talks with Indians
-Ultimatum to Indians
-PR foundation
-Comparison with action on food prices
-Need for action
-Risk of deaths
-Indians, soldiers
-Possible future armed occupations
-Blacks, Chicanos

Price controls
-George P. Shultz's support
-Talks with Labor Management Advisory Board
-Merits
-Labor demands
-Shultz
-Plan
-Formulation
-Guidelines
-90-day price freeze
-Food
-President's statement
-Press coverage
-Vietnam report
-International monetary situation
-Phase III

President’s accomplishments
-Perception of failure
-Budget
-Congress
-Vietnam
-November 3, 1969 speech
-Laos
-India-Pakistan War
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-Newsweek, Time
-Press relations
-Nicholas P. Thimmesch
-Watergate

Press relations
-Vietnam
-President’s conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Press briefings
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Release
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-President’s actions
-Television [TV] news commentary
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-Laos
-Release of POWs
-Troop withdrawal

Domestic issues
-President's vetoes
-Sustaining in Congress
-Vote count
-House of Representatives
-Republican votes
-Democrats
-Cal B. Albert
-Senate action
-House of Representatives
-President’s speech
- Shultz
-Budget issues
-Need for restraint
-Support for Congress by public
-Taxes
-Prices
-Energy message from President
-Arrangements
-California
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-Fanfare
-Briefings
-Congress
-Press
-Trade message
-Tax message
-TV coverage
-Charles J. DiBona
-Work quality
-Tax issue
-Shultz's testimony
-Alternative minimum tax
-Trade bill
-Jobs
-Congress
-Publicity
-Statements
-Tax issue
-President’s announcement
-Congress
-Press coverage
-Shultz’s testimony
-Trade bill
-Congress
-White House domination of news
-Past tough battles

[A transcript of this conversation appears in RG 460, Box 175, p. 1-84.]

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 11:30 am.

Sally Inge Buikema entered at an unknown time after 11:30 am.

Sally Buikema’s marriage
-Manolo Sanchez’s comment
-Fina Sanchez
-Husband
-David Buikema
-Sharp Electronics
-Residence
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-Delay

Mrs. Buikema left at an unknown time before 11:35 am.

[Transcribed portion continues.]

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 11:35 am.

[Transcribed portion ends.]

President’s meeting with Corinne Boggs
-Photograph

Ziegler left at 11:40 am.

Ziegler
-Quality of work
-Kissinger

[Transcribed portion continues.]

[Transcribed portion ends.]

Pierre E. Trudeau
-Call to President
-Canada’s withdrawal from International Commission on Control and Security
[ICCS]
-Announcement of postponement

[Transcribed portion continues.]

Stephen B. Bull left.

[Transcribed portion ends.]

Prime Minister Pierre E. Trudeau talked with the President between 12:05 pm and 12:10 pm.

[See Conversation No. 44-19]
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CANADA

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[This portion of the conversation was transcribed and entered as part of government exhibit 17 in
U.S. v. Mitchell, el al., pp. 00313-00317].

[End transcribed portion.]

President’s speech
-Draft
-Release
-Veto
-Wage and price controls
-George P. Shultz
-Meeting with President
-Trade
-Budget
-Amount of discussion
-Poor
-Cost of living
-President’s schedule
-Preparation

Rogers C. B. Morton
-Meeting with Ehrlichman

[Transcribed portion continues.]

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Stephen B. Bull entered at 1:16 pm.

Vocational Rehabilitation Bill
-President's statement

Bull left at 1:17 pm.

Budget issue
-President's action
-Credit with public
-President’s speech
-Bureaucrats
-Congressional relations
-Conflict over priorities
-Defense spending

[Transcribed portion continues.]

[Transcribed portion ends.]

Watergate
-Medals
-Purple heart
-Rogers
-Consultation with Henry A. Kissinger

Ehrlichman and Haldeman left at 1:30 pm.