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807–2
- President Richard M. Nixon
- John D. Ehrlichman
- Stephen B. Bull
October 26, 1972
Conversation No. 807-2
Date: October 26, 1972
Time: 8:12 am - 9:05 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.
Legislation
-House Resolution [HR] 1
-Senatorial candidate film session
-Winton M. (“Red”) Blount
-Pressure to sign
-John Sherman Cooper
-Louie B. Nunn
-Administration strategy
-Vetoes
-Timing
-News story
-Taxes
-News story
-Kentucky visit
-Cooper
2
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-03)
-Telephone call to Ehrlichman
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Telephone call to Ehrlichman
-Position on signing bill
-New York benefits
-George Meany
-Position on signing bill
-Blount
-Senior citizens organization of Alabama
-Candidates
-Interest groups
-Feel for pressures
-Blount
-Reconsideration of veto
-Water bill veto
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Political problems
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Dollar problems
-1974
-Liquidation problem
-Payroll taxes
-Bill’s arrival
-Timing
-Pressures
-Veto message
-Pressures building
-Veto timing
-Mixing of vetoes and signings
-Strategy
-Pressures
-Assessment of bill
-Water bill
-Columbia River
-Announcement timing
-1972 election
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW] bill
-HR 1
-Delay on decision
-Budget
-1973
-Payroll tax
3
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-03)
-1974
-Written summary of bills by Ehrlichman
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Contents
-Veterans
-Job Corps
-Great Society programs
-Need for jobs for kids
-Rehabilitation
-Elevator operator story
-Unknown man
-Death
-Background
-California
-New York
-Oregon
-Civilian Conservation Corps [CCC]
-Need for program
-Social workers
-Congressional leadership
-Need for written summary
-The President’s schedule
-Campaign film session
-HR 1
-Rockefeller opinion
-Load off of state in rehabilitation payments
-Compared to revenue sharing
-Control of hospital costs
-Medicaid
-Nunn
-Cooper's opinion
-Care for old people
-Compassion
-Campaign benefits
-Vetoes
-Education bill
-Water bill
-Welfare bill
-Old, blind people
-Blind people
-Support for Administration
-Congressional action
4
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-03)
-Increase over Administration proposal
-Interpretation of signing
-Payroll tax implications
-Signing with reservations
-New proposals for funding
-Clean water tax
-Treasury Department
-Value-added tax [VAT]
-Announcement
-Payroll taxes
-Self-liquidation
-1974
-Reasons for opposition
-Interpretation of the President's action by public
-1972 election
-Pledge not to raise taxes compared to influence of voting bloc
-Possible course of action
-Pay-as-you-go provision
-Study bill
-Importance of bill
-Cut of existing expenditures
-Priorities
-Buy-off argument
-Food stamps
-Cooper
-Pressure
-1972 election outcome
-George S. McGovern
-Written summary
-Schedule of meetings
-Weinberger, George P. Shultz, Herbert Stein
-Charles W. Colson's opinion
-Taxes, prices
-Veto recommendation
-Taxes
-Written summary
-Alternatives
-Budget cutting
-Water bill
-Colson
-Education
-Veterans
5
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-03)
-Politics
-Blount
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 32s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
*****************************************************************
Motorcade
Press
-Quality of stories
-1972 campaign
-Endorsements
-Editorials
-Readership
-Television commentators
-Related to political polls
-Roscoe Drummond
-Meeting with Ehrlichman, October 25, 1972
-Anticipation of next four years of the President's administration
-Possible appointment with the President
-Series
-Washington Post
-Washington Post
-Colson
-Story on Maurice H. Stans
-Accreditation
-Possible denial
-Effect
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with Ziegler
-Press conferences
-Recognition
-Ziegler
6
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-03)
-Dealings
-Returning of calls
-White House staff
-Cabinet officials
-Alleged libel of [John N. Mitchell and Stans]
-Social functions
-White House parties
-Washington Star
-East Wing
-Constance M. (Cornell) (“Connie”) Stuart
HR 1
-Financing
-Richardson
-1974
-Raise taxes
-Signing of bill linked with cuts within HEW
-Richardson's recommendation
-Budget of HEW
-HEW cuts
-Personnel cuts
-Check writing, nurses
-Personnel cuts in general
-Research office
-Press office
-Attitude of offices
-Government size
-Reorganization
-Signing bill
-Results
-Fiscal conservatives
-Effect of election on attitudes
-McGovern
-Spending limit for Fiscal Year [FY] 1973
-Congress’ recent override of water bill veto
-Colson
-Albert E. Sindlinger and other pollsters
-Unknown person
-Perspective
-Strategy
-Veto of bill
-Timing
7
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-03)
-Blind
-Old people
-Financial considerations
Watergate
-Washington Post story
-Colson
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Foundation of stories
-Propriety of campaign tactics
-Sabotage charge
-Heckling
-Tricia Nixon Cox's visit [to Morgantown, West Virginia]
-John A. Volpe
-Double standards
-San Francisco incident
-Los Angeles incident
-Statue of Liberty
-Planning by Democrats
-Motorcade
-History of Republican campaign problems
-Collecting campaign intelligence
-Dwight L. Chapin
-John W. Dean, III's report
-Chapin
-Recruitment of [Donald H. Segretti]
-Purpose
-Tactics of Washington Post
-Haldeman story
-Benjamin C. Bradlee
-Pressure on reporters
-US Attorneys
-Calls from reporters
-Verifying leads
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-FBI
-Calls to US attorneys
-Verifying leads
-Haldeman, Mitchell, Ehrlichman
-Success of tactics
-Bradlee
-Pressure on reporters
8
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-03)
-Yellow journalism
-Use of term
-1968 campaign
-New York Times article on Vice Presidential candidate Spiro T.
Agnew
-Public perception
-Washington Post denial
-McGovern stories
-Washington Post
-Denial
-Reasons
-Response to Ziegler's statement
-Preparation
-Possible strategy
-Attack on Haldeman
-Sunday paper
-Unknown woman
-Interviews of Haldeman's associates
-Compared to Sherman Adams case
-Haldeman advantages
-Anonymity
-Compared to Ehrlichman
-Compared to Adams
-Short term effect
-Neutralizing television coverage
-McGovern corruption speech
-Washington Post denial
-Inside Washington Post story
-Effect of Ziegler's response
-Robert J.Dole and Clark McGregor
-Television coverage
-Chicago Tribune story by Frank C. Starr [News summary item]
-Effort to contact and inform
-Opponents tactics
-Ziegler’s response to the Washington Post
-Radio stations
-Starr
-Press
-Motive
*****************************************************************
9
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-03)
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 48s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
*****************************************************************
Campaign practices
-Agnew
-Yellow journalism charge
-News reports of charges
-Use of rhetoric
-Ziegler's counterattack on Washington Post
-Opportunity
-Dole
-Tactics
-Ehrlichman's talk with Drummond
-Effect of Ziegler's denial
-Nature of administration in second term
-McGovern
-Campaign rhetoric
-Press treatment
-[News summary item]
-Baltimore Sun’s John Carroll’s view
Press conference in Oval Office
-Reason
-Scandal
-Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Announcement
Radio story on Vietnam
-North Vietnamese
-Paris negotiations
-Publication of terms of agreement
-New York Times story
-Henry A. Kissinger
10
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-03)
-Possible meeting
R. Sargent Shriver's statement [News summary item]
-Administration's foreign policy
-Democratic supporters of the President
-John B. Connally
-Attack on the President
-War record of Nixon compared to McGovern
-Connally
-War records
Watergate
-The President's press conference
-Administration position
-Drummond
-Public perception
-Basis of stories in press
-Timing
-Compared to the President’s Fund broadcast [Checkers speech of 1952]
-Hugh W. Sloan, Jr.
-Deposition
-Sloan's attorney
-Haldeman
-FBI
-Secret fund
-Ziegler statement
-McGovern statement
-Dole and MacGregor
-Next move
-Statement on yellow journalism for surrogates
-Haldeman story
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 8:12 am.
Film session
-Blount
-Radio messages
-Blount
-Possible conversation with the President
-J. Caleb Boggs
-Mark I. Goode
-Lighting
11
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-03)
Telegram from Blount
-Ehrlichman's meeting
Ehrlichman and Bull left at 9:05 am.
Date: October 26, 1972
Time: 8:12 am - 9:05 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.
Legislation
-House Resolution [HR] 1
-Senatorial candidate film session
-Winton M. (“Red”) Blount
-Pressure to sign
-John Sherman Cooper
-Louie B. Nunn
-Administration strategy
-Vetoes
-Timing
-News story
-Taxes
-News story
-Kentucky visit
-Cooper
2
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-03)
-Telephone call to Ehrlichman
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Telephone call to Ehrlichman
-Position on signing bill
-New York benefits
-George Meany
-Position on signing bill
-Blount
-Senior citizens organization of Alabama
-Candidates
-Interest groups
-Feel for pressures
-Blount
-Reconsideration of veto
-Water bill veto
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Political problems
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Dollar problems
-1974
-Liquidation problem
-Payroll taxes
-Bill’s arrival
-Timing
-Pressures
-Veto message
-Pressures building
-Veto timing
-Mixing of vetoes and signings
-Strategy
-Pressures
-Assessment of bill
-Water bill
-Columbia River
-Announcement timing
-1972 election
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW] bill
-HR 1
-Delay on decision
-Budget
-1973
-Payroll tax
3
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-03)
-1974
-Written summary of bills by Ehrlichman
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Contents
-Veterans
-Job Corps
-Great Society programs
-Need for jobs for kids
-Rehabilitation
-Elevator operator story
-Unknown man
-Death
-Background
-California
-New York
-Oregon
-Civilian Conservation Corps [CCC]
-Need for program
-Social workers
-Congressional leadership
-Need for written summary
-The President’s schedule
-Campaign film session
-HR 1
-Rockefeller opinion
-Load off of state in rehabilitation payments
-Compared to revenue sharing
-Control of hospital costs
-Medicaid
-Nunn
-Cooper's opinion
-Care for old people
-Compassion
-Campaign benefits
-Vetoes
-Education bill
-Water bill
-Welfare bill
-Old, blind people
-Blind people
-Support for Administration
-Congressional action
4
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-03)
-Increase over Administration proposal
-Interpretation of signing
-Payroll tax implications
-Signing with reservations
-New proposals for funding
-Clean water tax
-Treasury Department
-Value-added tax [VAT]
-Announcement
-Payroll taxes
-Self-liquidation
-1974
-Reasons for opposition
-Interpretation of the President's action by public
-1972 election
-Pledge not to raise taxes compared to influence of voting bloc
-Possible course of action
-Pay-as-you-go provision
-Study bill
-Importance of bill
-Cut of existing expenditures
-Priorities
-Buy-off argument
-Food stamps
-Cooper
-Pressure
-1972 election outcome
-George S. McGovern
-Written summary
-Schedule of meetings
-Weinberger, George P. Shultz, Herbert Stein
-Charles W. Colson's opinion
-Taxes, prices
-Veto recommendation
-Taxes
-Written summary
-Alternatives
-Budget cutting
-Water bill
-Colson
-Education
-Veterans
5
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-03)
-Politics
-Blount
*****************************************************************
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 32s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
*****************************************************************
Motorcade
Press
-Quality of stories
-1972 campaign
-Endorsements
-Editorials
-Readership
-Television commentators
-Related to political polls
-Roscoe Drummond
-Meeting with Ehrlichman, October 25, 1972
-Anticipation of next four years of the President's administration
-Possible appointment with the President
-Series
-Washington Post
-Washington Post
-Colson
-Story on Maurice H. Stans
-Accreditation
-Possible denial
-Effect
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with Ziegler
-Press conferences
-Recognition
-Ziegler
6
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-03)
-Dealings
-Returning of calls
-White House staff
-Cabinet officials
-Alleged libel of [John N. Mitchell and Stans]
-Social functions
-White House parties
-Washington Star
-East Wing
-Constance M. (Cornell) (“Connie”) Stuart
HR 1
-Financing
-Richardson
-1974
-Raise taxes
-Signing of bill linked with cuts within HEW
-Richardson's recommendation
-Budget of HEW
-HEW cuts
-Personnel cuts
-Check writing, nurses
-Personnel cuts in general
-Research office
-Press office
-Attitude of offices
-Government size
-Reorganization
-Signing bill
-Results
-Fiscal conservatives
-Effect of election on attitudes
-McGovern
-Spending limit for Fiscal Year [FY] 1973
-Congress’ recent override of water bill veto
-Colson
-Albert E. Sindlinger and other pollsters
-Unknown person
-Perspective
-Strategy
-Veto of bill
-Timing
7
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-03)
-Blind
-Old people
-Financial considerations
Watergate
-Washington Post story
-Colson
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Foundation of stories
-Propriety of campaign tactics
-Sabotage charge
-Heckling
-Tricia Nixon Cox's visit [to Morgantown, West Virginia]
-John A. Volpe
-Double standards
-San Francisco incident
-Los Angeles incident
-Statue of Liberty
-Planning by Democrats
-Motorcade
-History of Republican campaign problems
-Collecting campaign intelligence
-Dwight L. Chapin
-John W. Dean, III's report
-Chapin
-Recruitment of [Donald H. Segretti]
-Purpose
-Tactics of Washington Post
-Haldeman story
-Benjamin C. Bradlee
-Pressure on reporters
-US Attorneys
-Calls from reporters
-Verifying leads
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-FBI
-Calls to US attorneys
-Verifying leads
-Haldeman, Mitchell, Ehrlichman
-Success of tactics
-Bradlee
-Pressure on reporters
8
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-03)
-Yellow journalism
-Use of term
-1968 campaign
-New York Times article on Vice Presidential candidate Spiro T.
Agnew
-Public perception
-Washington Post denial
-McGovern stories
-Washington Post
-Denial
-Reasons
-Response to Ziegler's statement
-Preparation
-Possible strategy
-Attack on Haldeman
-Sunday paper
-Unknown woman
-Interviews of Haldeman's associates
-Compared to Sherman Adams case
-Haldeman advantages
-Anonymity
-Compared to Ehrlichman
-Compared to Adams
-Short term effect
-Neutralizing television coverage
-McGovern corruption speech
-Washington Post denial
-Inside Washington Post story
-Effect of Ziegler's response
-Robert J.Dole and Clark McGregor
-Television coverage
-Chicago Tribune story by Frank C. Starr [News summary item]
-Effort to contact and inform
-Opponents tactics
-Ziegler’s response to the Washington Post
-Radio stations
-Starr
-Press
-Motive
*****************************************************************
9
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-03)
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 48s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
*****************************************************************
Campaign practices
-Agnew
-Yellow journalism charge
-News reports of charges
-Use of rhetoric
-Ziegler's counterattack on Washington Post
-Opportunity
-Dole
-Tactics
-Ehrlichman's talk with Drummond
-Effect of Ziegler's denial
-Nature of administration in second term
-McGovern
-Campaign rhetoric
-Press treatment
-[News summary item]
-Baltimore Sun’s John Carroll’s view
Press conference in Oval Office
-Reason
-Scandal
-Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Announcement
Radio story on Vietnam
-North Vietnamese
-Paris negotiations
-Publication of terms of agreement
-New York Times story
-Henry A. Kissinger
10
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-03)
-Possible meeting
R. Sargent Shriver's statement [News summary item]
-Administration's foreign policy
-Democratic supporters of the President
-John B. Connally
-Attack on the President
-War record of Nixon compared to McGovern
-Connally
-War records
Watergate
-The President's press conference
-Administration position
-Drummond
-Public perception
-Basis of stories in press
-Timing
-Compared to the President’s Fund broadcast [Checkers speech of 1952]
-Hugh W. Sloan, Jr.
-Deposition
-Sloan's attorney
-Haldeman
-FBI
-Secret fund
-Ziegler statement
-McGovern statement
-Dole and MacGregor
-Next move
-Statement on yellow journalism for surrogates
-Haldeman story
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 8:12 am.
Film session
-Blount
-Radio messages
-Blount
-Possible conversation with the President
-J. Caleb Boggs
-Mark I. Goode
-Lighting
11
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-03)
Telegram from Blount
-Ehrlichman's meeting
Ehrlichman and Bull left at 9:05 am.