837–4

Conversation No. 837-4

Date: January 10, 1973
Time: Unknown between 1:20 pm and 2:24 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman at an unknown time after 1:20 pm.

Congressional relations
-William E. Timmons's office
-Vietnam resolution
-List of President’s supporters

J. Stanley Pottinger
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Assistant Attorney General
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Civil rights
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Ehrlichman
-James O. Eastland
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Edward L. Morgan
-Harry S. Dent
-Buchanan
-President’s support among academics
-Irving Kristol
-Sidney Hook
-Jeffrey Hart
-John Chamberlain
-Position on civil rights
-Buchanan’s memorandum
-Kristol
-Hook
-Ehrlichman
-Ehrlichman
-Executive order
-Universities
-Equal employment opportunities
-Hook
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-Blacks, women
-Buchanan
-Dent
-South
-Affirmative action
-North
-Integration
-Buchanan
-HEW
-Quotas
-Enforcement
-Norman Podhoretz
-George S. McGovern
-Columbia University
-Ehrlichman
-Buchanan

Confirmation hearings
-Ehrlichman
-George D. Webster
-Federal Trade Commission [FTC]
-Lewis A. Engman

Webster
-Employment alternatives
Office of Emergency Preparedness [OEP]
-Ehrlichman
-Engman
-Charles W. Colson
-Edwin L. Harper
-Ehrlichman
-Colson
-Ehrlichman
-Peter J. Brennan
-Political orientation
-FTC
-Experience

[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Congressional seat
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-Dent’s analysis
-George A. Goodling
-Scott
-Goodling
-Age
-Son
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Scott
-Marty Hamberger
-York County Republican chairman
-Goodling
-Political maneuvers
-Republican state chairman
-John Eaton
-Goodling
-Congressional district
-Rural character
-York, Pennsylvania
-Southern culture
-Dent’s recommendations
-Goodling
-President’s role
-Haldeman’s role
-Dent’s role
-Scott
-President’s role
-Haldeman’s role
-George H. W. Bush
-Goodling's son
-Employment possibility
-Hamberger
-Bush
-Scott
-Hamberger
-Employment possibilities
-District Court appointment
-Engman


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Edward R. F. Cox
-Congressional seat
-Prospects
-1 District and 6th District, New York
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-Residence
-Suffolk County
-Otis G. Pike
-Nelson A. Rockefeller’s candidate
-Conservative Party

David Eisenhower
-Military release
-Military aide
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Political future
-Senate
-Dent
-Campaign fund
-Bush
-Scott
-Bush
-Hamberger
-Goodling

Edward C. Nixon
-Congressional seat
-Washington State
-Earl Davenport
-Republican state chairman
-Ehrlichman
-Henry M (“Scoop”) Jackson’s opposition
-Poll
-Lloyd Meeds
-John Lindberg
-Mayor Anderson of Everett, Washington
-Foundation work
-New York
-Employment prospects
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-1972 campaign work
-Seattle

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Film showing
-President’s birthday
-Timing
-White House staff


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Edward Nixon

[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Timmons
-Scott
-Bush
-Hamberger
-Goodling
-Age
-Hamberger
-Voting
-Scott

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Vietnam settlement
-Henry A. Kissinger’s message
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s trip
-Saigon
-Announcement
-Kissinger
-Schedule
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-Kissinger’s trip to Asia
-Announcement
-Announcement
-North Vietnam
-President’s schedule
-Florida
-Kissinger’s trip to Asia
-1973 Inauguration
-Press relations
-Paris negotiations
-Murrey Marder
-Tone
-Bombing
-Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
-May 8, 1972 decision
-Moscow summit
-Cambodia
-News summaries
-Public relations [PR]
-Kissinger
-“Peace is at hand”
-North Vietnam
-Marder
-Washington Post
-Schedule
-Kissinger
-Haig’s trip
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Bombing halt
-1973 Inauguration
-Thieu
-1972 election
-Haig’s trip
-Bombing halt
-Kissinger
-President's schedule
-Florida
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-Presidential briefing
-Congressional relations
-Congressional leaders meetings
-Announcement
-Kissinger
-Haig
-Kissinger’s schedule
-1973 Inauguration
-Inaugural speech
-Thieu
-Timing of announcement
-Hanoi
-Haig
-Saigon
-Col. Richard T. Kennedy
-Inaugural address
-“Structure of peace”
-Ron L. Ziegler
-Negotiations
-Sensitivity
-Timing of announcement
-Thieu
-Kissinger
-US allies
-Haig
-Cable
-Travel to Asia
-Haig’s role
-Saigon, Hanoi
-Public perceptions
-Publicity
-Press relations
-Kissinger
-Joseph C. Kraft, James B. (\"Scotty\") Reston
-Bombing
-Congress
-Campus protests
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-President's schedule
-Haig
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-Kennedy
-Kissinger
-Elliot L. Richardson

Second term reorganization
-Kissinger
-Richardson
-Jonathan Moore
-Lawrence E. (“Larry”) Lynn, Jr.
-Richardson
-Lynn
-Kissinger
-National Security Council [NSC]
-HEW
-Moore
-Charles W. Colson
-Kissinger
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-George W. Romney
-“Dove” reputation
-Kissinger
-Colson
-Buchanan
-Kissinger
-Leaks
-Haig
-David R. Young, Jr.
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Discussion with Young
-Laird

Kissinger
-Vindictiveness
-Lynn
-Bombing
-Press relations
-Reputation
-Vietnam settlement
-Bombing
-Effect
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President's trip to Florida
-Haig’s trip
-Kissinger
-Inaugural speech
-Camp David
-Kissinger’s return
-Paris
-Haig’s trip
-Saigon
-Bombing halt
-Announcement
-Kissinger

President and bugging
-Kissinger
-Telephone logs
-Kraft


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Webster's nomination
-Ehrlichman
-Engman
-1968 campaign
-Revenue sharing
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Lawyers for Nixon
-1968 election
-1972 election
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-Charles Rhyne
-Supreme Court
-Rectitude
-IRS
-FTC
-Engman
-Age
-Ehrlichman
-Colson
-President’s obligation
-Office of Emergency Preparedness [OEP]
-Colson
-FTC
-Engman
-Importance of loyalty
-Frederic V. Malek
-Ehrlichman
-Engman
-Commission membership

Vietnam settlement
-Progress report
-Haig

President's trip to Florida
-Kissinger

President and Haldeman left at 2:24 pm.