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838–18
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • H. R. Haldeman
  • White House operator
  • UNKNOWN
  • Spiro T. Agnew
January 11, 1973
Conversation No. 838-18

Date: January 11, 1973
Time: Between 10:20 and 11:03 am
Location: Oval Office
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Conversation No. 838-18 (cont’d)


The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman at 10:20 am.

White House

Weather

Winston S. Churchill
-World War I
-Book
-Spring 1914
-Germany
-Great Britain
-Weather

White House staff
- Haldeman
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Charles W. Colson
-George P. Shultz
-Colson
-Philosophy
-Hardhats
-Politics

President's memo on appointments to Administration positions
-Haldeman's role
-Frederic V. Malek's role
-William P. Rogers
-Ehrlichman
-Shultz
-George H. W. Bush
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Haldeman
-Malek
-Lewis A. Engman
-Federal Trade Commission [FTC]
-Qulaifications
-Engman
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-Shultz
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Ehrlichman
-Malek
-Colson
-Engman
-Ehrlichman
-Domestic Council
-Edwin L. Harper
-Engman
-John N. Mitchell
-Engman
-Miles W. Kilpatrick
-Departure
-Age

Appointments
-Ehrlichman's role
-Engman
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-United States Information Agency [USIA]
-James Keogh
-Call from Hobart Lewis
-Frank Stanton
-Harley Ranch [?]

Stanton
-USIA
-Red Cross

Red Cross appointments
-Maurice H. Stans
-Major contributors
-W. Clement Stone
-Qualifications

Stanton
-President's instructions
-Colson's role
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Conversation No. 838-18 (cont’d)

-Haldeman
-Ehrlichman
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Washington Post
-Red Cross
-USIA
-Ranch [?]
-Colson
-USIA compared to Red Cross
-Colson’s call to Stanton

President's schedule
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Haldeman
-Foreign policy
-Kissinger
-Vietnam negotiations
-Appointment with the President
-Washington Post

Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:20 and 11:03
am.

[Conversation No. 838-18A]

[See Conversation No. 35-131]

[End of telephone conversation]

President's schedule
-Agnew

Haldeman talked with an unknown person in Agnew's office at an unknown time between 10:20
and 11:05 am.

[Conversation No. 838-18A cont’d]

[See Conversation No. 35-131]

[End of telephone conversation]
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Conversation No. 838-18 (cont’d)


Haldeman talked with Agnew at an unknown time between 10:20 and 11:03 am.

[Conversation No. 838-18A cont.]

[See Conversation No. 35-131]

[End of telephone conversation]

President's schedule
-Agnew
-Middle East
-Vietnam negotiations in Paris
-Kissinger
-Vietnam
-Bombing story
-Murrey Marder
-Washington Star
-Paris
-Rumors
-Kissinger

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:20 am.

Agnew appointment
-Time

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:03 am.

Herbert G. Klein
-Ronald L. Ziegler

Frank L. Dale

Press relations
-Washington Star
-Colson’s views on Washington Post
-Richard Scaife
-Colson
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Conversation No. 838-18 (cont’d)


President's schedule
-Florida trip
-Colson
-Role

Staffing
-Klein
-Departure
- Ziegler's role
-Timing
-President's support
-California
-Copley
-Public appearances

Bugging of the President's airplane in 1968
-John N. Mitchell
-Cartha D. DeLoach
-Evidence
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Mitchell
-John W. Dean, III’s plan
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
-Washington Star story
-Johnson
-John B. Connally
-Mitchell
-George E. Christian
-Califano
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Washington Star story
-DeLoach
-Meeting with Mitchell
-Press


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Privacy]
[Duration: 7s ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
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Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Colson
-George D. Webster
-Confirmation
-Colson

Film
-Dick Martin-Dan Rowan Production
-Attendance


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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift.]

[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Hugh Scott
-Harry S. Dent
-George A. Goodling
-Martin Hamburger
-William E. Brock, III
-Bush
-Dent
-Regional responsibilities

[End segment reviewed under deed of gift.]
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Stanton
-Appointment
-Charles Colson
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Conversation No. 838-18 (cont’d)

-Red Cross
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Donald M. Kendall
-Red Cross
-USIA
-Lewis

Democrat Caucus meeting
- Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield

Presidential nominations
-Vietnam War

Watergate
-Bugging in the President’s place in 1968
-Christian
-DeLoach
-Califano
-Humphrey

Agency appointments
-Haldeman
-Ehrlichman

Press relations
-Staff responsibility for news summaries
-Colson
-Haldeman
-Ziegler
-Ehrlichman
-Strategy regarding anti-administration actions
-William E. Timmons
-Colson
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-Labor unions
-Letter writing campaigns
-Bombing
-Objections
-Congress
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Conversation No. 838-18 (cont’d)

-Mail count
-TV

Administration policy
-Cambodia
-Richardson
-Leadership concerns
-Colson
-Compared to Bruce A. Kehrli
-Roy L. Ash
-Qualifications

Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:20 am.

President's schedule
-Council on Environmental Quality [CEQ]
-Press photograph

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:03 am.

Environment issue in campaign
-Colorado
-Ehrlichman
-Water bill
-Question of President's veto
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-William D. Ruckelshaus
-Mrs. Nixon, Tricia Nixon Cox, Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Park dedications

Agnew

Haldeman left at 11:03 am.
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