845–10

Conversation No. 845-10

Date: January 31, 1973
Time: 4:17 pm and 4:52 pm.
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

Press relations
-Press conference
-William E. Timmons [?]
-Clark R. Mollenhoff [?]
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Location
-Press coverage
-Dan Rather
-Watergate
-Mollenhoff
-Written opinion
-Ernest A. Fitzgerald
-News summaries
-Robert C. Seamans, Jr.
-Executive priviledge
-Separation of powers

[See transcript for this portion of this conversation.]

-Vietnam settlement
-The President’s statements
-Congressional relations
-Quotes
-Amnesty
-Colson, H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, Patrick J. Buchanan
-White House staff advice
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Conversation No. 845-10 (cont’d)

-Wire services
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Briefing
-Peace with honor
Wire services
-Kissinger's trip
-President's press conference
-Amnesty
-Peace Corps
-Criminal penalties

Press conference
-Watergate
-Donald H. Segretti
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Questions
-Issues

Future press conferences
-Frequency
-Use of TV
-Effect
-Congressional relations
-The President's conversation with H. R. Haldeman
-Preparation
-Kissinger,
-Ehrlichman

-Previous Presidents
-John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson
-John F. Kennedy
-Executive privilege
-Suggest response

-Impoundment of funds question
-Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Harry S. Truman
-Taxes

Press relations
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Conversation No. 845-10 (cont’d)

-Kissinger
-William H. Sullivan
-\"Meet the Press\"
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Vietnam
-Quote
-New York Times
-Colson's conversation with John B. Connally
-\"Today Show\" appearance
-Sullivan

-Peter Lisagor’s story
-Connally’s 1976 Republican Presidential candidacy
-Jules Witcover
-William D. Ruckelshaus
-Meeting with The President
-Clean Air
-Nicholas P. Thimmesch

John D. Ehrlichman entered at 4:32 pm.

Politics
-Press report on Connally/1976 Republican Presidential
candidacy
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Ruckelshaus
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Ruckelshaus
-Lisagor
-Witcover

Colson left at 4:33 pm.

The President's meeting with Connally
-Algeria
-Treasury Department
-Imports exception
-George P. Shultz
-Soviet Union
-Pipeline
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Conversation No. 845-10 (cont’d)

-Meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Possible trip
-Kissinger

Watergate
-Executive privilege
-John W. Dean, III
-Response for press
-Congressional relations
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Letter to Frank E. {“Ted”) Moss
-Mollenhoff
-Ziegler
-Bryce N. Harlow
-C5A overruns
-Civil Service Commission

-Seamans
-Fitzgerald

Ehrlichman's meeting with Connally
-Richard M. Helms
-Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran
-Middle East
-Research and development for energy
-Budget
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Middle East oil prices

The President's meeting with Edward R. G. Heath
-Iran
-Pahlavi
-Saudi Arabia
-Great Britain
-Oil companies

Connally
-Anti-trust
-Gulf and Western
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Conversation No. 845-10 (cont’d)

-Charles Bluhdorn
-A & P
-Justice Department
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-[First name not known] Kifer[?]
-Federal Trade Commission [FTC]
-[First name not known] Kilpatrick
-Justice Department
-Bluhdorn

Time
-Dinner
-Ehrlichman's schedule
-Conduct
-1973 inauguration
-Cover
-Marlon Brando
-Hugh S. Sidey
-John F. Osborne
-William L. Safire
-Compared to Newsweek
-Relationship with Ehrlichman
-Ehrlichman's schedule
-Shultz
-Invitation

Executive priviledge
-Roy L. Ash
-Seamans
-Cabinet officer
-Attorney General
-Harlow
-Mollenhoff
-Fitzgerald
-Cost overruns
-Insubordination
-Ziegler
-Mollenhoff

Press relations
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Conversation No. 845-10 (cont’d)

-Mollenhoff
-Lisagor
-Osborne
-Witcover
-Characterized
-\"CBS Morning Show\"
-Press conference
-Taxes
-Poor, elderly, Blacks
-Congress
-Special interests
-Program cuts

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Alaskans
-Donald Young
-Ted Stevens
-Welfare funds
-“Bonanza for bureaucrats”
-Poor

U.S. News and World Report

Stephen B. Bull [?] entered at an unknown time after 4:32 pm.

Ehrlichman’s Schedule
-FTC
Ziegler
The President’s schedule

Bull [?] left at an unknown time before 4:52 pm.

Ehrlichman left at 4:52 pm.