869–5

Conversation No. 869-5

Date: March 6, 1973
Time: 8:25 am - 8:30 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman and William E. Timmons.

Congressional relations
-Ehrlichman's meeting with Hugh Scott and Gerald R. Ford
-Ehrlichman's briefing
-Ford
-Scott
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-Attitude

-President's visit to Congress
-Senate policy lunch
-Scott
-Scheduling conflict
-Democratic study group

-Ehrlichman's meeting with Scott and Ford
-Republican senators’ support for President
-Responsibility for tax increase
-Presidential veto
-Support in Senate, House
-Ford
-Senate
-Carl T. Curtis's visits to White House
-1972 election results
-Ehrlichman's evaluation of Republican Senators
-Curtis
-Ted Stevens

Republican leaders
-Ford
-Positive feedback
-Scott
-Subjects of discussion
-Meeting with Ehrlichman

Press relations
-Democratic reforms
-Analysis
-Conservative columnists
-Charles W. Colson
-Compared with 1972 campaign, convention

President's meeting with Scott and Ford
-Arrival
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-2010)
Conversation No. 869-5 (cont’d)



Ehrlichman and Timmons left at 8:30 am.