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Conversation No. 870-7

Date: March 6, 1973
Time: Unknown between 6:05 pm and 7:01 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

President's activities for day
-Value

President's meeting with mayors
-Announcement [?]
-Cabinet room
-Mayors of Detroit; Columbus, Ohio


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Party switch
-Louis Welsh [Mayor of Houston]
-John B. Connally
-Thomas G. Corcoran’s opinion on timing
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Corcoran
-Irish Blarney
-Success
-Letter from Anna C. Chennauly
-Scheduling of meeting
-Haldeman’s analysis

Housing and Urban Development [HUD] Undersecretary
-Announcement
-Nominee
-William Sidey [?]
-Withdrawal of name
-Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC] violation
-Floyd H. Hyde
-James T. Lynn’s support
-Civic relations [?]
-Value to administration
-1972 campaign

President's visits to various departments
-Cabinet officers’ requests

President's schedule
-Time for reflection, rest
-President's meetings with financial supporters
-Maurice H. Stans
-Value
-Scheduling
-Sponges
-Cabinet
-Congress
-Farewell meetings
-White House staff
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-Assistant secretaries
-Value
-Scheduling problems
-Tour of country
-Regional meetings, press briefings
-John D. Ehrlichman's recommendation
-Value
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Effectiveness
-Public visibility
-Chicago
-Visit
-Value
-Press briefings
-Speeches, questions
-Regional press conference [?]
-Tours of the country
-Ehrlichman
-Novelty

Cabinet
-Lack of leadership

Congress
-Lack of support

Agnew
-Tours of country

Surrogate advocates plan

Dinner for supporters
-Stans
-Format
-Handshakes
-Movement of people
-Seating
-Receiving line
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-Meal service
-Guest list
-President's dealings with guests
-President's presence
-Arrival, departure
-Avoidance of being cornered
-Arrangements
-Stephen B Bull
-Stans
-President's departure

President's legislative agenda
-Publicity campaign
-Press [?]
-Regional coverage
-Cabinet
-Conferences
-Novelty value
-New ideas
-President’s role
-Media briefings
-Value
-Political campaigning
-Editorials
-President's schedule
-Ehrlichman
-Lack of time
-Meeting with mayors, Urban League [?]
-Deletions
-Florida
-William J. Baroody, Jr.’s operation
-Herbert G. Klein [?]
-President's opinion of memorandum
-Effectiveness of program
-Newspaper advertisements
-Mail to Congress
-Compared to Bryce N. Harlow’s, Charles W. Colson’s operations
-Lack of excitement about budget cuts, taxes
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Congressional relations
-President's meetings with congress members
-Haldeman’s meeting with Clark MacGregor, Harlow, and William E.
Timmons
-Harlow's idea
-Ranking leadership
-Timmons's criticism
-Congressional complaints
-Carl T. Curtis’s support for appointee
-Congressional problems
-Harlow's approach to congressional relations
-Weekly meeting
-Agenda
-Breakfast meetings
-Leaders meetings
-Bipartisan meetings
-As needed
-Energy, aid to Vietnam, trade
-Weekly meeting
-Steady content
-John G. Tower
-Timmons’s, Haldeman’s opinion
-Problems [?]
-President's meeting with Hugh Scott
-Ehrlichman's account
-President's approach
-President's meetings with congress members
-Harlow's suggestions
-Cancellations
-Ranking members
-Leadership
-Breakfast
-Social events
-Value
-Limitations
-Breakfast meetings
-Value
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-Comparison with Dwight D. Eisenhower's handling
-[First name unknown] MacPherson
-Personal ties
-Meetings with Scott, Gerald R. Ford
-Leadership
-Bipartisan
-Haldeman's meeting with MacGregor, Harlow, and Timmons
-MacGregor
-President's meetings with ranking Republicans
-Republican members of House Appropriations Committee
-Concentration on House
-Agreement
-Congressional mood
-Lobbyist influence
-Regional publicity campaign
-President’s tour
-Effect on Congress
-Ehrlichman’s tour
-Detroit Economic Club
-Chicago
-Ehrlichman's suggestions
-Congressional attendance
-Purpose of tours
-Angew’s role

MacGregor
-Morale

White House staff
-Hard work
-Effect of contact with Congress
-Apologies

Press briefings
-Format [?]
-Eisenhower period
-John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson period
-Frequency
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Dinner for supporters
-President's departure
-Manner
-Stans
-Expectations of guests

State dinners, Evenings at the White House
-Handshakes
-Reception line
-Seating
-Del E. Webb

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 7:01 pm.