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Conversation No. 874-10

Date: March 9, 1973
Time: 12:15 pm – 12:30 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Thomas Hart.

President's meeting with Janet J. Johnston and George H. W. Bush
-Oliver F. (‘Ollie”) Atkins

Johnston and Bush entered at 12:15 pm. Members of the press and the White House
photographer were present at the beginning of the meeting.
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Introductions

Photographs

Anne L. Armstrong

Lonnie Baker [?]

Republican National Committee [RNC]meeting [?]

Cabinet meeting [?]
-Bush, Johnston’s attendance [?]

[Photograph session]
-Suggestion of candidacy for Congress

Press release
-Background on Johnston
-Age

Hart, the White House photographer, and members of the press left at an unknown time after
12:15 pm.


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RNC
-Johnston’s role
-Contacts with White House staff
-Armstrong
-Bush
-Popularity
-Staff
-Size
-William E. Brock, III
-Work with Bush
-Kenneth S. Rietz
-Clarence J. (“Bud”) Brown
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-Work with Bush
-Candidacy for party leadership role [?]
-Robert H. Michel
-Gerald R. Ford
-Father
-Aid to President
-1946 election
-Present job
-Importance
-Candidacy for party leadership role [?]
-Deal with Michel
-White House intervention
-Qualifications for job
-Role in RNC
-Republican fundraising dinner
-Michel
-Rietz’s appointment
-Alaska Congressional election
-Donald E. Young’s victory
-Rietz’s appointment
-“New Majority Campaign”
-Samuel L. Devine
-Meeting with Bush

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Congressional relations
-President’s meeting with Freshmen Republican Congressmen
-Devine’s Congressional caucus
-Meeting with President
-Support for vetoes
-Tennessee
-Leslie C. Arends

Jacob K. Javits
-Conversation with Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Meeting with President
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-Invitation
-Bush
-Timing
-Trade bill
-Shultz


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William T. Cahill’s New Jersey campaign
-Rockefeller [?]
-Bush’s conversation with John N. Mitchell
-President’s endorsement
-Primary
-Charles W. Sandman, Jr.
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS] investigation
-Mitchell, John D. Ehrlichman
-John E. Hunt
-Support for President

Primaries
-Endorsement of White House
-Role of RNC
-Virginia
-Linwood Holton’s support for Mill Godwin
-Harry F. Byrd, Jr’s, [unintelligible] Smith’s influence
-Jack March, Stets Coleman
-1974 election
-Democratic leaders
-Richard Obenshain
-Candidacy for lieutenant governor
-Democrats
-Switch to Republican Party
-Obenshain

Republican Party
-Connally
-Switch from Democrats
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-George Christian
-Virginia Democrats
-Timing of switch
-Louis Welch
-Mayor of Houston
-Switch from Democrats
-Calls to Connally [?]
-Importance of switch
-Candidacy for President
-Texas
-Need for support of Republican Party
-Bush’s candidacy for governor [?]
-Candidacy for President
-Republican primary delegates

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Johnston and Bush left at 12:30 pm.