878–5

Conversation No. 878-5

Date: March 13, 1973
Time: Unknown between 11:00 am and 11:05 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.


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President’s schedule
-George H. W. Bush

Golf clubs
-Location
-Burning Tree Country Club
-Charity events
-MacGregors

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President's meeting with Bush
-Arrival


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Golf clubs
-Location
-Key Biscayne
-San Clemente
-Burning Tree Country Club
-MacGregors
-Arnold D. Palmer
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President's schedule
-Meeting
-Tax increase
-Bryce N. Harlow
-John Burns [?]
-Allen Wallace [?]
-Announcement
-Meeting of Agriculture Department leadership
-Foreign service wives
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Meeting with John J. McCloy

Bush entered and Bull left at 11:05 am.


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Republican candidates
-Illinois senate race
-John Anderson
-President’s commitment to Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Rumsfeld
-Philip M. Crane
-Decision to run
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Poll
-Primary
-President’s conversation with Robert W. Galvin
-Stag dinner
-Adlai E. Stevenson, III
-Vulnerability
-Rumsfeld
-Work with White House
-Capability
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-Galvin
-Anderson
-Bush’s message
-President’s commitment to Rumsfeld
-Abilities
-Commitments
-Rumsfeld
-Need for decision
-Primary
-Anderson
-Power in House of Representatives
-Liberalism
-Rumsfeld
-Abilities

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Republic candidates
-New Jersey governor’s race
-William T. Cahill
-Bush's conversation with John N. Mitchell
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS] check by John D. Ehrlichman
-Campaign contributions
-Joseph McCrane
-State treasurer
-Son-in-law
-Money laundering
-Race track window
-Charles Sandman
-Justice Department
-Publicity
-Linwood Holton
-Endorsement questions
-Mitchell
-Rumsfeld
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-California senate race
-President’s endorsement in primary
-Robert H. Finch
-Governor
-Rumsfeld
-Finch
-Anderson
-Primary endorsements
-New York mayor’s race
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Talk with Alex Rose
-[First name unknown] Wagner
-John G. Schmitz
-Rejoining Republican Party
-“Bircher”
-Attacks on President in 1972 campaign
-John B. Connally
-Image
-Candidacy against incumbent Congress member
-California
-John Birch Society
-President’s opposition

Republican Party
-Committee to Reelect the President [CRP]
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s suggestions
-Data
-Funds
-Bush’s conversation with Maurice H. Stans
-Republican National Committee [RNC]
-Use
-Future campaigns
-Incumbents
-Congressional campaign committees
-Clarence J. (“Bud”) Brown, Jr.
-Dinner
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-Work with Bush
-Robert C. (“Bob”) Wilson
-Meeting
-Announcement
-Gerald R. Ford
-Robert Michel
-Brown
-Reorganization
-Staff
-Wilson
-Meeting with President and Bush
-Michel
-William E. Brock, III
-Work with incumbents
-Candidate recruitment
-Brown
-Reorganization
-Michel
-Role of RNC staff
-1972 election
-Brown’s analysis
-Candidates’ age
-Women candidates
-South Carolina
-Candidate recruitment
-Outside of Washington, DC
-Local districts
-Work with state chairmen
-Quality of advice
-Galvin, Leslie C. Arends
-California
-CRP funds
-Demands
-Plans for dispersal
-New candidates for 1974 election
-Emphasis on House of Representatives
-Expense of Senate candidates
-Candidate trust fund
-President’s approval
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-Haldeman
-RNC
-Importance of Bush’s position
-Contrasted with United Nations [UN]
-Internal conflicts

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Ambassadorial appointments
-Financial contributors
-Stans
-Amounts
-Haldeman’s role
-Germany
-William P. Rogers conversation with Bush
-Concerns
-Stans
-Jerry S. Jones
-Robert L. Vesco

Bush’s schedule
-Speech

Gridiron dinner
-Bush's attendance
-George S. McGovern's performance
-Quality
-Democrats
-Internal divisions
-George Meany

Bush left at 11:16 am.
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