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Conversation No. 892-4

Date: April 10, 1973
Time: Unknown between 8:16 am and 8:37 am
Location: Oval Office

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

Concert by Philadelphia Orchestra

-Eugene Ormandy

-Ludwig Van Beethoven

-Symphony audiences in Washington, DC

-Tristan and Isolde

-Margaret Ormandy

-Trips to People’s Republic of China [PRC]

-Doves

-Eugene Ormandy

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-Knowledge of music
-Talent


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-George H. W. Bush


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-Harry S. Dent

-Relationship with Hugh Scott

-Bush
-Republican National Committee [RNC] chairman
-Concern for Eisenhower
-Residence in Maryland
- -[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II’s plans
-Candidacy in Pennsylvania
-Work for George A. Goodling
-Washington, DC
-Dent
-Eisenhower’s meeting

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-Goodling
-President’s meeting
-Haldeman’s telephone call to [Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Bush’s advice
-Eisenhower’s work for Goodling
-President’s meeting with Goodling
-Bush’s role as intermediary
-Dent’s role
-Bush’s role
-Dent
-Scott
-Pennsylvania State Republican Chairman Clifford L. Jones
-Residency
-Washington, DC
-Cost of living

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Weather

-Possibility of snow

-President’s trip to Camp David


Watergate
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-John D. Ehrlichman [?]
-Conversation with President [?]
-Ervin Committee
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-James W. McCord, Jr.
-Haldeman, Charles Colson, Dwight L. Chapin, John W. Dean III
-Leonard Garment
-John N. Mitchell
-Money
-Sources
-Kenneth W. Parkinson

-Handling

-Dean’s role

-Mitchell

-Herbert W. Kalmbach

-John D. Ehrlichman

-Paul L. O’Brien

-William O. Bittman

-Parkinson

-Reason

-Mitchell
-Mitchell
-Cover-up
-Garment
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Testimony of White House staff
-Haldeman’s testimony
-Role at Committee to Re-elect the President [CRP]
-Magruder
-Haldeman’s conversation with Gordon C. Strachan
-Ehrlichman
-Negotiations with Ervin Committee
-Campaign financing
-Charges against Democrats
-White House counterattack

-Howard H. Baker, Jr.

-Charles Colson

-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Responsibility
-Forthcoming grand jury testimony
-Chapin
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-Strachan
-Dean
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Haldeman’s forthcoming testimony
-Richard A. Moore
-Public relations
-Timing
-Statement by Haldeman
-Strachan
-Chapin
-Content
-Donald H. Segretti
-Moore, Ronald L. Ziegler

William E. Timmons entered at 8:31 am.

Haldeman’s telephone call to Eisenhower

-Julie Nixon Eisenhower


Haldeman left at 8:31 am.

Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-President’s previous meeting
-Thomas C. Korologos
-Possible trip to People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Participation
-PRC reaction
-Watergate
-Ervin
-Cambodia
-Montana
-Mansfield’s statement

Base closing

-Exceptions

-Portsmouth, New Hampshire

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-Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
-Henry L. Bellmon
-Reelection campaign
-Philadelphia
-Scott
-Frank L. Rizzo
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Necessity of closure

President’s forthcoming energy message

-Forthcoming meeting

-Congressional committees
-Interior and Insular Affairs Committee
-Foreign Relations Committee
-Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
-Public Works Committee

Wilbur D. Mills

-Appearance


Morale of House Republicans

-President’s vetoes

-Water and sewer bill


The President left at an unknown time after 8:31 am.

[Pause]

The President entered at an unknown time before 8:37 am.

President’s schedule

-Meeting time


The President and Timmons left at 8:37 am.
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