921–20

Conversation No. 921-20

Date: May 17, 1973
Time: 12:26 pm - 12:45 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ralph J. Perk, George H. W. Bush, Kenneth R. Cole, Jr. and James H.
Falk.

Greetings

Arrangements for press photograph

Perk’s accomplishments

-Veterans

-Jobs



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Perk’s forthcoming election
-President’s support

-Air waves

-Cleveland, Ohio

-Polls

-Numbers

-Perk

-John J. Gilligan

-Gilligan

-Taxes

-Previous year’s vote on amendment

-Vote of confidence

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Watergate

-Washington, DC

-Press coverage

-Popular mood


Members of the press and the White House photographer entered at an unknown time after 12:26
pm.

Press coverage
-Discussion points

-Pleasantries

-Cleveland Browns


Bush

The press and the White House photographer left at an unknown time before 12:45 pm.

Cleveland

-Possible action by administration

-Budget

-Unemployment

-Compared with Detroit

-Federal revenue-sharing

-President’s message

-Bureaucracy

-Defense by Perk


Emergency Employment Act [EEA]

-President’s support

-Funding

-Extension
-Manpower
-Federal revenue-sharing
-Flexibility
-Timing of announcement
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Cleveland

-City Council

-Political make-up

-Unemployment

-Funds from administration

-Timing of announcement
-City Council
-Mayor
-Board of Education
-Polls
-Bush

Perk’s possible statement regarding meeting with the President
-Watergate

-Administration’s activities

-Embarrassment

-Foreign policy

-Peace
-World War II
-Soviet Summit
-Europe
-Domestic programs
-Inflation
-Federal budget
-Administration’s attitude
-1972 election mandate
-Peace
-Prosperity
-War
-Inflation


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1972 campaign
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-Tricia Nixon Cox

-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s visit


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Watergate

-Administration’s activities

-Bush’s recent trip

-Lincoln, Nebraska

-Tuscon, Arizona

-President’s message

-Public reaction

-Cabinet meeting

-Revenue-sharing



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Republican Party

-Political success

-Mayorship
-Annapolis, Maryland
-Black vote
-Oakland, California
-[First name unknown] Reading [?]
-Alexandria, Virginia
-Administration’s handling of Watergate

Perk’s forthcoming election

-Cleveland Press

-Cleveland Plain Dealer

-Thomas V. H. Vail

-Cleveland Press

-Roy Howard

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-Scripps-Howard Company
-New York
-Perk’s opponent
-Finances
-Message from President
-Vail
-Herbert G. Klein’s possible calls
-Jack Howard
-Thomas L. Boardman
-Cleveland Press
-Proximity to President

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Presentation of gifts by President

-Golf balls

-Seal

-Cufflinks


Bush

President’s schedule

-Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty

-Visit to Cleveland
-Joseph Cardinal Slipyj-Kobernickyj-Dyckowsky
-Hungarian, Ukrainian voters
-New Majority
-National Security Council [NSC]

Perk et al. left at 12:45 pm.
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