Conversation No. 149-8

Date: October 15, 1972
Time: 9:16 am - 9:24 am
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

[See Conversation No. 220-11]

        Congress
           -Adjournment
                -The President's conversation with William E. Timmons
                    -House of Representatives, Senate
           -Legislation
                -Ehrlichman’s forthcoming briefing
                    -Water quality bill
                    -Spending limitation
                    -Social Security bill
                        -Ehrlichman's forthcoming conversation with Stephen Kurzman of
                        Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
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                            Tape Subject Log
                              (rev. Oct-06)

            -Welfare reform
                -Budget
                     -Increase
                          -Possible number
            -Possible vetoes
                -Social Security legislation
                     -Welfare provisions
                          -Timmons
                     -Title III
                          -Titles I and II
                     -Washington Post
                     -Budget increase
                          -Spending limitation
                          -George S. McGovern's welfare proposals
            -The President's second term
                -Proposed changes
                     -Cuts
                          -Comparisons to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration
                     -Welfare reform

Charges
    -Ehrlichman’s forthcoming briefing
    -Watergate
    -US-Soviet Union grain deal
    -Dwight L. Chapin
    -Response by the Administration
        -Charges against Chapin
            -Washington Post
                -Joseph “McCarthyism”
                     -Joseph N. Welch
                          -Protection of colleague in 1954
                               -Comparisons
            -Journalistic standards
                -Washington Post, New York Times
                     -Reporting of campaign
                          -Campaign practices
                               -Charges
                               -Adolf Hitler
                               -Editorial reaction
                               -James G. Blaine-Grover Cleveland race
                                    -Comparisons to current election
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                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Oct-06)

                                      -Bombing of campaign headquarters

        Press relations
            -The President's California property
                 -Los Angeles Times
                 -New York Times
                      -Story by Wally Turner
                          -Response
                          -Ehrlichman’s forthcoming briefing
                               -Financial disclosure
                                   -The President's compared to R. Sargent Shriver
                                        -Eunice (Kennedy) Shriver
                                             -Disclosure
                                   -George S. McGovern