Conversation: 234-010
Prev: 234-009 Next: 234-011Start Date: 7-Dec-1972 1:05 PM
End Date: 7-Dec-1972 1:20 PM
Participants:
Ehrlichman, John D.; Webster, George D.;Recording Device: Camp David Hard Wire
NARA Description:
On December 7, 1972, John D. Ehrlichman and George D. Webster met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David from 1:05 pm to 1:20 pm. The Camp David Hard Wire taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 234-010 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 234-10
Date: December 7, 1972
Time: 1:05 pm – 1:20 pm
Location: Camp David Hard Wire
John D. Ehrlichman met with George D. Webster.
Second term reorganization
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Webster confirmation
-Effect on the President
-Edwin S. Cohen
-George P. Shultz
-Bureaucracy
-Effect on the President
-[American Bar Association] [ABA] Tax Section chairmen
-Unknown person
-Bureaucracy
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with Shultz
-Johnnie M. Walters
-Webster’s contact with administration
Common Cause
-Lawsuit against Committee to Reelect the President [CRP]
-The President
-Defense
-Ultra Vires
-Political activity
-Tax exempt status
-Settlement
-Maurice H. Stans
-Defense waiver
-Tax exempt status challenge
-Settlement
-Timing
-1972 election
-Governing or litigation committee
-Democrats
-John W. Dean, III
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-08)
Conversation No. 234-10 (cont’d)
-Mitchell Rogovin
IRS
-Roger Barth
-Deputy Chief Counsel
-Retention
-Conversation with Ehrlichman
-State Department
-Ruling on exemption for prisoners of war [POWs] organization
-White House
-Policy
-Vietnam War
-The President’s interests
-Conflict with bureaucracy
-Cohen
-Retention
-Congressional relations
-Tax reform
-Frederic W. Hickman
-John H. Hall
-Deputy to Hickman
-Los Angeles
-Dana Latham
-IRS Commissioner
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
Webster’s background
-Government experience
-Harvard University Law School
-Justice Department tax division
-Tax cases
-Circuit
-Ehrlichman’s law firm
-Unknown person
-Wife
Second term reorganization
-Webster’s confirmation
-Opposition
-[Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-08)
Conversation No. 234-10 (cont’d)
-Randolph W. Thrower
-Mac Asbill, Jr.
-ABA Tax Section chairman
-William French Smith [?]
-Thrower
-Washington, DC and Atlanta
Webster’s background
-Washington, DC
-Justice Department
-Marriage
-Rogersville, Tennessee
-Knoxville
-Webster’s conversation with the President
-Tennessee
-Ivy League
-Harvard University
-Education
-Harvard University
-The President’s view
-Yale University
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-James T. Lynn
-Adelbert College of Western Reserve University
-Ohio
-Weinberger
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Maryville College
-Presbyterian affiliation
-Navy
-Ehrlichman’s background
-GI Bill
-Stanford University
-Harvard University
-Stanford
-Navy
-West Coast
-Stanford
-Harvard
-Ehrlichman’s background
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-08)
Conversation No. 234-10 (cont’d)
-Compared to Webster’s
-Graduation dates
-Undergraduate career
-Law school
-Law firm
-Length of practice
-Income
-Counsel to the President
Ehrlichman and Webster left at 1:20 pm.