Conversation: 317-006
Prev:  317-005 Next: 317-007Start Date: 24-Jan-1972 1:51 PM
End Date: 24-Jan-1972 3:00 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ehrlichman, John D.; Mills, Wilbur D.; Mills, Abbie L. (Daigh); Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:07:52
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:16:13
NARA Description:
On January 24, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, John D. Ehrlichman, Wilbur D. Mills, and Abbie L. (Daigh) Mills met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 1:51 pm to 3:00 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 317-006 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 317-6 3 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Date: January 24, 1972 Time: 1:51 pm - 3:00 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with John D. Ehrlichman. Frank L. Rizzo -Recent meeting with the President and Ehrlichman, January 24, 1972 -Meeting with the President -Ward leaders -Salary -Pennsylvania budget -Subsequent meeting with Ehrlichman -Pennsylvania Congressmen -Patronage -Rizzo's control -Relations with White House -George P. Shultz and Leonard Garment -Pennsylvania [The President talked with Wilbur D. Mills between 1:52 pm and 1:56 pm.] [Conversation No. 317-6A] [See Conversation No. 19-42] [The President talked with Mills's granddaughter at an unknown time.] [The President talked with Mills at an unknown time.] [The President talked with Abbie L. (Daigh) Mills at an unknown time.] [The President talked with Wilbur Mills between an unknown time after 1:52 pm and 1:56 pm.] [End of telephone conversation] The President's previous conversation with Wilbur Mills -Abbie Mills and Wilbur Mills's granddaughter -Ages 4 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 317-6 (cont.) ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 5m 43s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 ***************************************************************** Federal programs -Funding -Rizzo -Low income housing -George W. Romney -Chicago -Romney -Robert H. Finch Romney -Future -Conversation with Ehrlichman -Church -Public service ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 48s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3 ***************************************************************** Campaign financing 5 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 317-6 (cont.) -Walter H. Annenberg -Financial contribution -Deal with White House ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 2m 12s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4 ***************************************************************** Frank T. Bow -Political plans -Meeting with the President -Age National economy -Unemployment -December 1971 figures -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman -Political staff -By region and state -South -Texas -Florida -West -California -News summary -Oregon -Washington -Colorado -North Dakota -East -Connecticut -New Jersey 6 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 317-6 (cont.) -New York -Pennsylvania -Midwest -Ohio -Illinois -Michigan -California project -Ohio and Illinois -Pennsylvania -Rizzo -William J. Green -Philadelphia -[Milton J. Shapp] -New York -New York City -Compared with California -Nelson A. Rockefeller's welfare program -Federal money -California -Federal money -Ohio -John J. Gilligan -Illinois -Ohio -US Senate and House -Gilligan -Political prospects -Illinois -Richard B. Ogilvie -Richard J. Daley -California -November 1971 figures -Shifting patterns -California -New York -Connecticut -Texas, Florida, Illinois -Demography -Black teens, Puerto Ricans and minority women -New York City -Married heads of households 7 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 317-6 (cont.) -Ehrlichman's possible discussions -Charles W. Colson, John N. Mitchell and Haldeman -Texas and Florida -South -Atlanta -Blacks -Menial labor -North -Women -Unions Rizzo -Instruction for Ehrlichman -Domestic Council -Rizzo's constituency in other cities Busing -Edward L. Morgan's memorandum -Richmond case -Judge [Robert R. Merhige, Jr.] -Lyndon B. Johnson appointee -Elliot L. Richardson -Administration position -State of the Union address -Local control of local schools -Constitutional amendment or legislative proposal -Democratic National Convention -Result -Political polarization ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 8s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5 ***************************************************************** 8 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 317-6 (cont.) Rizzo -Blacks' views -Philadelphia police -Meeting with the President -Photograph -Announcement to Philadelphia press -Federal money -Hugh Scott's administrative assistant -1972 election -Ehrlichman's possible conversation with Scott -Congressional seats -Annenberg's influence -Campaign financing Annenberg -Nomination as Ambassador to Great Britain -Withdrawal -Father -Religion -British Ambassador John Freeman -Conversations with Ehrlichman -Rizzo Rizzo -Recent meeting with the President -Ehrlichman’s forthcoming call to Annenberg -Pittsburgh -Labor leaders -Colson Rockefeller -Call to Ehrlichman, January 22, 1972 -State of the Union Address -Value Added Tax [VAT] -Federal funding for transportation -VAT -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew’s briefing of executive committee of governors -Agnew’s Cabinet briefing 9 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 317-6 (cont.) VAT -Sales tax -Ehrlichman's possible conversation with the Vice President -Administration line -Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations [ACIR] -Democrats -Options -Agnew -States -Calvin L. Rampton's views -Tax rebates -Agnew’s views -Rockefeller Agnew -Possible conversation with Ehrlichman Legal services -Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO] -Ronald W. Reagan -Congressional action -Board of Directors -[Lois G. Forer] -Rizzo -Appointment by Shapp -Legal suit against Philadelphia -Police court -Board of Directors -The President's appointment -Government control -Ehrlichman’s view -Egil G. (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.’s and Richard H. Nordahl's views -Public view -Possible veto Kissinger -Military security files -Allegation -Haldeman -Kissinger's conversation with Melvin R. Laird 10 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 317-6 (cont.) -Laird's possible action -Possible White House action -Jack N. Anderson -Ehrlichman -Laird ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 1m 40s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6 ***************************************************************** Howard R. Hughes -Book hoax -Payment of $625,000 to "Helga Hughes" [Edith Irving] by McGraw-Hill -Switzerland -Lawrence F. O'Brien, Jr. -Humphrey's son-in-law -Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo -Loan to the President's family ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 1m 14s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7 ***************************************************************** 11 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 317-6 (cont.) ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 2m 2s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8 ***************************************************************** 1972 election -Hubert H. Humphrey -Possible financing by administration -California ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 1m 54s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9 ***************************************************************** Yeoman Charles E. Radford -Possible revelation of information -Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS] -Comments to acquaintances -Conversations with Anderson -Radford's conversations with [Forename unknown] Cole [sp?] Watergate -Wiretaps -Anderson -Unknown woman at State Department 12 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 317-6 (cont.) -Unknown man -Background -Eugene J. Carroll, Jr. [?] -Relations with Radford -Expansion -Unknown woman at State Department -Sensitivity of position -Unknown man -Reports -Ehrlichman's perusal -David R. Young, Jr. -Kissinger -Unknown man's conversation with Carroll [?] -Radford's transfer -Unknown yeoman -Transfer -Reason -White House action -Clearance -Access to documents Responses to administration's opponents -Attacks Richmond busing case -Newspapers' reaction -The President’s State of the Union address -Linwood Holton's views The President's State of the Union Address -Tone -Delivery ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 12 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 1m 26s ] 13 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 317-6 (cont.) END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 12 ***************************************************************** US foreign policy -The President's role -Kissinger -1972 election -People's Republic of China [PRC] -Soviet Union -Anatoliy F. Dobrynin -India-Pakistan relations -PRC -Analogy to Great Britain's role in nineteenth century -PRC -Press coverage -PRC, Japan, Soviet Union -PRC -Soviet Union -Détente -Japan -Visit By Andrei A. Gromyko -Defense -Soviets -Trade -The President’s forthcoming trip to PRC -PRC -Soviet Union -Kissinger -William P. Rogers -State Department -Soviet Union -Polls -1972 election -Economy -“Generation of peace” Council of Economic Advisors [CEA] -Herbert Stein -Paul W. McCracken 14 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 317-6 (cont.) John B. Connally -Relationship with Ehrlichman -Relationship with Peter M. Flanigan -Views of Peter G. Peterson -Commerce Department -Presidential statement -Connally's conversation with Ehrlichman -Relationship with Flanigan -Compared with relationship with Peterson -Drug enforcement -Eugene T. Rossides -Treasury Department -Bureaucracy -Justice Department -Krogh -Schedule -Flanigan's role -Use of White House staff -Conversation with Ehrlichman -Possible conversation with the President ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 14 [Privacy] [Duration: 1m 45s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 14 ***************************************************************** Unknown people -Richardson [?] The President's forthcoming peace plan proposal speech -Scheduling 15 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) Conv. No. 317-6 (cont.) Ehrlichman left at 3:00 pm.