Conversation: 763-016
Prev: 763-015 Next: 763-017Start Date: 7-Aug-1972 11:24 AM
End Date: 7-Aug-1972 1:18 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ehrlichman, John D.; Bull, Stephen B.;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On August 7, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, John D. Ehrlichman, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:24 am and 1:18 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 763-016 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 763-16
Date: August 7, 1972
Time: Unknown between 11:24 am and 1:18 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.
Water quality bill
-Budget impact
-Restrictions on private industry
-Jobs
-Financial burdens
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Taxes compared to the environment
-Administration's position
-Justification of possible veto
-Tax burden
-Portrayal of George S. McGovern
-Spending
-Compared to the President
-Jobs contrasted with the environment
-Issue in campaign
-Environmental concerns
-Control of taxes
-Clean water
-Administration's expenditures
-Public relations [PR] staff
-Richard A. Moore
-Charles W. Colson
-John A. Scali
-Desmond J. Barker, Jr.
-Ronald L. Ziegler's representative
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Clark MacGregor's representative
-Political staff
-Bryce N. Harlow
-MacGregor
-John N. Mitchell
-Veto
-Mitchell
-Possible Cabinet meeting
-Republican leadership
-Hugh Scott
-Ehrlichman’s view
Busing
-Scott
-Constitutional amendment
-Rules Committee schedule
-Moratorium
-William M. Colmer
-Vote on constitutional amendment
-Timing
-Republican National Convention
-Congress
-Adjournment
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 6m 10s ]
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Food prices
-Nature of issue
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-John B. Connally
-Ehrlichman's previous conversations
-Arthur F. Burns
-George P. Shultz
-Herbert Stein
-Political staff
-Need for Connally’s view
-Connanlly’s background as cattle grower
-Connally’s role in the August 15, 1971 decision
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming meeting with Connally
-Farm Belt support for the Administration
-Depth
-Need for administration sensitivity to farm issues
-Burn's view
-Profit margins
-Effect on stock market
-New York
-New Jersey
-Political impact
-Inflation
-Shultz
-Washington Post story
-Corporate profits
-Ehrlichman's forthcoming memorandum to for the President
-Forthcoming economic briefings for press
-Public relations
-Robert Teeter
-Burns
-Conversations with bankers
-Hides
-Meat import quotas
-Hides
-Peter G. Peterson
-Use of authority as Secretary of Commerce
-Meat import quotas
-Cattlemen
-Sale of grain to the Soviet Union
-Increase of farm income
-Harlow
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-John C. Whitaker
-Earl L. Butz
-Decline
-Meat prices
-Meat prices
-Connally
-Voluntary freeze
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming conversation with Connally
-San Clemente
-Meat producers
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS] investigations
-Shultz
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-President’s possible meeting with food producers
-Comparison with construction industry
-Need for leader similar to John T. Dunlop
-Background of possible leader
-Academia
-Business
-Butz
-Association with farmers
-Possible Food Industry Stabilization Committee
-Compared to Construction Industry Stabilization Committee
-Donald McI. Kendall
-Association with retailers
-David Packard
-Roger M. Blough
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Connally
-Abilities
-Shultz
-Peterson
-Reform of business practices
-Business
-Labor
-International Brotherhood of Teamsters
-farmers
-Processors
-Jobbers
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Retailers
-Labor
-Meat prices
-Decline
-IRS investigation of retailers
President's schedule
-The President’s forthcoming acceptance speech
-Possible visit to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Disaster relief
-Forthcoming memorandum to George W. Romney
-Romney’s forthcoming trip to Wilkes-Barre
-Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) problems in Wilkes-Barre
-Delays in disaster assistance
-Response by mayor of Wilkes-Barre
-The President's previous meeting with mayor’s group
HUD
-Budget
-Romney’s request for increase in staff
-Mortgage guarantees
-Delays
-Mortgage Bankers Association of America
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
H.R.(“Bob”) Haldeman’s schedule
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 17m 22s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
White House staff
-Haldeman's responsibilities
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Movies
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Haldeman’s meetings with the President
-The President’s forthcoming meetings
-Connally
-Scheduling
-Butterfield
-Stephen B. Bull
-Chapin
-David N. Parker
-Butterfield
-Parker
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 56s ]
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White House staff
-Scheduling
-Parker
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Haldeman
-Parker compared with Chapin
-Haldeman
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Tape Subject Log
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 2m 11s ]
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The President's schedule
-Forthcoming Republican Congressional leadership meetings
-Agendas
-Butterfield
-William E. Timmons
-Weinberger
-The Administration’s budget
-McGovern’s budget
-Butterfield
-Timmons
-Possible statements by participants of meeting
-Haldeman
-Butterfield
-Possible meeting with Timmons, Ehrlichman, and Henry A.
Kissinger
-Preparations for leadership meetings
-Colson
-The President's meeting with Ollie Matson
-Delegations of duty
-Butterfield
-Responses to McGovern charges
-Economic issue
-Scott
-Stein
-Political aspects
-Weinberger
-McGovern’s Budget
-Objectives for meetings
-Positioning compared to education
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
Haldeman
-Responsibilities in scheduling
-Parker
-The President’s previous trips to Florida and Maryland’s Eastern Shore
[Thomas B. McCabe, Jr.’s residence]
-Bull
-Possible use of military aides or Secret Service
-Parker
Staff responsibilities
-Press relations
-Ziegler
-Herbert G. Klein
-The President’s view
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Ziegler
-Scheduling
-Butterfield
-The President’s personal schedule
-Possible trips to Camp David
-Parker
-Long range planning
-Events
-The President's forthcoming trip to Hawaii
-Possible reception with Claire Booth Luce
-Need for political judgement
-Haldeman
-Foreign affairs concerns
-Parker
-Haldeman
-Ehrlichman
-Butterfield and Bull
-The President’s schedule
-Possible trips to Camp David
-Haldeman
-Haldeman’s knowledge of polls
-Haldeman’s judgement
-Scheduling
-Campaign events
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Haldeman
-Parker
-Republican National Convention
-Butterfield, Parker
-Campaign scheduling
-Haldeman
-Parker
-Haldeman’s staff
-Compared with Ehrlichman's staff
-Unknown person
-Possible senior deputy
-Chapin
-Responsibilities
-Special events planning
-Campaign planning
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Possible loan from Ehrlichman’s staff
-Edward L. Morgan
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 2m 12s ]
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Campaign
-Dwayne O. Andreas
-Announcement
-Gift tax
-John W. Dean, III
-MacGregor
-Size of contribution
-Phillip S. (“Sam”) Hughes
-Possible contacts with administration
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)
-Harlow
-Andreas
-Gift tax
-Cash contribution
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 5m 55s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
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Campaign
-Campaign contributors
-The President’s possible contacts with contributors
-1968 campaign
-Douglas W. Inglish, Jr.
-Mitchell
-Previous conversation with US Postal Service official [James T. Blair]
-Loan [for Cyrus Katzen]
-Thomas B. Evans
-Separation between Republican National Committee and the government
-Example of Guy G. Gabrielson
-Maurice H. Stans
-Evans
-Robert J. Dole
-Andreas
-Funds to Rose Mary Woods
Ehrlichman's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Connally
Bull entered at 1:18 pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Ehrlichman left at 1:18 pm.
The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Colson
Bull left at an unknown time between 1:18 pm and 1:22 pm.