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Start Date: 18-Sep-1972 4:19 PM

End Date: 18-Sep-1972 4:25 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Ehrlichman, John D.Bull, Stephen B.

Recording Device: Oval Office

781-030.mp3

NARA Description:

On September 18, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, John D. Ehrlichman, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:19 pm to 4:25 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 781-030 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 781-30

Date: September 18, 1972
Time: 4:19 pm - 4:30 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.
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                      NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. Oct-06)

             Welfare reform
                -Eliot L. Richardson’s position

             The President's schedule
                 -Congressional leaders meeting, September 19, 1972
                     -Briefing paper on bills
                          -Henry A. Kissinger
                               -Israeli issues
                          -Water bill
                               -Don H. Clausen
                                    -Edmund G. Muskie
                               -Lawyers
                     -Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO] bill
                          -Mandatory spending
                          -Presidential approval
                               -Hugh Scott
                               -Gerald R. Ford
                          -Possible veto
                               -Congress
                               -White House staff
                          -Legal Services Board
                          -Objections
                               -Career Assistance Program [CAP]
                               -Spending
                                    -The President’s view
                          -Veto override

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:19 pm.

                 -Ronald L. Ziegler's request for meeting
                     -Theodore H. White

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:25 pm.

                 -Congressional leaders meeting
                     -Bill
                          -William E. Timmons's opinion
                              -Sustaining veto
                              -Congressional relations
                                  -Effect of veto
                     -Ehrlichman’s role
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                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                  Tape Subject Log
                                    (rev. Oct-06)

                  -Appropriations bills
                  -Highway Act
                  -Airports bill
                  -Consumer safety
                  -Minimum wage
                  -Consumer agency
                  -Child care
                  -Employee health benefits
                  -Welfare reform
                  -Water pollution
                  -War powers
                  -OEO bill


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          OEO bill
             -Mandatory spending
                  -Budget
                  -Four programs
                  -Briefing paper
                  -Scott
                  -Cutbacks
                      -The President’s view
                      -Joseph W. Alsop
                  -Environment
                      -Water bill
                      -Possible veto
                           -Withholding funding
                               -Courts
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                      NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                        Tape Subject Log
                                          (rev. Oct-06)

             The President’s schedule
                 -Ziegler
                     -Bull

Ehrlichman left at 4:25 pm.