Conversation: 803-001
Prev:  802-010 Next: 803-002Start Date: 18-Oct-1972 9:53 AM
End Date: 18-Oct-1972 10:07 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.; Timmons, William E.; Ehrlichman, John D.; Bull, Stephen B.; Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On October 18, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, William E. Timmons, John D. Ehrlichman, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:53 am to 10:07 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 803-001 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 803-1 Date: October 18, 1972 Time: 9:53 am - 10:07 am Location: Oval Office The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler. The President's schedule -Photographic session -Forthcoming meeting with Masayoshi Ohira -Forthcoming meeting with Nikolai S. Patolichev, Anatoliy F. Dobrynin -Trade agreement -William P. Rogers, Peter G. Peterson -Briefing William E. Timmons and John D. Ehrlichman entered at 9:54 am. Ziegler left at 9:54 am. Congressional relations -Forthcoming adjournment -Debt limit -Senate rejecting of spending limit -House of Representatives -John F. Byrnes, Wilbur D. Mills -Possible result of conference -Effect on adjournment -The President’s possible action -1972 election -Treasury Department -George P. Shultz -Vetoes -Political effect -Water bill -Reason for veto timing -Override -The President's role -Joseph W. Martin, Jr.’s view -Shultz -1972 election 2 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Nov-03) -Override -Increase in taxes -Clean water tax -Timing -Possible withholding of funds -Briefing on spending limit and water bill veto -News summary -Increase in taxes -Press coverage -Timmons’s action -Water bill -The President's veto statement -Reaction of Senators -Veto override -Senators -Hugh Scott's response to Edmund S. Muskie -The President’s message for Scott -Adjournment -Spending -Personnel cuts -Withholding of funds -Federal personnel cuts -Adjournment -The President’s schedule -Telephone call - [Thomas] Hale Boggs -Airplane crash -Chances of survival -Weather conditions in Alaska -Adjournment -Margaret Chase Smith's forthcoming telephone call to the President -Scott's schedule -Michael J. Mansfield -Smith's view of Charles W. Colson -Background -1972 Maine Republican primary - [Robert A.G. Monks] -Control of Senate -Smith, Jacob K. Javits -Labor and Defense Committees -Debt ceiling limit -Amendment for extension of unemployment benefits 3 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Nov-03) -Warren G. Magnuson -Senator’s vote -Water bill -George S. McGovern -Campaign activity -Timmons’s comment to the press -Environmentalist appeal on water bill issue -Voting record -Thomas F. Eagleton -Tax increase -Democratic National Convention -Muskie -Mandatory spending -Presidential discretion -John Hooker’s [?] telephone call to Timmons -Tax increase -Special interest groups -Vetoes -Timing -News coverage -Departments of Labor and Health, Education and Welfare [HEW] -Ehrlichman’s recent press conference -The President's schedule -The President’s schedule -New York -Social Security -Higher taxes -John B. Connally’s possible statement Ehrlichman and Timmons left, and Stephen B. Bull entered at 10:06 am. The President's schedule -Forthcoming meeting with Foreign Minister Ohira -Length -Possible interruption -Alexander M. Haig, Jr. -William P. Rogers -Meeting with Nikolai S. Patolichev -Briefing Bull left at 10:07 am. 4 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Nov-03)