Conversation: 807-002
Prev:  807-001 Next: 807-003Start Date: 26-Oct-1972 8:12 AM
End Date: 26-Oct-1972 9:05 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ehrlichman, John D.; Bull, Stephen B.; Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On October 26, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, John D. Ehrlichman, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 8:12 am to 9:05 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 807-002 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 807-2 Date: October 26, 1972 Time: 8:12 am - 9:05 am Location: Oval Office The President met with John D. Ehrlichman. Legislation -House Resolution [HR] 1 -Senatorial candidate film session -Winton M. (“Red”) Blount -Pressure to sign -John Sherman Cooper -Louie B. Nunn -Administration strategy -Vetoes -Timing -News story -Taxes -News story -Kentucky visit -Cooper 2 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Oct-03) -Telephone call to Ehrlichman -Nelson A. Rockefeller -Telephone call to Ehrlichman -Position on signing bill -New York benefits -George Meany -Position on signing bill -Blount -Senior citizens organization of Alabama -Candidates -Interest groups -Feel for pressures -Blount -Reconsideration of veto -Water bill veto -Elliot L. Richardson -Political problems -Ronald L. Ziegler -Dollar problems -1974 -Liquidation problem -Payroll taxes -Bill’s arrival -Timing -Pressures -Veto message -Pressures building -Veto timing -Mixing of vetoes and signings -Strategy -Pressures -Assessment of bill -Water bill -Columbia River -Announcement timing -1972 election -Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW] bill -HR 1 -Delay on decision -Budget -1973 -Payroll tax 3 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Oct-03) -1974 -Written summary of bills by Ehrlichman -Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger -Contents -Veterans -Job Corps -Great Society programs -Need for jobs for kids -Rehabilitation -Elevator operator story -Unknown man -Death -Background -California -New York -Oregon -Civilian Conservation Corps [CCC] -Need for program -Social workers -Congressional leadership -Need for written summary -The President’s schedule -Campaign film session -HR 1 -Rockefeller opinion -Load off of state in rehabilitation payments -Compared to revenue sharing -Control of hospital costs -Medicaid -Nunn -Cooper's opinion -Care for old people -Compassion -Campaign benefits -Vetoes -Education bill -Water bill -Welfare bill -Old, blind people -Blind people -Support for Administration -Congressional action 4 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Oct-03) -Increase over Administration proposal -Interpretation of signing -Payroll tax implications -Signing with reservations -New proposals for funding -Clean water tax -Treasury Department -Value-added tax [VAT] -Announcement -Payroll taxes -Self-liquidation -1974 -Reasons for opposition -Interpretation of the President's action by public -1972 election -Pledge not to raise taxes compared to influence of voting bloc -Possible course of action -Pay-as-you-go provision -Study bill -Importance of bill -Cut of existing expenditures -Priorities -Buy-off argument -Food stamps -Cooper -Pressure -1972 election outcome -George S. McGovern -Written summary -Schedule of meetings -Weinberger, George P. Shultz, Herbert Stein -Charles W. Colson's opinion -Taxes, prices -Veto recommendation -Taxes -Written summary -Alternatives -Budget cutting -Water bill -Colson -Education -Veterans 5 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Oct-03) -Politics -Blount ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal returnable] [Duration: 32s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ***************************************************************** Motorcade Press -Quality of stories -1972 campaign -Endorsements -Editorials -Readership -Television commentators -Related to political polls -Roscoe Drummond -Meeting with Ehrlichman, October 25, 1972 -Anticipation of next four years of the President's administration -Possible appointment with the President -Series -Washington Post -Washington Post -Colson -Story on Maurice H. Stans -Accreditation -Possible denial -Effect -Ehrlichman’s conversation with Ziegler -Press conferences -Recognition -Ziegler 6 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Oct-03) -Dealings -Returning of calls -White House staff -Cabinet officials -Alleged libel of [John N. Mitchell and Stans] -Social functions -White House parties -Washington Star -East Wing -Constance M. (Cornell) (“Connie”) Stuart HR 1 -Financing -Richardson -1974 -Raise taxes -Signing of bill linked with cuts within HEW -Richardson's recommendation -Budget of HEW -HEW cuts -Personnel cuts -Check writing, nurses -Personnel cuts in general -Research office -Press office -Attitude of offices -Government size -Reorganization -Signing bill -Results -Fiscal conservatives -Effect of election on attitudes -McGovern -Spending limit for Fiscal Year [FY] 1973 -Congress’ recent override of water bill veto -Colson -Albert E. Sindlinger and other pollsters -Unknown person -Perspective -Strategy -Veto of bill -Timing 7 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Oct-03) -Blind -Old people -Financial considerations Watergate -Washington Post story -Colson -H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman -Foundation of stories -Propriety of campaign tactics -Sabotage charge -Heckling -Tricia Nixon Cox's visit [to Morgantown, West Virginia] -John A. Volpe -Double standards -San Francisco incident -Los Angeles incident -Statue of Liberty -Planning by Democrats -Motorcade -History of Republican campaign problems -Collecting campaign intelligence -Dwight L. Chapin -John W. Dean, III's report -Chapin -Recruitment of [Donald H. Segretti] -Purpose -Tactics of Washington Post -Haldeman story -Benjamin C. Bradlee -Pressure on reporters -US Attorneys -Calls from reporters -Verifying leads -Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] -FBI -Calls to US attorneys -Verifying leads -Haldeman, Mitchell, Ehrlichman -Success of tactics -Bradlee -Pressure on reporters 8 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Oct-03) -Yellow journalism -Use of term -1968 campaign -New York Times article on Vice Presidential candidate Spiro T. Agnew -Public perception -Washington Post denial -McGovern stories -Washington Post -Denial -Reasons -Response to Ziegler's statement -Preparation -Possible strategy -Attack on Haldeman -Sunday paper -Unknown woman -Interviews of Haldeman's associates -Compared to Sherman Adams case -Haldeman advantages -Anonymity -Compared to Ehrlichman -Compared to Adams -Short term effect -Neutralizing television coverage -McGovern corruption speech -Washington Post denial -Inside Washington Post story -Effect of Ziegler's response -Robert J.Dole and Clark McGregor -Television coverage -Chicago Tribune story by Frank C. Starr [News summary item] -Effort to contact and inform -Opponents tactics -Ziegler’s response to the Washington Post -Radio stations -Starr -Press -Motive ***************************************************************** 9 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Oct-03) BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 [Personal returnable] [Duration: 48s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 ***************************************************************** Campaign practices -Agnew -Yellow journalism charge -News reports of charges -Use of rhetoric -Ziegler's counterattack on Washington Post -Opportunity -Dole -Tactics -Ehrlichman's talk with Drummond -Effect of Ziegler's denial -Nature of administration in second term -McGovern -Campaign rhetoric -Press treatment -[News summary item] -Baltimore Sun’s John Carroll’s view Press conference in Oval Office -Reason -Scandal -Vietnam -Negotiations -Announcement Radio story on Vietnam -North Vietnamese -Paris negotiations -Publication of terms of agreement -New York Times story -Henry A. Kissinger 10 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Oct-03) -Possible meeting R. Sargent Shriver's statement [News summary item] -Administration's foreign policy -Democratic supporters of the President -John B. Connally -Attack on the President -War record of Nixon compared to McGovern -Connally -War records Watergate -The President's press conference -Administration position -Drummond -Public perception -Basis of stories in press -Timing -Compared to the President’s Fund broadcast [Checkers speech of 1952] -Hugh W. Sloan, Jr. -Deposition -Sloan's attorney -Haldeman -FBI -Secret fund -Ziegler statement -McGovern statement -Dole and MacGregor -Next move -Statement on yellow journalism for surrogates -Haldeman story Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 8:12 am. Film session -Blount -Radio messages -Blount -Possible conversation with the President -J. Caleb Boggs -Mark I. Goode -Lighting 11 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Oct-03) Telegram from Blount -Ehrlichman's meeting Ehrlichman and Bull left at 9:05 am.