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Start Date: 6-Mar-1973 12:48 PM

End Date: 6-Mar-1973 12:56 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Ehrlichman, John D.

Recording Device: Oval Office

869-019.mp3

NARA Description:

On March 6, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and John D. Ehrlichman met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:48 pm to 12:56 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 869-019 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 869-19

Date: March 6, 1973
Time: 12:48-12:56 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.

       Jerry V. Wilson
             -Leadership skills

       L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
            -Testimony before Congress

       Wilson
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            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                  Tape Subject Log
                                   (rev. May-2010)



      -Qualifications
      -Travel
      -Press conference
            -President's representative

President’s schedule
      -President's meeting with Hugh Scott and Gerald R. Ford
            -Complaints about length
      -Meetings
            -Maurice N. Stans’s people
            -Counsellors meeting
            -Wilson
            -Abdul R. Abdulla
            -Scott
            -Value

Carl T. Curtis
      -President's support
      -Qualities as a candidate
      -Complaints

Congressional relations
     -Senators’ complaints
     -Senate policy luncheon
           -President’s attendance
                  -Democrats
     -House events
           -Value
     -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
           -State dinners
                  -Value
     -George H. W. Bush, Clark MacGregor and Bryce N. Harlow
           -Report on value of social events
     -President's meeting with Scott
           -Value of meetings with Senators
           -Charles McC. Mathias and John Sherman Cooper
           -Margaret Chase Smith
           -Curtis
     -Meeting on family assistance legislation
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            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                               Tape Subject Log
                                (rev. May-2010)
                                                    Conversation No. 869-19 (cont’d)



     -Dwight D. Eisenhower
          -Harlow, MacGregor, Bush
          -1956 elections
          -Work with Congress members
                -Impact

Meetings with the President
     -Impact on President
     -American Bankers Association
          -Budget cuts [?]
          -Businessmen
                 -New York
                 -Ehrlichman’s viewpoint

     -Congress
          -Value
               -Constituent’s letters

President’s letter campaign
      -William J. Baroody, Jr.
            -Congress
                   -Budget
      -Lobbyists
            -Number
            -Issues
            -Tax foundation, Chamber of Commerce, National Association of
            Manufacturers [NAM]

Congressional relations
     -New plans
           -President’s role
     -Ehrlichman’s work


President's schedule
      -State Department meeting
      -Mayors
             -Length
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. May-2010)
                                                           Conversation No. 869-19 (cont’d)



                   -Photographs
                   -President's appearance
                   -Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.

The President and Ehrlichman left at 12:56 pm.