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Conversation: 044-139

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Start Date: 10-Apr-1973 5:59 PM

End Date: 10-Apr-1973 6:09 PM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: White House Telephone

044-139.mp3

NARA Description:

On April 10, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and John D. Ehrlichman talked on the telephone from 5:59 pm to 6:09 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 044-139 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 44-139

Date: April 10, 1973
Time: 5:59 pm-6:09 pm
Location: White House Telephone

John D. Ehrlichman talked with the President.

[See also Conversation No. 426-50]

       President's schedule
             -Trade meeting
                    -Herbert Stein's paper
                    -Pierre Rinfret's paper
                    -Options
             -Camp David
                    -Stein’s paper
             -Economic meeting
                    -George P. Shultz's schedule
                          -Time-Life event

       Congressional relations
            -Thursday afternoon reception
                  -Richard G. Kleindienst
                  -Vote to sustain veto
                        -House of Representatives
                                           -100-

                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                    Tape Subject Log
                                     (rev. Mar.-09)
                                                           Conversation No. 44-139 (cont’d)



            -Congressional mail
                  -President’s conversation with Samuel L. Devine
                         -Leslie C. Arends
                         -Joe D. Waggonner, Jr.
            -President's March 29 speech
            -Ehrlichman's meeting with Kenneth R. Cole's staff
                  -Republicans on Paul G. Rogers's health committee
            -Partisanship
                  -Effect of Watergate
                  -Vetoes
            -National security bills
                  -William E. Timmons's concerns
                  -Bargaining
                  -Cole and Ash
                         -Preparation of recommendations
            -President's schedule
                  -White House Correspondents Dinner

      H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman's schedule

      Base closings
           -Timing of announcement
           -Notification
                 -Elliot L. Richardson
           -Portsmouth, New Hampshire
           -Philadelphia
                 -Cole’s recommendations
                       -Timmons

Ehrlichman conferred with Cole at an unknown time between 5:59 pm and 6:09 pm.

                        -Frank L. Rizzo
            -Portsmouth
                  -President’s promise
            -Philadelphia
            -Kansas
                  -Robert J. Dole and James B. Pearson
            -Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma
                                             -101-

                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                        Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. Mar.-09)
                                                           Conversation No. 44-139 (cont’d)



                  -Henry L. Bellmon's candidacy
                       -Timmons
                       -Contingent upon retaining
                       -Portsmouth
                       -Richardson