Conversation: 416-001
Prev: 415-030 Next: 416-002Start Date: 27-Feb-1973 2:48 PM
End Date: 27-Feb-1973 3:40 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ehrlichman, John D.;Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On February 27, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and John D. Ehrlichman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 2:48 pm to 3:40 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 416-001 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 416-1
Date: February 27, 1973
Time: 2:48 pm-3:40 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with John D. Ehrlichman; the recording began while the conversation was in
progress.
General revenue sharing
-President's commitment
-Purpose
-Budget cuts
-Impact on revenue sharing
Community action agencies
-Funding
-Federal government
-States
-Model Cities
-Funding
-Special revenue sharing
-Local option
-Philadelphia
-Value
-Localities
-Transitional funds
Public service employment
-Herbert Stein
-Concerns
-Funds
-Cutoff
-Unemployment
-Needs
-Detroit, Seattle
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 416-1 (cont’d)
-Unspent funds
-Need
-Mayors
-Special revenue sharing
Budget cuts
-Problem areas
-Governors
-Highways
-Water pollution
-Highway Trust Fund
-Roads
-Changes
-Public opinion
-Water pollution
-States
-Impact of funds
-Inflation
-Governors
-Rural Electrification Administration [REA]
-Compromises
-Ancher Nelsen
-Richard M. Fairbanks III
-Poor
Rate of interest
-Level
-REA bank
-Proposal
Governors
-Complaints
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-John C. West, John R. William
-Nelson A. Rockefeller, Ronald W. Reagan
Anne L. Armstrong
-Conversation with Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Surrogate operation
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 416-1 (cont’d)
-Budget cuts
-Refusal
-Reasons
-Purpose
-Agnew’s responsibilities
-Golf
-Initial refusal to see Armstrong
Agnew
-Ehrlichman's telephone call
-Arthur J. Sohmer [?]
-Visibility
-Areas of interest
Cities, counties
-Quality of work
-Cole
-Briefing
-Agnew's presence
President’s schedule
-Ehrlichman’s schedule
-Domestic issues
-Foreign policy
Henry A. Kissinger
-Briefing
President's attendance at briefing
-Foreign policy
-Defense budget
-Federal funds allocation
-Detroit
-Hanoi
-Questions
-Kissinger
-Presence at briefing
-Defense budget
-Attacks
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 416-1 (cont’d)
Congressional relations
-Ehrlichman’s schedule
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-William E. Timmons
-Ehrlichman's role
-Strategy
-Timmons
-Clark MacGregor
-Manner
-Skill as operative
-Ehrlichman
-Domestic affairs
-Talk with Haldeman
-Strategy
-Domestic Council
-Cabinet members
-Cultivation of Congress members
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Earl L. Butz
-Timmons
Budget cuts
-Support in country
-Business
-George H. W. Bush
-Louis P. Harris poll
-Congress
Social programs
-Public preferences
-Tax increases
-Publicity
-Haldeman
-Opinion Research Corporation [ORC] poll
-Administration efforts
-Republicans
-Democrats
-Limitations
-Administration strategy
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar.-09)
Conversation No. 416-1 (cont’d)
Ehrlichman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 2:48 pm and 3:40 pm.
[Conversation No. 416-1A]
Car
Ehrlichman's trip to Capitol Hill
-Tom [surname unknown]
-Hugh Scott
[End of telephone conversation]
Ehrlichman's trip to Detroit
-Reception
-Press relations
-Questions
-Social programs
-Aid to North Vietnam
Ehrlichman's meeting in New York
-Press questions
-Aid to North Vietnam
-Peter G. Peterson
-Press relations
-Energy
-Interest
-Tax, trade, interest rates
Aid to North Vietnam
-Parochial attitudes
-Germany
Budget
-Amounts
-Waste
Ehrlichman left at 3:40 pm.
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