Conversation No. 828-6

Date: December 27, 1972
Time: Unknown between 10:12 am and 10:44 am
Location: Oval Office

The President replayed a portion of his dictated memorandum to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

[This is a continuation of Conversation No. 828-5]

The President resumed dictation.

       The President’s schedule
            -Meetings with foreign leaders
                  -Timing
                         -Vietnam War
                               -Henry A. Kissinger
            -Meeting with George P. Shultz
                  -The President’s conversation with Shultz
                  -Timing
                  -Tax and trade policy
            -Meeting with John D. Ehrlichman
                  -The President’s conversation with Ehlichman
                  -Domestic initiatives
                  -Timing
            -Meetings with Shultz and Ehrlichman
            -Cabinet meeting
                  -Timing
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                                                              Conversation No. 828-6 (cont’d)

                   -Attendance
             -Congressional leadership meeting
                   -Timing
                   -Republicans
             -Bipartisan meetings
                   -Frequency
                         -Vietnam War
                   -Meeting with Michael J. Mansfield
                         -The President’s conversation with Mansfield
                   -Timing
                         -Republican leadership meeting
                   -William E. Timmons’s recommendation
                   -Reorganization plans
                         -Ehrlichman’s recommendations
             -Meetings
                   -Exceptions
             -Master schedule
                   -January-June 1973

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:12 am.

       Copy of memorandum

       Memoranda
           -Kissinger
           -Mailing

       The President’s schedule
            -Meeting with Clay T. (“Tom”) Whitehead
                  -Charles W. Colson
                  -Timing
            -Meetings
                  -Postponement
                         -The President’s dictated memorandum to Haldeman
                         -1973 Inauguration

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:44 am.

The President replayed a portion of his dictation.
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                                                            Conversation No. 828-6 (cont’d)


The President resumed dication.

       The President’s schedule
            -Master schedule
                  -January-June 1973
                         -Heads of State visits
                         -Foreign trips
                                -Europe
                         -Stag dinners
                                -Maurice H. Stans
                         -Evenings at the White House
                                -1972 campaign
                         -State dinner
                                -1972 campaign
                                      -Contributors
                         -Church services
                         -Press conferences
                         -Trips
                                -Domestic
                                -Foreign
                                      -White House correspondents, Gridiron dinners
                                            -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
                         -Political people
                         -Kissinger
                         -Ehrlichman
                         -George P. Shultz
                         -Timmons
                         -Breakfasts, lunches, dinners, briefings
                         -Political people
                         -Second term
                         -Special interests
                         -Haldeman’s conversations with Ehrlichman, Timmons, Shultz,
                          Kissinger, George H. W. Bush and Stans
                         -Labor and ethnic groups
                                -Haldeman’s conversation with Colson
                                      -John B. Connally
                         -1972 campaign
                                -Contributors, political people
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                                                              Conversation No. 828-6 (cont’d)

                               -Committee to Re-elect the President [CRP]
                         -Colson-Connally group
                         -Congress, governors, mayors
                         -Ehrlichman
                         -Administration personnel
                         -Celebrities
                         -Media
                         -Presidential Commission
                               -President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board [PFIAB]
                         -Cabinet Room
                               -Use
                                      -Productivity Commission
                                           -Labor
                                      -Administration personnel

The President changed dictabelt tapes.


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       The President’s dictated memorandum to Haldeman
            -Introduction to second part
            -Previous tape

The President resumed dictation.

       The President’s schedule
            -Planning by Haldeman
                  -Master schedule
                         -Telephone calls
                               -First term
                               -Colson
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                                                                Conversation No. 828-6 (cont’d)

                                -Timmons
                                -Harry S. Dent

The President replayed a portion of his dictation.

The President resumed dictation.

       The President’s schedule
            -Master schedule
                  -Telephone calls
                         -Colson
                         -Dent
                         -Effectiveness
                         -White House social affairs
                               -Dinners
                                     -Stans
                                           -Financial contributors
                                     -Government officials
                         -Clark MacGregor’s recommendations
                         -Priorities
                         -Number per day
                         -Recommendations
                         -Birthdays, anniversaries
                               -Parties
                               -Letters

       National Security Council [NSC] staff
            -Second term reorganization
                  -Cuts
                         -Haldeman’s possible meeting with Kissinger
                              -List
                              -Loyalists
                                    -Departments
                              -Retentions
                                    -Priorities
                                          -White House
                              -Direction of effort
                                    -Handling of problem
                                    -The President’s role
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                                                      Conversation No. 828-6 (cont’d)

                      -Report from Haldeman

Second term reorganization
     -Intelligence
            -Memorandum from Ehrlichman
            -Dr. James R. Schlesinger’s report
            -Schlesinger’s role vis-à-vis Kissinger’s role
                  -Instruction for Haldeman
                        -Authority
                              -NSC
                  -Congressional relations
                        -Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
                  -Kissinger’s schedule
                  -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
                        -The President’s efforts
                  -Schlesinger’s report
                        -Implementation
                  -Kissinger’s relationship with Haig
            -PFIAB
            -Haldeman’s possible meetings with Kissinger, Ehrlichman and Schlesinger
            -Management
                  -Ehrlichman’s recommendation
                        -Roy L. Ash
                              -Independent study
                              -Recommendation
            -Schlesinger’s memorandum
                  -Weakness
                        -Haldeman’s conversations
                        -Overlap in functions
                        -Expenditures by Defense Department
                        -Number of CIA personnel
                              -Quality
                              -Quantity
                              -“Liberal establishment bureaucracy”
                                     -State Department
                              -Cuts
                              -Attitudes
                                     -Foreign policy
                                     -Georgetown
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                                                                 Conversation No. 828-6 (cont’d)

                                                  -State Department
                  -Recommendations
                       -Timing