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Start Date: 6-Mar-1973 8:25 AM

End Date: 6-Mar-1973 8:30 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Timmons, William E.Ehrlichman, John D.

Recording Device: Oval Office

869-005.mp3

NARA Description:

On March 6, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, William E. Timmons, and John D. Ehrlichman met in the Oval Office of the White House from 8:25 am to 8:30 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 869-005 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 869-5

Date: March 6, 1973
Time: 8:25 am - 8:30 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman and William E. Timmons.

       Congressional relations
            -Ehrlichman's meeting with Hugh Scott and Gerald R. Ford
                   -Ehrlichman's briefing
                   -Ford
                   -Scott
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            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                               Tape Subject Log
                                (rev. May-2010)
                                                      Conversation No. 869-5 (cont’d)



                   -Attitude

     -President's visit to Congress
            -Senate policy lunch
                  -Scott
            -Scheduling conflict
                  -Democratic study group

     -Ehrlichman's meeting with Scott and Ford
           -Republican senators’ support for President
                 -Responsibility for tax increase
     -Presidential veto
            -Support in Senate, House
                 -Ford
     -Senate
            -Carl T. Curtis's visits to White House
                 -1972 election results
            -Ehrlichman's evaluation of Republican Senators
                 -Curtis
                 -Ted Stevens

Republican leaders
     -Ford
            -Positive feedback
     -Scott
            -Subjects of discussion
     -Meeting with Ehrlichman

Press relations
      -Democratic reforms
             -Analysis
                  -Conservative columnists
                  -Charles W. Colson
                       -Compared with 1972 campaign, convention

President's meeting with Scott and Ford
      -Arrival
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. May-2010)
                                                             Conversation No. 869-5 (cont’d)



Ehrlichman and Timmons left at 8:30 am.