Date: February 2, 1972
Time: 3:17 pm - 3:25 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.
[See Conversation No. 318-32]
Value added tax [VAT]
-Advocacy
-Use as an issue
-Tax increase
-Shift in tax burden
-New York Times story
-John B. Connally
-Property tax modification and reduction
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-Administration line
Legal services bill
-Veto prospects
-Child development aspect of bill
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
-Administration efforts
Governors' meeting
-Harry S. Dent view of briefings
-Ehrlichman, George P. Shultz, Henry A. Kissinger
-Governors
-Speakers
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Ehrlichman call to Rockefeller
-Rockefeller’s forthcoming testifying
-The President’s position
-Congress
-Benefits to New York
-William G. Milliken
-Michigan
-Administration line
-Massachusetts, Michigan
-Francis W. Sargent
-Support from politicians
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Justice Department suit against milk producers
-Ehrlichman call to John N. Mitchell
-Options
-Criminal charges
-No action
-Congressional hearing
-Mitchell
-Conversations with mild producers
-Length of investigation
Legal services bill
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew meeting
-Reason
-William T. Cahill contacts
-Agnew’s view
-New Jersey
-Cahill pressure
-Legal services representative
-Treatment of Vice President
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Resignation
-Signal to bureaucracy