44–139

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
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Tape Subject Log
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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
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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