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838–15
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • William E. Timmons
January 11, 1973
Conversation No. 838-15

Date: January 11, 1973
Time: Between 9:46 and 10:03 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with William E. Timmons at 9:46 am.

Lists of Congressmen
-Republicans
-Democrats
-F. Edward Hebert
-Cambodia
-Reception
-Veto overide
-Joe D. Waggonner, Jr.
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Conversation No. 838-15 (cont’d)

Bipartisan leadership meeting
-John E. Moss
-Sen. Robert C. Byrd
-Ranking members
-Foreign Relations, Defense and
-Appropriations Committees
-J. Strom Thurmond
-John G. Tower
-Robert A. Taft, Jr.
-Charles H. Percy
-William W. Scranton
-Waggonner
-John J. McFall
-Moss
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield

Richard M. Helms
-W. Stuart Symington
-People's Republic of China [PRC] nuclear capability

Mansfield

Carl B. Albert

Mansfield
-Meeting of Democrats
-Russell B. Long
-Henry M. (\"Scoop\") Jackson
-Vietnam
-Foreign Relations Committee

Vietnam negotiations
-Need for confidentiality

Mansfield

Watergate
-Sam J. Ervin, Jr.
-Courts
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Conversation No. 838-15 (cont’d)


Lists of Congressmen
-Congressional relations
-Recognition of support

Democrat leadership
-Mansfield
-J. William Fulbright
-Symington
-Jackson

Future events
-Master list for Rose Mary Woods
-State dinners

Worship services

J. Bennett Johnston, Jr.

Briefings for new people
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Qualities
-Compared to Kissinger
-Compared to William P. Rogers
-Content
-Johnston
-Nixon Doctrine
-PRC
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Europe
-National security

Sam Nunn
-Kennedy Resolution
-Voting record
-Johnston
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Conversation No. 838-15 (cont’d)

John Sherman Cooper

David H. Gambrell
-Richard B. Russell

Ideological considerations
-Allen J. Ellender
-Walter Huddleston
-Oklahoma
-New Mexico
-Clinton P. Anderson
-Jackson
-Virginia
-William Lloyd Scott
-William B. Spong, Jr.
-Jesse A. Helms
-Margaret Chase Smith
-Antiballistic missiles [ABM]
-Gordon L. Allott
-Jack R. Miller
-William B. Saxbe
-Edward W. Brooke
-Cooper
-Percy
-Haig
-Mail counts
-Congressional
-Bombing
-Cartoon
-Congress
-Mail counts
-Hugh Scott
-Peace groups

Timmons left at 10:03 am.
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