Date: January 2, 1973

Time: 1:00 pm – 1:14 pm

Location: Oval Office

The President met with William E. Timmons at 1:00 pm.

Telephone calls

-Completion

End the war resolution

-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield’s meeting with President

-Thomas E. Morgan

-Democratic caucus

-Political orientation

-Effect of the President’s meeting with Mansfield

-Carl B. Albert

-Control of caucus

-Speaker of the House election

-Meeting with the President

-Telephone call

-Timing

-Vietnam negotiations

-Irresponsibility

The President’s schedule

-Meeting with Albert

-Timmons’ telephone call

-Mansfield

-Democratic caucus

-Bipartisan meeting

-Truman memorial service

-Timing

-Bipartisan meeting

-Wage and price controls

-Democratic caucus

-Mansfield, Albert

-Hubert H. Humphrey

-William B. Saxbe

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-Meeting with Mansfield

-Democratic caucus

-Henry A. Kissinger briefing

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-Breakfast with freshman Republicans

-Gerald R. Ford

-Relations with White House

-Minority

-Candidate selection

-Saxbe

Congressional relations

-William E. Brock, III

-Edward W. Brooke

-Clarence G. Brown

-Robert C. (“Bob”) Wilson

-Compared to Robert J. Dole

-Departure

-Budget Committee

-Candidate recruitment

-Dan H. Kuykendall

-Brown

-Support for Wilson

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-Armed Services Committee

-Whip

-William G. Bray

-Age of Republicans

-Bray

-William B. Widnall, III

-Norris Cotton

-Milton R. Young

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-George D. Aiken

-Roman L. Hruska

-Strom Thurmond

-Hugh Scott

-Peter V. Domenici

-Reception

The President’s schedule

-Meeting with Mansfield

Timmons left at 1:14 pm.