Date: May 13, 1973
Time: 11:36 am – 12:04 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table
The President talked with Raymond K. Price, Jr.
Price’s schedule
Watergate
-Removal of H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
Election Reform Commission
-President’s schedule
-Congressional leaders
-President’s possible messages
-Joint resolution to Congress
-Radio speech
-Leonard Garment
-Content
-Campaign financing
-Campaign practices
-Term of office for House of Representatives
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2012)
-Campaign financing
-Limits on organizational contributions
-Milk fund
-George S. McGovern and teachers’ union
-President and milk producers
-Size of contribution
-Membership
-Composition
-Chairman, Vice Chairman
-Robert S. Strauss and George H.W. Bush
-John James Williams
-Warren E. Hearnes
-Gen. Lucius Dub. Clay, Jr.
-Murphy [sp?] of Los Angeles Times
-Terry Sanford
-Milton S. Eisenhower
-John Q. Wilson
-Release of names
-Garment
-John W. Gardner
-Common cause, John Birch Society
-Claudia A. (Taylor) (“Lady Bird”) Johnson
-Margaret Chase Smith
-Margaret (Buchner) Young
-Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.
-Release of names
-President’s conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr., May 13
-William E. Timmons’s activities
-Michael V. (“Mike”) Mansfield and Gerald R. Ford
-Bipartisan support
-President’s conversation with Ford and Hugh Scott
-President’s possible messages
-Campaign tactics
-Campaign violence
-Compared to heckling, free speech
-Property damage
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2012)
-Fiscal responsibility
-Wiretapping
-Intelligence activities
-Dirty tricks
-Richard (“Dick”) Tuck
-1968 campaign
-1972 campaign
-McGovern committees
-New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles
-Specificity
-Campaign practices
-Policing
-Compared to adultery
-Congressional terms of office
-Age
-John C. Stennis
-Terms of office of the President and House of Representatives
-Timing of drafts
-Price’s possible consultations
-Mansfield, Scott, Ford and Carl B. Albert
-Timmons’s possible calls
-Conversations with Scott, Ford, and Bush
-Bush
-Membership
-Chairman of national political parties
-Composition
-Chairman and Vice Chairman of Governors Conference
-Hearnes
-Williams
-Smith
-Maryland Democrat
-Otto Kerner
-President’s possible messages
-Content
-Reporting requirements
-Free television [TV] and radio time
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2012)
-Compared to British system
-Limits of contributions by individuals and organizations
-Business, labor, educational organizations
-Committee on Political Education [COPE]
-American Medical Association [AMA]
-Enforcement
-Scott
-Previous legislation
-Independent commission
-Fair campaign practices committee
-Government Accounting Office [GAO]
-Federal elections
-President’s possible messages
-Congress
-Length
-Timing of drafts
-President’s schedule
-Visit by Haile Selassie
-President’s schedule
-Congressional leaders
-Message
-Price’s schedule
-May 15 compared to May 16
-Incorporation of Congressional leaders’ ideas
-Press coverage
-Scott’s recommendation
-Submission of recommendations to President
-Price’s possible conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler
-Ziegler’s possible press briefing
-Content