Date: May 1, 1973
Time: Unknown after 6:33 pm – 6:45 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with an unknown person.
President’s schedule
Roy Ash entered and the unknown person left at 6:33 pm.
White House staff
-Ash’s role
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Scheduling
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Domestic policy
-Personnel
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Office of Management and Budget’s [OMB] purpose
Watergate
-President’s speech
-Effect
White House staff
-Ash’s role
-Stephen B. Bull
-Frederic V. Malek
-Budget
-Cole
-Haldeman’s role
-Staff meetings
-Power struggle
-George P. Shultz
-Quality
Cabinet
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-Elliot L. Richardson
Government managers
-Competence and performance
-OMB assessments
White House staff
-William P. Rogers’s relations with. Henry A. Kissinger
-Timing of Rogers’s departure
-Ash’s meeting with Kissinger
-Ash’s conversations with State Department officials
-John B. Connally’s role
-1976 Presidential election
-Confidence
-Defense Department
-Haldeman’s job [Chief of Staff]
-Haldeman’s job
-Staff process
-Loyalty
-Agnew
-Future role
-Quadriad
-Domestic Council
-Roles of Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-Shultz, Kissinger, Ash and Bull
-Kissinger
-Cooperation
-Reorganization
National economy
-Price controls
-Ash’s opposition to price freeze
-Future effects
-Shultz
-Free enterprise
-Stock market
-Reaction to President’s speech
Ash left at 6:45 pm.
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