Date: March 13, 1973
Time: 11:35 am – 12:03 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
President’s schedule
-Management awards
-Camp David
-Repetition
-Cabinet member attendance
-Overcrowding
-Recommendation on scheduling
-John D. Ehrlichman, George P. Shultz, Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Haldeman’s work with Ehrlichman
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-Ehrlichman’s views
-Public impressions
-Efficiency in government
President’s performance
-Press conference
-President’s performance
-Frequency
-President’s schedule
-Location
-Camp David
-Image
-Social aspects
-Dinners
-Trade relations
-Color stories
Presidential approval rating
-Polls
-Decline
-Robert Teeter, George H. Gallup
-Telephone
-Opinion Research Center [ORC]
-President’s popularity
-Vietnam War
-Reasons
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Public appearances
-Value
-Public opinion
-Informing own people
-Polls
-Gallup
-Teeter
-Low ratings
-ORC
-Cost of polling
-Results
-Taxes compared with cost of government programs
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-President’s vetoes
-Impoundment
-Congress’s role
-Support for President
-Inflation
-Albert E. Sindlinger
-Teeter
-Federal spending
-Support for President
-Effects on income taxes
-Education
-Senior citizens
-Aid to North Vietnam
-Compared with aid after World War II
-Japan
-Germany
-Sources of funds
-National security budget
-Administration’s strategy
-Congressional relations
President’s public appearances
-Visibility
-Prime time
-Television [TV] news coverage
-Press conferences
-Value
-Effect on public opinion
-President’s daily activities
-Visibility
-Press coverage
-Public reaction
-One event per day
President’s schedule
-Management awards
-Haldeman’s responsibility
-Poster child
-Value
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-Reaction to blackmail
-Meetings in previous years
Poll results
-Reaction to Watergate
-Reasons for gains
-Vietnam settlement
-POW return
-Future decline
-Teeter poll
-Past gains
-Pre-election period
-Post-election results
-Gallup results
-Louis P. Harris poll results
President’s schedule
-Meetings with departing staffers
-Reasons
-Frequency
-John F. Kennedy
-White House operators
State of the Union Address
-Ehrlichman’s prospectus
-Preparation
-Lee W. Huebner
-Draft
-Congressional relations
-Type of speech
-Government reform
-Inspirational tone
-Discussion of programs
-Value
-Substance of speech
-Taxes
-Vietnam settlement
-Huebner
-Domestic Council
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-Budget
-Appeal to public
-Congress’s role
-Letters to Congress members
-Gimmick
-Aid to Vietnam
-Draft of speech
-President’s request
-Congressional relations
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Respect
-John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
-Delivery at night
-Lack of concern for writing press
Polls
-Value
-Governing
-Attitudes toward Congress
-Fluctuations
Press relations
-Patrick J. Buchanan’s analysis
-Alarmism
-Obviousness
-Positive issues for administration
-Mood
-Opportunities for administration
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Taxes [?]
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Press relations
-News magazines
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
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Gray
-Media articles
-Watergate
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-John N. Mitchell
-Gordon C. Strachan
-Confirmation hearings
-Media articles
-Problems
-John W. Dean III
-Wallace H. Johnson
-James O. Eastland
-Advice
-Dean testimony
-Subpoena
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President’s meeting with recipients of Management Improvement Award
-Arrival
-Format
-Photographs
-Roy L. Ash
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-Group photograph
-Value
Watergate
-President’s meeting with Dean
-Subjects of discussion
-Gray
-Maurice H. Stans
-William C. Sullivan
-Testimony about Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Timing of testimony
-Gray
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Haldeman left at 12:03 pm.