Conversation No. 106-1

Date:  Unknown between September 5 and September 7, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:00 am, September 5 and 8:04 am, September 7, 1972
Location:  Cabinet Room

Kenneth R. Cole, Jr. met with an unknown man
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]

	White House books
		-Possible audit
		-Public scrutiny
		-G[eorge] Gordon Liddy=s travel expenses
			-Domestic Council
			-Reimbursement
		-Possible destruction of records
			-Consequences

Cole and the unknown man left at an unknown time before 8:04 am, September 7, 1972

Conversation No. 106-11

Date:  Unknown between September 5 and September 7, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:00 am, September 5 and 8:04 am, September 7, 1972
Location:  Cabinet Room

Unknown man talked with an unknown man

	[Unintelligible]

The unknown man ended the telephone conversation at an unknown time before 8:04 am, September 7, 1972

Conversation No. 106-2

Date:  Unknown between September 5 and September 7, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:00 am, September 5 and 8:04 am, September 7, 1972
Location:  Cabinet Room

Unknown people [tour group] met

	[Unintelligible]

	Cabinet Room
		-Chairs
		-National Security Council

The unknown people [tour group] left at an unknown time before 8:04 am, September 7, 1972

Conversation No. 106-3

Date:  September 7, 1972
Time:  8:04 am - unknown before 10:18 am
Location:  Cabinet Room

The President met with Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, Hugh Scott, Robert P. Griffin, Gordon L. Allott, Peter H. Dominick, Norris Cotton, Gerald R. Ford, Leslie C. Arends, John J. Rhodes, Samuel L. Devine, Robert C. (ABob@) Wilson, Barber B. Conable, Jr., Robert J. Dole, Clark MacGregor, John D. Ehrlichman, Harry S. Dent, William E. Timmons, Herbert G. Klein, Patrick J. Buchanan, Ronald L. Ziegler, Bryce N. Harlow, Thomas C. Korologos, Richard K. Cook, and Caspar W. (ACap@) Weinberger

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  21m 25s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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	Pending legislation
		-Ford
		-Scott
		-Status

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  39s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5

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	Congress= schedule
		-Bipartisan leadership meetings
			-Timing
		-Scott=s conversation with Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield, September 6
			-Quorum
		-House of Representatives
		-Ford=s conversation with Carl B. Albert, September 6
			-Albert=s schedule
		-Pending legislation
			-Revenue sharing
			-Military appropriations
			-Foreign aid
			-House Resolution [HR] 1
			-Busing
			-Revenue sharing
				-Mansfield amendment
				-Robert A. Taft, Jr. amendment
				-Ford=s conversation with Wilbur D. Mills
				-Scott=s meetings with Henry M. (AScoop@) Jackson and J. William Fulbright
			-HR 1 [Welfare Reform]
				-Prospects
				-George S. McGovern=s plan
				-President=s conversation with Manolo Sanchez
					-Income level
			-Foreign Aid bill
				-Edward W. Brooke amendment
					-Adlai E. Stevenson, III and Marlow W. Cook
				-John C. Stennis
			-Vesting of pensions
				-Views of businessmen
				-Union leaders
				-Arthur F. Burns= comment
				-Studebaker
				-Prospects in Senate
				-Union members
				-Harrison A. Williams, Jr.=s labor subcommittee
				-McGovern
			-Busing
				-Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr.=s decision on parochial schools
				-Need for constitutional amendment
				-Powell=s wife
				-Powell=s granddaughter
					-Private school
			-Revenue sharing
				-Meeting in Colorado
				-House bill

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  1m 2s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6

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	Congress= schedule
		-Ford
			-Pending legislation
				-Department of Labor and Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW] appropriations bill
					-Ford=s conversation with Robert H. Michel
				-Defense
					-Rhodes
				-Military construction
				-Foreign aid
					-Otto E. Passman=s conversation with Ford, September 6
			-House and Senate
			-Daniel J. Flood=s health
			-Warren G. (AMaggie@) Magnuson
				-Viewpoint
				-Previously vetoed bill
				-Social services
					-Ceiling
					-Charles H. Wilson, Devine
			-Labor-HEW appropriations
				-Unknown man=s conversation with George H. Mahon
				-Magnuson
				-Alan Cranston
			-Social services
				-Basis of apportionment
			-Water Pollution and Water Quality Act
				-Provisions of compromise bill
		-Interstate Commerce Commission [ICC] nominations
			-Cotton=s efforts
			-Magnuson
			-Cotton=s conversation with Magnuson
				-[Forename unknown] Curtis of Missouri
		-Debt limitation increase
			-Mills= views regarding budget limit
				-McGovern
				-Mahon
		-Budget limitation
			-Mills
				-Meeting with George P. Shultz, September 7
			-House rules
			-Mills
				-Meeting with Shultz
		-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO] authorization
			-Provisions
			-Possible veto
		-Water bill
			-Status
			-Provisions
			-Agnew
			-Budget ceiling
		-Budget ceiling
			-Mills
			-Mahon
			-The President=s possible conversation with Mahon
			-Prospects
			-Debt ceiling limit
		-Debt ceiling limit
			-Continuing resolution
			-Possible vote
				-The President=s experience as Vice President
		-Budget ceiling
			-Mahon=s view
		-Postcard registration of voters

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  4m 5s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7

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	Vietnam
		-Draftees

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  7m 18s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

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	Busing
		-Daniel P. (APat@) Moynihan
		-Dr. David J. Armor
			-Study of busing
			-Harvard University
		-Armor=s study

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 8:04 am

	Buchanan=s location
		-President=s request

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:18 am

	Busing
		-James S. Coleman
			-Report
		-Effect
		-Christian Jencks= study
		-Washington Post story, September 7
		-Armor
			-Study
			-Harvard University action
				-Derek C. Bok

	Pending legislation
		-Equal educational opportunities
			-Unknown man=s forthcoming conversation with Williams

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  24m 18s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8

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	Pending legislation
		-Brooke amendment

Arends and Wilson left at an unknown time before 10:18 am

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  56s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9

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	Scheduling

	Tax reform
		-Administration=s position
		-Timing of administration=s proposals
		-Spending ceiling
		-Agnew
		-Job creation

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  4m 11s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4

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	The President=s legislative program

	Pending legislation
		-Consumer Protection Bill
		-Railroads
		-Education tax credits
			-Mills
			-Terence Cardinal Cook
			-Possible Senate action
		-Tax bill

	[General conversation/Unintelligible]

Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 10:18 am

Conversation No. 106-12

Date:  Unknown between September 7 and September 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:18 am, September 7 and 9:30 pm, September 9, 1972
Location:  Cabinet Room

Unknown men met

	[Unintelligible]

The unknown men left at an unknown time before 9:30 pm, September 9, 1972

Conversation No. 106-4

Date:  Unknown between September 7 and September 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:18 am, September 7 and 9:30 pm, September 9, 1972
Location:  Cabinet Room

Unknown men met

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Privacy]
[Duration:  13s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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The unknown men left at an unknown time before 9:30 pm, September 9, 1972

Conversation No. 106-7

Date:  Unknown between September 7 and September 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:18 am, September 7 and 9:30 pm, September 9, 1972
Location:  Cabinet Room

The President [?] met with unknown men

	Cabinet Room
		-President=s position

The President [?] left at an unknown time before 9:30 pm, September 9, 1972

		-Lighting
		-Preparation for meeting
			-Time of meeting

The unknown men left at an unknown time before 9:30 pm, September 9, 1972

Conversation No. 106-8

Date:  Unknown between September 7 and September 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:18 am, September 7 and 9:30 pm, September 9, 1972
Location:  Cabinet Room

Unknown men [security] met

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Statute/Agency Policy]
[Duration:  9m 47s  ]

Unknown people entered at an unknown time after 10:18 am, September 7, 1972

The unknown people left at an unknown time before 10:43 am, September 8, 1972

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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The unknown men [security] left at an unknown time before 9:30 pm, September 9, 1972

Conversation No. 106-9

Date:  Unknown between September 7 and September 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:18 am, September 7 and 9:30 pm, September 9, 1972
Location:  Cabinet Room

Unknown men met

	Cabinet Room
		-Cabinet
		-National Security Council
		-Chairs
			-Donald H. Rumsfeld
			-George P. Shultz

	Oval Office

The unknown men left at an unknown time before 9:30 pm, September 9, 1972

Conversation No. 106-10

Date:  Unknown between September 7 and September 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:18 am, September 7 and 9:30 pm, September 9, 1972
Location:  Cabinet Room

Charles W. Colson met with unknown men

	Cabinet Room
		-Secretary of Commerce
		-Rose Garden
		-President=s chair

Colson, et al. left at an unknown time before 9:30 pm, September 9, 1972