Conversation No. 742-1

Date:  June 26, 1972
Time:  8:30 - 8:31 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Marjorie P. Acker.

The President’s file
		-Items

Baseball greats list
	-The President’s efforts
	-Acker
		-Typing
	-Names

Acker left at 8:31 am.

Conversation No. 742-2

Date:  June 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:31 am and 8:57 am
Location:  Oval Office

An unknown person talked with the President.

Telephone call

Conversation No. 742-3

Date:  June 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:31 am and 8:57 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown woman.

Office supplies

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 8:57 am.

Conversation No. 742-4

Date:  June 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:31 am and 8:57 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

The President’s schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 8:57 am.

Conversation No. 742-5

Date:  June 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:31 am and 8:57 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Terry L. Decker.

Decker’s trip to Camp David

Woodsfield, Ohio
	-Location

Decker’s trip to Camp David
		-Bowling
			-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
			-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II

Decker left at an unknown time before 8:57 am.

Conversation No. 742-6

Date:  June 26, 1972
Time:  8:57 am - 9:40 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

Kissinger's health

Vietnamese military situation
-North Vietnamese attack on Hue
-Bombing
-Quality of tank crews from North Vietnam
	-News reports
	-Intelligence information
-South Vietnamese offensive
	-Kissinger’s view
-Quang Tri
-Army of the Republic of South Vietnam [ARVN]
	-New reports
-Gloria Emmett
-New York Times
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Reporting

Vietnam peace negotiations
-Meeting schedule
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.'s trip
-Length
-Purpose
-Nguyen Van Thieu 
-Ellsworth F. Bunker

Gen. John D. Lavelle
	-Possible replacement
-Defense Department report to Kissinger
-Attacks on North Vietnamese targets
-Term "Protective Reaction"
-Signal to North Vietnamese
-Bombing
-Melvin R. Laird
-The President's role
	-Kissinger’s view

	Press
		-Lavelle
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Watergate break-in
-Bugging
-Lawrence F. O'Brien, Jr.'s talk with Stewart J.O. Alsop
-George S. McGovern
-Lavelle
	-The President’s view

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Washington Post article 
	-Massive retaliation
		-McGovern and Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Impact
-Effect 
	-Kissinger’s view
-Jordan
-Vietnam
	-Kissinger’s view
-Intellectuals' opinion of defense policy

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 8:57 am.

The President's schedule
-Press conference
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman 
-John D. Ehrlichman

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:40 am.

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Vietnam
	-McGovern's proposals
		-The President’s view
		-Kissinger’s view
		-Effect
-Eisenhower's policy on Korea
-Kissinger's conversation with Chou En-lai
	-Korea
		-Division
-Administration's position in campaign
-McGovern’s proposals
		-Hubert H. Humphrey
		-Defense spending
-Administration actions
		-President’s statements
-Negotiations
-Effect of US election
-Withdrawal date for US offer
-McGovern
 -US election
-Moscow
-Peking
	-Rationale
-George W. Ball's articles in New York Times
-Moscow's view of election
-The President's conversation with Leonid I. Brezhnev 
	-Agriculture
-Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union [TASS] reports
-Statement by William P. Rogers

Kissinger's conversation with Alsop
	-The President
		-Alsop’s view
-McGovern
	-Policies
-The President's opponents
	-Liberals
-Barry M. Goldwater
-The President 
-Reaction to the President's re-election
-Clark M. Clifford
-Cyrus R. Vance
-Ball

Vietnam
-The President’s efforts
-The President’s view
-South Vietnamese military
	-Lam Son
	-Thieu
-Larry Stern
-Press
-Time and Newsweek
	-Vietnam War coverage

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	Defense budget
-Laird statements
	-The President’s view
	-Anti-Ballistic Missile [ABM] Treaty
	-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Tactics
	-Increase in program expenditures
	-Kissinger’s view
		-Timing
-"Doves"
-ABM Treaty
-Previous briefing for Congressmen
-ABM 
	-The President’s statement
-Laird

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	Defense policy
-The President’s efforts
-Robert S. McNamara
-Press
-Katharine L. Graham

Commonwealth Club speech by Rogers

Kissinger's schedule
-Possible television appearance
-The President’s view
-Marvin L. Kalb
-Prime time	
-Today show
-Major network importance
-Length
-Timing

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The President’s schedule
	-Henry Cabot Lodge
			-Kissinger
			-Possible appointment
				-Ambassador to France
					-Arthur K. Watson
					-The President’s view

Kissinger left at 9:40 am.

Conversation No. 742-7

Date:  June 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:40 am and 9:50 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Instructions

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:50 am.

Conversation No. 742-8

Date:  June 26, 1972
Time:  9:50 am - 10:45 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

Presidential cuff links
-Possible purchase
-Tie tac

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 9:50 am.

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Woods left at 10:00 am.

Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-Call to Helen A. Thomas
-Removal of telephones
-John N. Mitchell
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
	-Richard G. Kleindienst
	-Bugging
-Haldeman’s view
-Possible trip abroad
	-Mexico
-Health
-Thomas
	-Possible conversation with the President
-John Mitchell
-Health
-Telephoning

The President's opponents' charges
-Bugging
-ITT
-Harrold G. Carswell
-Gen. John D. Lavelle
-Effect of scandals
-Joseph C. Kraft’s columns
	-The President
	-Carswell, Lavelle, ITT
	-Administration's credibility

Lavelle
-Harry S. Truman and Gen. Douglas MacArthur
-Situation

Carswell

 Watergate break-in
-Kraft's opinion
-John Mitchell's and Nixon's morality

The President's conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
-Kissinger's conversation with Stewart J.O. Alsop
			-Katharine L. Graham
				-The President’s policy
				-The President

Liberal press
-Opposition to the President
-Graham
-Kraft
-Ronald L. Ziegler
	-Reasons
	-Alsop

Opposition to Franklin D. Roosevelt
	-Haldeman’s grandfather

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The President's memorandum to Charles W. Colson 
	-Response to Dwight D. Eisenhower story in Washington Post
	-Victor Lasky
	-Letters to editor
	-Gen. Alfred Gruenther
	-Gen. Omar N. Bradley
	-Arthur W. Radford
-John S. D. Eisenhower
	-Letter to the Washington Post
-Patrick J. Buchanan

Speechwriting
	-Presidential statements
		-Restriction of meat imports
-Style
-William L. Safire, Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Buchanan
-The President's rhythm

Julie Nixon Eisenhower
	-Press coverage
		-Event

Harvard University
	-Event
		-Ralph Nader
				-Adolf Hitler

	Message from George H. Mahon
		-Possible response from the President

Beef prices
	-News summaries
-Earl L. Butz
-The President's statement
-Price
-Safire
-George P. Shultz, Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger, Colson, John D.
 Ehrlichman, and John C. Whitaker
-Clearance by the President
-John K. Andrews, Jr.

Vera Hirshberg
-The President’s instructions
-Possible reassignment
	-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
	-Dr. Sidney P. Marland, Jr.

Staff appointments

Watergate break-in
-Ziegler
-Lawrence F. O'Brien, Jr.'s letter to the President
-Special Prosecutor
-Burglars
-Ehrlichman
-John W. Dean III, John Mitchell, Robert C. Mardian
-Pleas
-Investigation's progress

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The President's conversation with [Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Story on baseball greats written by the President
-Teams picked by the President
	-Players
-News value
	-Radio
	-Wire services
	-Press release
-Sports Illustrated
-Timing of release
-Associated Press [AP]
-Ziegler
-Sports Illustrated
-John R. (“Jackie”) Robinson's accomplishments
			-Lawrence M. Higby [?]
			-Track and field
			-Basketball
			-Football

Pending legislation
-Debt limit
-Schedule
-Frank F. Church's Social Security amendment
-Clark MacGregor's conversation with Robert C. Byrd
-House of Representatives rules
-Expiration of debt limit
-Weinberger
-Ehrlichman
-Wilbur D. Mills's position
-John W. Byrnes
-1973 budget meeting 
-Ehrlichman
-Weinberger, Shultz, Herbert Stein
-Colson, Mitchell, MacGregor, Kenneth R. Cole, Jr., Edwin L. Harper
-MacGregor

The President's schedule
-Filming of announcement
-Location

Rally for George S. McGovern
-Stars
-Telephone calls
-Agents
	-Herbert J. (“Jackie”) Gleason
-Contract for Daughters of the American Revolution [DAR] hall
-George D. Aiken

John Mitchell
-Martha Mitchell

Haldeman left at 10:45 am.

Conversation No. 742-9

Date:  June 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:45 am and 10:59 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 26-6]

Conversation No. 742-10

Date:  June 26, 1972
Time:  10:59 am - 11:06 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.

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The President talked with the White House operator.

[Conversation No. 742-10A]

The President's schedule
	-Return telephone call

[End of telephone conversation]

Ehrlichman left at 11:06 am.

Conversation No. 742-11

Date:  June 26, 1972
Time:  11:07 am -11:30 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry Cabot Lodge and Charles W. Colson.

The President’s schedule
	-Henry A. Kissinger
-Press photograph

The President's statement on return from trip to the Soviet Union
	-Lodge’s view
		-US News and World Report article

Henry A. Kissinger entered at an unknown time after 11:07 am.

Washington Post article comparing George S. McGovern's national 
security policy with Dwight D. Eisenhower's
		-The President’s view

	Photograph opportunity

Vatican
	-Lodge’s previous visit
-Frank Stevenson from the State Department
-Giovanni Battista Motini [Pope Paul VI] 
	-Feelings toward the President
	-Lodge’s assessment
-American bishops
-Structure of Lodge's office
-Archbishop Spinnelli (?)
-Foreign service officer's role in Pope's attitude toward Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty
	-US embassy in Rome
	-Lodge's schedule
-Kissinger’s view
-Oral Roberts
-Vietnam
	-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Staffing
-Lodge's title
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Pope's brother
-Visitors to Vatican
-Terrance Cardinal Cooke
-John Cardinal Krol
	-Support for the President
-Timothy Cardinal Manning
-James F.A. Cardinal McIntyre
-John Cardinal Cody
-Cardinal in St. Louis
-Cardinal in Detroit
-White House efforts
	-Cardinals
-Cardinal Cooke
-Lodge's visit
-Cardinal Manning
-Colson’s role
-Lodge's visits
-Aid to education bill

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Lodge's official roles
-Diplomatic appointments
-Lodge's family
-Paris
-Diplomatic assignments
-Spain
-George Lodge's family
-Lodge
-Possible appointees
-Robert C. Hill
-Horatio Rivero
-John D. Lodge
-Political future
-Argentina
	-John Lodge
-Gen. Francisco Franco
-Lopez Bravo
-Current Vice President of Spain
-Linguistic ability
	-Lodge 
		-Germany
	-State Department 
-Relationship with Pope
-Maltese ambassador

Lodge's family

	Washington Post article
		-Colson

Lodge, et al., left at 11:31 am.

Conversation No. 742-12

Date:  June 26, 1972
Time:  11:31 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
	-Henry A. Kissinger	
	-Peter M. Flanigan

Bull left at 11:31 am.

Conversation No. 742-13

Date:  June 26, 1972
Time:  11:31 am - 12:08 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Peter M. Flanigan.

Flanigan's previous trip to Europe
-Anthony P.L. Barber
	-Flanigan’s and the President’s view
-Relationship with Edward R.G. Heath
-European Economic Community [EEC]
			-US-British relationship
				-Romania

Spain ambassorship
-Wiley Buchanan
-Horatio Rivero
-Problems with EEC
	-Trade preferences
		-Possible US action
	-Shoes
-Attributes for ambassador
-Knowledge of Spanish military
-Gen. Francisco Franco
-Spanish language
-Rivera
	-Qualifications
-Henry Cabot Lodge

	Ambassadorships
		-Buchanan
			-The President’s view

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:30 am.

Bull’s pager
	-Alexander P. Butterfield

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:42 am.

Ambassadors
-Luxembourg
-Role in policy formulation       
-The President’s view
-Denmark
	-Buchanan
	-Fred J. Russell

Council on International Economic Policy (CIEP)
-Organization structure
-John B. Connally
-George P. Shultz
-Size
-George W. Romney, John A. Volpe, Melvin R. Laird, David M. Kennedy
-Shultz, William P. Rogers, Henry A. Kissinger, Peter G. Peterson, Herbert Stein
-Meetings with the President
	-The President’s view
-Rogers
-Robert S. McNamara
-World Bank loans
-India
-Iraq
			-Appointment
-Rogers
-Role
	-Department of State
-Attitude
-McNamara's appointment
-Iraq loan
-Kissinger, Connally
-Vietnam

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 11:30 and 11:42 am.

[Conversation No. 742-13A]

[See Conversation No. 26-7]

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger entered at 11:42 am.

CIEP
-Connally
-Roy L. Ash Council
-Size
-Problems
-Volpe, Laird, Kennedy
-Flanigan’s suggestion
	-Executive committee
-Executive committee
	-Rogers's role
	-Preparation
				-Connally
-McNamara's role
	-Loan to Iraq
-Instructions for Shultz
	-Loans
-Iraq loan
-Iran's role
-McNamara's role
-The President’s view
	-Katharine L. Graham
	-Chile and India loans
-Instructions for Shultz
	-Chile and India loans
-Expropriation

The President talked with Shultz between 11:45 am and 11:47 am.

[Conversation No. 742-13B]

[See Conversation No. 26-8]

[End of telephone conversation]

Food prices
-Roles of Connally and Shultz

The President's conversation with Shultz
-State Department
-CIEP

Relations with EEC
-CIEP executive committee meeting
	-US policy
-Trade preferences
-Spain
-Rivero
	-The President’s view
-Franco relationship
-Lodge
-Charles W. Colson's views
			-Rivero
				-The President’s decision
Future trade legislation
-Effect on tax legislation

Soviet Union
-Peterson's forthcoming trip
-Future deal
-Negotiations
-Flanigan’s view
-Schedule
-Instructions from the President, Kissinger
-Terms of deal
-Negotiating strategy

Kissinger left at 11:54 am.

Ambassadors
-EEC
-J. Robert Schaetzel
-Joseph A. Greenwald
	-Organization for Economic and Cooperation Development [OECD]
	-Flanigan’s views
-Iceland
-Vacancies
	-State Department
		-Career diplomats
-Iceland
	-Importance
	-V. John Krehbiel
		-Senate confirmation
-Congressional approval
	-Strategy
		-Career and political appointees
-MacGregor
-Spain
-Rivero
-Holland
-Kingdon Gould, Jr.
-J. William Middendorf, II
-Ruth L. Farkas
	-Luxembourg
-Pakistan
-Robert G. Neumann
	-Afghanistan
-Rogers
-Political orientation
-William B. Macomber, Jr.
-Career diplomat
	-Hermann F. Eilts
	-The President’s view
-Malagasy Republic
-Joseph A. Mendenhall
-Anthony D. Marshall
-Pakistan
-Requirements for Position
-Macomber
-Role in State Department
-Mendenhall
-Panama
-Frank T. Bow
-Pakistan
-George W. Landau
-Robert B. Anderson
-Fred J. Borch
	-The President’s view
-Length of stay
-Hoyt Amidon
-George Champion
-Canada
-Bangladesh
-Landau
	-Kissinger’s view
	-The President’s view
-Vacancies
	-Australia
	-Denmark
	-Italy
	-Jamaica
	-New Zealand
	-Spain
	-Sweden
	-Poland
	-Portugal
	-OECD
-Poland
-Walter J. Stoessel, Jr.
-Martin J. Hillenbrand
	-Stoessel
-Contributors
-Pakistan
-Borch
-Japan
-Robert S. Ingersoll
-France
-US embassy building
	-Flanigan’s view
-Arthur K. Watson

Press attacks on the President
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] 
-G. Harrold Carswell 
-Watergate bugging incident
-Gen. John D. Lavelle
-Watergate break-in
-Reasons
-White House role
-John N. Mitchell's role
-Joseph C. Kraft

Foreign economic policy makers
-Peterson
-Shultz
-CIEP executive committee meeting

The President left and H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at an unknown time before 12:08 pm.

	Ambassadorial appointments
		-Senate confirmation
			-Rogers
			-Timing

Flanigan left at 12:08 pm.

Conversation No. 742-14

Date:  June 26, 1972
Time:  12:08 - 12:18 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

The President's schedule
-Award ceremony
	-Gen. William C. Westmoreland
		-Retirement
-Vernon C. Coffey, Jr.
	-Possible meeting with the President

The President's military aides 
	-Naval officer
	-Coast Guard officer
	-John V. (“Jack”) Brennan
	-James D. (“Don”) Hughes
		-Role
	-Coast Guard officers
		-The President’s view

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 12:11 pm.

The President's schedule
-Westmoreland ceremony
	-Press coverage
		-The President’s view

Ziegler left at 12:12 pm.

Ziegler
	-Press coverage

The President's military aides
-Roles
	-The President’s view
	-Zosimo T. Monzon
	-Manolo Sanchez
	-The President’s view
		-Civilian aides
		-Military aides
-Stephen B. Bull
-Cmdr. Craig S. Campbell
-Civilians
	-Advance men
-Bull
-Roles
-Compared to advance men
-Presidential travel
	-Advance men compared with military aides

Henry Cabot Lodge
-Role in administration

John N. Mitchell
-Richard A. Moore
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-Frederick C. LaRue
-Interview in New York

Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:12 pm.

The President's schedule
-Westmoreland
	-Citation
	-The President’s remarks

The President, Bull, and Haldeman left at 12:18 pm.

Conversation No. 742-15

Date:  June 26, 1972
Time:  12:18 - 12:31 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Stephen B. Bull met with Gen. William C. Westmoreland, Mrs. William C. Westmoreland, James R. Westmoreland, Margaret C. Westmoreland, Edwin R. Van Deusen, Robert F. Froehlke, Lt. Col. James Shufelt, Gen. Bruce Palmer, [David] Kenneth Rush, H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, Lt. Col. J. Felter, and members of the press.

[General conversation]

The President entered at an unknown time after 12:18 pm.

Citation of Distinguished Service Medal for Westmoreland

The President's appreciation

Presentation of gifts by the President

Tour of the White House

Westmoreland, et al., left at 12:31 pm.

Conversation No. 742-16

Date:  June 26, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:31 pm and 3:03 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

Gift from Soviet Union
	-Art exhibit
	-Landscape painting

The President and Haldeman left at an unknown time before 3:03 pm.

Conversation No. 742-19

Date: June 26, 1972
Time: Unknown between 12:31 pm and 3:03 pm
Location: Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service agents] met.

	Telephone call

An unknown person [Secret Service agent] talked with an unknown person.

[Conversation No. 742-19A]

	The President’s location
		-Executive Office Building [EOB]

[End of telephone conversation]

Conversation No. 742-17

Date:  June 26, 1972
Time:  3:03 pm - 3:05 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

	Forthcoming meeting with national veterans leaders

Henry A. Kissinger

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:03 pm.

-Washington Post article
	-White House response

Press briefing
		-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

The President's schedule

The President, Colson, and Bull left at 3:05 pm.

Conversation No. 742-18

Date:  June 26, 1972
Time:  3:41 pm – unknown before 5:23 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Hebert Stein, George P. Shultz, John D. Ehrlichman, Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger, and Clark MacGregor.

National economy
-Projected growth
-Unemployment

Budget
-Full employment
-Estimates based on 4% unemployment
-Fiscal Year [FY] 1974
-FY 1975
-FY 1974
-Revenues
-FY 1973
-Terms 
-Base
-Target path
-FY 1974
-FY 1975
-FY 1973
-Civilian and military expenditures
-Possible deficits
-Possible enactments
-Administration's options
-Possible enactments
-Defense
	-Melvin R. Laird
-Public service bill
-Emergency school integration
-Higher education
-Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD]
-Revenue sharing
-Ehrlichman's conversation with Nelson A. Rockefeller
	-Jacob K. Javits, James B. Pearson, [Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Shultz’s testimony

Revenue sharing bill
-Ways and Means Committee provisions
-Russell B. Long
-Ehrlichman's conversation with Rockefeller
-Distribution formulas
-General revenue sharing
-Categorical grants
-Withholding of funds
-Court injunction

William V. Roth, Jr. proposal on Social Security
	-Frank F. Church proposal
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Spending ceiling
-Long

Budget
	-Revenue sharing
		-The President’s view
-Legislative contingencies
-1973 target
-Reductions
-Possible veto statement
-Congressional action
	-Programs
-Debt ceiling limit extension
-Importance of publicizing administration's position
-Reductions
	-Timing
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-Strategy
-Agency spending
-FY 1974
-Effects of FY 1973
-Reductions
-Strategy
-Tax increase
-Congress's role
	-Possible administration statement
	-Tax increase
-George H. Mahon
-Barber B. Conable, Jr.
-Reductions
-Danger of inflation
-Possible tax increase
-Welfare reform
	-Abraham A. Ribikoff
-House Resolution [HR] 1
-Starting date
-Richard B. Ogilvie
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Aid to Families with Dependent Children [AFDC]
-General revenue sharing
-Reductions
-Public relations
-Debt ceiling limit
-Congressional action
	-HR 1
	-Charles H. Percy
	-John W. Byrnes
-Rules Committee
-Social Security increase
-Byrnes
-Robert C. Byrd
-Possible courses of action by administration
	-Government services and programs
-Church
-Size
-Possible actions by Treasury Department
-Disaster expenses
-Milton J. Shapp
-Disinvestments
-Social Security
-Highway Trust Fund
-Proposals for reform of process
-State of Union message
-Ralph Nader
-Higher education bill
-Reductions
-Preparation of alternate budget
-Constraints
-Reductions
-Black lung disease
-Possible increases
-Agriculture
	-Cotton programs
	-Food prices
-Health
-Public perception of programs' value
-Manpower
-Administration's errors
-Great Society programs
-Inflation
-Food stamps
	-John F. Kennedy
	-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Social services
-Black lung disease
-US government share
-Rockefeller, Ogilvie
-Reaction to cuts
-FY 1974
-Reagan
-Rockefeller, Ogilvie
-John N. Mitchell
			-Executive Order content
-FY 1974
-Provisions
-Percy's welfare program
-Political problems
-Governors
-Voters
-Mitchell
-Rockefeller, Ogilvie
-Shapp
-Political ramifications
-Effects on people
-The President's forthcoming Executive Order
-FY 1973
-Rockefeller
-General revenue sharing
-Uses by state government
-Personnel cuts
-Attrition rate
-Pending legislation
-Social Security increase
-Senate amendment
-Financing
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Church amendment
 -Water pollution control
 - Mass transit
-Emergency community facilities
-Labor
-Excess over budget
-Vetoes
-Wage Board bill
-Charles W. Colson's deal with John F. Griner
-Tied to end of controls
-Shultz’s view
	-Harry Bridges
		-Longshoremen contract
	-Effect on ending controls
-Effect on public salaries
-The President's labor coalition
-James D. Hodgson
-Negotiating strategy with Griner
-Manpower training act
-Effects on Veterans Administration [VA] and HEW
-The President’s view
	-Olin E. (“Tiger”) Teague
	-Elliot L. Richardson
-Education
-Problems
-Veterans
-Social Security
-General revenue sharing
-Formulas
	-Percy
-Political value
-Welfare reform
-HR 1
-Effect
-Welfare reform
-Budgetary implications
-Problems
-New federal employees
-Percy's amendment
-Rockefeller
-Percy's amendment
-Ways and Means Committee
-Mills
-Water pollution
-Rural development
-Child development
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO] legal services
-Social services
-Rockefeller and Ogilvie
-Brookings Institute's study
-FY 1974
-Reductions
-Defense expenditures
-Laird's projections
	-Vietnam War
-Programs
-Navy
-Manpower in Vietnam
-Ending of Vietnam War
-George S. McGovern
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [Salt] negotiations
-The President’s view
-Tax reform
-Value-added tax [VAT]
-Need for simplification
-Income tax exemptions
-Use of tax system for social purposes
-Treasury Department
	-The President’s view
-Need for elimination of programs
-Effect of forthcoming elections
-Robert H. Finch compared with Alan Cranston
-Ehrlichman
-MacGregor
-Stein
-Shultz
-Colson
-Possible tax increases
	-Congress
	-Stein
-Defense

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