165–12

Conversation No. 165-12

Date: May 12, 1973
Time: 11:50 am - 11:56 am
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Roy L. Ash.

Previous Cabinet meeting

-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]

-Ash’s conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.


Ash’s activities

-Cabinet

-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.


National economy

-Controls

-Fuel Oil Supplies
-Energy
-Ash’s forthcoming call to John B. Connally
-Freeze
-President’s resisntance
-George P. Shultz and Herbert G. Stein

-Government’s role

-Controls

-Albert Sindlinger’s view

-Psychological boost from freeze

-Ash’s view


Watergate

-Maurice H. Stans

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Tape Subject Log

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Conversation No. 165-12 (cont’d)

-John N. Mitchell
-Martha (“Beall”) Mitchell

-Robert L. Vesco

-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman

-Departures from office

-Effect on families

-Conversation with Ash

-Shultz

-President’s decision


Previous Cabinet meeting

-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger

-Role on White House staff


President’s domestic counselors

-Weinberger, Shultz and Leonard Garment

-Ash’s forthcoming call to Weinberger

-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW] [?]