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OCR Page 1 of 45EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20503
July 21, 1972
THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN
MEMORANDUM FOR:
THE CASPAR PRESIDENT W. WEINBERGER
FROM:
John Ehrlichman and I have discussed your concern
with the sending of "ceiling letters" to the
members of the Cabinet and heads of agencies. I
understand that your feeling was that the ceiling
letter would, if leaked, would reveal the fact
that we were seeking a specific, overall budget
total of $263 billion.
At John's suggestion, I am attaching two sample
ceiling letters from which you can see that the
only number given the agency is their own number,
and that the letter at no point refers to any
overall budget totals. Therefore, there would be
no way for anyone seeing one, or even two or three
ceiling letters from computing the overall budget
total.
of course, if you wish, we could communicate even
the agency ceiling totals orally, but the agency
number is to be used by several people in the mechanics
of making up of the agency budget by the agency itself.
Under these circumstances, both John and I felt that
the sending of the ceiling letters, of which the
attachments are fair samples, would not cause any of
the problems you are concerned with. If you wish any
further information or discussion about this, I will
be glad to try to furnish it.
Approve sending ceiling letters in form attached
Disapprove sending ceiling letters
See me
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