16–76

Conversation No. 16-76

Date: December 9, 1971
Time: 7:42 pm - 8:10 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

Tax legislation
-Senate

President's veto message
-[Economic Opportunity Amendments]
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Reaction


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India-Pakistan War
-US policy
-Critics
-Democrats
-John A. Scali
-Press briefing
-Marvin L. Kalb
-Public opinion
-Mail count
-Telegrams
-Network time
-Mail count
-Compared to George Meany incident
-Apathy
-State Department reaction


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Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's visit to Sears Roebuck
-Public reaction
-Citizens Committee
-Stores
-Margeretta (“Happy”) Rockefeller
-New York Daily News

Business
-Attitudes
-Stock Market
-Profit-taking
-Confidence
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Administration’s plan on pensions
-Response
-Groups
-Briefings
-Labor
-Business
-Doctors
-Lawyers
-American Bar Association [ABA]
-Public interest groups
-Issue
-Importance
-Retirement
-Mutual Funds
-Insurance companies
-Jacob K. Javits
-Political effects
-Property taxes
-Conservatives

[James R. (“Jimmy”) Hoffa parole]
-Colson’s call to Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-John N. Mitchell


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-George S. McGovern
-Use of Senate Stationery
-Campaign contributions
-Poll
-Louis Harris


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-Cartoon
-Edmund S. Muskie and Edward M. Kennedy


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Economy
-General impressions


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George Meany
-Health
-President’s concern
-Jay Lovestone
-Conversation with Colson
-US foreign policy

Congress
-William H. Rehnquist
-Confirmation, December 10, 1971
-Javits
-William Proxmire
-James D. Hodgson
-Emergency strike legislation
-Address to Congress
-Farm Bill
-Earl L. Butz

Kennedy address
-News summary
-British House of Commons reaction
-Chappaquiddick
-Labour Party
-Edward R.G. Heath
-Ireland
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