625–12

Conversation No. 625-12

Date: November 29, 1971
Time: 8:38 am - 10:42 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with John N. Mitchell, John D. Ehrlichman, Clark MacGregor and William E.
Timmons.


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Pending legislation
-Tax Bill
-Forthcoming Senate-House conference
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Revenue-sharing
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-John O. Pastore's amendment
-Tax check-off provision
-MacGregor's possible conversations
-Russell B. Long, Wallace F. Bennett, John W. Byrnes and Mills
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.’s amendment
-Pastore
-Possible veto
-Possible special session of Congress
-Financing political campaigns
-\"Added Dollar\" concept
-Treasury Department role
-Democrats
-Joseph W. Alsop's previous column
-Baker and Pastore amendments
-Effects
-Public hearings
-1966 congressional action
-Robert F Kennedy and Albert A. Gore, Sr.
-Possible effects
-Convention delegates
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr. and Clifford P. Case
-Pastore amendment
-Possible veto
-Byrnes's views
-William L. Springer’s views
-Possible effects
-The President's previous conversation with George E. Allen
-William Jennings Bryant/William McKinley campaign
-Harry S. Truman
-Campaign workers
-Jews and labor
-Democrats
-Israel
-Dwight D. Eisenhower's policy
-John Foster Dulles
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-Gamal Abdel Nasser
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-26 Amendment
-Financing political campaigns
-Possible effects
-Blacks
-Intelligence
-George C. Wallace
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Democrats
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Wallace
-Possible veto
-William E. Brock, III's views
-Effects
-Public relations
-Possible leak
-Bennett and Byrnes
-Mills
-Byrnes
-Mills
-Byrnes
-Possible veto
-Everett M. Dirksen
-Possible veto
-Business
-Alan Cranston
-Possibilities in House
-William M. Colmer and Joe D. Waggonner, Jr.
-George H. Mahon
-MacGregor's previous conversation with administrative assistant
-Mills
-The President’s view
-Unknown man
-Possible veto
-Special session
-Karl E. Mundt
-William Proxmire
-Byrnes
-Mahon
-Colmer
-Financing political campaigns
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-Possible effects
-Democrats
-Possible presidential candidates
-The President's schedule
-Possible veto
-The President's schedule
-Possible veto
-Special session
-The President's economic policy
-Possible veto
-Special session
-Long and Mills
-The President's possible speech
-Possible letter
-John B. Connally

Aged
-Social Security
-Inflation
-The President's constituency

Pending legislation
-Tax Bill
-Congress
-Financing political campaigns
-Democratic National Convention
-Phone company
-News report
-Congress
-Welfare reform
-The President's schedule
-Possible veto
-Pastore amendment
-The President's possible statement
-Conference Committee
-The President's possible statement
-Possible letter
-Senate conferees
-Mills, Long, Byrnes and John C. Stennis
-The President's possible letter
-Effect
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-Content
-Conference Committee
-Possible instructions
-Pastore Amendment
-Possible special session
-Possible veto
-Financing political campaigns
-Israel
-Golda Meir’s possible visit to the US
-US military assistance
-American Jews
-The President’s policy
-The Presidential election
-State Department
-American Jews
-American Quakers
-The President's policy
-1972 campaign
-Democratic candidates
-Financing
-Possible problems
-Effect
-Proliferation of parties
-Owing debts to supporters
-Democrats
-Labor councils
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Baker's views
-Responsibility to supporters
-Humphrey and Muskie
-Responsibility to supporters
-Arthur Summerfield's efforts
-Business community
-1964 and 1968 campaigns
-Barry M. Goldwater
-MacGregor's work
-Effect
-Puerto Rican experience
-Tax argument
-Tax evasion
-The President's possible statement
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-People's Republic of China [PRC] announcement
-The President's possible letter to Congressmen
-Publicity
-Response
-The President’s views
-Ronald L. Ziegler's possible statement
-MacGregor's possible statement
-Congress's schedule
-Connally’s view
-Possible special session
-Timing
-The President's schedule
-Bermuda
-Azores
-Possible special session
-Conflict with the President
-Cabinet's possible action
-The President's economic program

National economy
-The President's program
-Proxmire's views
-Effectiveness
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Prediction by New York firm

Pending legislation
-Tax Bill
-Possible veto
-Businessmen
-Charles W. Colson, William L. Safire and Peter M. Flanigan
-MacGregor's conversation with William S. White
-Horace C. (“Chappie”) Rose
-Shultz

Los Angeles Times story on Vietnam
-Doves
-Robert B. Semple, Jr.
-Ziegler's statement

Pending legislation
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-Domestic issues
-PRC trip announcement
-Tax Bill
-Financing political campaigns
-MacGregor's possible statement
-Creation of new jobs
-Congressional action
-Possible veto
-Mitchell's possible statement
-Constitutionality
-The President’s possible statement
-Possible veto
-Mills's possible action
-Elliot L. Richardson's possible statements
-Federal spending
-Political campaigns
-MacGregor's possible statement
-Congress's schedule
-Effect
-Congressional action
-Effect
-Possible veto
-Purpose
-Effect of legislation
-Possible veto
-Mills
-Timing
-Stock market
-PRC trip announcement
-Stock market
-Southern Democrats' views
-Thomas G. Wicker's views
-William H. Rehnquist

The nation
-Politics
-The President's accomplishments
-Supreme Court

Pending legislation
-Tax Bill
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-Timing of vote
-MacGregor's possible meeting
-Mills
-Possible veto
-Effect
-Financing political campaigns
-Stewart J.O. Alsop's previous column
-Effect
-The President’s view
-Welfare reform
-Government reorganization
-Revenue-sharing
-Tax Bill
-Financing political campaigns
-Legislative history
-Pressure on presidents
-\"Bad\" provisions of \"good\" bills
-Effect
-Newsmen's views
-Howard K. Smith
-[Arnold] Eric Sevareid
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
-MacGregor's possible statement
-Robert F. Kennedy and Gore
-Effect of passage
-Effects
-Number of parties
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Wallace
-John F. Kennedy
-As national issue
-Ehrlichman's forthcoming conversation with Herbert G. Klein
-MacGregor's possible statement
-Congress's schedule
-House version
-Gerald R. Ford and Hugh Scott
-The President's schedule
-Financing political campaigns
-Ford's views
-Brock's views
-Previous conversation with the President
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-As national issue
-Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak
-Finances of Republicans and Democrats
-Possible statements
-Robert J. Dole
-Samuel L. Devine
-John [Surname unintelligible]
-Waggonner, Mahon, and Olin E. (“Tiger”) Teague

Southern Democrats supporting the President's programs
-Republican opposition in 1972
-Mahon's conversation with MacGregor
-Michael J. Mansfield amendment
-Previous records
-Timmons's research

Earl L. Butz
-Confirmation
-Robert C. Byrd
-Alternatives
-Clarence D. Palmby
-John H. Kyl
-Farm organizations
-Views of Bryce N. Harlow and John C. Whitaker
-Selection
-The President's meeting with Carl T. Curtis
-MacGregor's knowledge
-Views of Dole, Jack R. Miller and Curtis
-Confirmation
-MacGregor's efforts
-George D. Aiken's suggestions
-Butz's association with related organizations
-4-H
-MacGregor's conversation with Herman E. Talmadge
-Miller's views
-Ezra Taft Benson and Orville L. Freeman
-Possible actions in office
-Confirmation
-Constituents' letters to James B. Pearson
-Whitaker's possible efforts
-American Farm Bureau
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-Performance
-Clifford M. Hardin’s view
-Alternatives
-Palmby
-Possible withdrawal of nomination
-Confirmation
-Effect on Rehnquist and Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
-Paul J. Fannin's views
-Effect on Rehnquist
-Administration's efforts
-Possible withdrawal of nomination
-Aiken's conversations with MacGregor
-Miller
-Pearson
-MacGregor's conversations
-Timmons and Thomas C. Korologos
-Mitchell
-Possible withdrawal of nomination
-Administration's efforts
-MacGregor's conversation with Miller
-Walter J. Hickel

MacGregor's schedule

Mitchell, et al., left at 10:42 am.