697–29

Conversation No. 697-29

Date: March 30, 1972
Time: 12:47 pm - 2:32 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Charles W. Colson.

Schedules
-Haldeman
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Colson
-Workload
-Vacation
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-Florida
-Reservation problems
-Clark MacGregor
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Kissinger
-Staff workload
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Colson's vacation
-White House staff
-Kissinger
-Health
-Dr. W. Kenneth Riland
-Workload
-Colson
-Florida
-The President’s trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Boston
-John B. Connally

Connally
-Press relations
-Donald H. Rumsfeld

Television
-Earl L. Butz and James D. Hodgson
-Debate
-Meat prices
-Labor
-George Meany
-Hugh Scott
-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations
[AFL-CIO]
-Patrick E. Gorman
-Vietnam

Hussein ibn Talal [Hussein, King Jordan]
-Dinner guests
-Rose Mary Woods
-Labor leaders
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Construction trades
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-AFL-CIO
-Building trades presidents
-Church service
-Jews

The President’s forthcoming meeting with Fitzsimmons
-Colson
-George P. Shultz
-Hodgson
-Shultz
-Relationship with Fitzsimmons
-West Coast situation

Pay Board
-Fitzsimmons
-International Brotherhood of Teamsters pay increase
-West Coast situation
-Harry Bridges
-Shultz, Connally, Colson meeting
-Price Commission members
-Meany
-Confrontation with the President
-Television
-Herbert G. Klein
-Matzoh balls
-Food prices
-Commission members statements
-C. Jackson Grayson, Jr.
-House and Senate

Unions
-Curbing power
-Big business
-Roger M. Blough
-Fred J. Borch
-Arch N. Booth
-US Chamber of Commerce
-National Association of Manufacturers [NAM]
-Congress
-Busing
-Advertising campaign
-White House position
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-Business
-Curbing power of unions
-Timing
-Election year
-Labor votes
-Gerald R. Ford
-1958 comparison
-Shultz
-Talk with Borch
-General Electric [GE]
-Congressmen and Senators
-Connally
-Flanigan
-Shultz
-Colson
-Flanigan
-Peter G. Peterson
-Connally
-Flanigan
-Sherman Adams
-Oil business
-Connally
-Colson
-Ford
-Legislation
-Timing
-Meany walkout
-Opinion Research Corporation [ORC]
-Unknown person
-80th Congress
-Anti-labor platform
-Harry S. Truman's veto of Taft-Hartley Bill
-Other issues
-Meat prices
-Commission
-Labor
-Disorganization
-Shultz
-Connally
-Possible telephone calls
-Dock strike
-Legislation
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Busing issue
-MacGregor
-House of Representatives
-Michigan
-Judge Steven J. Roth
-Congressmen
-Turnabout
-James G. O’Hara
-Robert P. Griffin
-Detroit News
-Detroit Free Press
-Knight-Ridder
-Miami
-Jews
-Constitutional amendment
-Martin S. Hayden
-Democratic candidates
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Moratorium
-Congress
-Democratic candidates
-Court tests
-Passage
-Timing
-Democratic National Convention
-Colson's conversation with Ehrlichman
-Lower courts
-Supreme Court
-Lower courts
-Delays
-Supreme Court
-Appeal
-Housing Act
-Court test
-Election
-William H. Rehnquist
-Constitutional amendment
-Self-disqualification
-Constitutional amendment
-Democratic candidates
-White House demonstration
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-Rehnquist
-Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
-Warren E. Burger
-Powell
-Racism
-Richmond, Virginia
-Constitutional amendment
-Richard M. Scammon's analogy
-Income tax
-Buffalo
-News summary
-Boston
-Irish Catholic community

Federal aid to parochial education
-Possible speech at the National Catholic Educational Association [NCEA]
convention
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Meeting
-Shultz's office
-Connally
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Bill
-Compared to White House legislation
-Domestic Council staff
-Ehrlichman
-Edwin L. Harper
-Ehrlichman
-Cole
-Parochial schools compared to public school system
-Religion
-Discipline
-Uniforms
-Domestic Council staff
-Views
-The President
-Flanigan
-Colson
-Connally
-Shultz
-Domestic Council
-Shultz
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-Catholic families
-Domestic Council
-Poll
-Catholic vote
-Catholic communities
-Percentage of children in parochial schools compared with total of Catholic
children
-Total population in the US
-Percentage
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Public schools
-Credibility issue
-Report
-Legislation
-Mills's bill
-Speech
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Population Commission

Abortion
-NCEA speech
-Population Commission
-Recommendations
-Politics
-Colorado compared to Michigan
-Votes
-Blacks
-Support for the President from anti-abortion segment of population
-Domestic Council
-Sierra Club
-Zero population growth
-Support for Nixon

Book by Russell A. Kirk
-Colson
-Connally
-Mrs. Joseph W. Alsop

Federal aid to parochial education
-NCEA speech
-The President's schedule
-101st Airborne
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-Camp David
-Easter egg roll
-NCEA
-Abortion issue
-NCEA speech
-Possible political effect
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-San Diego
-The President's speech
-Ship yard
-Effect
-Compared to Knights of Columbus
-Domestic Council
-House Resolution [HR] 1
-Mitchell
-Connally

The President’s schedule


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Issues
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-Parochial education
-Busing
-Politics
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Leonard Garment
-Public image of the President

Vietnam
-The President’s possible visit to the 101st Airborne
-Offensive
-Timing
-Withdrawal
-I Corps
-US casualties
-Bombing
-Withdrawal

The President's schedule
-Press conference
-Timing
-ITT
-Wisconsin primary
-Commentators
-Democratic nominee
-Florida primary
-News coverage
-Political questions
-ITT issue

[Transcript #2: A transcript of the following portion of the conversation may be found in RG
460, Box 58, pp 1-42.]

-Bradshaw response
[Forename unknown] Walker

The President's schedule
-Meeting
-Fitzsimmons
-Health

Colson's schedule
-Vacation
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Haldeman and Colson left at 2:32 pm.