719–19

Conversation No. 719-19

Date: May 4, 1972
Time: 12:56pm - 1:21 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Frank E. Fitzsimmons, Raymond Schoessling, Joseph Trerotola, William
J. McCarthy, Weldon L. Mathis, and Charles W. Colson; the White House photographer was
present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

Seating
-Arrangements
-Photographs
-A chair

Pay Board
-Meetings
-Work with International Brotherhood of Teamsters
-President's appreciation
-Controls
-Workability

Teamsters
-Contracts
-Chicago
-George P. Shultz
-Controversy
-Retroactivity
-Contracts
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-West Coast
-Problems
-Harry Bridges
-Support for President

An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time between 12:56 and 1:21 pm.

-Foreign policy support
-President's gratitude
-Past support for the President
-Dave Beck
-The President’s view


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-Labor movement
-Support for American values
-President's gratitude
-Fitzsimmons's statement
-George Meany's statement
-Political activities
-George S. McGovern
-Dave Leonard
-Appearance on television
-Affiliation
-Trip to Hanoi
-Harold Gibbons
-[Forename unknown] Caldwell
-Meeting with Fitzsimmons
-Le Duc Tho
-Support of coalition government
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-Trip to Hanoi
-Gibbons
-Coaliton governments
-Problems with Communists
-Czechoslovakia

Organized labor
-Effects of Communists in unions
-International Labor Organization [ILO]
-[Forename unknown] Charles
-Activities in Europe
-Caldwell
-Discussion on plane
-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO]
-Access to White House
-Partisanship
-Support of Democratic party
-President's relationship
-Fitzsimmons's relationship with the President


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-Trerotola
-Peter J. Brennan
-The President’s view
-Construction trades
-Association with Teamsters
-Brennan
-[Forename unknown] Van Horne
-Rockefeller
-Brennan
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-Association with Teamsters

J. Edgar Hoover
-Age at death
-The President’s view
-Criticism
-Life magazine
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Jack N. Anderson
-Column
-Retention in office
-President's defense
-Career
-Criticism

Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-The President’s view
-Career
-Administrative assistant to Adm. Arthur W. Radford
-Character
-Tenure in office
-Meeting with the President
-Liaison with Colson
-Background
-Character

Demonstrators
-Position of Trerotola
-Incident at St. Patrick's Cathedral
-Mrs. Trerotola
-Picketing nuns
-Trerotola's conversation
-Anita Trerotola
-Nuns actions in cathedral

Vietnam
-Catholics in North Vietnam
-Killings in 1954
-North Vietnam victory in 1970s
-Consequences
-Lack of publicity
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Support for the President

Gifts

Anecdote
-President's dinner for retired Congressmen
-John Sherman Cooper
-The President’s view
-Joke

Gifts
-For wives
-Ash trays
-Described
-For men
-Money clips
-Described
-Golf balls
-Golf
-Jim [Surname unknown]

Goodbyes
-Support for the President
-Communists
-Appreciation

Fitzsimmons, et al., left at 1:21 pm.