Date: September 14, 1987
Time: 6:13 pm - 6:18 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Nelson A. Rockefeller.
[See Conversation No. 278-36C]
Attica State Prison riots
-Legislative leaders meeting
-Time
-Number of Republicans
-President's announcement at meeting
-Polls
-Hugh Scott
-Announcement to press
-President's support for Rockefeller
-Response by Rockefeller
-Victims
-Situation
-Troopers
-Sharpshooters
-Reactions by New York Congressional delegation
-Jacob K. Javits’s comments
-James L. Buckley's comments
-Barber B. Conable, Jr.
-Question of criticism of situation
-Action by Rockefeller
-President's support
-Mass arrests of demonstrators in Washington
-Rockefeller's conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
-Comparison with Cambodia situation
-Example of Rockefeller's action
-New York Daily News
-New York Times
-Washington Post
-Thomas Grey (“Tom”) Wicker
-John D. Ehrlichman