Date: May 7, 1971
Time: 2:08 pm - unknown before 2:54 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Charles W. Colson.
[See Conversation No. 253-4]
Victor Riesel's column on George Meany
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Riesel's conversation with Colson
-Meany's relations with building trades union
Meany
-Attitude towards administration
-Views toward Arthur F. Burns
-James D. Hodgson
-Building trades decision Conv. No. 2-119 (cont.)
-Colson's conversation with James Suffridge
-Dr. Arthur A. Fletcher
-Philadelphia Plan
-Apprenticeship program
-George W. Romney
-Burns
-Meetings with labor leaders
-Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Lockheed
-Suffridge's conversation with Meany
-Alexander E. Barkan and Nathaniel Goldfinger
-Jay Lovestone
-Meany's successor
-[Joseph] Lane Kirkland
-International presidents
-Paul Hall
-Ronald H. Walker's name
Labor support for President
-Peter J. Brennan
-Foreign policy issue
-Law and order issue
-Brennan's strength in New York
-Barkan
-Teamsters
-Brennan
-John F. Griner
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Attacks on media
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-Howard K. Smith
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Tape Subject Log
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Meany
-1972 election
-Attitude towards \"left-wing\" Democrats
-Edmund S. Muskie
-George S. McGovern
-Building trades
-Lovestone
-Building trades Conv. No. 2-121 (cont.)
-Political support
-Blacks
-Ethnic vote
-George P. Shultz
-Hubert H. Humphrey and Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-Muskie
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-SST
-President's possible conversation with Meany
Congress
[A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from
December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al. v. James M.
Powell, et al., No. 71-2271. The National Archives and Records Administration produced this
transcript. The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]