Date: September 9, 1971
Time: 1:33 pm - 1:39 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Charles W. Colson; Manolo Sanchez was in the room with the
President at the beginning of the conversation.
[See Conversation No. 278-6]
The President's recent speech to Congress
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Subject of economics
-Congress
-Welcome
-Enthusiasm
-Content
-Welfare and work point
-Catch lines
-US position in the world
-Poker chips analogy
-[Arnold] Eric Sevareid
-Compared to John F. Kennedy
-President
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-Recognition of realities
-Commentators
-Congress
-Isolationists
-Competition
-Congressional response
-Commentators
-Roger H. Mudd
-Democrats
-Credit for the President
-Reaction
-Television
-The President's appearance
-Relaxed, confident
-Congressional response
-Wage and price freeze
-Polls
Buoyancy affect
-Networks
-Content
-Lines
-Welfare
-Jobs
-Partisan points
-Investment tax credit
-Democrats
-Big business
-Muskie
-Tone
-Delivery
-Time
-Commentators
-Applause
-Reaction of the President
-Reactions
-Colson's return call
-Timing
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