8–87

Conversation No. 8-87

Date: September 12, 1971
Time: 3:51 pm - 4:28 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 278-22]

Weather
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Colson's trip to Boston
-The President's call
-Camp David
-Weather
-Henry Cabot Lodge
-Massachusetts


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-Busing
-Issue
-Dorchester, Roxbury, Hyde Park
-Blacks
-Percentage
-Whites and blacks demonstrations
-Chairman of the school board
-De facto busing
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Television
-Interviews with blacks and whites
-Court ruling
-Warren E. Burger
-Constitutional amendment
-Eighteen-year old vote
-Liberal democrats
-Edward W. Brooke
-Talk with Colson
-Edmund S. Muskie statement
-Blacks' reaction
-Professional blacks
-Military
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-Radical issue
-Agitation
-Television coverage
-Irish, Polish
-Muskie statements
-The President's statement
-President’s restrictive amendment
-Funds


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The President's recent speech to Congress
-Reactions
-Henry C. Cashen, II report to the President
-Letters from business
-Presidential certificates
-Number
-Cards of appreciation
-Work ethic speech [Labor Day speech, September 6, 1971]
-Editorials
-Nicholas P. Thimmesch
-Clippings from newspaper
-Reaction
-Democrats
-Media

Economy
-Phase II
-John B. Connally
-Press conference
-Network coverage
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-Washington Post and Washington Star
-New York Times
-Administration program
-Timetable
-Phase II
-Stock market
-Possible rebound
-The President's meeting with George Meany
-Corporate profits
-Timetable
-September 1971
-Stock market
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Television evangelism
-Contributions
-Average
-Indication of future of economic progress
-American Society of Association Executives [ASAE]
-Meeting with the President
-Survey of 420 industrial representatives
-Optimism
-Employment prediction
-Improvement
-Sales volume increase
-Business volume
-Employment
-1972
-Trade association executive
-Profile
-Business spectrum
-Connally
-Meeting with Graham
-Editorials on economic speech rhetoric
-Rhetoric
-Importance
-Democrats
-Media
-Democrats
-Positive talk
-Polls
-Approval
-Louis Harris
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-George H. Gallup
-Economic improvement
-Graham


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US social conditions
-Moral crisis
-Catholic Church
-Liberals compared with conservatives
-Protestant Church
-Liberals compared with conservatives
-Education
-Survival of people
-Changes
-Compared to few years before
-Social unrest
-Responses
-The President's across the country trip
-Liberal commentators
-Demonstrations
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Economy
-Phase II
-Colson's program
-Public policing of prices
-Unknown memorandum
-Colson’s assignment of tasks to staff
-Citizens Committee
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-Three former Secretaries of Treasury
-New York Times
-Boston press
-Ford and Teamster vice presidents