16–131

Conversation No. 16-131

Date: December 21, 1971
Time: 10:11 pm - 10:35 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

Bermuda

Azores

Media
-John W. Chancellor
-National Broadcast Corporation [NBC] program [“A Day in the Life of the
President”]
-Editing
-Content
-President’s image
-Comparisons
-Harry S. Truman
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-John F. Kennedy
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Ending of show discussed
-Interview with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon and Tricia Nixon Cox
-John A. Scali’s impression
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-President’s comments to Haldeman
-Patricia Colson’s reaction
-Sound quality
-Compared to the Oval Office
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-Lighting
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-North Carolina
-Forthcoming visit to Duke University
-Labor legislation
-Haldeman
-Feelings towards show
-Scali
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Discussion of show with Colson
-End of show
-Description
-Interview with Chancellor
-Return to the White House
-Ratings
-People’s reactions
-Polls

George Meany
-Letter from President
-Wishes for speedy recovery
-Health
-James Suffridge
-Plan for Suffridge to take over for Meany

Meeting with British in Bermuda, December 20, 1971

News summaries
-Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin
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Press
-Coverage
-Positive over past three weeks
-India-Pakistan War
-Negative
-Public apathy
-Harris poll [?]

Stock market
-Performance
-Attitude
-John B. Connally

Press
-Attitude
-Colson’s view
-Time and Newsweek
-Influence

Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-James D. Hodgson prediction
-Excise tax

President’s trips abroad
-Justification
-British and French
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Effect on foreign leadership
-NBC program
-Chancellor
-Gen. Charles A.J.M. de Gaulle comparison
-Parallels
-Truman
-Dwight Eisenhower
-Kennedy
-Johnson
-President favorably compared to
-Positive tone
-Ending show
-Dramatic emphasis
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Media
-Julie Eisenhower’s Christmas Eve show
-Publicity
-Public awareness
-Time and Newsweek
-Additional print media
-NBC
-Letter from President
-Robert W. Sarnoff
-Chancellor
-Julian Goodman
-Chancellor
-Dinner party
-Colson’s conversation with Chancellor
-1972 Presidential campaign

Europeans


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Edward R.G. Heath

Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Negotiations
-Length

Press photographs
-Effects
-New York Times
-Public’s good feelings
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Economy
-Unemployment
-Insurance unemployment claims
-CPI
-Hodgson
-Wholesale price index
-Stability
-Retail sales

President’s image
-Charisma
-British and French
-Mood of country
-Importance
-Effects
-John F. Kennedy
-Charisma
-1960's
-Johnson
-Albert E. Sindlinger poll of Meany confrontation
-Public image of President
-Poll results
-NBC
-Compared to one-on-one show
-Colson’s view
-President’s image
-Importance
-Sindlinger poll
-Scali’s opinion
-Scali’s call to Colson
-Scali’s opinion of NBC program
-End of show
-Haldeman
-Image conveyed
-Reactions
-Public opinion

Economy
-Peter G. Peterson
-Jobs
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