31–124

Conversation No. 31-124

Date: October 18, 1972
Time: 6:16 pm - 6:51 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 369-13]

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Congressional leaders
-Congress
-Adjournment
-Past session
-The President’s view
-Possible tax increase
-John B. Connally
-Meeting with Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger and George P. Shultz
-Budget
-John D. Ehrlichman's briefing
-Congress and the budget, taxes
-The President’s statements
-Weinberger, Shultz


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The President’s meeting with foreign labor leaders, October 17, 1972
-George Meany's call to Shultz
-The President's speech
-Comparison to John F. Kennedy's speech

Amnesty issue
-The President's previous meeting with Prisoners of War [POWs] families
-Meany's comments
-The President's discussion with Ehrlichman
-Connally
-Significance of event
-Ehrlichman’s view compared with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s view
-Substance of the President's appearance
-Comments on amnesty and POWs
-Use by the President's surrogates
-Meany's comments
-Meany
-Colson’s view
-The President's meeting with POW families
-The President's ideas compared with George S. McGovern’s ideas

The President's schedule
-Congressional action
-Connally's broadcast
-Signing ceremony on revenue sharing
-The President’s view


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Taxes and the budget
-The President’s forthcoming meeting with Ehrlichman, Weinberger and Shultz at
Camp David
-Revenue sharing signing ceremony
-Forthcoming presidential vetoes
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
appropriation
-Public perception of the President


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Congressional adjournment
-The President's cancelled meeting with leaders
-Thomas P. (\"Tip\") O'Neill, Jr., Michael J. Mansfield
-The President’s view


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