157–14

Conversation No. 157-14

Date: December 6, 1972
Time: Unknown between 3:31 pm and 4:40 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Gerald R. Ford.

[See Conversation No. 233-19]

Ford’s location
-Washington, DC

Football
-[National] Football Foundation meeting
-The President’s telegram
-Elizabeth (Bloomer) (“Betty”) Ford
-The President’s schedule
-Number one team
-John McKay
-Speech
-University of South California [USC]
-University of Notre Dame game
-The President’s viewing on television [TV]
-Ohio State University
-University of Michigan
-Ohio State-Michigan game


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Republican National Committee [RNC]
-Robert J. Dole’s meeting with the President
-George H. W. Bush
-RNC Chairmanship
-Barbara Bush
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Conversation No. 157-14 (cont’d)

-The President’s conversation with Ford
-Senate
-William E. Brock, III
-Dan H. Kuykendall
-Opposition to Ford
-Tennessee
-Robert C. (“Bob”) Wilson
-George A. Murphy
-Clarence J. (“Bud”) Brown, Jr.
-Barber B. Conable, Jr.
-Ways and Means Committee
-Bush
-Dole’s departure
-Timing
-Support for Bush
-Press release
-Brock
-Congress
-Brown
-Elections of positions
-Timing
-Campaign committees
-Bush
-John N. Mitchell
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Dole
-RNC Chairmanship
-Job description
-Meeting on Congressional candidates
-Hugh Scott
-Candidates
-Ford
-Relationship with Bush
-Support of the President
-Political role
-Scott
-Meeting with the President
-Brock
-Senate candidates
-Ideology
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Conversation No. 157-14 (cont’d)

-Bush
-Brown
-The President
-Brock
-Youth
-John Kyle
-Assistant to Ford
-Leslie C. Arends

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Second term reorganization
-Cabinet
-Ambassadorships
-John A. Volpe
-Italy ambassadorship
-Announcement
-Timing
-Italian government agreement
-1972 campaign
-Traveling to US
-Catholicism
-Announcement
-Timing
-Successor
-Announcement
-Timing
-Claude S. Brinegar
-Background
-Irish Catholicism
-Los Angeles
-Age
-Union Oil Company
-Civil engineering
-Peter J. Brennan
-Background
-Irish-American
-Italian-American
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Conversation No. 157-14 (cont’d)

-Difficulty
-Volpe
-Deputy Attorney General
-Promotion
-Richard G. Kleindienst’s departure
-Charles A. Wright
-University of Texas
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] report
-Parties
-Divorce
-Parties
-University of Minnesota
-Anti-busing statement
-FBI report
-Effect
-Judiciary Committee
-Parties
-Divorces
-Volpe
-Health
-Back
-Speeches
-Department of Agriculture
-Earl L. Butz
-Retention
-Departures
-Butz’s view
-Soil conservation, county agents
-The President’s meeting with J. Philip Campbell


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RNC
-Bush
-Brock
-Brown
-Kuykendall
-Assistant to Ford
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Conversation No. 157-14 (cont’d)

-Bush
-Texas
-Brock
-Tennessee
-Ohio
-Leadership
-Public perception
-Southern strategy
-Kuykendall
-Announcement

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