826–6

Conversation No. 826-6

Date: December 19, 1972
Time: 11:52 am - 12:05 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Richard C. Van Dusen and Kenneth R. Cole, Jr. The White House
photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD]
-Van Dusen’s job

[Photograph session]

Van Dusen’s plans
-Detroit law firm, Dickinson, Wright, McKean & Cudlip
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Conversation No. 826-6 (cont’d)

-Age

Van Dusen’s job
-HUD
-George W. Romney
-Departure
-Timing
-Promotion of Van Dusen
-Change of mind


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Politics
-Experience
-Television [TV]
-Age
-Congressional candidacy

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Van Dusen
-Law practice
-Lark M. Clifford
-Dean G. Acheson
-Access to White House
-Cole
-John D. Ehrlichman


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-Michigan
-Governorship
-William G. Milliken
-Philip A. Hart
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-Senate
-Age
-Stamina

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Second term reorganization
-Van Dusen
-Judgeship
-Court of appeals
-Supreme Court
-Circuit Court
-Isolation
-Timing
-Ehrlichman
-Stephen J. Roth
-Trial judge
-Robert P. Griffin
-Senate
-Charles E. Hughes
-Kenneth B. Keating

HUD
-Difficulties
-Blacks
-Model Cities Program
-Van Dusen’s performance
-Budget
-The President’s appreciation

Van Dusen
-Politics

Second term reorganization
-Van Dusen
-Judgeship
-The President’s conversations with Ehrlichman
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Conversation No. 826-6 (cont’d)

-Age
-Retirements
-Dickinson, Wright, McKean & Cudlip
-Senior lawyers

Law
-Dickinson, Wright, McKean & Cudlip
-Size
-Partners, lawyers
-Van Dusen’s future
-Heads of firm
-New York
-Moneymaking

White House gifts
-Ashtray
-Presidential signature
-Raise, judgeship

HUD
-Van Dusen’s experience


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Van Dusen’s plans
-Political candidacy
-Hart
-Visibility

Washington Redskins
-Football game

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The President’s appreciation
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Conversation No. 826-6 (cont’d)


White House social affairs
-Cabinet dinner
-Under Secretaries
-Van Dusen
-Barbara (Congdon) Van Dusen
-Fred Waring
-Age
-The President’s conversation with Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Van Dusen and Cole left at 12:05 pm.