136–19

Conversation No. 136-19
Date: July 23, 1972
Time: 10:52 am – 11:37 am
Location: Camp David Study Table (telephone)

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 196-3]

Public relations
-John B. Connally
-Schedule
-Meet the Press
-Colson’s efforts
-George S. McGovern
-Face the Nation
-Thomas F. Eagleton
-Issues and Answers
-Preparation for interview
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Washington Star
-Circulation among blacks
-Washington Post
-Management
-New York Times
-The President’s view

Washington Post
-Katharine L. Graham
-Compared with Chicago Daily News
-News coverage
-Effect
-Legislative leaders
-Effect of news coverage
-The President’s view
-White House staff

Previous meeting in State Dining Room
-Colson’s view


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George P. Shultz
-Meeting with Robert W. Packwood
-International Brotherhood of Teamsters
-James D. Hodgson’s previous meeting with Packwood
-George Meany
-Laurence H. Silberman
-Schedule

Colson's conversation with Hodgson
-Hodgson's press conference
-Colson’s view
-A Congressional vote
-The President's view
-Michael J. Mansfield
-House Labor Committee
-[Carl D. Perkins]
-West Coast dock strike
-Democrats' actions


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Packwood
-Colson's previous conversation with Hodgson
-Need for press conference
-Meeting with Packwood
-New bill
-The President’s view
-Railroad Act
-Meany
-Reforms
-Possible question in President's press conference
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Possible meeting with the President
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-Cabinet
-White House staff
-William E. Timmons
-Statement
-Lack of business support for President's policies
-Railroad interests
-Trucking interests
-Vietnam
-National defense
-Compulsory arbitration
-Farmers
-Grain sales
-Administration policies

Soviet grain shipments
-Jesse M. Calhoon
-Thomas W. Gleason
-Colson’s previous meeting with Hodgson
-Union cooperation
-Longshoremen
-Teamsters
-Operating engineers
-Seafarers
-Shultz
-Dock strikes
-Union cooperation

Packwood
-Teamsters
-Einar O. Mohn
-Press
-Meany
-Shultz
-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial
Organizations [AFL-CIO]
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