15–100

Conversation No. 15-100
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Date: November 22, 1971
Time: 4:15 pm - 4:26 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Clark MacGregor.

[See also Conversation No. 622-7]

John Sherman Cooper-Howard H. Baker< Jr. proposal
-Campaign Reform Bill
-Contributions
-Check-off provision
-Vote
-Clifford P. Case
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-John L. McClellan
-Harry F. Byrd, Jr.
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.’s amendment
-Campaign check-off
-John O. Pastore
-Designation of contributions
-Mathias
-Case
-George C. Wallace supporters
-Vote
-Mathias's previous conversation with MacGregor
-White House opposition
-Possible veto
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-Possible vote
-William B. Spong, Jr.
-Byrd
-Automobile industry
-Previous vote
-James O. Eastland
-David H. Gambrell and James B. Allen
-Wallace
-Democrats
-Lawrence F. O'Brien
-Karl E. Mundt
-Absence
-Spong

Tax Bill
-Vote on final passage
-Schedule
-Conference
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Carl B. Albert
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Impact on Democrats
-Deficit
-Primaries
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
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-George S. McGovern
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Proposed veto

Campaign check-off provision
-Compared to union dues
-Income tax withholding comparison
-Party losses
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Small contributors
-Discouraging effect
-Presidential contributors

Spong
-Byrd
-O'Brien
-Eastland
-Conversations with Spong

McClellan

Eastland

Ervin
-Constitutionalist

Byrd

Stennis

Mundt

Spong
-MacGregor's call
-Tactic
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