16–10

Conversation No. 16-10
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Date: December 5, 1971
Time: 8:12 pm - 8:28 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

India-Pakistan War
-Press coverage
-President’s views
-John A. Scali
-State Department interview
-Media
-Reaction

Press
-Vice President's speech
-Coverage
-Democrats
-Weekend wrap-up reports
-Congress and the President
-Check-off [?]
-Economic stabilization
-Phase II
-Tone
-George W. Romney speech
-Democrats
-Location
-Call to Romney by President scheduled

Romney
-Usefulness to administration

Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule
-Harriet McCormack funeral
-[Unintelligible]

Public attitudes
-Mrs. Nixon’s and Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s activities


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President's schedule
-Forthcoming National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC] program [“A Day in the Life
of the President”], December 6, 1971
-Scali
-Use in campaign
-Possible prints

George Meany
-Health
-Reports
-Possible effectiveness


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-India-Pakistan War
-Administration role
-Refugees
-United Nations [UN]
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Louis P. Harris
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-Confidential Strategy Report
-Lawrence F. O'Brien, Jr.
-Polls
-President’s vulnerability
-Democratic National Committee [DNC]
-Content criticized
-Confidence issue
-Institutions
-Public

Albert E. Sindlinger call to Colson
-Stock Market
-Public attitudes
Bullish”
-Business activity
-Christmas, 1971
-April, 1972
-Consumers
-Tax break
-Sindlinger


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Supreme Court nominations
-Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
-William H. Rehnquist
-Possible difficulty

Foreign Aid
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Opposition
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-Partisanship

Congress
-Antagonistic relationship with administration
-Earl L. Butz
-Public opinion
-Butz
-Rehnquist
-Foreign aid
-Administration advantage
-Butz
-Big business
-Rehnquist
-Civil rights record
-Clark MacGregor
-William E. Timmons
-Hugh Scott
-Gerald R. Ford


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