16–120

Conversation No. 16-120

Date: December 19, 1971
Time: 3:10 pm - 3:36 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

The President conferred with an unknown person.

Colson’s schedule

President’s schedule
-President’s tip to new York City, December 18-19. 1971
-Upcoming Time magazine interview [“Man of the Year”]

John B. Connally

Group of Ten finance meeting
-Connally
-Accomplishments
-Agreement
-Understandable to American public
-Clark MacGregor, Congressional leaders, Treasury Department
-Discussions with Colson
-Monetary settlement
-Press
-Favorable reaction
-Peter G. Peterson
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-Jobs forecast
-Future news report
-Less emphasis on cost of living
-Japanese
-Automobiles

Publicity photographs
-Unknown Cuban woman
-Unknown Black woman
-Council on Aging

Economy
-Adjournment of 92nd Congress

Media
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Richard S. Salant, President CBS News
-Charlie [Surname unknown]
-Daniel L. Schorr
-CBS
-Positive coverage
-CBS Christmas television special
-Dan Rather’s’ forthcoming interview with the President
-Time
-President’s Christmas message
-”Today Show”
-”CBS Evening News”
-Coverage
-John W. Chancellor
-Schorr
-Negative coverage
-Salant

Economy
-Stock market
-United Press International [UPI] report
-Weekend wrap-up
-Optimism
-Gross National Product [GNP]
-Upcoming numbers
-Paul W. McCracken
-Retail sales
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-Compared to 1969
-Gains
-Gross National Product [GNP]
-McCracken
-Tremendous growth
-George P. Shultz
-Money supply
-Arthur F. Burns
-Increase and decreased money supply
-Milton Friedman
-Burns
-Connally
-International monetary issues
-Shultz’s proposed meeting with Burns
-Friedman
-Letter
-Chicago banker
-Respect from Burns
-Status of US economy
-Burns’ concern
-Timing

Campaign
-Voters
-Haynes B. Johnson’s and David S. Broder’s articles in Washington Post
-Critical of President
-Comparison to last year
-Political parties
-Lack of great, charismatic national leaders
-Johnson and Broder criticized
-Anti-establishment
-Douglas L. Hallett [?]
-Analysis
-Alienation
-Theme
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Johnson and Broder
-Criticism of article
-Charles Kuralt series
-Donald Oberdorfer, Jr.
-Positive in tone
-Opposite to Johnson and Broder’s article
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-Colson’s view
-Issues
-Economy


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-Vietnam
-Louis Harris
-Polls
-Gallup poll
-Democrats
-Economy
-Vietnam
-Public opinion of Democrats and Republicans
-Vietnam
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]


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-Role of President
-Image
-Economy
-India-Pakistan War
-Importance
-John A. Scali
-Joseph C. Kraft
-Bangladesh
-Public apathy
-Economic worries
-Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS]
-Unknown man
-Shultz
-Money supply
-Burns and Friedman
-Unsettled