288–18

Conversation No. 288-18

Date: October 12, 1971
Time: Unknown between 10:32 am and 11:22 am
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.


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The President's announcement
-Wording


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Supreme Court appointments
-George S. McGovern
-Robert C. Byrd
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Press reports
-John Kenneth Galbraith

Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Mike Royko’s newspaper column
-John F. Kennedy and the President
-Comparisons
-Kennedy
-Compared with Nixon
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Cuba
-Charles W. Colson
-Column distribution
-Muskie


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George A. Smathers

The President's political fortune
-Newsday article
-The President finances
-The President’s view
-The press
-Press
-Liberals
-Berlin Summit
-Edward M. Kennedy
-W. Averell Harriman
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Relations with Soviet Union
-Humphrey
-William F. Buckley, Jr.
-Newspaper report
-Supreme Court
-Pay Board
-Lyndon B. Johnson

Supreme Court appointments
-White House staff
-Leak of Byrd name
-Jews
-Possibility of appointment
-Edward H. Levi
-University of Chicago
-Leonard Garment
-William L. Safire
-Advice
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-Political support
-Israel
-Garment
-Bernard J. (\"Bunny\") Lasker
-Kissinger
-Warren E. Burger
-Affiliations
-Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr.
-Procedures and timing
-Woman appointee
-Woods schedule
-Liz Carpenter
-Johnson
-Mr. and Mrs. Abe Fortas
-Mildred L. Lillie
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Samuel W. Yorty
-Former chief Thomas Reddin
-Evelle J. Younger
-Experience
-Superior Court judge
-Appeals Court judge
-Age
-Religion
-Political affiliation
-Record with California Supreme Court
-Compared with Burger
-Husband's ethnic background
-Gail Patrick Jackson
-Endorsement
-Possibility of Senate confirmation
-Yorty


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Woods left at an unknown time before 11:22 am.