Date: October 18, 1972

Time: 6:16 pm – 6:51 pm

Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 369-13]

The President’s schedule

-Forthcoming meeting with Congressional leaders

-Congress

-Adjournment

-Past session

-The President’s view

-Possible tax increase

-John B. Connally

-Meeting with Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger and George P. Shultz

-Budget

-John D. Ehrlichman’s briefing

-Congress and the budget, taxes

-The President’s statements

-Weinberger, Shultz

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The President’s meeting with foreign labor leaders, October 17, 1972

-George Meany’s call to Shultz

-The President’s speech

-Comparison to John F. Kennedy’s speech

Amnesty issue

-The President’s previous meeting with Prisoners of War [POWs] families

-Meany’s comments

-The President’s discussion with Ehrlichman

-Connally

-Significance of event

-Ehrlichman’s view compared with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s view

-Substance of the President’s appearance

-Comments on amnesty and POWs

-Use by the President’s surrogates

-Meany’s comments

-Meany

-Colson’s view

-The President’s meeting with POW families

-The President’s ideas compared with George S. McGovern’s ideas

The President’s schedule

-Congressional action

-Connally’s broadcast

-Signing ceremony on revenue sharing

-The President’s view

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Taxes and the budget

-The President’s forthcoming meeting with Ehrlichman, Weinberger and Shultz at

Camp David

-Revenue sharing signing ceremony

-Forthcoming presidential vetoes

-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]

appropriation

-Public perception of the President

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Congressional adjournment

-The President’s cancelled meeting with leaders

-Thomas P. (“Tip”) O’Neill, Jr., Michael J. Mansfield

-The President’s view

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