Date: April 10, 1973
Time: 3:33 pm-3:34 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Joe D. Waggonner, Jr.
[See also Conversation No. 426-38]
Vote sustaining a veto
-Waggonner’s assistance
-Thursday afternoon reception
-Waggoner’s and Senators’ attendance
-Party regularity
-Mood of nation
President’s schedule
-Trade meeting
-Meeting on Energy
Vote sustaining a veto
-Robert N. Giaimo
-Edward P. Boland
-Martha W. Griffiths
-Boland
John Connally’s visit to Louisiana
-Festival
-Ambassador’s club
-Connally’s speech
-Civic clubs
-Rotary clubs
-Introduction by Waggonner
Energy
-Connally’s role
-Deregulation
-New gas discoveries
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-Old gas
-Inflation
National economy
-Boom
-Labor shortages
-Commodity shortages
-Meat price ceiling
-Fiber
-Inflation
-Economics
-Other nations
-Japan, Europe, Singapore
-President’s trade proposals
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Bipartisan meeting on trade
-Trade negotiator’s authority
-William D. Eberle
-Japan
-Germany
-Congressional oversight
-Free trade
-Waggonner’s newsletter on taxes
Thursday afternoon reception
-Gerald R. Ford
-Hugh Scott
Future vetoes
-Older Americans bill
-Conference
-Albert H. Quie’s and Waggonner’s meetings with sponsors
-Proposals
-Veterans bill
-William Dorn
-Chances for sustaining veto
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Prisoners of war [POWs]
-President’s meetings
-Gen. John B. Flynn and Adm. James B. Stockdale
-Faith
-Senate votes for withdrawal
-Flynn and POWs’ reaction
-President’s talk with Flynn
-Flynn’s reaction to experience
Vote sustaining a veto