Date: February 15, 1973
Time: 12:05 pm – 12:19 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with J. Curtis Counts. Members of the press were present at the
beginning of the meeting.
Greetings
Photograph session
-Arrangements
Counts’s plans
-Construction industry
-Labor management problems
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:05 pm.
Refreshments
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:19 pm.
Construction industry
-Importance
-Work with Peter J. Brennan, George P. Shultz
-Counts’s new job
Counts’s job offers
-Bechtel
-United Aircraft
-Salary
Private sector
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-Importance
-Consultant offers
Jay C. Counts
-Labor lawyer
-Texas
-Labor management consultant
-Sheehy Construction, Inc.
Labor management relations
-Management representatives
-Problems
-Labor lawyers
-Jews
-Competence
-Negotiations
-Arthur Goldberg
-Steel
-Competence
-Management representatives
-Labor lawyers
-Unions
-Competence
-Dave Freedmont
-Steel workers
-Legal assistance
-United Auto Workers [UAW]
-Leonard Woodcock
-Management representatives
Construction industry
-Negotiations
-Fragmented industry
-Automobile manufacturers
-Counts’s new job
-Problems
Jay Counts
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-Southern Methodists University [SMU]
-Charlie Morris
-Business and law school
-California and Texas bar exams
-Opportunities
-Present job
Counts’s job
-Government work
-Lobbying
-Labor union reception
-Rapport
California
-New house
-Chevoit Hills
-Janice O. Counts
-McLean, Virginia
-Traffic
-Roosevelt Bridge
-Maintenance
Virginia Counts
Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Reception
-George S. McGovern
-Return
-Impact on public
-Support for bombing
Bombing of North Vietnam
-Necessity
-McGovern
-POWs’ statements to Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
Young people
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Appreciation for job
-President’s gift
Counts’s children
-Married ones
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:05 pm.
Ash trays
Bull left at an unknown time before 12:19 pm.
Gifts
Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:05 pm.
Counts’s grandchildren
-Boys
-Girls
-Gifts
Bull left at an unknown time before 12:19 pm.
Counts’s job
-Other opportunities
-Major corporation
-Salary
-Labor management relations
Counts left at 12:19 pm.