Conversation No. 9-6

Date: September 14, 1987
Time: 6:13 pm - 6:18 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Nelson A. Rockefeller.

[See Conversation No. 278-36C]
     Attica State Prison riots
           -Legislative leaders meeting
                 -Time
                 -Number of Republicans
                 -President's announcement at meeting
                       -Polls
                       -Hugh Scott
                             -Announcement to press
                 -President's support for Rockefeller
                 -Response by Rockefeller
           -Victims
                 -Situation
                       -Troopers
                 -Sharpshooters
           -Reactions by New York Congressional delegation
                 -Jacob K. Javits’s comments
                 -James L. Buckley's comments
                 -Barber B. Conable, Jr.
           -Question of criticism of situation
                 -Action by Rockefeller
                 -President's support
                       -Mass arrests of demonstrators in Washington
           -Rockefeller's conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
                 -Comparison with Cambodia situation
           -Example of Rockefeller's action
           -New York Daily News
           -New York Times
           -Washington Post
           -Thomas Grey (“Tom”) Wicker
           -John D. Ehrlichman