Conversation: 015-100
Prev: 015-099 Next: 015-101Start Date: 22-Nov-1971 4:15 PM
End Date: 22-Nov-1971 4:26 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); MacGregor, Clark;Recording Device: White House Telephone
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 03:09:44
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 03:19:51
NARA Description:
On November 22, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Clark MacGregor talked on the telephone from 4:15 pm to 4:26 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 015-100 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 15-100
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Date: November 22, 1971
Time: 4:15 pm - 4:26 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Clark MacGregor.
[See also Conversation No. 622-7]
John Sherman Cooper-Howard H. Baker< Jr. proposal
-Campaign Reform Bill
-Contributions
-Check-off provision
-Vote
-Clifford P. Case
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-John L. McClellan
-Harry F. Byrd, Jr.
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.’s amendment
-Campaign check-off
-John O. Pastore
-Designation of contributions
-Mathias
-Case
-George C. Wallace supporters
-Vote
-Mathias's previous conversation with MacGregor
-White House opposition
-Possible veto
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Conv. No. 15-100 (cont.)
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-Possible vote
-William B. Spong, Jr.
-Byrd
-Automobile industry
-Previous vote
-James O. Eastland
-David H. Gambrell and James B. Allen
-Wallace
-Democrats
-Lawrence F. O'Brien
-Karl E. Mundt
-Absence
-Spong
Tax Bill
-Vote on final passage
-Schedule
-Conference
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Carl B. Albert
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Impact on Democrats
-Deficit
-Primaries
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
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Conv. No. 15-100 (cont.)
-George S. McGovern
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Proposed veto
Campaign check-off provision
-Compared to union dues
-Income tax withholding comparison
-Party losses
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Small contributors
-Discouraging effect
-Presidential contributors
Spong
-Byrd
-O'Brien
-Eastland
-Conversations with Spong
McClellan
Eastland
Ervin
-Constitutionalist
Byrd
Stennis
Mundt
Spong
-MacGregor's call
-Tactic
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