Date: August 9, 1972
Time: 1:47 pm – 1:52 pm
Location: Camp David Study Table
The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Mar-02)
[See Conversation No. 200-17]
Railroad bill
-The President’s talk with John A. Volpe, August 8, 1972
-Charles W. Colson
-Truckers’ reaction
-Volpe
-Railroads
-Economic problems
-Peter M. Flanigan’s opposition
-Deregulation reforms in transportation
-Administrative opposition to bill
-Public reaction
-Help for big business
-Railroad workers
-Economic factors
-Help for big business
-Penn Central Railroad
-Public reaction
-Ehrlichman’s work on bill
-Volpe letter to Harley O. Staggers
Aid to states
-Washington Post report on Elliot L. Richardson
-Richardson’s forthcoming press conference
-Aid lid
-Possible legislation
-Leaks from Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-Distortions in press story
-Richardson’s forthcoming rebuttal
-Richard B. Ogilvie
-Nelson A. Rockefeller