Date: December 15, 1972

Time: 11:56 am – 12:10 pm

Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Michael J. Mansfield.

[See Conversation No. 824-2B]

Mansfield’s location

The President’s schedule

-Appointments

-1972 election

-White House staff schedule

The President’s meeting with Hugh Scott, December 14, 1972

-General Services Administration [GSA] head

Congressional relations

-Republican leadership meetings

-Scott

-Carl B. Albert

-Schedule

-William E. Timmons

-Frequency

-Bipartisan meetings

-Frequency

-Scott

-Robert P. Griffin

-Mansfield

-Robert C. Byrd

-Albert

-[Thomas] Hale Boggs replacement

-Gerald R. Ford

-Leslie C. Arends

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-Agenda

-The President’s forthcoming meetings with Mansfield, Albert

-Second term reorganization

-Committee Chairman

-Chet Holifield

-Russell B. Long

-Wilbur D. Mills

-George H. Mahon

-The President’s schedule

-Florida

-Meeting with Mansfield

-Energy

-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson

-Trip to the Middle East

-Report to the President

-White House

-The President’s conversation with John D. Ehrlichman

-Oil

-Middle East, US

-Shale

-Coal conversion to gas

-US-Soviet gas deal

-Middle East

-Israel

-Saudi Arabia

-The President’s forthcoming meeting with Mansfield

-Timing

-Political scene

-The President’s recent conversation with John B. Connally

-Voting

-Partisan politics

-Partisan politics

-Communication

-Problems

-Partisans

-Congress

-The President’s conversation with Timmons

-Camp David

-Republican Leadership meetings

-Minority

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-Power

-Bipartisan meetings

-Byrd

-Press relations

-Barry M. Goldwater

-Scott

-Bipartisan meetings

-The President’s forthcoming meeting with Mansfield

-Thomas C. Korologos

-Possible meeting with Mansfield

Harry S. Truman

-[Possible death]

-The President’s schedule

-Korologos

Boggs

-Memorial service

-The President’s schedule

-Compared to Allen J. Ellender

-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

Mansfield’s schedule

-Truman

-Korologos

-Forthcoming meeting with the President