Date: January 2, 1973
Time: Unknown between 4:22 pm and 4:37 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with William E. Timmons at 4:22 pm.
The President’s meeting with Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
Democratic Congressional caucus
-Length
-Carl B. Albert
-Meeting with the President
-Resolution on war
-Albert
-Opposition
-Wilbur D. Mills
– Joe D. Waggonner, Jr.
-Thomas P. (“Tip”) O’Neill, Jr.
-Passage
-Antiwar Democrats
-1972 election
-Political risks in opposing the President
-Threat to Vietnam negotiations
-Southern Democrats
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Meeting with Albert
-Timing
-Photographs
-Mansfield
-Breakfast meeting
-Timing
-Hugh Scott
-Gerald R. Ford
The President’s meeting with Mansfield
-Mansfield’s speech
-Vietnam War
-Impoundment of funds
-Foreign Relations Committee
-Concern
Vietnam War
-Public opinion
-Negotiations
-Effect of bombing
-Time article
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
Congressional relations
-Future bipartisan meetings
-Mansfield
-Confirmations
-“Peacenik”
-Congressional resolutions
-Vietnam War
-George S. McGovern’s resolution
-William B. Saxbe
-Samual J. Ervin, Jr.
-Democratic Caucus
-Impoundment of funds
-Highway Trust Funds
-William Proxmire
-Government Operations Committee
-Lyndon B. Johnson
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-John F. Kennedy
-Bipartisan congressional leadership meeting
-Budget ceiling
-Vietnam negotiations
-Public statements
-Mansfield
-Effect
-Discussion of substance
-Timmon’s guidance for Congress members
-Meetings with Albert
-Compared to Mansfield
-Democratic Caucus
-Timmons’ report
-Resolutions
-Effect
-Timmons’ briefings
-Statements to press
-Reception for freshmen Republican Congress members
-Arrangements
-Wives
-Lucy A.Winchester
-Michael J. Farrell
-Republican leadership
-Conflicting reception
-Leslie C. Arends
-Gerald R. Ford
-Attendees
-Samuel L. Devine
-John B. Anderson
-John J. Rhodes
-Combined reception
-Senate
-Mansfield
-Albert
-Ford
-Democrats
-Thomas P. (“Tip”) O’Neill, Jr.
-Edward M. Kennedy
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs
-John J. McFall
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-California
-Whip position
-Dispute
Timmons left at 4:37 pm.