Conversation No. 630-022
Date: December 6, 1971
Time: 6:40 pm - 6:51 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with William Timmons and Alexander P. Butterfield; a National Broadcasting
Company [NBC] film crew was present at the beginning of the meeting.
Lewis F. Powell, Jr. confirmation
-Senate
-Vote
-William H. Rehnquist
-Results
The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 6:40 pm and
6:44 pm.
[Conversation No. 630-22A]
[See Conversation No. 16-26]
[End of telephone conversation]
Powell
-Votes
Tax bill
-Check off
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-Gerald R. Ford
-The President's talk with John B. Connally
-Veto
Appropriations bill
-Continuing resolution
-Timing
-Senate sub-committee
-Ford
-Conversation with Timmons
The President talked with Lewis F. Powell, Jr. between 6:44 pm and 6:47 pm.
[Conversation No. 630-22B]
[See Conversation No. 16-27]
[End of telephone conversation]
Timmons and Butterfield left and Peter M. Flanigan entered at 6:47 pm.
Pension plan
-Work force
-Percentage covered or not covered by a pension plan
-Contribution to a plan
-Deductions
-Departments of the Treasury, Commerce, and Labor, and Office of
Management and Budget [OMB]
-Deduction limits
-George P. Shultz
-Thomas E. Dewey
-Self employed
-Tax deduction or credit
-Connally
-Treasury
-Position
Flanigan left at 6:51 pm.
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