253–23

Conversation No. 253-23

Date: May 26, 1971
Time: 4:11 pm - 5:20 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with J. Edgar Hoover, John N. Mitchell, John D. Ehrlichman, and Egil
(“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.

A function given by Hoover, May 26, 1971
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-John [Mitchell or Ehrlichman]
-A woman [Name unintelligible]

Seating arrangements

Killing of New York, New York policeman
-Details of shooting
-Compared with President Conv. No. 253-22 (cont.)

Respect for law
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-San Francisco
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Bella S. Abzug

Respect for armed forces and police force
-Historical precedents
-Drug problem
-President’s and Hoover’s service
-Vietnam


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-Political dimensions
-Hoover’s program
-President’s and Mitchell’s position
-Dwight D. Eisenhower administration
-Herbert Brownell, William P. Rogers
-Mitchell’s position
-President’s position in Eisenhower administration
-Public opinion
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-Opening of a new academy (?)
-Mitchell’s previous trip to Atlanta

An unknown person [Ronald L. Ziegler?] entered at an unknown time after 4:11 pm
Seating arrangements

The unknown person [Ziegler?] left at an unknown time before 4:15 pm
Conv. No. 253-23 (cont.)
Respect for police
-Mitchell’s previous trip to Atlanta
-Businessmen
-Publicity
-Polls

Ziegler and members of the press entered at 4:15 pm

[Camera noise]

Mary Sholto

[Camera noise]

Length of time for photos

Ziegler and members of the press left at 4:17 pm

FBI

Killing of New York, New York policeman
-Richard S. Schweiker’s bill
-President’s condolence letters
-A scholarship fund
-Need for administration action
-FBI role in investigation
-Jurisdiction

Killing of a Washington, DC policeman, May 25, 1971
-Daughter of Thomas W. Fletcher, Sr., Heidi Fletcher
-Son [Thomas W. Fletcher, Jr.]
-College in California
-Roommate
-Commune
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Killing of New York, New York policeman
-FBI role in investigation
-Congress
-Publicity
-Compared with Mickey C. Mantle’s baseball career in New York
-Funeral
-Police representation Conv. No. 253-23 (cont.)
-Number of states
-President’s call to Edward J. Kiernan
-Black officers
-Black response
-Motive

Mitchell’s September 1970 meeting with International Chiefs of Police
-Schweiker bill
-Response
-Effect
-President’s directive
-Response
-Schweiker bill
-Response

Federal funds for families of slain police
-Revenue sharing
-Possible scholarship fund
-Law Enforcement Assistance Administration [LEAA]
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-Proposed National Service Insurance Bill
-Police and firemen’s response
-Provisions in some states
-Revenue sharing
-State and local contributions
-Possible legislation
-Insurance
-Kennedy bill
-Social Security
-Chicago, New York, Los Angeles
-Local option
-FBI contributions
-Federal law enforcement establishment
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American society
-Burning of cities
-Killing of policemen
-Disrespect for armed forces and law enforcement
-Future
-Black Panthers, Bobby G. Seale
-FBI wiretaps
-Police Conv. No. 253-23 (cont.)
-Effects
-A specific wiretap
-Publicity
-Attorney General’s authorization
-Local authorities
-A wiretap related to a bank robbery
-Stake-out
-A girl, robbers
-Motive for robbery
-Recording of serial numbers
-New York arrests for gambling
-Savings of policemen’s lives

Seale case
-Status
-Judicial system
-An attorney in Los Angeles

President’s Alabama trip
-A sign concerning Angela Y. Davis

Davis
-President’s response to case
-Publicity

Daniel J. and Philip F. Berrigan
-Publicity regarding case
-Case
-P. F. Berrigan
-Followers’ beliefs
-Letters
-Police or FBI role
-An attachment
-W. Ramsey Clark
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Wiretapping
-Clark
-Statements in May 26, 1971 newspapers
-President’s position
-President’s California press conference

Killing of New York, New York policeman Conv. No. 253-23 (cont.)
-Insurance program for families
-Prosecution of case
-Schweiker bill
-Local police
-White House statement
-President’s meeting with Hoover
-Patrick V. Murphy
-Funeral
-Murphy, John V. Lindsay
-Police Benevolent Association

Respect for law
-White House action
-A directive
-President’s and Mitchell’s position
-Hoover’s press contacts
-Law enforcement
-Status of legislation
-Law Day
-A broadcast
-Legislation
-Possible recognition for Washington, DC policemen
-South Lawn ceremony
-Effect
-Law Enforcement Day
-Possible Presidential actions
-President’s statements concerning law enforcement
-International Chiefs of Police convention in California in September
-Group and officers
-[Forename unknown] Pang [?]
-National Crisis Information Center [NCIC]
-President’s speeches
-Possible event
-President’s visit to a hospital in Kansas City
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-Purpose
-President’s, Mitchell’s, and Hoover’s positions
-Publicity
-Compared with military
-Compared with Muskie, Hubert H. Humphrey, and Kennedy’s
position

Drug problems Conv. No. 253-23 (cont.)
-President’s position
-[Forename unknown] Brown at Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
[HEW]
-Marijuana

Respect for law
-President’s position
-Compared with former presidents
-International Association of Police [IAP]
-Possible meeting with President
-Time
-Number
-Location
-Representation
-Purpose
-Date
-Hoover’s and Mitchell’s attendance
-Purposes
-Pending legislation
-Publicity
-Possible attendees
-House Judiciary Committee
-Emanuel Celler
-Senate Judiciary Committee
-Celler
-William M. McCulloch
-James O. Eastland
-Location
-Attendees
-Statements to press
-Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, “Heartland”, South,
Missouri
-Officers of organization
-Schweiker bill
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-White House staff work
-Krogh
-Ehrlichman’s office
-Protective techniques
-Police Recognition Day
-Compared with Armed Forces Day
-Richard J. Daley
-Chicago police recognition Conv. No. 253-23 (cont.)
-”Police brutality”
-Police Recognition Day
-Process of establishment
-President’s role
-Radio address
-Publicity
-President’s meeting with police officers
-Purpose
-Schweiker bill
-Police Recognition Day
-Public opinion
-Lawmen, armed forces
-Drugs
-FBI
-Jack Pumpereau [?]
-Parole of assailant
-Possible meetings with President
-Sheriff’s Association
-[Forename unknown] McCandless, president
-First vice president
-International Association of Chiefs of Police head
-Law enforcement organization officials
-McCandless
-California
-Other attendees
-Hoover, Mitchell
-Jerry V. Wilson
-Head of Justice Department, Criminal Division
-Head of LEAA
-McCandless
-Press statement
-Head of International Chiefs of Police
-McCandless’ experience
-”Merv Griffin Show”
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-Attendees
-New York representation
-Head of benevolent association
-Schweiker bill position
-Mayor Daley
-President’s and Mitchell’s positions
-Otto Kerner
-Actions in public housing projects Conv. No. 253-23 (cont.)
-An LEAA project
-Public housing outposts
-FBI
-Training regarding assassinations
-Academy graduates
-Possible training for police
-Possible appearance by President
-Number of attendees
-Need
-Intelligence
-Class sizes (?)
-Scheduling of training
-Legislation
-Possible conference of FBI and police
-Possible National Police Recognition Day
-Congress
-President’s role
-Possible statement
-Senate and House Judiciary Committees
-Meeting with President
-Celler’s and McCulloch’s possible attendance
-Richard H. Poff and Eastland
-Roman L. Hruska
-President’s meeting with Hoover
-Statements to press
-Hoover, Ziegler
-Legislation
-A forthcoming announcement
-Public opinion
-New York policemen’s killing
-Race, assailants’ race
-Washington, DC demonstrations
-Washington, DC police
-Public safety
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-A meeting
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew’s [?] possible appearance
-Murphy
-Possible attendance at a meeting
-Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert F. (“Bobby”) Kennedy

R. F. Kennedy
-Johnson Conv. No. 253-23 (cont.)
-Hoover
-Campaign
-A US attorney from Minneapolis
-1964 Democratic convention in Atlantic City
-Planned demonstrations
-John F. Kennedy
-Johnson
-Hoover’s meeting with Johnson

Johnson
-Staff
-Hoover
-1964 Democratic convention
-Planned demonstrations
-Kenneth P. O’Donnell
-R. F. Kennedy
-R. F. Kennedy’s resignation as Attorney General
-R. F. Kennedy’s plan
-Hoover’s role
-Call to Hoover from Austin
-New York Times’ statement
-Claudia A. (Taylor) (“Lady Bird”) Johnson
-President
-Hoover’s reply

Jack N. Anderson
-Reporters’ search through Hoover’s garbage

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:17 pm

Henry A. Kissinger’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:17 pm
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Anderson
-Reporters’ search through Hoover’s garbage
-Findings
-Hoover’s reply

Drew Pearson

Anderson Conv. No. 253-23 (cont.)

Moshe Dayan [?]

King Malik ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud Faisal
-Forthcoming visit
-Previous visit
-[Unintelligible]
-An event
-Hoover’s invitation
-Time


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Drug Program
-President’s role
-HEW and National Institutes of Mental Health [NIMH] role
-Marijuana legalization
-Elliot L. Richardson’s role
-New agency
-Responsibility
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-President, Ehrlichman, HEW
-Department of Defense [DOD]
-Melvin R. Laird
-Secretary of Army
-Responsibility at Assistant Secretary level
-Kissinger, Laird
-President’s forthcoming actions
-HEW’s role Conv. No. 253-23 (cont.)
-Military
-Enforcement
-Mitchell’s role
-Need for action
-Methadone programs
-NIMH
-DOD
-Dishonorable discharges
-PCDs
-Effects
-Veterans’ Administration [VA]
-Possible meeting of Laird and service secretaries
-Secretaries
-Robert C. Seamans, Jr.
-John H. Chafee
-Seamans
-Robert S. McNamara
-Chafee
-Rogers
-John B. Connally
-Prevailing attitudes
-John E. (“Jack”) Ingersoll’s report
-Embassies
-Rogers
-Laird
-Needs
-Direction
-Kissinger and Ehrlichman
-Segregation
-DOD, Supreme Court


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Conv. No. 253-23 (cont.)
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[Unintelligible]

Hoover, et al. left at 5:20 pm