Date: March 14, 1972
Time: 2:55 pm - 3:15 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with William L. Safire.
[See Conversation No. 685-12]
Busing speech, March 16, 1972
-Length
-Content
-Message to Congress [March 17, 1972]
-Majority
-Prejudice
-Desegregation
-Appeal to television audience
-Effect on children
-Example
-Brown versus Board of Education
-Elliot Richardson
-Leonard Garment
-White and black neighborhoods
-Parents concern
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-Message to Congress
-Moratorium
-Segregation and desegregation
-George C. Wallace
-Constitutional amendment
-Moratorium
-Liberals
-Court decisions
-Focus of speech
-Television
-Florida primary
-Timing
-Segregation
-Dual school system
-Inferior education
-Brown versus Board of Education
-Desegregation
-Improvement of education
-Need for action
-Constitutional amendment
-Length of process
-Legislation
-Moratorium
-Equal Opportunity Education Act
-Implementation by federal agencies
-Lawyers
-Justice Department
-Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Rhetoric
-Negro rights
-Administration record
-Title One
-California
-Connecticut
-Need for support
-Wallace
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-William E. Brock, III
-Robert P. Griffin
-Message to Congress
-Constitutional rights of US citizens
-Issue described
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-Average citizen
-Moratorium
-Explanation of term
-Instructions to Safire
-Deadline for draft
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Garment
-Richardson
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Deadline
-Timing