255–33

Conversation No. 255-33

Date: June 9, 1971
Time: 10:34 am - 12:00 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman

Sugar quotas

Fugitive Black Panthers in New York City

[The President talked with Tricia Nixon between 10:34 am and 10:35 am]

[Conversation No. 255-33A]

[See Conversation No. 4-86]

[End of telephone conversation]

Housing legislation draft
-Re-work draft
-Deadlines
-Alexander P. Butterfield
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[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:35 am and
10:38 am]

[Conversation No. 255-33F]

[See Conversation No. 4-87]

[End of telephone conversation]

Housing statement
-Language
-Consideration of legal basis
-”Spirit and letter of the law”
-William P. Rogers
-Previous legal case
-”Blackjack” case
-Role of executive departments

[Butterfield talked with the President between 10:38 am and 10:39 am]

[Conversation No. 255-33B]

[See Conversation No. 4-88]

[End of telephone conversation]

Housing statement
-Language
-Press briefing
-Ehrlichman
-George W. Romney
-John N. Mitchell
-Ehrlichman
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Previous memorandum
-Housing integration
-Nature of statement
-Ehrlichman
-Press
-Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD] draft
-Romney
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-Mitchell
-Discussion on details of draft
-Price
-Domestic Council
-Review by Justice Department
-Modification
-Executive department support
-Language Conv. No. 255-33 (cont.)
-Individual passages in statement
-Editing
-Term “fair housing”
-Price

Previous briefing
-Peter G. Peterson
-Timing
-Follow-up
-Staff, Senate

Drug issue
-Vietnam
-60 day treatment program for Vietnam servicemen
-Casualties
-President’s schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Proposed meeting with US ambassadors
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Mexico
-Turkey
-Thailand
-Rogers
-Global perspective

US-Japanese treaty
-Okinawa
-President’s schedule
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COUNTRIES Conv. No. 255-33 (cont.)


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Foreign travel
-Timing
-Moscow
-Peking
-Europe
-Midway Island


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JAPAN


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Drug issue
-President’s schedule
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
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-Elliott L. Richardson’s forthcoming meeting
-American Medical Association [AMA] leaders
-Prescriptions
-Doctors who fail to treat addicts

[The President talked to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman at an unknown time between 10:39 am and
11:10 am]
Conv. No. 255-33 (cont.)
[Conversation No. 255-33C]


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JAPAN


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[End of telephone conversation]

Drug issue
-Relationship between marijuana and heroin
-Drug culture
-Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe
-Vietnam servicemen and drugs
-Political issue
-Amnesty program
-Robert H. Steele
-Jaffe
-Clark MacGregor
-Penalties for drug traffickers
-Krogh
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Public Service Employment veto
-Alternative
-Overall strategy
-George [Surname unknown]
-Scheduling

[The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 10:39 am and 11:10
am] Conv. No. 255-33 (cont.)

[Conversation No. 255-33D]

President’s schedule
-Fordham University event
-Location
-Rose Garden
-Presentation

[End of telephone conversation]

Budget reduction
-Nelson A. Rockefeller’s attack on John V. Lindsay
-New York state budget
-Public service
-Employment
-”Model Cities” program
-Education
-Across the board cut
-Cabinet and special interests
-Transportation
-Study of what types of government expenditures create jobs
-Domestic Council
-Men and money
-Deficit
-George P. Shultz
-Milton Friedman
-Budget
-Monetary policy
-Fiscal Year [FY] 1973 and FY 1972
-Budget cuts
-Review of options
-Edwin L. Harper
-Martin C. (“Marty”) Anderson
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[The President talked with Haldeman [?] at an unknown time between 10:39 am and 11:10 am]

[Conversation No. 255-33E]

Request for meeting

[End of telephone conversation] Conv. No. 255-33 (cont.)

Budget reduction
-Appropriation bills
-Modified budget
-Jobs
-Vetoes
-Welfare reform
-Possible veto
-House Rules Committee
-Section 4
-Senate
-Budget
-Possible veto
-Welfare reform
-Senate

Haldeman entered at 11:10 am

-Forthcoming government study
-Domestic Council
-Expenditures
-Jobs
-Public broadcasting
-Alternatives to federal funding
-National Educational Television [NET]
-Fusion with public broadcasting
-Fund raising
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Government control
-Frank Pace, Jr.
-John W. Macy, Jr.
-National Endowment for the Arts [NEA]
-Government expenditures in art
-Public support
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-Buck Chandler
-”Right to Read” program
-Pilot project in Washington, DC
-Congressional participation
-News media participation
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon
-Claudia A. (Taylor) (“Lady Bird”) Johnson
-Volunteer program Conv. No. 255-33 (cont.)
-Proposed goals
-National focus
-Inner-city youth
-Urban Service Corps
-T. Nixon
-Jeanne Ehrlichman
-Walter W. Straley
-National Reading Center
-Hugh Scott
-Study of issues
-Domestic problems
-Air pollution
-Revenue sharing
-Tax reduction
-Welfare reform
-Eliminate welfare fraud
-John F. Kennedy
-Election of 1960
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Drugs
-Law enforcement
-Unemployment
-Inflation
-John B. Connally
-Image
-Walter J. Hickel
-Public relations on foreign policy
-Vietnam
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Europe
-”Generation of Peace”
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-Krogh’s poll on drugs
-Crime and narcotics
-Public reaction
-Foreign affairs
-Public policy
-President’s image abroad
-President’s previous television appearance
-Kennedy Conv. No. 255-33 (cont.)
-Eisenhower
-L. B. Johnson
-Vietnam
-Effect
-Travel and foreign visits
-Spain
-Indonesia
-Domestic issues
-Image
-Law and order
-Television appearances
-Sugar quotas
-Kissinger
-Ecuador
-Peterson
-Public image
-Connally
-Future meeting with J. D. Ehrlichman
-Support for organization
-Revenue sharing
-Reorganization
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Leadership qualities
-Polls
-Press
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-Economy
-Departments of Commerce and Labor
-Maurice H. Stans
-Statistical departments
-Census on property levels
-Stans
-James D. Hodgson
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-”Goldstein” [Leon Greenberg]
-Possible transfer
-Goals and objectives for administration
-Employment
-Eliminate unemployment
-OMB
-Henry A. Wallace
-Franklin D. Roosevelt Conv. No. 255-33 (cont.)
-J. F. Kennedy
-Space program
-Cuba
-Environment
-Relation to 18-year-old vote
-Business interests
-Clean air and clean water
-Potomac River
-Ohio and Missouri Rivers
-Political consequences
-District of Columbia
-Virginia
-Maryland
-Ohio

Rockefeller versus Lindsay
-New York City labor unrest

Environment
-President’s position
-Edmund S. Muskie
-William D. Ruckelshaus
-Domestic Council
-Business and environment
-Government expenditures
-Parks
-Clean air and clean water
-San Clemente
-Jobs
-California
-Smog
-London
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-Los Angeles
-Automobiles
-Weather

J. D. Ehrlichman left at 11:46 am

President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with US ambassadors Conv. No. 255-33 (cont.)
-Drugs

Press
-SALT
-Unknown person and John A. Scali
-Administration poll on public awareness

[Forename unknown] Derge [sp?]
-PRC
-George H. Gallup and Louis Harris polls
-Administration’s polls

President’s forthcoming speech
-Oklahoma
-Press coverage
-Price and Peterson

President’s message
-Mitchell
-Charles W. Colson
-J. D. Ehrlichman
-Timing
-1972 Republican Convention
-Invitation to White House

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Staff duties
-J. D. Ehrlichman
-Shultz

Public opinion polls
-Environment Conv. No. 255-33 (cont.)
-J. D. Ehrlichman
-Ruckelshaus
-Business
-Labor
-E. M. Kennedy
-Boston politicians

President’s schedule
-Photograph with group
-Marie Lombardi
-Felix E. Larkin
-John A. (“Jack”) Mulcahy

Manolo Sanchez entered at unknown time after 11:46 am


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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:00 pm

President’s schedule
-Larkin

The President left at an unknown time before 12:00 pm
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9
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Conv. No. 255-33 (cont.)

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The President entered at an unknown time after 11:46 pm

Larkin
-Wellington T. Mara
-John J. Breslin, Jr.

The President and Haldeman left at 12:00 pm