360–6

Conversation No. 360-6

Date: September 8, 1972
Time: 3:00 pm - 3:40 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman and Egil G.(“Bud”)Krogh, Jr.

Greetings

The President left at an unknown time after 3:00 pm.

California

The President entered at an unknown time before 3:40 pm.

Drug abuse and law enforcement
-The President’s previous meeting with Ehrlichman
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Need for public statements
-Forum
-Judges
-News summary
-Kleindienst’s activities
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An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 3:00 pm.

Refreshments

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 3:40 pm.

Drug abuse and law enforcement
-Kleindienst
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Justice Department
-Issues
-Civil rights
-The President’s view
-Law and order
-Marijuana
-Meeting with Cabinet and Republican Congressional
leaders, October 12, 1972
-Presentation of administration policies
-The president’s view
-George S. McGovern
-Harvard University
-Issue
-Public perception
-Crime
-Drug pushers
-Sentences
-Handling
-Courts
-Federal
-State and local jurisdictions
-Judges
-Warren E. Burger
-Possible talk with judges
-The President's meetings
-Judges
-Law enforcement officials
-Judges
-The president’s policy
-Crime
-Sentences
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-Myles J. Ambrose
-US attorneys

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:01 pm.

Sanchez’s schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:40 pm.

Drug abuse and law enforcement
-Krogh’s view
-Burger
-The President’s view
-Judicial views
-Mandatory sentencing requirement
-Burger’s View
-Presentation of administration position to the judiciary
-Public forum for the President
-Mandatory sentencing
-The president’s view
-Potter Stewart
-Public perception
-Law enforcement officials
-John B. Connally’s view
-Judges
-Busing
-Probation
-Judges
-Criminals
-Welfare
-Statement by the President
-Format
-Radio
-The President’s policy
-Leniency
-Judges
-Prosecutors
-Probation officers
-Wording of statement
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-September 11, 1972 meeting
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-International participants
-State Department
-David N. Parker
-Possible statement
-Responsibility of enforcement
-Law enforcement officials
-The President’s view
-Judges and probation officers
-Leniency
-Police
-White House statement
-Judges
-McGovern
-Executive and legislative branch action
-Funding
-Enforcement and judicial responsibility
-Judges and prosecutors
-California
-Judges
-The President’s view
-Association of District Attorneys
-Resolutions
-Judges
-The president’s view
-Possible statement
-Enforcement of laws
-Narcotics
-Street crime
-Judiciary responsibility

1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany
-National attitudes
-Playing of US national anthem, Star Spangled Banner
-Black athletes
-Reaction
-Audience reaction
-Howard Cosell
-Olympic Committee
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Telegram
-Cosell
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-Attitude towards blacks
-Background
-Black athletes
-Explanation of position
-Revocation of medals
-Audience reaction
-Compared with 1968 Mexico City Olympics
-Competitors
-Track and field events
-Winning time
-Comparison of track and field to horse races
-Silky Sullivan
-Citation
-Track and field events
-Soviet Union athletes
-Kenyan athletes
-Jim Ryun
-Kenyan runner
-5,000 and 10,000 meter races
-Lasse Viren
-The president’s recent meeting with Finland
ambassador
-[Mohammad Gammoudi]
-The President’s resolution
-1932 Olympics
-Los Angeles Coliseum
-Lauri Lehtinen of Finland
-Ralph Hill of Oregon
-Lauri Lehtinen
-Thomas J. Pendergast [?]
-Distance races

Issues for 1972 Presidential campaign
-The President’s view
-Social issues
-Crime
-Permisiveness
-Criminals
-Prosecution and sentencing
-Drug abuse and other law enforcement
-Methadone treatment
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-Radio message
-Buchanan
-Background
-Ehrlichman’s recent conversation with Herbert Stein
-Previous meeting on drug abuse and law enforcement
-Participants
-The President’s view
-Attitude towards work
-Office of Drug Abuse and Law Enforcement
-Ambrose
-Crime
-Judges

Ehrlichman and Krogh left at 3:40 pm.