483–19

Conversation No. 483-19

Date: April 20, 1971 Conv. No.483-18 (cont.)
Time: 4:20 pm - 5:14 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John N. Mitchell, and John W. Dean, III; the
White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

Supreme Court decision on busing
-Questions
-Chief Justice Warren Burger
-Administration's school aid program
-Impact
-Approach
-Take credit or distance administration
-Implications
-Local options
-Statement

Mitchell's trip

Photo


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Supreme Court decision on school busing

Mitchell's visitors

Supreme Court decision on busing
-Implications
-De jure
-Application
-Los Angeles County case
-De jure
-Gerrymandering
-Unanimity
-Burger
-Implications
-Racial balance
-Necessity
-Opinion
-Charlotte-Mecklenburg case
-Incidents of racial balance
-Walter F. Mondale
-Abraham A. Ribicoff
-Guidelines
-Equity proceedings
-Dual school systems
-Previous decisions
-Neighborhood schools
-Desegregation/racial balance
-Non-contiguous school districts
-Charlotte-Mecklenburg case
-Future impact
-General principle
-Resegregation
-Washington, DC
-Possible effect on South
-Cities
-Neighborhood schools
-School districts
-The courts
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP]
-Jack Greenberg
-Joe Brown
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-Elliot L. Richardson
-Power under Title VI
-School districts
-Compliance under court order
-Procedure
-HEW \"zealots\"
-Non-contiguous districts
-Racial balance Conv. No. 483-19 (cont.)
-Whitten amendment
-State legislatures
-Racial balance

Ronald L. Ziegler was present at an unknown time after 4:20 pm.

-Leonard Garment and Dean
-Administration's legislative proposals
-Possible administration statement
-Local school board responsibility
-Local school authorities
-District courts
-HEW
-De facto segregation
-White House involvement
-Possible comment by the President
-President’s view
-Burger
-Administration's position
-Resignation to court decision
-Possible administration statement
-Spending for busing
-Administration’s attitude
-Ziegler's possible statement
-Possible wording
-Changes
-Local school authorities and district courts
-Compliance with Court's mandate
-Possible public effects
-Conveys administration’s attitude
-Burden on local school authorities and district courts
-Justice Department/HEW
-Ziegler's possible statement
-Local school district obligations
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-District Courts
-HEW/Justice Department
-Public interpretation
-Compliance with the law
-Administration's position
-Obligation to follow law of the land
-Local school districts and district court responsibilities
-Ziegler's possible statement Conv. No. 483-19 (cont.)
-Federal enforcement procedure requirements
-HEW/Justice statutory responsibilities
-Federal role
-Edward L. Morgan
-HEW's responsibilities
-Redrawing of school district lines
-Administration's policy
-Arguments/controversies
-HEW's position
-Ziegler's possible statement
-President’s view
-President's statement March 24, 1970
-Law of the land
-Constitutional precepts
-President's statements on busing, neighborhood schools
-Law of the land
-Justice/HEW's statutory responsibilities
-Local school district and district courts responsibilities
-Justice/HEW powers
-Whitten amendment
-President’s March 24, 1970 statement
-Desegregation of school systems
-Context
-Law of the land
-Administration's position
-Press conference
-Law of the land
-Context
-Compliance
-Enforcement of desegregation
-Local districts/district courts
-Relevance of past decisions
-Law of the land
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The President's schedule, April 21, 1971
-Meeting with Graham B. Steenhoven
-US table tennis team
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

Supreme Court decision on school busing
-Burger
The President's schedule Conv. No. 483-19 (cont.)
-Picture of the President and Mitchell
-Phyllis Slocum [sp?]
-Meeting with Republican Senators

Desegregation
-Burger

Haldeman and Dean left at 4:42 pm.

Ziegler left at an unknown time before 4:59 pm.

Supreme Court decision on school busing
-De facto segregation
-Ruling
-Dual school systems
-The South
-The President's position
-Garment
-Hypocrisy
-Opinions within administration
-Richard A. Moore
-Public reaction

The President's schedule, April 18, 1971
-Drive through Washington with Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Supreme Court
-Possible resignations
-Burger
-John Marshall Harlan
-Tenure
-Mitchell's conversation with Burger
-Herbert Brownell
-Burger
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-Republican
-Harlan
-Burger
-Hill case
-Legal opinions
-William O. Douglas
-Hugo L. Black
-Thurgood Marshall Conv. No. 483-19 (cont.)
-Health

Mitchell's trip to Florida
-Meeting with Marshall and Whitney M. Young, Jr.

Florida
-President's meeting with American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE], April 16,
1971
-Mitchell and Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo's call to the President
-Television

Influence of television
-Impact on nation
-President's speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
-Lieutenant William L. Calley, Jr. case
-President's visit to California
-Laos
-President's speech on Vietnam
-President's People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative
-Significance
-”Doves”
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Economic report
-Stock market
-Rise
-Number of stockholders

National mood
-Psychology
-Mitchell's meeting with Lee R. Nunn
-Nunn's trip to Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, West Coast
-Popular attitude towards the President
-Columnists
-Polls
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-Press corps

The President's meeting with John L. McClellan
-McClellan's views regarding the President's supporters
-Democrats
-McClellan's support for the President
-Mrs. Norma McClellan
Conv. No. 483-19 (cont.)
The President's schedule
-James O. Eastland

Eastland
-James C. Wright


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-Support for the President
-Votes

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 4:42 pm.

Refreshments

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 4:59 pm.

Jack N. Anderson

Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 4:42 pm.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Eastland and Roman L. Hruska
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-Mitchell
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Hugh Scott
Scott

Eastland
-Louisiana
-Support for the President Conv. No. 483-19 (cont.)

Southern Democrats
-Eastland
-McClellan
-Richard B. Russell
-Spessard L. Holland
-David H. Gambrell
-Lawton M. Chiles, Jr.

Republicans
-McClellan's criticism

Schedule
-Upcoming meeting with Republican Senators
-Supreme Court decision of school busing

The President's schedule, April 21, 1971
-Morning
-Afternoon

Mitchell's schedule, April 21, 1971
-Secretary Sue Morrison

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:42 pm and
4:59 pm.

[Conversation No. 483-19A]

[See Conversation No. 2-13]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule, April 21, 1971
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The President talked with Sue Morrison between 4:59 pm and 5:01 pm.

[Conversation No. 483-19B]

[See Conversation No. 2-14]

[End of telephone conversation]
Conv. No. 483-19 (cont.)
The President's schedule
-Meeting with Steenhoven
-Mitchell
-Meeting with national 4-H Club leaders
-Meeting with Henry A. Kissinger

Morrison
-Maiden name

Harry S. Dent
-Schedule
-Location

Supreme Court decision on school busing
-Impact
-Supreme Court
-The South
-HEW
-Possible shake-up
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Robert H. Finch
-John G. Veneman
-Lewis H. Butler
-Unknown name
-Order
-Morgan
-Dean
-Morgan
-Requirements
-President's position
-Butler
-Bureaucracy
-Richardson
-Finch
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-Richardson’s possible response
-Non-contiguous zoning
-Busing
-Administration’s position
-School authorities' obligations
-Plans for District Courts
-HEW
-Plans for school districts Conv. No. 483-19 (cont.)
-Consultant role

Mitchell's schedule, April 21, 1971
-HEW
-Richardson
-Meeting with the President
-Richardson
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Timing
-Richardson
-Ehrlichman

Supreme Court decision on school busing
-Possible administration initiatives
-Leadership on issue
-Credit for decision
-Blacks

Southern blacks
-Support for administration
-1968 election
-White liberals
-Possible response to Supreme Court decision on busing

Desegregation
-Effect of integration on black colleges
-Black schools
-Black teachers
-Separate society
-Gradualism

Supreme Court decision on school busing
-President's position
-Staff meeting
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-Law
-Demagoguery
-Instructions for Ziegler

The President's schedule
-Upcoming photo with Mitchell
The President's schedule, April 21, 1971
-Meeting with Haldeman and Mitchell Conv. No. 483-19 (cont.)


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An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 5:01 pm.

The President's schedule
-Picture with Mitchell

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 5:14 pm.

The President's schedule


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The President, Mitchell, and Haldeman left at 5:14 pm




Conversation
Conv. No. 483-19
No. 483-20
(cont.)

Date: April 20, 1971
Time: Unknown between 5:14 pm and 5:17 pm
Location: Oval Office

Alexander P. Butterfield met with unknown persons (Secret Service agent).


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The President's location
-Duration of absence
-Cabinet Room

Unknown man's schedule

The President's location


The unknown persons left at an unknown time before 5:17 pm.
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