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500–17

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500–17
  • Arthur F. "Art" Linkletter
  • DeVan L. Shumway
  • Oliver F. "Ollie" Atkins
May 18, 1971
Conversation No. 500-17

Date: May 18, 1971
Time: 12:16 pm - 12:35 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Arthur G. (“Art”) Linkletter and DeVan L. Shumway; Oliver F. (“Ollie”)
Atkins was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

John D. (“Jack”) Wrather, Jr.
-Photograph arrangements

Linkletter's book, Dear Mr. President
-Secretaries
-Herbert G. Klein
-Number of copies
-Cost
-Children's letters to President

Drug use
-Linkletter's trips around the country to conventions
-Armed forces
-Travis Air Force Base (AFB), Fort McClellan
-Causes
-Vietnam
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-Europe
-Report from Robert H. Finch
-Linkletter's categories of drug users
-Curiosity seekers
-Recreational users
-\"Weekenders\"
-Dependent ones
-\"Heads\", \"freaks\"
-Addicts
-Linkletter's work
-Grammar school, junior and senior high schools
-Educational programs
-Marijuana
-Work of commission on marijuana and drug abuse
-President's stance on legalizing drugs
-Alcohol
-Differences between alcohol and marijuana
-Effects
-Grades and strengths of marijuana
-Dr. Harvey House (sp?), chief clinical psychiatrist at University of California at
Fresno
-Study of the effects of marijuana
-Dr. Bertram S. Brown of National Institute of Mental Health [NIMH]
-Statement in press on marijuana

[The President talked with an unknown person [John D. Ehrlichman?] at an unknown time
between 12:16 pm and 12:35 pm]

[Conversation No. 500-17A]

-Brown's tenure

[End of telephone conversation]

-Brown's statements
-Alcoholics
-Differences between alcohol and marijuana


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[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 34s ]


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Conv. No. 500-17 (cont.)

-Codeine
-Alice Roosevelt Longworth


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[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 5s ]


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-Medical use of morphine
-Civil War
-Effect of Drugs
-The President’s view
-Asia
-Middle East
- Latin America
-China
-India
-Burma
-Communist countries
-Soviet Union
-Use of Alcohol
-Sweden
-Finland
-Great Britain
-Ireland
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

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(rev. 9/08)



-Drug use effects
-Effect of drugs on street gangs in Brooklyn
-Billy Wilkerson
-\"Cross and Switchblade\"
-Cost of illegal drugs

Demonstrators
-Arrests Conv. No. 500-17 (cont.)
-Public reaction
-President's, John N. Mitchell's, and police chief's roles

Linkletter's work

Presentation of cuff links
-Tricia Nixon's wedding

Paul W. Keyes
-Role with “Laugh-In” television series

Bohemian Grove
-Walter Trohan
-President's attendance

Linkletter and Shumway left at 12:35 pm.
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