512–12

Conversation No. 512-12

Date: June 4, 1971
Time: 11:20 am - 12:09 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman


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President’s energy message
-Chet Holifield
-Effect
-President’s conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler
-President’s conversation with Craig Hosmer

Atomic energy
-Scientists’ fears
-Opposition
-Future importance
-Cost of imported oil
-Peter G. Peterson’s projections
-Export value

Desalinization of water
-Political appeal
-California, Florida, Phoenix
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-National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]

Domestic issues poll
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Opinion Research Corporation [ORC]
-Crime
-Environment
-Leading questions
-Regional breakdowns
-Revenue sharing

Revenue sharing
-Wilbur D. Mills
-John B. Connally
-Carl B. Albert
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Russell B. Long’s comments to Ehrlichman, June 3
-Mills

President’s previous press conference
-Long’s comments regarding May Day demonstrators

President’s previous meeting with police officials
-Rocky Pomerance
-Officials
-Press accounts

May Day demonstrators
-Popular reactions

Domestic issues poll
-Violence

Drug abuse
-Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe
-Possible role with administration
-Morals
-Biblical
-Jaffe
-Turkey, France, Laos
-President’s schedule
-Jaffe
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-State Department
-Previous meeting with military
-State Department
-John N. Irwin, II
-David Packard
-Melvin R. Laird
-Elliot L. Richardson
-John N. Mitchell Conv. No. 512-12 (cont.)
-Connally
-Eugene T. Rossides
-Role
-Mitchell
-Possible meeting with Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming meeting with Connally
-David M. Kennedy
-Rossides
-Use of Internal Revenue Service [IRS], US Customs Service
-Doctors
-Upcoming meeting of the American Medical Association [AMA]
-Pharmaceutical manufacturers
-Richardson
-Drug factory near Jersey City
-Dr. W. Kenneth Riland
-Shipments to Mexico
-Administration efforts
-Connally
-Mitchell
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Attitude
-Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs [BNDD]

Polls
-Busing
-Edward L. Morgan’s efforts
-Breakdown by region, race
-Analysis
-Mitchell
-George W. Romney
-Richard C. Van Dusen
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Morgan
-Statement
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-Release date
-Tricia Nixon’s wedding

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:20 am

President’s signature

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:42 am Conv. No. 512-12 (cont.)

Poll
-Release date

Peterson
-President’s memo
-Haldeman
-Forthcoming conversation with Ehrlichman
-Charles L. Shultze
-John W. Gardner
-Peterson’s previous meeting with Ehrlichman, Gardner
-Gardner
-Dr. Edwin H. Land
-[Forename unknown] Dreyfus
-Patrick E. Haggerty
-Japan
-National planning
-Possible use in US
-Bernard Shreiver [sp?]
-Research and development
-President’s memo
-Applied versus theoretical research
-Haggerty’s views
-Definition of agencies’ missions
-Department of Transportation [DOT]
-Department of Defense [DOD]
-Federal Aviation Administration [FAA]
-Foreign tourism
-Accomplishment of agencies’ missions
-Robert S. McNamara’s views
-Research and Development [RAND] Corporation
-Universities
-Forthcoming Domestic Council meeting
-President’s schedule
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-Cabinet members’ attendance

Public service jobs
-Pending legislation
-Congressional Republicans’ stand

[The President talked with John O. Pastore between 11:42 am and 11:43 am]
Conv. No. 512-12 (cont.)
[Conversation No. 512-12A]

[See Conversation No. 4-28]

[End of telephone conversation]

Public service jobs
-President’s possible veto
-Mitchell
-Status of national economy
-Administration’s alternative
-Revenue sharing versus categorical programs

Camp Pendleton
-Lease of beach
-F. Edward Hébert
-Clark MacGregor’s memo
-President’s schedule

Economic advisors
-Paul W. McCracken
-Herbert Stein
-Report of June 4

National economy
-Optimism
-Monetary crisis
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with Paul Davies, George P. Shultz
-Deferral of capital expenditures
-International monetary situation
-Crime
-Unemployment
-Shultz’s location
-Unemployment
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-Stein’s views
-Reaction
-Possible administration action
-Summer youth employment
-Urban unrest
-James D. Hodgson’s role
-Legislative action
-Veto of public service jobs legislation Conv. No. 512-12 (cont.)
-Development of 20,000,000 jobs
-Exports
-New technology
-Possible press response
-Retail sales
-Consumer credit
-Increase in confidence
-Surveys
-Public confidence in future
-Deutschmark crisis
-Fears regarding dollar
-Poll results
-Breakdown by age
-War
-Pollution
-Crime
-Social issues
-Race
-Public confidence
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.’s actions
-President’s credibility
-Extrinsic circumstances
-Public service jobs
-Hodgson
-Timing
-Unemployment
-Stein’s views
-Cycles
-Inflation
-Recession
-Public confidence
-Administration’s credibility
-Predictions
-Stock market
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-Possible Wage-Price Board
-Arthur F. Burns’ views
-Businessmen’s views
-Forthcoming housing statement
-School statement
-Mitchell
-Timing of release
Conv. No. 512-12 (cont.)
Ehrlichman left at 12:02 pm