700–10

Conversation No. 700-10

Date: April 3, 1972
Time: 4:32 pm - 5:36 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

John D. Ehrlichman
-Preparations for meeting with Henry A. Kissinger
-Speech
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Speech
-Price
-Discussion with John B. Connally
-The President's trip to Philadelphia
-Tax reform proposal

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Speech at National Cathedral School

The President's schedule
-Price
-Appointments
-Vietnam
-Speech draft
-Work

Education representative, Sidney P. Marland, Jr.
-Speech to convention
-The President's greetings

Book by Russell Kirk
-The President's memorandum
-A Program for Conservatives
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-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, IIand Julie Nixon Eisenhower
The Conservative Mind
-Publication
-Cover
-Title
-Problems
-Copies
-Staff members
-Patricia H. Alsop
-Mix-up
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Drug speech
-Further work by the President
-Hotline
-Television
-Radio delivery
-Television delivery
-Problems
-Radio speech
-Value
-Drafting
-Problem of drugs
-John R. (“Tex”) McCrary, Richard A> Moore and Dwight L. Chapin
-Personification
-Myles J. Ambrose
-Compared with J. Edgar Hoover
-John N. Mitchell
-Ambrose
-Presence at arrests
-McCrary
-Announcements
-New penalties
-Hotline
-Phone company
-Notification
-Radio speech

Press conference
-McCrary
-Office
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-Photograph pool
-Need for more film
-Television
-Problems
-Timing
-Meeting with editors

The President's schedule
-Open weeks
-Vietnam
-Bombing
-Weather breaks


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Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 4:41 pm.

Ehrlichman
-Meeting with the President

Butterfield left at 4:42 pm.

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Polls
-ITT case
-Impact
-Dita D. Beard
-Busing
-Food prices
-Negative impact

Busing
-Ehrlichman


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Media relations
-Story on young men in administration
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Winston Lord
-Life
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John D. Ehrlichman entered at 4:52 pm.

Greetings

Ehrlichman’s schedule

Haldeman left at 4:53 pm.

Busing
-Ehrlichman's role in issue
-Charles W. Colson
-Clark MacGregor
-Meeting with southern congressmen
-Edward L. Morgan
-Administration's position
-Publicity in Michigan
-Fifty cities
-Visits
-Moratorium strategy
-Work with Congress
-Jacob K. Javits
-Need to counteract
-Votes in conference
-Morgan
-Impact in California

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:53 pm.

Refreshment
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The President left at an unknown time before 5:36 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:36 pm.

[No conversation]

The President entered at an unknown time after 4:53 pm.

Busing
-California
-Administration's statement
-Television
-California
-Ehrlichman's visits

Ehrlichman's visit to California
-St. Helena


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-Busing issue
-Interest
-Blacks
-Support for the President


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Busing
-Constitutional amendment
-Racial division
-Alienation of poor blacks
-Los Angeles Times
-Wine growers in Napa Valley
-Los Angeles Times colloquy
-Ehrlichman's meeting
-Davis
-[Unknown person]
-Richard Burkholtz
-Carl [?] [Surname unknown]
-Tony Day
-Burkholtz
-Administration position
-Opposition to court ordered busing
-Distinction from voluntary busing
-State of the Union speech
-Democratic principles
-David Eisenhower
-Polls
-Ehrlichman’s talks with Haldeman
-Questions on popular perceptions
-Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin
-Media
-Confusion of issues
-Editorial writers
-Publicity for administration's opposition
-Busing
-[First name unknown] Mitchell
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-Marion W. Edelman
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC] special
-Edelman
-Howard H. Baker, jr.
-Abraham A. Ribicoff
-Busing in north
-Administration's opposition
-Congress
-Strom Thurmond
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.


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Bay of Pigs files
-Orders for Department of Defense
-David Young
-J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
-Lucien E. Conein
-White House involvement
-Richard M. Helms
-John A. McCone
-Allan W. Dulles
-Helms
-Involvement in Bay of Pigs incident
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Pentagon Papers
-J. William Fulbright hearings
-Release of \"Kennedy papers\"
-Fulbright's intentions
-Vietnam
-Files on assassinations
-Television documentary
-Kennedy allies
-Life

Victor L. Marchetti
-Publication of story on CIA
-Helms's concern
-Reasons for concern
-Harm to CIA
-Law suit against Marchetti
-Breach of contract
-Criminal suit
-Injunction

Population Commission
-Ehrlichman's meetings with John D. Rockefeller III
-Nelson A. Rockefeller's calls to Ehrlichman
-Proposals for the President
-Treatment
-Abortion
-Compared with Marijuana commission
-Administration's disagreement
-The President’s population message
-Handling
-Patrick J. Buchanan’s view
-Effect on Nelson Rockefeller
-Abortion issue
-Political opposition
-Support
-Control of blacks and Puerto Ricans
-Vasectomies
-White House approval
-Statement on abortion
-Consideration of other proposals
-John Rockefeller
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-Talk with Ehrlichman
-Personal conscience
-Support for population control
-John Rockefeller
-Social classes
-Upper classes
-Lower classes
-Lack of control
-San Francisco
-Black population growth
-Blacks
-Low standard of living
-Migration to cities
-Administration's dealings with commission
-William W. Scranton
-Meeting with John Rockefeller
-John Rockefeller's staff director
-Length of meeting
-Meeting with John Rockefeller
-Call from Nelson Rockefeller
-Vietnam

Declassification of secret documents
-John S. D. Eisenhower
-Executive Order
-Timing
-Review procedure
-Disputes
-Resolution
-John Eisenhower appointment
-John Eisenhower
-Author of a book
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-Submission of name for position

US Postal Service [USPS]
-Ehrlichman's meeting with Elmer T. (“Ted”) Klassen
-Rate raise
-Klassen's opposition
-Parcel post
-Damage rate
-Competition from United Parcel Service [UPS]
-Reform
-Cuts in work force
-Low productivity
-Overstaffing
-Personnel
-Turn-over
-Cuts in work force
-Problems
-Election year
-Freeze on hiring
-Congressional hearings
-Firings
-Rate increase compared to overstaffing
-Conflicts
-Hiring of youths
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Costs
-Youth
-Defense Department
-Alternative jobs
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-Civil Service Commission, Agnew and Office of Management and
Budget [OMB]
-Freeze
-Jennings Randolph
-Complaints
-Firings
-Top people

ITT case
-George S. McGovern
-Staff
-Frank F. Mankiewicz
-Links with Edward M. Kennedy
-Comments on corporation taxes
-Inaccuracies
-San Diego incident
-Press criticism
-Colson
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-John F. Kennedy
-Falsehood of statement
-Question on panel Issues and Answers
-Payment of taxes
-Annual report
-Security and Exchange Commission [SEC] files
-Public record
-Hubert H. Humphrey
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ITT Case
-Beard's charges
-Vance Hartke
-Use of airplane
-The President's experience
-Robert C. (“Bob”) Wilson
-Use of ITT support
-Ties with ITT
-Antitrust suit
-Richard W. McLaren
-Harold S. Geneen
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Agnew
-Wilson [?]
-John B. Connally
-Peter G. Peterson
-Pressures to drop suit
-Flanigan
-Geneen
-Acquaintance with the President
-Meeting with Ehrlichman and Colson
-Memorandum to Ehrlichman
-Acquaintance with the President
-Memorandum
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-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Staff secretary
-Haldeman
-Dealings with Flanigan
-Memorandum to Ehrlichman
-Antitrust suit
-John N. Mitchell
-Importance of case
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Problems
-Contributions
-Flanigan's knowledge
-Discussion
-Antitrust suit
-Geneen's comments
-Memorandum to Ehrlichman
-Mitchell and Kleindienst
-Meeting with Geneen
-Letter to [Forename unknown] O'Brien
-Denial

White House staff
-Ehrlichman’s schedule
-Necessity to relax
-Ehrlichman, Colson, Haldeman and Kissinger
-Use of Camp David
-Facilities
-President’s trip to the Soviet Union

Ehrlichman left at 5:36 pm.