730–13

Conversation No. 730-13

Date: June 12, 1972
Time: 3:30-4:09 pm.
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Charles W. Colson, Donald F. Rodgers, and Michael P. Balzano.

[Members of the press and the White House photographer were present at the beginning of the
meeting.]

Greetings

Photograph session


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Busing
-Presidential actions
-Detroit
-Pittsburgh
-Higher education bill
-Public relations efforts
-Timing of actions
-Public relations
-Michigan
-Robert P. Griffin
-Administration intervention
-Constitutional amendment
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Confirmation
-Intervention in busing cases
-Higher education bill
-Liberals
-Detroit, Pittsburgh, Connecticut, Ohio
-Balzano’s efforts
-Importance of issue

Balzano’s speech
-New York
-Edward C. Nixon
-Appearance
-The President’s policies
-Response


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Balzano and Rodgers
-Ages
-The President’s recollections
-Thomas E. Dewey
-The President’s advice

Youth and American success
-Protests
-Attitudes
-California
-Texas
-Midwest
-East
-Students for a Democratic Society [SDS]
-Liberal faculties
-Balzano’s view

Irving Kristol book [The Democratic Ideal in America]



An unknown man [Stephen B.]entered at an unknown time after 3:30 pm.

Kristol book

Unknown man [Bull?]left at an unknown time before 4:09 pm.

Kristol book
-Political views
-Critique of contemporary society


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Kristol book presentation
-Uses
-Balzano
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Background
-Education
-Analysis of book
-Changing philosophies
-Achievement ethic
-Ethnics
-Attitudes
-Busing
-Study by Harvard professor
-Blacks
-Impact
-Liberal attitudes


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Secretary James D. Hodgson
-Speech in New York
-Rule of government
-Peter J. Brennan
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Role of government
-Extent
-Welfare
-Education
-Housing
-Extent
-Emergencies
-South Dakota
-Flooding
-The President’s view
-Freedom and democracy
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Poland
-Soviet Union
-The President’s previous trip
-Leningrad
-Kiev
-Ukrainians
-Poland
-Response to the President's trip
-Germans
-Russians
-The President’s previous trip

Canada

Presidential gifts

Brennan
-Qualities
-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO]
-Background
-Building trades
-George Meany

Colson, Rodgers, and Balzano left at 4:09 pm.