Secret White House Tapes

736–2

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736–2
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Stephen B. Bull
  • John D. Ehrlichman
  • White House operator
  • William G. Milliken
  • H. R. Haldeman
  • UNKNOWN
June 15, 1972
Conversation No. 736-2

Date: June 15, 1972
Time: Unknown between 5:25 pm and 6:43 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

White House Head of State dinner
-The President’s toast
-Translation
-Luis Echeverria Alvarez toast
-Translation

John D. Ehrlichman entered at 5:31 pm.

Greetings

White House Head of State dinner
-Translator
-Toasts
-Echeverria

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:46 pm.

Ehrlichman's California trip
-Stanford University graduation
-Los Angeles
-Television appearance
-Balboa Bay Club
-San Clemente
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-02) Conv. No. 736-2 (cont.)


-Golf course
-Greenskeeper
-Weather

The President's schedule
-Republican convention
-Weather in Washington, DC
-Travel
-California


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Domestic policy
-Education bill
-Detroit, Michigan
-James G. O'Hara
-Judge Stephen J. Roth
-Busing order
-Michigan busing
-Impact
-William G. Milliken
-Detroit
-Reaction to order
-Knowledge of the President's position
-Telephone call
-Legal opinion
-Statement by President
-Warren Burger
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Legal opinion from Legal Counsel's office
-Department of Justice
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-02) Conv. No. 736-2 (cont.)



The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:46 pm and
5:54 pm.

[Conversation No. 736-2A]

[See Conversation No. 25-68]

[End of telephone conversation]

Domestic policy
-Irving Kristol's book
-Liberals
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-Education
-Pornography
-Censorship
-Welfare
-Moynihan
-The President’s view
-Detroit busing case
-Call from Kliendienst to Ehrlichman
-Busing
-Charles W. Colson, Michael P. Balzano, Donald F. Rodgers
-Intellectuals
-Blue-collar concerns
-George C. Wallace
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Ehrlichman
-Balzano
-Issue
-Aid to parochial schools
-John Cardinal Krol
-Forthcoming meeting with the President
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Commentary
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Krol
-Forthcoming meeting with the President
-Philadelphia Plan report
-Administration's reaction
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-02) Conv. No. 736-2 (cont.)


-Philadelphia system
-Krol's plan
-Chattanooga, Tennessee

The President talked with Milliken between 5:46 and 5:54 pm.

[Conversation No. 736-2B]

[See Conversation No. 25-69]

[End of telephone conversation]

Domestic policy
-Busing
-Milliken's position
-Racial issue
-Education
-Harvard University
-Professor's analysis on busing
-Opposition from Harvard University
-Academic freedom
-Stanford
-Genetics teacher
-Conditions on campus
-Dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane [DDT]
-William D. Ruckelshaus's position
-Nobel prize winner
-Conversation with the President
-Russell E. Train
-Ceylon
-Malaria deaths
-Staff at Environmental Protection Agency [EPA]
-Composition
-Ruckelshaus’s role
-Comparison with regulatory agency
-White House position
-Ruckelshaus
-Sweden
-Department of Agriculture's views
-Norman E. Borlaug
-Ruckelshaus
-Federal Trade Commission [FTC]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-02) Conv. No. 736-2 (cont.)


-Appeal of decision
-John C. Whitaker
-The President’s position
-Borlaug
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Cotton growers
-Education
-Harvard University study
-Edward L. Morgan's synopsis
-Kristol’s book
-Cost of higher education
-University of California, Berkeley
-Background of students
-Student loans
-Administration policy
-Grants
-Students
-University
-Terms
-The President’s position
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-Address at Stanford University
-Student reception
-Stanford University graduation
-Viet Cong flag

Caspar W. Weinberger
-Ehrlichman
-George P. Shultz
-Frank C. Carlucci
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.

Welfare reform
-Ehrlichman's meeting with Elliot L. Richardson
-James D. Hodgson
-Abraham A. Ribicoff
-The President's forthcoming meeting with Richardson
-Revenue sharing
-Budget problems
-Ribicoff’s program
-Administration policy
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming meeting with Richardson
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-02) Conv. No. 736-2 (cont.)


-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-Clark MacGregor

Social Security bill
-John N. Mitchell
-Meeting with Ehrlichman and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Veto possibility
-Congressional override

Revenue sharing
-Lobbying by governors and mayors
-Russell B. Long
-George H. Mahon
-Support for the President
-Taxes
-Budget
-Weinberger
-Pepperdine College speech by Ehrlichman
-Federal expenses
-Tax cuts
-Brookings Institution report
-Cuts in federal expenses
-Administration policy
-Necessity
-Taxes

Haldeman entered at 6:15 pm.

Ambassadorial appointments
-The President’s view
-Quality
-Robert H. McBride
-Herbert G. Klein
-Mexico
-Qualities

American translators
-McBride
-Donald F. Barnes
-Abilities
-US French translator
-Shortcomings
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-02) Conv. No. 736-2 (cont.)


-The President’s view
-US Polish translator
-Shortcomings
-The President’s previous trip to Poland
-National Security Council [NSC]
-State Department
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Strengths
-Pataloski [Alexander Akalovsky?]
-Walter J. Stoessel, Jr.
-Embassy staff
-Procedure for selecting translators
-State Department
-Kissinger’s office
-Presidential translators
-Comparison with Soviet and Chinese translators
-Victor Sukhodrev
-US-Soviet translator
-Accuracy
-Haldeman’s view
-Fluency
-Vernon A. Walters
-Evaluation of translators
-Pataloski [?]
-Sukhodrev
-Chinese translator
-Chou En-lai
-Mao Tse-tung
-Language schools in US
-Walters
-Requirements
-US translator in Japan, [Forename unknown] Whickel (sp?)
-Wife
-US Spanish translator
-US French translator
-Woman translator
-Strengths
-Woman translators
-The President’s view
-Shortcomings
-Chou En-lai
-French translator
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-02) Conv. No. 736-2 (cont.)


-German translator
-Mobility of an individual translator
-Bonn
-Meetings with Willy Brandt
-Tokyo
-The President’s trip to Poland
-Quality of US translation
-Problems
-Poland's translator
-Strengths
-Military language school
-Quality
-Recruitment
-Problems
-Kissinger
-Winston Lord
-US Polish translator
-Vernon C. Coffey's comment to Haldeman
-Pataloski [?]
-Ehrlichman's appearance at Pepperdine College

World War II
-Winston S. Churchill's Triumph And Tragedy
-Yalta and Potsdam Conferences
-Poland
-Polish underground
-Franklin D. Roosevelt's Illness
-State Department
-Romania
-Czechoslovakia
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Prague
-Denmark
-Soviets
-American concerns
-Military victory
-Soviet allies
-Churchill's concerns
-Roosevelt
-Harry S. Truman
-State Department
-Role in Yalta
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-02) Conv. No. 736-2 (cont.)



International Affairs
-Poland
-Political attitudes
-Soviet Union
-William P. Rogers
-Soviet Union
-The President’s previous trip to Poland
-Response to the President in Warsaw
-Romania and Yugoslavia
-Strength of Communist ideology
-Poles
-Political attitudes
-Romanians
-Culture
-Spanish
-Yugoslavians
-Czechs
-Hungarians
-Soviets

Foreign policy personnel
-Ambassadors
-Foreign service
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Problems
-The President’s view
-The President’s view
-Ambassadors
-US Ambassador to Sweden
-Jerome H. Holland
-Resignation
-Kissinger
-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Replacement
-Rogers
-Charge d'affaires
-[Forename unknown] Graham
-Status of post
-Spain
-Ambassador
-Potential problems
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-02) Conv. No. 736-2 (cont.)


-State Department
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Appointments
-W. Clement Stone
-Leonard K. Firestone
-Walter H. Annenberg
-Firestone
-Possible press story
-Annenberg’s possible resignation
-Wife
-Ambassadors
-Functions
-Annenberg
-[Elizabeth, Queen Of England] Elizabeth II
-Spain
-Horacio Rivero
-Confirmation
-Ambassadorships
-Prestige
-Soviet Union
-Replacement
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Jacob D. Beam
-Performance
-Mrs. Beam
-Performance
-Stone
-Preference
-Great Britain

Personnel
-Kleindienst
-Selection of Deputy Attorney General
-Ruckelshaus
-Ralph E. Erickson
-Office of Legal Counsel
-William French Smith
-John W. Dean, III
-Age
-Qualities
-Erickson
-Qualities
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-02) Conv. No. 736-2 (cont.)


-Background
-Gibson, Dunn, and Crutcher
-Busing case
-Loyalty
-Office of Legal Counsel
-Recruitment
-William H. Rehnquist
-Kleindienst
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming call

Kissinger
-Schedule
-Japan
-Soviet Union trip
-California trip
-Qualities
-Congressional briefing
-J. William Fulbright's response

White House dinners
-Toasts
-Statements
-Importance
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Effect
-Value
-Publicity

Education
-Memorandum by Morgan

US foreign policy
-Summit meetings
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Soviet Union
-Effect
-Mexico
-Great Britain
-France
-Italy
-Germany
-The President's meeting with Echeverria
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-02) Conv. No. 736-2 (cont.)


-Water salinity
-Third World nations
-Mexico
-Kissinger
-Mexican Foreign Minister
-Salinity question
-Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson
-State dinners
-State visits
-Eisenhower
-Churchill
-[Maurice] Harold MacMillan
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Kennedy and Johnson
-Foreign leaders
-Echeverria
-Importance
-The President’s view
-Support for the President

US domestic policies
-Leon Sullivan
-Meeting
-Speech
-Statement on the President
-Equal opportunity
-Floyd B. McKissick, Sr.
-Statement
-Sullivan statement

Echeverria’s visit to the US
-Mexican politics
-Angela Davis
-Demonstrations in US at Echeverria's public appearances

Davis’s trial
-Outcome

Demonstration
-Los Angeles
-Police
-City Council
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-02) Conv. No. 736-2 (cont.)


-Mexicans

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 6:15 pm.

The President's briefcase

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 6:43 pm.

Decisions for 1973
-Buchanan [?]
-Announcements

The President, et al. left at 6:43 pm.
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