93–2

Conversation No. 93-2

Date: March 6, 1972
Time: 10:30 am - 11:43 am
Location: Cabinet Room

The President met with members of the Cabinet Committee on Education: L[ouis] Patrick Gray,
III, Elliot L. Richardson, George P. Shultz, Kenneth W. Dam, Paul H. O’Neill, John D.
Ehrlichman, Edward L. Morgan, James Clawson, Clark MacGregor, and Ronald L. Ziegler
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]

Education in the United States
-Black leadership
-Desegregation
-Memoranda
-Meeting
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-Shultz
-Constitutional issues
-Desegregation
-Office of Legal Counsel
-Moratorium on busing
-Constitutional committee
-President’s contribution
-Compensatory quality of education
-John B. Connally
-Catholic education
-Comparison to black education
-Low income groups
-Taxation
-Quality of education
-Bilingualism
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW] program
-Civil Rights Act, Title 6
-Discriminatory
-Spanish-speaking backgrounds
-Emergency School Aid Act
-Equalize education
-Inner city schools
-Financing
-Memoranda
-Legislation
-Compensatory effort
-District equalization
-State of the Union
-Private schools
-Tax credit
-Timing
-Legislation
-Transportation
-Moratorium on busing
-Bilingual education
-Constitutionality of
-Financing
-District
-Transfers and receiving schools
-Catholic schools
-Questions
-School aid funds
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-Budget
-Monies per child
-Eligibility requirements
-Formula
-Remedies for busing
-Limits
-Mileage
-Difficulties involved
-Policy issues
-Constitutional amendment
-Drafts
-Moratorium form
-Financing
-Rationale
-Responsibilities
-Black education
-George C. Wallace [?]
-[Forename unknown] Jackson
-Democrats
-Civil rights establishment
-Responsibility
-Politics
-Black leaders document
-Supreme Court Justices
-Potter Stewart
-Constitutional amendment
-Senate
-Issue versus action
-President’s memorandum
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Political
-Busing
-Inferior education
-School integration
-Liberals
-Right versus wrong
-Richardson
-Busing
-Excessive transportation
-Equality of education
-Black attitudes
-Desegregation
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-Black appointees
-Street reactions
-Courts
-Congress
-Republicans
-Democrats
-Memorandum
-Shultz
-Vote
-Ethnic groups
-Italian vote
-Black vote
-Inferior education
-Black establishment
-William Raspberry [?]
-Urban League
-Roy E. A. Innis
-Desegregation
-White versus black education
-Inferior versus superior education
-Teaching standards
-Environment
-Busing

President’s schedule

Dana G. Mead, Samuel C. Jackson, William H. Brown, III, Norman B. Houston, and Samuel J.
Simmons entered at 11:05 am

[General conversation/Unintelligible]

Picture

Memorandum on education in the United States
-Busing and desegregation
-Approach to
-Rationalization
-Analysis
-Committee
-Meeting
-Time
-White House staff members
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-Quality of education
-Authority
-Recommendation
-Politics
-Neighborhood school
-Definition
-Segregation
-Rural areas
-Transportation
-Inferior education
-Public information
-Transportation problems
-Issues
-Agreements
-Extremists
-Busing
-Race
-Price
-Draft
-Busing
-Segregation
-School systems
-Hardship of busing
-Quality of education
-Housing
-Jobs
-Lack of remedies
-Environment
-Blacks
-Safety of children
-Police
-Upgrading communities
-Inferior schools
-Social ills
-Upgrading rural schools
-Ghetto schools
-Quality education
-Codeword
-Integration
-Ratio of students to teachers
-Financial factors
-Teachers’ salaries
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-Equipment costs
-Busing
-Classrooms
-Good teachers
-Law and order
-California and Ohio
-Communities
-Leadership in housing options
-Minorities
-Low income
-Impact on education
-Federal government
-Provide encouragement
-Provide assistance
-Fair share
-Quality of teachers
-Tenure policies
-Accountability
-Quality education
-Poor children
-Richardson
-Beyond segregation
-School system
-Responsibility
-Robert J. Brown
-President’s appreciation of Council’s work
-Black vote
-White vote
-Price
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-William E. Brock, III
-Approaches to busing issue
-Left and right
-Satisfaction
-President’s proposals
-Politics
-Options
-Leadership responsibility
-Quality education
-Desegregation education
-Constitutional amendment
-Black leadership
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-Satisfaction
-Busing issue
-Controversial
-Difficult
-Dual school system
-Southern states
-Brown v. Board of Education
-President’s administration
-Perspective
-Black leadership
-Responsibility
-Courage of leaders
-Brown [?]
-Roy Wilkins
-John G. Tower
-Baker
-Robert Bishop
-Wallace
-Constitutional amendment
-Political reality
-Scott-Mansfield amendment
-Citizens committee
-Positive approach

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:05 am

President’s schedule
-Camp David
-Proposals
-Timing
-Leadership

Wallace

Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson [?]

Hubert H. Humphrey

Governors

Education
-California
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-Spanish-speaking students
-Leadership
-Positive solution
-Constitutional amendment
-Wire story
-Options
-MacGregor

[General conversation/Unintelligible]

The President, et al. left at 11:43 am