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Conversation No. 94-3

Date: March 10, 1972
Time: 11:17 am - 12:33 pm
Location: Cabinet Room

The President met with John B. Connally, Richard G. Kleindienst, Elliot L. Richardson, Wilmot
R. Hastings, George P. Shultz, Paul H. O’Neill, Kenneth W. Dam, John D. Ehrlichman, Edward
L. Morgan, James Clawson, Leonard Garment, Clark MacGregor, Raymond K. Price, Jr.,
Richard K. Cook, Hammond Chaffetz, Fred Bartlit, William Jentes, Robert H. Bork, Charles
Wright, and Daniel McAuliffe; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of
the meeting
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]

Introductions

Connally

Lawyers
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School desegregation
-Busing
-Constitutional amendments
-Moratorium
-Statute
-Outline
-Statutory approach
-Quality of educational opportunities
-Policy issues
-Emergency School Assistance Act
-Compensatory education
-Finances per pupil
-Students who transfer
-Poorer schools
-Blacks
-Equal opportunity
-Busing
-Statutes
-Courts
-Discrimination
-De facto segregation
-Courts
-Busing
-School sites
-Transfer policies
-Federal government role
-Revenues
-Secondary students
-Elementary students
-De facto
-Moratorium
-Chicago
-Legislative action
-Busing
-Lawyers
-Warren E. Burger
-De facto
-Constitutionality
-Moratorium
-Wright
-Time limits
-Types
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-No new busing
-Limits
-Time and distance
-Supreme Court
-Review
-Available legislation
-Constitutionality
-Congress
-Rights
-Time limit
-Supreme Court
-District Courts
-Administration policy
-Public reaction
-Pros and cons
-Percentages
-Constitutional amendment
-Courts
-Black leadership
-Solutions
-Brown v. Board of Education
-Quality education
-Constitutionality
-Statutes
-Wright
-Constitutionality
-Comments
-Constitutionality
-Fourteenth Amendment, Section V
-Uniformity
-Power of Congress
-Power of courts
-Jurisdiction
-Congress
-Legislative power
-Article I
-Congressional power
-Temporary
-Congressional power
-Necessity
-Burger
-Court decisions
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-Variations
-Brown v. Board of Education
-William T. Coleman, Jr.
-Extension
-Congressional action
-Confusion
-Supreme Court
-Election year
-Congress
-Constitutional basis
-Emotions
-Polls
-Courts
-Chaffetz
-Congress
-Statutes
-Intervention
-Administration position
-Legislation
-Proposals
-Court decision
-Swann case
-Data available
-Supreme Court
-Administration policy
-United States’ citizens
-Congress
-Constitutional amendment
-Lower courts
-Mecklenburg situation, Richmond
-Detroit and Grand Rapids, Michigan
-Intervention
-”Stop action” filings
-Moratoriums
-Uniformity
-MacGregor
-House
-Vote
-Democratic control
-Republicans
-Limitations
-Time
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-Hard line
-Constitutional amendment
-Americans’ reaction
-Ashbrook and Broomfield amendment
-Conferees
-Solution
-Legislation
-Emergency School Aid funds
-Title I fund problem
-Richardson
-Congress
-Committee agreement
-Rules committee
-Conferees
-Moratorium statute
-Supreme Court
-Timing
-Responsibility
-Congress
-Committee conference
-Upcoming election
-Courts
-Democrats
-Republicans
-Memorandum
-Constitution
-Lawyers
-Congress
-Effect on children
-Need for confidentiality after meeting
-Lawyers

Gifts from the President
-Wives
-Appreciation

John F. Kennedy
-Unknown man’s visit
-Tour

Meeting
-Appreciation
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-Recommendations

The People’s Republic of China trip
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s observations
-President’s toast
-Chinese brandy
-Ceremony
-Chou En-lai
-Procedure
-Patricia R. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Shopping
-Peking
-Gifts

Busing
-Further recommendations

[General conversation/Unintelligible]

The President, et al. left at 12:33 pm