Conversation No. 90-1

Date:  February 7, 1972
Time:  11:54 am - 12:18 pm
Location:  Cabinet Room

The President met with Whitney N. Seymour, Jr., William D. Keller, James R. Thompson, Jr., Harold H. Titus, Jr., Louis C. Bechtle, Ralph Guy, Jr., Joseph L. Tauro, James L. Browning, Jr., Richard L. Thornburgh, George Beall, Herbert J. Stern, Anthony J. P. Farris, Eldon B. Mahon, Stan Pitkin, John W. Stokes, Jr., Donald O=Connor, Harry D. Steward, Robert W. Rust, James L. Treece, Gerald J. Gallinghouse, Daniel Bartlett, Frederick Coleman, Sidney I. Lezak, William Smitherman, William W. Milligan, David J. Cannon, John L. Briggs, Wayman G. Sherrer, James M. Sullivan, Jr., F. L. Peter Stone, Richard G. Kleindienst, Myles J. Ambrose, Henry E. Petersen, Jerris Leonard, John E. (AJack@) Ingersoll, Harlington Wood, Jr., Eugene T. Rossides, John F. Hanlon, Egil (ABud@) Krogh, Jr., and Geoffrey C. Shepard; the White House photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting

	[General conversation/Unintelligible]

	Introductions

	President=s pre-political life
		-Law school
		-United States Attorney

	Washington, DC
		-Kleindienst
		-John N. Mitchell
		-Martha Mitchell

	Purpose of meeting
		-Briefings
		-Drug abuse
			-Study of problem
				-Law enforcement issue
				-Domestic issues
					-Economic issues
						-Unemployment
						-Cost of living
							-President=s attitude
			-Dangerous drugs
			-Busing
		-Dangerous drugs
			-News summary
			-Drug usage
				-1965
					-Students
						-High school
						-College
						-Drugs
							-Amount
							-Type
						-Present usage
							-Amount
							-Type
							-Ages of users
							-Social purpose
			-Legalization of marijuana
				-Polls
				-Anti-feelings
					-Meaning
					-Parents= concern
						-Heroin, Lysergic Acid Diethylamide [LSD]
			-Duane Thomas
			-Teenagers
				-Penalties
					-Marijuana
						-Consistency with crime
			-Majority concerns
				-Marijuana
				-Republicans
				-Independents
				-Democrats
				-Blacks
				-Whites
				-Mexicans
			-Nixon administration
				-Progress
					-Legislation
					-Administrative action
						-Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe=s office
					-Prevention
					-Foreign policy
						-Turks
						-French
					-Educational fields
						-Advertisements during sports
						-Youth and athletes
							-Emulation of teachers
								-Models
			-President=s emphasis - drug enforcement
				-Unsophisticated people
					-Legalization
						-Marijuana
						-Importance of enforcement
						-Addicts
						-Supply source
				-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] story
				-Treasury
			-Effectiveness of administration
				-Pushers
					-Compared to murderers
						-Youth
						-Penalty
							-Prosecution
							-Federal government
								-Example for local government
								-Police departments
				-Federal level
					-Supply source
					-Treatment
					-Prevention
					-Education
					-Need for improvement
						-Public relations [PR]
							-Drug prosecution
							-Drug convictions
				-Nixon administration program
					-Appointments
					-Legislation
					-Speeches
					-Polls
						-Solid majority
							-Attitude toward drug program
					-Administration=s action
						-PR
						-US Attorney
							-Need for PR
								-Lawyers and judges
							-Tests
								-Women
							-PR
								-Thomas E. Dewey=s effectiveness

	Administration role
		-Lawyers present
			-Responsibilities
				-Constituents
					-Drugs
						-Administration action
							-Reassurances
				-Charged prosecution
				-Local police forces
					-Encouragement
					-Results
			-Drug users
				-Number increase
					-Demand
					-Education
					-Crime
					-Dangerous drugs
		-Law enforcement
			-Lawyers= schedules
				-Prosecutor
				-Education
				-Materials
					-Communities
			-Government
				-Strong advocacy
		-Kleindienst

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	Ambassadors’ arrival

[To listen to the segment (31s) declassified on 02/28/2002, please refer to RC# E-579.]

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	Presidential cuff links
		-Distribution

	Presidential seal
		-Gift
			-Wife
			-Secretary
			-Other

	Handouts

	[General conversation/Unintelligible]

	Special Prosecutor

	Special Assistant to President
		-Statement by President

[Recording ends while the conversation is in progress]

The President, et al. left at 12:18 pm

Conversation No. 90-4

Date:  Unknown between February 7 and February 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:18 pm, February 7 and 11:22 am, February 9, 1972
Location:  Cabinet Room

Unknown people met

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[Duration:  1m 31s  ]

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[Recording ends while the conversation is in progress]

The unknown people left at an unknown time before 11:22 am, February 9, 1972

Conversation No. 90-2

Date:  February 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 7:58 am until 11:31 am
Location:  Cabinet Room

Henry A. Kissinger=s staff  met; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

	[General conversation/Unintelligible]

	Photograph
		-Pose

	[General conversation/Unintelligible]

The President and Kissinger entered at 11:22 am

	President=s gratitude
		-Work

	President=s schedule
		-Socializing

	Foreign policy accomplishments

	Credibility gaps

	President=s remembrance
		-1971
			-Importance
		-1972
		-Theodore (ATeddy@) Roosevelt
		-Dwight D. Eisenhower
		-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
			-Democrat
			-Relation to Nixon

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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[Duration:  17s  ]

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				-Wilson=s life
					-Intellect
					-Idealism
					-Accomplishment
						-Peace
					-Lessons
						-Present US needs
							-Idealism
							-Pragmatism
						-US - People=s Republic of China [PRC] relations
							-Missionaries
							-Chinese history
						-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
						-H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells
							-Historian
							-Better educated nations
							-United Nations
								-Value
									-Education
									-Conflict settlement
									-Idealism
									-Hopes
									-PRC
				-Reasons for being
					-Optimism
					-Ideals
					-Nations
					-Leaders
					-Differences
					-Failures
						-Past
						-Future

	Future
		-Success
			-Homework
		-Work for peace
			-1972

	[General conversation/Unintelligible]

The President, et al. left at 11:31 am

Conversation No. 90-3

Date:  February 14, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 8:40 am until 12:45 pm
Location:  Cabinet Room

John N. Mitchell met with Elliot L. Richardson, Howard H. Baker, Jr., William E. Brock, III, Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Robert P. Griffin, John G. Tower, Thomas N. Downing, Norman F. Lent, Thomas J. (ATom@) Steed, George P. Shultz, John D. Ehrlichman, Edward L. Morgan, William E. Timmons, Richard K. Cook, Thomas C. Korologos, and Ronald L. Ziegler; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

	[General conversation/Unintelligible]

The President entered at 11:06 am

	Greetings

	Tom [Surname unknown]

	Congressman
		-Labor cases

	Greetings

	Meeting=s agenda

	Paper distribution

	President=s meeting outline
		-Helping audience

	Arthur F. Burns
		-Attorney
		-President=s meeting
			-Liberals and conservatives
			-Busing
			-Speech
				-Racial balance
				-Goal
					-Busing
				-Open enrollment schools
					-Neighborhood schools

	Busing
		-South
			-Black children
			-White children
			-Byrd
			-Baker
			-Brock

	Segregation
		-Responsibilities
			-Chief executive
			-Attorney General
			-Constitution
				-Amendment
			-Legislation
			-White House staff
				-Views of
		-Public support
			-Constitutional amendment
				-Necessity
					-Busing
					-Racial balance
					-Neighborhood schools
					-Brown v. Board of Education
						-Integration
						-Segregation
						-As integration enforcer
					-Effects on education
		-Busing
			-Quality education
				-Dual school system
					-Legally enforced segregation
					-Forced integration
			-Amendments
				-Critics= views
				-Supreme Court
		-Baker=s recognition
			-Brock
			-Griffin
			-Byrd
			-Issues
			-Amendments
			-Political issues
				-Mitchell
				-Unknown man
				-Richardson
				-Priorities
				-Law
					-Public clarification
						-President=s statements, March, 1970
							-Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
							-Supreme Court
								-School system
								-Segregation
								-Integration
								-Federal device use
									-Swann
										-Warren E. Burger=s memorandum
											-Lower courts
											-Chief Justice
					-Intervention
						-Executive pardon
							-Clarification
							-Civil Rights Act of 1964
								-Constitutional protection
						-Solicitor General
							-State laws
							-Administration position
								-Policy position
									-Intervention
									-Congress
										-Recommendations
											-Legislation
										-Supreme Court
											-Reaction
											-Remedies
											-Legislative
											-Judicial
											-Constitutional
		-Constitutional amendment
			-Professor Alexander M. Bickel at Yale University
			-Intervention
			-Supreme Court action
			-Public policy statement
			-Legislative branch
				-Supreme Court
		-Intervention
			-Means for knowledge
		-Administration and Congress
			-Policy formulation
				-Legislation
					-Education
					-Abrogating Brown
			-Delay
				-Inevitability
					-Intervention
			-Courts
				-Decisions
				-Amendment
					-Proposal
					-Legislation
				-Freedom to act
				-Congress
					-Lower courts
					-Jurisdictional restrictions
				-Constitutional amendment
					-Avoidance
				-Results
					-Legislation
					-Judicial
					-Constitutional amendment
						-Public school transportation
							-Race
				-Charter document
			-Courts
				-Reaction
					-Charlotte-Mecklenburg
					-Burger=s memorandum
					-Charlotte-Mecklenburg
						-Judge James B. McMillan
						-Constitutional remedy
						-Educational values
				-Brown
					-Equality of education
				-Intervention
					-Testimony
						-Civil liberties
							-Supreme Court
				-Brown
					-Busing
					-Education
					-Segregation
					-Testimony
				-Baker=s view
					-Judicial process
					-House of Representatives
				-Congress
					-Rules Committee
					-Judicial Committee
					-Pro and con
						-Democrats
						-Republicans
					-Hearing
					-Courts
					-Senate
				-Legislation
					-Congress
				-John B. Connally
					-Impeachment of judges
				-Violence
					-Legal solution
			-Forced busing
				-New York
					-Blacks and whites
						-Threats
				-Attorney General
					-Court
				-Oklahoma City
				-Intervention versus Constitutional amendment
				-Students
					-Quality education
					-Busing
					-Courts
					-School districts
						-Finances
					-Federal impact
					-Racial questions
						-Poor
				-Schools
					-Federal money
						-School operation
					-Standards
					-Rural and city schools
						-Busing
							-Burger
					-Congress
						-Constitution
					-Blacks and whites
					-Federal judge
					-Baker and Tom [Surname unknown; Steed?]
					-Detroit
						-Research
					-Integration
						-Neighborhood schools
							-Busing
					-Blacks
						-Rights
					-Upgrading schools
						-Brock
					-Ghetto schools
					-Busing
						-Purpose
							-Better schools
							-Integration
					-Rural schools
						-Quality
							-Upgrading
						-Revenue sharing
					-Congress intervention
					-Griffin
						-Constitutional amendment
					-Baker=s views
					-Mitchell
					-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
					-Supreme Court
					-Conventions
						-Democrat
						-Republican
					-Busing
						-Effects
							-Baker=s views
						-Handling issue
						-Black parents
							-Majority
						-Black establishment
							-Majority
						-Liberals
						-Washington Post
			-Passing Constitutional amendment
				-Problems involved
				-House of Representatives
					-Federal judges
						-Effect
				-Choices
					-Court clarification
			-Racial balance
			-Interpretations
				-Dual school system
			-Language
				-Brown
				-Slaughter
					-Public school attendance
						-Race
					-Dual school system
				-Lawyer=s proposal
					-De facto segregation
					-Fourteenth Amendment
				-Black schools
					-Attendance
			-Ratification
				-States
			-Radical desegregation
			-Legislation
			-Constitutional amendment
			-Funding education
			-Commitment
			-Local governments
			-HEW
			-Supreme Court
				-Charlotte-Mecklenburg case
			-Procedure
				-Language change
			-Courts
				-Amendment
				-Support
			-School assignment
				-Racial reasons
			-New York
				-Civil rights advocates
					-Busing
				-Black community
					-Community control
						-Neighborhood schools
				-Nelson A. Rockefeller
				-Supreme Court
					-Lower court
						-Busing
				-Attorney General
			-Programs
				-Reading, writing
			-New York black community
				-Busing
			-Fourteenth Amendment
			-Legal advisors
				-Development of language
					-Ambiguity
					-Transportation
					-Desegregation
			-Opposition
			-Busing prevention
				-Legislation
			-Hearings
			-House members
				-Primaries
					-Presidential
		-Parent-child relationship
			-Home
				-Legal systems
		-Ehrlichman
		-Race relations and Congress
		-Northerner=s views
			-City segregation
		-Bipartisan group
			-Baker
			-Brock
			-John [Surname unknown]
			-Bobby [Surname unknown]
			-Tom [Surname unknown]
			-Byrd
		-Congress
			-Senators
		-Policy
			-Busing
				-Integration
			-Equal opportunity for education
			-Constitution
				-Fourteenth Amendment
				-Shultz
				-Audience responses
				-Selected law professors
					-Views
				-Proposals
		-Administration policy
			-President=s paper
				-School desegregation
		-Problems
			-Legal, technical
		-Senate
		-House of Representatives
			-Rules Committee
			-Liberal Democrat candidate
		-Administration policy
			-Amendments
				-Chief legal advisors
			-Remedy
				-Congress
			-Opposition
		-Legislative response
		-Baker=s recommendations
			-President=s actions
				-Busing
				-Legislation
				-Constitutional amendment
			-Press
				-Politics
		-Issues

	Busing
		-Issues
		-Amendment
		-Lawyers
		-Status quo
			-Remedies
			-Results
			-Appreciation of present audience

	Audience=s wives
		-Gifts

	Desegregation
		-Time frame
		-Schedule
		-Recommendations

	Ehrlichman

	Mitchell

	[General conversation/Unintelligible]

The President, et al. left at 12:45 pm