Conversation No. 94-1

Date:  March 7, 1972
Time:  8:04 am - 9:58 am
Location:  Cabinet Room

The President met with Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, Elliot L. Richardson, Charls E. Walker, Hugh Scott, Robert P. Griffin, Gordon L. Allott, Norris Cotton, Margaret Chase Smith, Peter H. Dominick, Wallace F. Bennett, Gerald R. Ford, Leslie C. Arends, John B. Anderson, Barber B. Conable, Jr., Richard H. Poff, Robert C. (ABob@) Wilson, John J. Rhodes, H. Allen Smith, Samuel L. Devine, John W. Byrnes, Robert J. Dole, John D. Ehrlichman, George P. Shultz, Clark MacGregor, William E. Timmons, Herbert G. Klein, Harry S. Dent, Thomas C. Korologos, Ronald L. Ziegler, Noel C. Koch, and Richard K. Cook

	[General conversation/Unintelligible]

	Greetings

	Gifts

	Revenue sharing and welfare reform
		-Congressional action
			-John B. Connally=s testimony
			-Walker
			-Byrnes
			-Conable
			-Ways and Means Committee
				-Wilbur D. Mills
					-Bills
						-Content
			-Administration bill
			-Comparison of Mills= and administration bills
				-Retroactivity
				-Distribution
					-Population
					-Local government
						-Urban distribution
						-Byrnes
				-Family income cutoff
				-Distribution
			-Ways and Means Committee
			-Mills= speech
				-Votes
					-Democrats
			-Compromise between Mills= and administration bills
			-Ways and Means Committee
			-Conable
			-State distribution
				-Mills
				-Byrnes
				-Inheritance tax discussion
			-Byrnes
			-Problems
				-Distribution
					-States
					-Local jurisdictions
			-Mills
				-Compromise bill
					-Committee vote
				-William Proxmire
				-Ford
					-Meeting with Mills
						-New Hampshire
						-Committee votes
							-Republicans
								-The President
						-Length
			-Bills
				-Democrats and Republicans
			-Distribution
				-States
					-Income taxes
						-Texas and Tennessee
			-Mills
				-Candidate
				-Work on committee
				-Mayors= Conference in Washington, DC
				-Primaries
				-Meeting with Ford
				-Meeting with mayors
					-Republicans
				-Committee votes
			-Agnew
			-Mills
			-Committee votes
				-Majority
				-Mills
					-Agnew meeting
			-Carl B. Albert
				-AMeet the Press@ quote
			-Compromise bill
				-Walker
				-Committee cooperation
				-Mills
				-Votes
			-Mills= speech, March 6th
			-Republican voting record
				-Majority
			-Partisan issue
			-Richardson
			-Committee
				-Griffin
				-Bennett
			-Mills= bill
				-Social Security
				-Welfare
			-Problem of time usage
				-Committee members
					-Other committees
						-Herman E. Talmadge
						-Ancher Nelsen
			-Work on the bill
				-Sections
					-Social Security
						-Percentages
						-House bill
							-Benefits
								-Widows
								-Increases
					-Catastrophic section of the bill
					-Welfare fraud
						-Arkansas indictment
							-Attorney
								-Head of Welfare department
									-Prosecution
						-Abraham A. Ribicoff
				-Welfare bill
				-House Resolution [HR] 1
					-Submitted as is
			-Welfare
				-Recipients
				-Ronald W. Reagan approach
				-Submission
					-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
					-White House
					-Agreements
				-Mills
				-Robert C. Byrd [?]
				-Talmadge
				-Federal government
				-HEW
				-Mills
					-Submission of a bill
						-Timing
						-Ribicoff
						-Fred R. Harris
							-Presidential race
			-National Insurance Bill
				-Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
			-Byrnes
			-Conable
				-Ways and Means Committee
					-Social Security
						-Catastrophic coverage
			-Health message
			-Catastrophic coverage
				-Senate
				-Employer=s coverage
				-Russell B. Long
				-Administration policy
				-Mills
				-Long
				-Byrnes
			-Revenue sharing
			-[Unintelligible]
			-Talmadge
			-Byrd
			-[Unintelligible]
			-HR 1
				-Long
			-Social Security
				-Percentages
			-Welfare reform
			-Catastrophic illness coverage
			-Social Security
				-Increase in benefits
				-Walter F. Mondale proposal
			-Finances
			-Mills= proposal
			-Wage base increase
			-Ways and Means Committee
				-Social Security
					-Finances
					-Future
					-Senior citizens
						-Florida primary
					-Mills
					-Finance Committee
					-Byrnes
					-1973 budget
						-Cost of living increases
			-Revenue sharing
			-Social Security
				-Benefits
				-Advisory Council
				-Mills
				-Administration=s position
				-Senior citizens groups
				-Budget
					-Wage and price controls
				-Advisory committee approach
				-Conable
				-System
				-Mills= proposal
			-Revenue sharing
				-Mayors= meeting
					-Transcript
			-Press conference
			-Republican leadership
			-Mills
			-Democrats
			-Mayor [Forename unknown] Briggs
				-Talk with Ford
					-Retroactivity
						-White House proposal compared to Mills= proposal
			-Walker
				-Mills= proposal
				-Ford

	Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty
		-Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield and Scott
			-Talk with Ford
			-George D. Aiken
			-J. William Fulbright
			-Funds
			-Conference report
				-Signatures
			-Fulbright
			-United States Information Service [USIS]

	Busing
		-Higher Education Bill and Emergency School Aid Bill
			-Dr. Thomas E. (ADoc@) Morgan
			-John T. Myers [?]
			-Supreme Court
			-House vote
				-Partisans
				-Absentees
				-Southern Representatives
		-Mecklenburg County problem
		-John N. Ashbrook amendment
		-William S. Broomfield amendment
		-Legislative package
		-Broomfield amendment
		-Supreme Court
		-Broomfield amendment
			-Jacob K. Javits
			-Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
			-Conferees
			-Vote
				-Percentage
			-Robert W. Packwood
			-Javits
		-Constitutional amendment
		-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
		-Courts
		-Constitution
			-Article III
		-House votes
		-Camp David
			-Decisions to be made
		-Quality education
		-Constitutional amendment
		-Senate versus House
		-Broomfield amendment
		-Constitutional amendment
		-House committee
			-Hearings
		-Timing
		-Constitutional amendment group
		-Broomfield amendment
		-Legislative problems
		-Emotional impact
		-Testimony
		-Community Act of 1789
		-Federal intervention
			-1875
		-Emotional impact
		-Fourteenth amendment
		-HEW
		-Department of Justice
		-Ashbrook amendment
		-William J. Green amendment
		-Richardson
		-Example
			-Alexandria, Virginia situation
				-Cook
				-Superintendent
				-J. Stanley Pottinger
					-Call to HEW
						-Letter
							-Forced busing
							-Local school board
		-Bureaucracy
			-Cabinet meetings
		-Pottinger
			-Director, Office of Civil Rights
			-Republican
			-Edward L. Morgan
		-Court cases
			-Mobile, Alabama
		-HEW role
			-Pottinger
		-Politics
		-Legislature
		-Administration=s position
		-Constitutional issue
		-Partisans
		-Mondale

	Voters Registration Bill
		-Equal Rights Amendment
		-Ervin

	Republican leadership
		-Thank you for support
		-Work with Democrats
		-Performance
		-Senate and House
		-Mills
		-Next meeting
			-Accomplishments
			-Domestic Council
			-Pension Bill
				-Thomas E. Dewey quote
		-Long
		-Mills

	The People=s Republic of China trip
		-American reaction
			-Shoe repairman

	Campaign Bill
		-Peter M. Flanigan [?]
		-Griffin [?]
		-Smith
		-Contributions
		-Criminal penalty
		-Candidates
			-Financial statements
				-Common Cause
		-Senate
		-General Accounting Office [GAO]
		-Flanigan [?]
		-Employees needed
		-Mills
		-Tax credit provision
			-Internal Revenue Service [IRS] regulations
				-Financial limit
				-Mills
		-Audits
		-Tax deductions
		-Maurice H. Stans

	[General conversation/Unintelligible]

The President, et al. left at 9:58 am

Conversation No. 94-2

Date:  March 10, 1972
Time:  10:40 am - 11:13 am
Location:  Cabinet Room

The President met with John B. Connally, Elliot L. Richardson, Arthur S. Flemming, George P. Shultz and John D. Ehrlichman
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]

	Social Security and Medicare
		-Fiscal Year 1973 budget
		-House Resolution [HR] 1
		-Wage base
			-Retroactive increases
		-Social Security benefits
			-Increase
				-Percentages
			-Wilbur D. Mills= proposal
				-Inflationary impact
			-Elderly
			-Alternatives
			-Poor
				-Percentage of population
			-Rise in prices
				-Rise in standards of living
			-Ratio to earnings
			-Elderly on public assistance
			-Alternatives
		-Wage base
		-Earnings base
		-Elderly
		-Hospital insurance contribution rate
			-Increase
			-Tax rate proposal
		-The President
		-Welfare
		-Wages and prices
		-HR 1
			-Finance Committee bills
			-Russell B. Long
			-Mills= proposal
		-Medicare benefits
			-Percentages
			-Richardson
			-Clifford P. Case
			-Benefits
				-Percentages
			-Long
			-Mills
			-Long
				-Connally
				-Talk with George D. Aiken [?]
					-Administration position
			-Mills
		-House
			-Recess
		-The President=s speech
		-Busing
			-Elderly and buses
		-Connally
			-Memo
		-Votes
		-Wage-price spiral
		-Politics
		-Inflationary spiral
		-Constitutional amendment
			-Effectiveness
		-Legislative process
		-1973 budget
		-Politics
		-Veto
		-Future meeting
		-Budget
			-Taxes

Connally, et al. left at 11:13 am

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

	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
				-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
				-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
			-AStop action@ filings
		-Moratoriums
			-Uniformity
		-MacGregor
			-House
				-Vote
					-Democratic control
					-Republicans
					-Limitations
					-Time
					-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
			-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. (APat@) Nixon
			-Shopping
				-Peking
				-Gifts

	Busing
		-Further recommendations

	[General conversation/Unintelligible]

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

Conversation No. 94-4

Date:  March 10, 1972
Time:  12:45 pm - 12:50 pm
Location:  Cabinet Room

The President met with George D. Aiken, Wright Patman, William B. Widnall, William P. Rogers, John B. Connally, Henry A. Kissinger, General Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Peter M. Flanigan, Galo Plaza, Carlos Sanz deSantamaria, Ortiz Mena, Henry J. Costanzo, Artemis Weatherby, Robert S. McNamara, J. Burke Knapp, John M. Hennessy, James E. Smith, Robert D. Hormats, and John E. Nidecker; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]

	Signing ceremony
		-Thank you to attendees

	[General conversation/Unintelligible]

The President, et al. left at 12:50 pm