Conversation No. 99-1

Date:  April 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:08 am and 11:59 pm
Location:  Cabinet Room

The President met with Clarence Walton, Reverend William E. McManus, Ivan E. Zylstra, Dr. Sidney P. Marland, Jr., Kenneth R. Cole, Jr., Norman Karsh, Lewis A. Engman, and Roy D. Morey
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	Education
		-Role of parents
		-Non-public schools
			-Character building
				-Non-public and public schools
				-The President=s remark to Marland
			-Inner cities
			-Report of President=s Panel on Non-public Education
				-Constitutional issues
				-Inner city children
					-Recommendations
						-Welfare policies
							-Working mothers
						-Changes in welfare legislation
				-Role of private sector
					-Voucher system
			-Inner cities
			-Middle Americans
				-Tax credits
				-Pennsylvania case
			-The President=s meeting with John Cardinal Krol
				-Unknown court case
			-Costs
				-Poor
				-Tax credits
			-Suburban schools
				-Community needs
				-Costs
					-Loan programs
			-Current problems
				-Government assistance
					-Philadelphia case
			-Recommendations from panel
				-Budget
				-Recruitment
				-Para-professionals
				-Volunteers
				-Competition between schools
			-The President=s response to present meeting
		-The President=s meetings with public educators
		-The President=s policies on education compared with foreign policy
			-Self help
		-Non-public schools
			-Government assistance
				-Chicago school system example
					-Open house
					-Charles H. Percy and Roman C. Pucinski
					-Tax credits
						-Costs for families
							-Tuition
			-Council for American Private Education [CAPE]
				-Organization
				-Formation
				-Meetings with public educators
			-Panel=s report
				-Circulation
					-Cover letter to recipients
				-The President=s support
					-Impact
				-Kerner Commission
				-Catholic University
					-Unknown person=s Master=s degree
					-Teachers
			-The President=s leadership in regard to non-public education
				-The President=s schedule
				-Establishment of the Panel on Non-Public Education
					-Report
						-Case cited by Zylstra
						-Marland
			-Future prospects
				-Tax legislation
					-Chance of passage
						-House of Representatives
						-Senate
							-Filibuster
						-Democratic convention
						-Lack of time
					-Administration=s position
						-Principle in Philadelphia case
					-Lobbying by panel
					-Other tax questions
						-Complexity
							-Work with John D. Ehrlichman and John B. Connally
					-Bipartisan stance
						-Party platform committees
					-House Resolution 1
						-Chance of passage
							-Tax credit section
					-Lobbying by panel
						-Platform committees
							-Panel=s proposals
					-Republicans= position
						-The President=s position
					-Chances of passage
						-Russell B. Long
						-Wilbur D. Mills
						-Congressional support
		-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW] task force
			-Ehrlichman
			-Engman
			-Morey
			-Options for the President
		-Non-public schools
			-Tax credits
				-Courts
					-Response to public opinion
				-Congress
				-Constitutional amendment
					-Obstacles
					-Lack of support
				-Courts
					-Panel=s strategy in dealing with courts
					-Election year pressures
		-Public schools
			-The President=s attendance
				-Washington, DC
				-Private schools
				-California high schools
					-Quality
		-Non-public schools
			-Fundamentalist protestants
				-William F. (ABilly@) Graham
					-Views
				-Criticism of aid to private schools
					-Diffusion of issue

	Presidential gifts
		-Cuff links
		-Bookmarks
			-Presidential seal

	Books
		-The President=s support of reading

	Panel
		-Impact
		-Work with National Education Association [NEA]
			-NEA members

The President left at 11:39 am

	[General conversation/Unintelligible]

Walton, et al. left at an unknown time before 11:59 pm

Conversation No. 99-5

Date:  Unknown between April 20 and May 1, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:39 am, April 20 and 3:07 pm, May 1, 1972
Location:  Cabinet Room

Unknown people [maintenance personnel?] met

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The unknown people [maintenance personnel?] left at an unknown time before 3:07 pm, May 1, 1972

Conversation No. 99-6

Date:  Unknown between April 20 and May 1, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:39, April 20 and 3:07 pm, May 1, 1972
Location:  Cabinet Room

Kenneth R. Cole, Jr. met with Egil (ABud@) Krogh, Jr. and unknown members of the Domestic Council

	Greetings
		-Cole

	Pennsylvania

	News summary
		-Les [Surname unknown]
		-Availability of something
			-Cost

	John N. Mitchell
		-Meeting with Roy [Surname unknown]
			-Automobile companies
				-Extension
				-John D. Ehrlichman
					-William D. Ruckelshaus
						-Environmental question
						-Public hearing
						-Reported views
						-Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane [DDT]
		-Position on a case
		-White House position
			-Mitchell
				-Ruckelshaus
		-Legal case
			-Merits
			-Charles W. Colson
				-Meeting with Ruckelshaus
					-Decision on waiver

	White House staff
		-Relations with Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
		-Cole=s meeting with George P. Shultz
			-Review of legislation
				-List
				-White House position
					-Coordination with OMB
						-House of Representatives
						-William E. Timmons and staff
		-Strategy for handling legislation
			-Coordination
			-Black Lung Bill
				-Thomas C. Korologos
			-Environmental bills
				-Number
				-Conference
			-Trade-offs

	Budget
		-Status
		-The President=s decision

	Sub-committee chairman
		-Announcement
			-Schedule
				-Robert J. Dole

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	The President=s schedule
		-Border station
		-John B. Connally
			-Drug busting
			-Weather
			-The President=s visit to Connally=s ranch
				-Headline
					-Drugs
		-Alamo
		-Immigration
			-David N. Parker

	Hatch Act
		-Exemptions
			-H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman=s approval

	Tax exempt organizations
		-Lobbying
		-Sierra Club
		-Conservation
		-Tax credit

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	Disaster plan
		-Bomb shelter
			-General George A. Lincoln
			-The President=s protection
			-@Dr. Strangelove@

	Domestic Council
		-Krogh
		-Hong Kong
		-Lewis A. Engman
			-Coast Guard
			-Greenbriar

Unknown men left at an unknown time before 3:07 pm, May 1, 1972

	Unknown person=s trip to Greenbriar

	The President=s meeting with Connally
		-Ehrlichman=s report of meeting
			-Justice Department suit on Texas off-shore fishing in regard to off-shore oil ownership
				-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III and Dale K. (AKent@) Frizzell
					-Advice on case
						-Fishing rights
					-Separation from case
				-Memo
				-Connally=s unavailability
					-Rose [Mary Woods?]
					-Charls E. Walker
						-Phone call
				-Bruce A. Kehrli
					-Memo on case
						-Withdrawal from case
							-Connally
								-Unavailability
								-Recommendation
								-Gray
								-Kehrli
				-Justice Department

Cole, et al. left at an unknown time before 3:07 p.m,, May 1, 1972

Conversation No. 99-8

Date:  Unknown between April 20 and May 1, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:39 am, April 20 and 3:07 pm, May 1, 1972
Location:  Cabinet Room

Unknown people [tour group] met

	Cabinet Room
		-Purpose
		-Furnishings
			-First Lady
		-Portraits
			-The President=s choices
				-Dwight D. Eisenhower
				-Theodore (ATeddy@) Roosevelt
				-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
		-Table
			-The President=s purchase
		-The President=s chair
		-Seating
			-Order
				-Seniority
					-Secretary of Defense
					-Secretary of State
					-The Vice President
			-Chairs
				-Cabinet members
					-Departures
						-Ceremonies
							-Winton M. (ARed@) Blount
		-Meetings
			-Press coverage
			-Attendance
				-Heads of committees
				-Cabinet wives

	White House
		-West Wing
			-Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

The unknown people left at an unknown time before 3:07 pm, May 1, 1972

Conversation No. 99-13

Date:  Unknown between April 20 and May 1, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:39 am, April 20 and 3:07 pm, May 1, 1972
Location:  Cabinet Room

Unknown Secret Service agents met

	Location

The unknown Secret Service agents left at an unknown time before 3:07 pm, May 1, 1972

Conversation No. 99-9

Date:  Unknown between April 20 and May 1, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:39 am, April 20 and 3:07 pm, May 1, 1972
Location:  Cabinet Room

Unknown people [maintenance personnel] met

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The unknown people [maintenance personnel?] left at an unknown time before 3:07 pm, May 1, 1972

Conversation No. 99-10

Date:  May 1, 1972
Time:  3:07 pm - unknown before 11:59 pm
Location:  Cabinet Room

The President met with Gerard C. Smith, William P. Rogers, Melvin R. Laird, Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, Richard M. Helms, General Royal B. Allison, Henry A. Kissinger, and Ronald L. Ziegler
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	STRATEGIC ARMS NEGOTIATIONS

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	The President=s schedule
		-Meeting
			-Ziegler

The President left at 4:08 pm

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	Vietnamese negotiations

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Smith, et al. left at an unknown time before 11:59 pm

Conversation No. 99-12

Date:  May 3, 1972
Time:  8:09 am - unknown before 10:45 pm
Location:  Cabinet Room

The President met with Robert P. Griffin, Margaret Chase Smith, Peter H. Dominick, Gordon L. Allott, George D. Aiken, Gerald R. Ford, Leslie C. Arends, John B. Anderson, John J. Rhodes, Barber B. Conable, Jr., Samuel L. Devine, H. Allen Smith, Robert C. (ABob@) Wilson, Richard H. Poff, William S. Mailliard, Robert J. Dole, Henry A. Kissinger, John D. Ehrlichman, George P. Shultz, Clark MacGregor, William E. Timmons, Richard K. Cook, Thomas C. Korologos, Patrick J. Buchanan, Ronald L. Ziegler, General Alexander M. Haig, Jr., and Admiral Thomas H. Moorer

	[General conversation/Unintelligible]

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	Vietnam
		-Latest reports
			-Moorer
				-Briefing on Capitol Hill

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	Vietnam

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	Domestic affairs
		-Ehrlichman=s report
			-Critical issues
			-Distribution to candidates
			-Crime
			-Unemployment
			-Inflation
			-High points

	Vietnam
		-United States= public opinion
			-Opinion Research Corporation poll
				-Support for the President
				-Press reports
			-Polls
				-Importance
					-South Vietnamese

	Ehrlichman=s report on domestic affairs

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		-The President=s domestic accomplishments
			-Facts for distribution
			-Congressional accomplishments

	Inflation
		-Current rate
			-Price decline
		-Costs
		-Impact of freeze
		-Real earnings
			-Increases
			-Past decline
		-Source of figures
			-Budget Highlights
			-Distribution of latest figures

	Crime
		-Current rate
			-National
			-Washington, DC
				-Importance
					-Administration=s control of funds
				-Model city for reduction
			-Decline in cities
		-Funds
			-Increase in last three years
				-Compared with Lyndon B. Johnson=s administration
		-The President=s policies
			-Accomplishments
			-Law Enforcement Assistance Act [LEAA]
			-Phrasing of accomplishments
				-Decline in rate of increase
				-Compared with inflation
		-Rate
			-Major crimes
				-Decline
		-Legislation

	Unemployment
		-Formulation of problem
			-Demographics
			-Current results
			-Outlook
			-Compared with 1960s
		-War
			-Impact of termination
			-Increase in civilian jobs
		-Fact sheets

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		-Suggestions

	Domestic matters
		-Fact sheets

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			-Value for speakers
		-Unemployment
			-John B. Connally
				-Emphasis on positive
			-Armed services
			-Number working
			-AHelp wanted@ ads
				-Emphasis on number
			-Source of problem
				-Attitudes
			-Welfare
		-Fact sheets
			-Compilation
			-Distribution

	House of Representatives
		-Revenue sharing
			-Work in committee
			-Chances of passage
		-Minimum wage
			-Work in committee
			-Problems
				-Incentive coverage
				-Protectionism
			-Republican substitute
				-John N. Erlenborn
				-Increase
				-Youth differential
					-Advantages
				-Anderson Amendment
					-Current negotiations with Democrats
			-The President=s veto
			-Substitute
				-Failure to pass
					-Republican reaction
		-Reorganization
			-Chet Holifield
			-Community development plan
				-Controversy
		-Health insurance
			-John W. Byrnes
			-Private pensions
		-Appropriations
			-Committee actions
		-Authorization bill
			-Defense Department
				-Critical votes
				-Lucien N. Nedzi=s proposal
					-Defeat
			-Presentation to House
				-Date
				-Rules Committee
		-Vietnam
			-AEnd the War@ resolution

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	Vietnam

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			-United States= bombing
				-Bella S. Abzug=s resolution
					-Vote

		-Busing
			-Moratorium
				-Discharge petition
				-Passage
			-House Rules Committee
				-Negotiations
					-William M. Colmer
				-House Committee on Education and Labor

	Senate
		-Charles E. Goodell
			-Injunction
				-Jack N. Anderson
		-J. William Fulbright
			-United States Information Agency [USIA] Bill
		-Vietnam
			-Frank F. Church=s bill
				-Stennis Amendment
					-Aiken
					-John Sherman Cooper
					-Vote
				-Mansfield Amendment
				-Presentation
					-Robert C. Byrd
				-Defeat
		-United States Authorization Bill
			-Passage

	House of Representatives
		-Vietnam
			-Democratic caucus
				-Directive to Committee on Foreign Affairs
					-Dr. Thomas E. (ADoc@) Morgan
						-Mailliard report
				-Wayne L. Hays

	Senate
		-USIA Bill
			-Authorization
			-A sponsor
				-Aiken
			-Mansfield Amendment
			-Date
		-Vietnam
			-North Vietnamese offensive
				-Impact on Senate vote

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	Soviet Union

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		-Mansfield Amendment
			-A conference
			-Absentees
		-Democratic caucus

	Congress
		-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew=s attacks

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	Foreign policy

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		-Land reform in South Vietnam
			-United States= encouragement
			-Need
				-Publicity
				-Saigon

	J. Edgar Hoover
		-Eulogy
			-The President=s announcement
			-Everett M. Dirksen
			-Edward G. Latch
		-Background
		-Successor

	Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] Director
		-Nonpartisanship
		-Acting director
			-Announcement
		-Permanent director
			-Appointment by Richard G. Kleindienst
				-Confirmation
					-Election year
				-Partisan debate
				-Impact
				-Compared with appointment to Supreme Court
		-Acting directors
			-Abilities
			-Tenure in position
			-Problems
			-Delay in permanent appointment
				-Compared with Johnson=s situation with Supreme Court nomination
		-Permanent director
			-Continuity
			-Nonpartisanship
			-Hoover
				-Resignation
			-Distinctiveness of position
		-Investigation of FBI
			-Legislation
				-Emanuel Celler
				-Timing

	Vietnam
		-Congressional support for the President
		-The President=s policies
			-Democratic support
				-Stennis
				-George H. Mahon
			-Republican support

	Child care
		-Funding bill
			-Work in committee
		-Nature of bill

The President left at 10:01 am

	[General conversation/Unintelligible]

Griffin, et al. left at an unknown time before 11:59 pm