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Conversation: 360-006

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Start Date: 8-Sep-1972 3:01 PM

End Date: 8-Sep-1972 3:40 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Ehrlichman, John D.Krogh, Egil ("Bud"), Jr.Sanchez, Manolo

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

360-006.mp3

NARA Description:

On September 8, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, John D. Ehrlichman, Egil ("Bud") Krogh, Jr., and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:01 pm to 3:40 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 360-006 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 360-6

Date: September 8, 1972
Time: 3:00 pm - 3:40 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman and Egil G.(“Bud”)Krogh, Jr.

          Greetings

The President left at an unknown time after 3:00 pm.

          California

The President entered at an unknown time before 3:40 pm.

          Drug abuse and law enforcement
           -The President’s previous meeting with Ehrlichman
           -Richard G. Kleindienst
                   -Need for public statements
                   -Forum
                       -Judges
                   -News summary
                       -Kleindienst’s activities
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                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                    Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. Oct-06)


An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 3:00 pm.

         Refreshments

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 3:40 pm.

         Drug abuse and law enforcement
           -Kleindienst
                    -Ehrlichman’s view
                    -Justice Department
                         -Issues
                              -Civil rights
                                   -The President’s view
                              -Law and order
                              -Marijuana
                         -Meeting with Cabinet and Republican Congressional
                          leaders, October 12, 1972
                    -Presentation of administration policies
                         -The president’s view
                         -George S. McGovern
                         -Harvard University
           -Issue
        -Public perception
                         -Crime
                         -Drug pushers
                              -Sentences
           -Handling
                    -Courts
                         -Federal
                         -State and local jurisdictions
                         -Judges
                         -Warren E. Burger
                              -Possible talk with judges
           -The President's meetings
                    -Judges
                    -Law enforcement officials
           -Judges
           -The president’s policy
                    -Crime
                    -Sentences
                                               10

                      NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. Oct-06)

           -Myles J. Ambrose
           -US attorneys

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:01 pm.

          Sanchez’s schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:40 pm.

          Drug abuse and law enforcement
           -Krogh’s view
           -Burger
                    -The President’s view
                    -Judicial views
           -Mandatory sentencing requirement
           -Burger’s View
           -Presentation of administration position to the judiciary
           -Public forum for the President
                    -Mandatory sentencing
                        -The president’s view
                        -Potter Stewart
                        -Public perception
                    -Law enforcement officials
           -John B. Connally’s view
                    -Judges
                        -Busing
           -Probation
                    -Judges
                        -Criminals
                              -Welfare
           -Statement by the President
                    -Format
                        -Radio
                    -The President’s policy
                        -Leniency
                              -Judges
                              -Prosecutors
                              -Probation officers
                        -Wording of statement
                              -Patrick J. Buchanan
           -September 11, 1972 meeting
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           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                            Tape Subject Log
                              (rev. Oct-06)

          -International participants
               -State Department
               -David N. Parker
          -Possible statement
 -Responsibility of enforcement
          -Law enforcement officials
               -The President’s view
               -Judges and probation officers
                    -Leniency
                    -Police
                    -White House statement
                         -Judges
                    -McGovern
          -Executive and legislative branch action
               -Funding
               -Enforcement and judicial responsibility
                    -Judges and prosecutors
                         -California
 -Judges
          -The President’s view
 -Association of District Attorneys
          -Resolutions
 -Judges
          -The president’s view
          -Possible statement
               -Enforcement of laws
               -Narcotics
               -Street crime
 -Judiciary responsibility

1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany
 -National attitudes
         -Playing of US national anthem, Star Spangled Banner
               -Black athletes
                   -Reaction
                        -Audience reaction
                   -Howard Cosell
               -Olympic Committee
                   -H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
               -Telegram
               -Cosell
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           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                           Tape Subject Log
                             (rev. Oct-06)

                   -Attitude towards blacks
                   -Background
              -Black athletes
                   -Explanation of position
                   -Revocation of medals
                   -Audience reaction
                        -Compared with 1968 Mexico City Olympics
 -Competitors
 -Track and field events
         -Winning time
 -Comparison of track and field to horse races
         -Silky Sullivan
         -Citation
 -Track and field events
         -Soviet Union athletes
         -Kenyan athletes
         -Jim Ryun
         -Kenyan runner
         -5,000 and 10,000 meter races
              -Lasse Viren
                   -The president’s recent meeting with Finland
                    ambassador
              -[Mohammad Gammoudi]
         -The President’s resolution
              -1932 Olympics
                   -Los Angeles Coliseum
                   -Lauri Lehtinen of Finland
                        -Ralph Hill of Oregon
                   -Lauri Lehtinen
                   -Thomas J. Pendergast [?]
         -Distance races

Issues for 1972 Presidential campaign
  -The President’s view
  -Social issues
  -Crime
  -Permisiveness
  -Criminals
           -Prosecution and sentencing
  -Drug abuse and other law enforcement
           -Methadone treatment
                                              13

                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                        Tape Subject Log
                                          (rev. Oct-06)

                   -Radio message
                   -Buchanan
                       -Background
           -Ehrlichman’s recent conversation with Herbert Stein
           -Previous meeting on drug abuse and law enforcement
                   -Participants
                       -The President’s view
                       -Attitude towards work
                            -Office of Drug Abuse and Law Enforcement
                                 -Ambrose
           -Crime
                   -Judges

Ehrlichman and Krogh left at 3:40 pm.