Conversation No. 534-11

Date: July 1, 1971
Time: 12:09 pm - 1:38 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Sammy Davis, Jr., Robert J. Brown, Henry C. Cashen, and Jeffrey
Donfeld; the White House photographer, members of the press and other unknown people were
present at the beginning of the meeting.

     Arrangements for photograph

     Anecdote

     Presentation of gifts by the President
          -Gifts for men, women
          -Golf balls
                -Dean Martin
                -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
                -Golf

     National Advisory Board of the Office of Economic Opportunity
          -Commissioning ceremony
               -Certificate

     Photograph

     Anecdote

     Refreshment

     Davis
          -Purpose of meeting
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           -Celebrity status
                -Credibility
                      -Leonard Garment
                      -Drug abuse issue

Drug abuse and youth
     -Effectiveness of a celebrity as spokesman
          -Comparison to ministers, teachers, judges
          -Celebrities as spokespersons
                -Athletes
                      -Carl M. Yastrzemski
                      -Bart Starr
                      -John Mackey
     -Effectiveness of arguments against drugs
          -Morality
          -Health of body and mind
          -Performers
                -John Barrymore

Youth
     -Need for inspiration and leadership
     -Self-help
     -Opportunity

Charles B. Rangel
     -The President's June 30, 1971 telephone call
           -U.S.-Turkish opium agreement
                -Rangel's recommendation
                      -Black Caucus
           -Grandfather’s possible reaction
                 -The President's grandfather

Opportunity in the United States
    -Leadership in the U.S.
          -Middle and upper classes
          -Sources of strength in the U.S.
    -Strength through adversity
          -Leo Tolstoy
                 -War and Peace, Anna Karenina
                 -Philosophy
                       -Destructive and creative instincts with each individual
                            -Sublimation of destructive instincts
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                                      -Use of creative instincts
           -Youth
                -Use of energy
                     -Need to sublimate negative instincts
                -Davis' discussions with youth

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 12:09 pm
                                                                   Conv. No. 534-11 (cont.)
     The President's schedule
          -James D. Hodgson, Elliot L. Richardson

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 12:29 pm

     Youth
          -Davis' conversations
                -Use of energy
          -Idealism

     Education
         -Black colleges
               -Financial support
                    -The federal government
                    -Richardson

     Entertainment field
          -Davis
          -Bob Hope
          -The President's acquaintances

Richardson, Hodgson, George P. Shultz and John D. Ehrlichman entered at 12:29 pm

     Introductions

     Education
         -Black colleges
               -United Negro College Fund
                    -Funding performance

     Willie Mays

Davis left at 12:31 pm
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Davis
     -1954 meeting

Ribbon Cutting

Davis
     -Membership in the "rat pack"
     -Copacabana                                            Conv. No. 534-11 (cont.)
          -Performance with father and uncle

National Urban League
     -Nixon as Vice President
          -Picture with waiter
     -DePaul University

Davis
     -Background
     -Effectiveness of anti-drug message
     -"David Frost Show"
     -Mai Britt

Welfare
     -Federal assistance funds
     -Follow-up to San Clemente meeting with Governor Ronald W. Reagan
     -Nelson A. Rockefeller
     -California
           -Welfare laws
           -Social Security Act
           -Waiver requests
           -Medicaid
                 -Payments for prescription drugs
     -Work relief
           -Able-bodied welfare recipients
                 -Work incentives
                       -Welfare reform bill
     -H.R. 1 [Welfare Reform Bill]
           -Implications of possible action
           -Effect of refusal to work by welfare recipients
           -Alternative proposals
                 -Russell B. Long
           -Wage system
                 -Equal pay for equal work
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                  -Long's proposal
                        -Private sector
      -Work relief
            -California
            -Equal pay for equal work
                  -Impact of concept
            -Conditions
      -Public opinion                                          Conv. No. 534-11 (cont.)
      -Reagan's reaction
      -Sources of support
      -Conservative, liberal reaction
            -Long
            -Reagan's preferences
            -Industry and labor reaction
            -Conservative reaction
-Waivers
      -General Accounting Office [GAO]
            -California waiver requests
                  -George Meany
                  -Political perceptions
                        -Reagan's position in California
                              -Referendum
                              -California budget
                              -Revenue sharing
                              -Possible referendum
                                    -Effect of H.R.1 enactment
-Social Security Act
      -Section 1115 authority for waivers
            -Medicaid payments for drugs
            -New York
                  -Rockefeller's proposed point system
                        -Job system
            -GAO
-California
      -Work relief
      -Experimental programs
      -Reagan
      -Frank C. Carlucci
      -Payment restrictions
            -Family income levels
            -Retention of money
      -Encouragement of working
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                -Funding
                -Public service
                -Appropriations
                -Provision of jobs
                      -Purpose
                            -Unemployment, welfare rolls
                                 -Veteran’s preference
          -New York                                                       Conv. No. 534-11 (cont.)
                -Experimental areas
          -Expenditures
                -California
          -Work relief
                -Massachusetts
          -Unemployment rate
          -California
                -Coordination of effort
                      -Amount of funding
                            -Federal matching of funds to state expenditure
                      -Reagan
                            -Possible meeting to brief governor
                                 -Richardson
                                 -Ehrlichman
                                       -The President's trip to San Clemente
                                       -Discussion with Edwin Meese, III
                      -State Supreme Court
                            -Effect on compliance problems
                            -Correlation of cost-of-living increases to benefit increases
                            -Enjoinder against enactment of provision

     Richardson

     President’s schedule
          -Steel strike

Ehrlichman and Richardson left at 1:12 pm.

     Unemployment rate
         -Pattern
               -Milton Friedman's theory
                    -Arthur F. Burns' memorandum
         -Beginning of recovery period
               -Gross National Product [GNP]
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           -Leading indicators
     -Drop
           -Prediction of timing
     -Nationwide trends
     -Total rate versus insured rate
     -Breakdown
           -Youth
           -Married men                                        Conv. No. 534-11 (cont.)
           -Decrease in teenage rates
     -Seasonal adjustments
           -Factors
                 -Number of men called into military service
     -Rate of decrease
     -Effect of Defense Department cutbacks
     -Seasonality
     -Private sector expansion
           -Statistics
           -Youth entry into market
     -Burns

Labor issues in the steel industry
     -Talking paper
           -Forthcoming meeting
     -Focus of White House effort
           -Industry, labor
           -Activist role
                 -Avoid strike
     -Steel industry’s hard-line stance
           -National interest argument
     -Collective bargaining
     -Unions
           -I[lorwith] W. Abel
     -Economic impact
           -Recovery
           -Non-inflationary settlement
     -Pension issue
     -Impact of meetings, negotiations
           -Recognition of problems
                 -Import controls
     -Long-term and short-term effects
     -Format of possible meeting
           -The President's role
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                      -Schedule
                            -Shultz’s conversation with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
                -Paul W. McCracken, Herbert Stein
                -Nathaniel Samuels
                -J. Curtis Counts, Willie J. Usery
                -Compartmented format
                -The President's role
                      -Emphasis on the national interest               Conv. No. 534-11 (cont.)
                            -Importance of settlement
                                  -Effect of lengthy strike
                                        -James M. Roche
                      -Constructive approach
                            -Contrasted with John F. Kennedy
                            -Steel crisis of 1961
                            -Shultz's recent meeting with Jack Greenberg
                                  -Education meeting
                                  -Approach
                      -Style of leadership
                      -Preparation of briefing paper by Shultz

Shultz and Hodgson left at 1:38 pm