Conversation No. 630-016
Date: December 6, 1971
Time: 3:35 pm - 3:58 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Myles J. Ambrose, John D. Ehrlichman, George P. Shultz and Egil
(“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.; the White House photographer and a National Broadcasting Company
[NBC] file crew were present at the beginning of the meeting.
Seating
-NBC film crew
Narcotics program
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-Krogh's briefing paper
-Treatment of drug addicts
-Success
-Foreign governments
-Turkey
-Thailand
-Laos
-Drug pushers
-Prosecution
-Penalties
-Personnel
-Competition among government agencies
-Justice Department and Treasury Department
-Presidential directives
-A call to work together on the drug problem
-No “snow jobs”
-Jurisdictions
-Possible solutions
-Ports of entry
-Internally
-Internationally
-Solutions
-Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe
-Law enforcement responsibility
-Office Economic Opportunity [OEO] and National Institute of Health
[NIH]
-Law enforcement
-Justice Department and Treasury Department
-Responsibility equally shared
-Bureau of Customs
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs [BNDD]
-Grand jury
-Prosecution teams
-Ambrose
-Previous work
-Street sellers
-Impact on the community
-Federal and state
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-Team work
-Foreign comparison
-Interdiction
-Success rate
-Grand jury
-Safeguard of civil liberties
-Addict peddlers
-Probable impact
-Local level
-Federal government
-Previous international involvement
-Turkey, Laos, Thailand
-Agreements
-Local law enforcement
-350,000 police officers
-New York
-Chicago; Los Angeles; Washington, DC
-Police corruption
-Problems
-Neglect
-Number of years
-Apathy
-Heroin pushers
-Effect on young people
-Spiritually, morally and physically
-Societies of the past
-Southern hemisphere
-Statistics
-Heroin seized
-Cost
-Convictions and arrests
-Increase
-Program purpose
-Decrease amount of heroin on the street
-New York Times story
-New York police department
-Dock strike
-Danger on the job
-Agent training
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-Quality of training
-Unknown nature of addicts
-Federal-local cooperation
-Jurisdictions
-Exchanges of information
-Cost
-BNDD
-Bureau of Customs
-Shultz
-Rising costs
-IRS
-Lawyers
-New York grand jury
-Justice Department
-Law schools
-Young lawyers
-Criminal law
-Equal rights and environment
-Criminal law
-Encouragement to enter
-Teachers
-Political career
-Corporate law
-State Attorneys General
-Law schools
-Young lawyers
-Louie Lefkowitz [?]
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:35 pm.
The President's schedule
-Pierre E. Trudeau meeting
-Arrival time
Bull left at an unknown time before 3:58 pm.
Narcotics problem
-Law schools
-Encouragement
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-Criminal law
-The President’s past experience
-John N. Mitchell
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Lack of quality people
-Need for quality people
-John H. Alexander
-Chicago and Los Angeles
-Leonard Garment
-Law firm
-Alexander
-Unknown person
Ambrose, et al. left at 3:58 pm.