Conversation No. 659-6

Date: January 28, 1972
Time: 12:34 pm - 1:21 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman and Stephen B. Bull.

     Presentation of Encyclopedia Judaica
          -Ceremony
                -Max M. Fisher
                -Photograph session
                -Yitzhak Rabin


Bull left at 12:35 pm.

     School memorandum from the President
         -Ehrlichman’s meeting with John N. Mitchell, Elliot L. Richardson and George P.
               Shultz
               -Timing

Fisher entered at 12:35 pm.

     [Photograph session]

     Introduction
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     Encyclopedia Judaica
          -Fisher inclusion
               -Location
                      -Index
          -Workmanship

     Vietnam
          -The President’s peace proposal speech, January 25, 1972
          -Status of negotiations
                -The President’s position
                      -Surrender
                      -Communist government in South Vietnam
                      -Resignation of Nguyen Van Thieu

Yitzhak Rabin, Chaim Herzog, Jeremiah Kaplan, Herbert Stein and Lawrence Y. Goldberg
entered at 12:37 pm; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

     Greetings and introductions
          -Keter Publishing House
          -MacMillan Company, Incorporated

     Encyclopedia Judaica presentation
          -Description of volumes
          -Writing
          -Publishing
          -Scholarship
               -Significance of work
          -Reasons for writing
               -Heritage, tradition, history, culture
               -Liberty, equality
          -Common heritage of Israel, US
          -Role of US in Israeli history
               -Peacemaking, defense
                     -Israel’s gratitude
          -[Photograph session]
          -US heritage
               -Diversity
          -US commitment to Israel
               -Middle East peace
               -Israel’s independence
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           -Presentation of bookmarks
                -Presidential seal
                -Stein
                      -Council of Economic Advisers [CEA]
           -Preparation
                -Time required
           -The President’s travel experience
                -Argentine Jews
           -Appreciation
           -Presentation to Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli [Pope John XXIII] and [Elizabeth, Queen
                 of England] Elizabeth II
           -Unknown person

     Maurice H. Stans


Fisher, et al., except Ehrlichman, left at 12:46 pm.

     Ehrlichman’s schedule


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     Frederick R. Kappel Commission
          -Appointment
                -Lyndon B. Johnson
                -Reason
                     -Probe of executive, judicial, congressional salaries
          -Administration position
                -1972 election
                     -Possible commission
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          -Budget deficit
          -Salary revision
          -Post-election action

Congressional relations
    -Cease and desist portion of Equal Employment Opportunity Commission [EEOC]
          legislation
          -H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s talk with Ehrlichman
          -Position
                -Veto
          -Southern strategy
                -Disposition of bill
                -Peter H. Dominick amendment
                      -Court action
                -Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.’s filibuster threat
          -Rev. Theodore S. Hesburgh
          -The President’s position
                -Filibuster
                -Clarity of position
    -Constitutional amendment on busing
          -The President’s memorandum
          -Ehrlichman’s forthcoming conversation with Edward L. Morgan
          -Legislation
          -Need for action
                -Leonard Garment
                -Raymond K. Price, Jr.
                -Supreme Court
                      -Make-up
                      -Trust
          -Effect
                -Housing
                -Schools
                -Busing
          -Offer
          -Strategy session
                -Camp David

Housing
    -George W. Romney’s schedule
         -Five city tour
               -Message
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                     -Central city problem
                     -Suburban housing
          -Romney
                -Recent meeting with Ehrlichman
                -Political insensitivity
                -Richard C. Van Dusen
          -Romney’s possible goals
                -Political
                      -Vice presidency
                      -Mayor of Detroit
                -Personal
          -Housing
                -Jews
          -Frank L. Rizzo’s election
                -Jews and blacks
          -Long Island problems
          -Ehrlichman’s conversation with Romney
                -Racial impact of Romney’s action
                      -Political impact of Romney tour
          -Romney
                -Appointment difficulty
                -As governor
                -Van Dusen’s role
                      -Constitution

Busing
     -The President’s memorandum on amendment
          -Race
          -Distribution
                -Garment
                -Patrick J. Buchanan
          -Dynamics of change
                -History
                      -Abraham Lincoln
                            -Pragmatism
                            -Emancipation Proclamation
                                 -Motivation
                            -Amnesty
                                 -Motivation
                            -Cabinet
                            -Personality
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                     -Union
-Strategy for change
      -William T. Coleman, Jr. [?]
-Supreme Court
      -Professionalism
      -Prospective action
            -Reason
      -Legal basis of decision
            -Racial mixing
      -Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education
            -Dwight D. Eisenhower
            -Herbert Brownell
            -Brief
            -Earl Warren
      -Coleman
      -Richard M. Scammon’s views
            -Political orientation
            -Racism
                  -Education
      -Racism
            -Housing
            -Cities
            -Colonialism
      -Decision
            -Prospects
            -Influences
                  -Social factors, press
                  -Washington, DC
      -Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
-Constitutional amendment
      -Work program
            -Mitchell, Richardson, Shultz
            -Morgan’s role
            -Legal assistants
            -Political volatility
            -Necessity for honesty
            -Food stamps
      -Completion of work
            -Timing
                  -The President’s schedule
                  -Political events
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                       -Forthcoming testimony by Mitchell, Richardson
                             -Emanuel Celler Committee
                       -Lincoln’s birthday
                       -The President’s schedule
      -Ehrlichman’s view
            -Ehrlichman’s schedule
                  -Housing
                  -Court action
                       -Feasibility
                  -Congressional action
                       -Unpredictability
                  -Amendment action
                       -Form
                  -Possible perception of administration
                  -White Paper publication
                       -Court decisions
                       -Facts
                       -Passions
                       -Results
                             -Method
                  -School financing
                       -Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
                             -Value Added Taxes [VAT]
                       -Money
                             -Equality of distribution
                       -Problems
                       -Need for totality
      -Congressional leadership meeting
            -Federal government promotions
                  -Race
                       -Shultz
                       -Gordon L. Allott
                       -Compared to television industry
                       -Allott
                             -Interior Department
      -Race problems
            -Romney’s reaction to talk with Ehrlichman

VAT
      -Real estate taxes
           -1972 campaign
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                -Details
                      -Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations [ACIR] role
                            -Timing of possible action
                                 -Republican Convention
                                 -Election
                            -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew’s feeling
                      -Ehrlichman’s feeling
                            -Bipartisan report
                -Ehrlichman’s forthcoming conversation with John B. Connally
                -Property taxes
                -Tax reform
                      -Politics
                            -Media influence
          -Congressional consultation
                -State of the Union address
                      -Briefing
                -Blue collar taxes
                      -Reaction
                -Deficit
                      -As an issue
                            -Republican concern
                -New taxes
                      -Reaction
          -Deficits
          -Political opponents
                -Domestic and defense spending
          -Inflation
                -Relation to deficit spending
                      -Shultz’s chart
                      -Reaction of conservative Republicans
                      -Jobs

Bicentennial
     -Philadelphia
     -David J. Mahoney, Jr.’s role
           -Model
           -Funding
                -Congressional appropriations
           -Bicentennial parks
                -Location
                     -States
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               -Use
                     -Shows, displays
               -Permanence
               -Benefits
                     -Public works
                          -Cost
                          -Federal land
               -The President’s approval
                     -View of model
               -Office of Management and Budget [OMB] consideration
               -Location
               -Funding
               -Purpose
                     -Focus on Bicentennial
                     -Activities
                     -Year round use
               -Problems
                     -Television

Forthcoming dinner [for DeWitt and Lila Wallace]
     -Guests
          -Magazine people

Postal subsidy
     -Magazine postage
           -Elmer T. (“Ted”) Klassen
           -US Post Office
           -Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
           -Legislation’s prospects
           -Administration support
                -Lewis

Supersonic Transport [SST]
     -Congressional enthusiasm
          -William M. Magruder’s advice
                -1972 election
     -Magruder’s role
          -Selling planes
          -State Department role
                -Stephen M. Boyd
                -Public relations
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                                                                    Conv. No. 659-6 (cont.)


           -Strength as political issue
           -Second term strategy
           -Necessity of program
                 -Compared to moon mission

     Ehrlichman’s schedule
           -Denver visit
               -Reason
                     -Children’s camp charity
               -Weather
                     -Seattle

Ehrlichman left at 1:21 pm.