On March 14, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and William L. Safire talked on the telephone from 2:55 pm to 3:15 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 021-066 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 21-66 Date: March 14, 1972 Time: 2:55 pm - 3:15 pm Location: White House Telephone The President talked with William L. Safire. [See Conversation No. 685-12] Busing speech, March 16, 1972 -Length -Content -Message to Congress [March 17, 1972] -Majority -Prejudice -Desegregation -Appeal to television audience -Effect on children -Example -Brown versus Board of Education -Elliot Richardson -Leonard Garment -White and black neighborhoods -Parents concern -Message to Congress -Moratorium -Segregation and desegregation -George C. Wallace -Constitutional amendment -Moratorium -Liberals -Court decisions -Focus of speech -Television -Florida primary -Timing -Segregation -Dual school system -Inferior education -Brown versus Board of Education -Desegregation -Improvement of education -Need for action -Constitutional amendment -Length of process -Legislation -Moratorium -Equal Opportunity Education Act -Implementation by federal agencies -Lawyers -Justice Department -Health, Education and Welfare [HEW] -Rhetoric -Negro rights -Administration record -Title One -California -Connecticut -Need for support -Wallace -Howard H. Baker, Jr. -William E. Brock, III -Robert P. Griffin -Message to Congress -Constitutional rights of US citizens -Issue described -Average citizen -Moratorium -Explanation of term -Instructions to Safire -Deadline for draft -Raymond K. Price, Jr. -Garment -Richardson -John D. Ehrlichman -Deadline -Timing
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