Conversation: 255-033
Prev: 255-032 Next: 255-034Start Date: Wednesday, June 9, 1971 2:34 PM
End Date: Wednesday, June 9, 1971 4:00 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ehrlichman, John D.; Cox, Tricia Nixon; White House operator; Butterfield, Alexander P.; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); [Unknown person(s)]; Sanchez, ManoloRecording Device: Old Executive Office Building
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:59:38
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 03:21:49
NARA Description:
On June 9, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, John D. Ehrlichman, Tricia Nixon Cox, White House operator, Alexander P. Butterfield, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, unknown person(s), and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 10:34 am to 12:00 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 255-033 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 255-33
Date: June 9, 1971
Time: 10:34 am - 12:00 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with John D. Ehrlichman
Sugar quotas
Fugitive Black Panthers in New York City
[The President talked with Tricia Nixon between 10:34 am and 10:35 am]
[Conversation No. 255-33A]
[See Conversation No. 4-86]
[End of telephone conversation]
Housing legislation draft
-Re-work draft
-Deadlines
-Alexander P. Butterfield
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[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:35 am and
10:38 am]
[Conversation No. 255-33F]
[See Conversation No. 4-87]
[End of telephone conversation]
Housing statement
-Language
-Consideration of legal basis
-”Spirit and letter of the law”
-William P. Rogers
-Previous legal case
-”Blackjack” case
-Role of executive departments
[Butterfield talked with the President between 10:38 am and 10:39 am]
[Conversation No. 255-33B]
[See Conversation No. 4-88]
[End of telephone conversation]
Housing statement
-Language
-Press briefing
-Ehrlichman
-George W. Romney
-John N. Mitchell
-Ehrlichman
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Previous memorandum
-Housing integration
-Nature of statement
-Ehrlichman
-Press
-Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD] draft
-Romney
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-Mitchell
-Discussion on details of draft
-Price
-Domestic Council
-Review by Justice Department
-Modification
-Executive department support
-Language Conv. No. 255-33 (cont.)
-Individual passages in statement
-Editing
-Term “fair housing”
-Price
Previous briefing
-Peter G. Peterson
-Timing
-Follow-up
-Staff, Senate
Drug issue
-Vietnam
-60 day treatment program for Vietnam servicemen
-Casualties
-President’s schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Proposed meeting with US ambassadors
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Mexico
-Turkey
-Thailand
-Rogers
-Global perspective
US-Japanese treaty
-Okinawa
-President’s schedule
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[National Security]
[Duration: 1m 25 ]
COUNTRIES Conv. No. 255-33 (cont.)
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Foreign travel
-Timing
-Moscow
-Peking
-Europe
-Midway Island
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[National Security]
[Duration: 30s ]
JAPAN
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
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Drug issue
-President’s schedule
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
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-Elliott L. Richardson’s forthcoming meeting
-American Medical Association [AMA] leaders
-Prescriptions
-Doctors who fail to treat addicts
[The President talked to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman at an unknown time between 10:39 am and
11:10 am]
Conv. No. 255-33 (cont.)
[Conversation No. 255-33C]
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[National Security]
[Duration: 44s ]
JAPAN
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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[End of telephone conversation]
Drug issue
-Relationship between marijuana and heroin
-Drug culture
-Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe
-Vietnam servicemen and drugs
-Political issue
-Amnesty program
-Robert H. Steele
-Jaffe
-Clark MacGregor
-Penalties for drug traffickers
-Krogh
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Public Service Employment veto
-Alternative
-Overall strategy
-George [Surname unknown]
-Scheduling
[The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 10:39 am and 11:10
am] Conv. No. 255-33 (cont.)
[Conversation No. 255-33D]
President’s schedule
-Fordham University event
-Location
-Rose Garden
-Presentation
[End of telephone conversation]
Budget reduction
-Nelson A. Rockefeller’s attack on John V. Lindsay
-New York state budget
-Public service
-Employment
-”Model Cities” program
-Education
-Across the board cut
-Cabinet and special interests
-Transportation
-Study of what types of government expenditures create jobs
-Domestic Council
-Men and money
-Deficit
-George P. Shultz
-Milton Friedman
-Budget
-Monetary policy
-Fiscal Year [FY] 1973 and FY 1972
-Budget cuts
-Review of options
-Edwin L. Harper
-Martin C. (“Marty”) Anderson
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[The President talked with Haldeman [?] at an unknown time between 10:39 am and 11:10 am]
[Conversation No. 255-33E]
Request for meeting
[End of telephone conversation] Conv. No. 255-33 (cont.)
Budget reduction
-Appropriation bills
-Modified budget
-Jobs
-Vetoes
-Welfare reform
-Possible veto
-House Rules Committee
-Section 4
-Senate
-Budget
-Possible veto
-Welfare reform
-Senate
Haldeman entered at 11:10 am
-Forthcoming government study
-Domestic Council
-Expenditures
-Jobs
-Public broadcasting
-Alternatives to federal funding
-National Educational Television [NET]
-Fusion with public broadcasting
-Fund raising
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Government control
-Frank Pace, Jr.
-John W. Macy, Jr.
-National Endowment for the Arts [NEA]
-Government expenditures in art
-Public support
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-Buck Chandler
-”Right to Read” program
-Pilot project in Washington, DC
-Congressional participation
-News media participation
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon
-Claudia A. (Taylor) (“Lady Bird”) Johnson
-Volunteer program Conv. No. 255-33 (cont.)
-Proposed goals
-National focus
-Inner-city youth
-Urban Service Corps
-T. Nixon
-Jeanne Ehrlichman
-Walter W. Straley
-National Reading Center
-Hugh Scott
-Study of issues
-Domestic problems
-Air pollution
-Revenue sharing
-Tax reduction
-Welfare reform
-Eliminate welfare fraud
-John F. Kennedy
-Election of 1960
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Drugs
-Law enforcement
-Unemployment
-Inflation
-John B. Connally
-Image
-Walter J. Hickel
-Public relations on foreign policy
-Vietnam
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Europe
-”Generation of Peace”
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-Krogh’s poll on drugs
-Crime and narcotics
-Public reaction
-Foreign affairs
-Public policy
-President’s image abroad
-President’s previous television appearance
-Kennedy Conv. No. 255-33 (cont.)
-Eisenhower
-L. B. Johnson
-Vietnam
-Effect
-Travel and foreign visits
-Spain
-Indonesia
-Domestic issues
-Image
-Law and order
-Television appearances
-Sugar quotas
-Kissinger
-Ecuador
-Peterson
-Public image
-Connally
-Future meeting with J. D. Ehrlichman
-Support for organization
-Revenue sharing
-Reorganization
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Leadership qualities
-Polls
-Press
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-Economy
-Departments of Commerce and Labor
-Maurice H. Stans
-Statistical departments
-Census on property levels
-Stans
-James D. Hodgson
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-”Goldstein” [Leon Greenberg]
-Possible transfer
-Goals and objectives for administration
-Employment
-Eliminate unemployment
-OMB
-Henry A. Wallace
-Franklin D. Roosevelt Conv. No. 255-33 (cont.)
-J. F. Kennedy
-Space program
-Cuba
-Environment
-Relation to 18-year-old vote
-Business interests
-Clean air and clean water
-Potomac River
-Ohio and Missouri Rivers
-Political consequences
-District of Columbia
-Virginia
-Maryland
-Ohio
Rockefeller versus Lindsay
-New York City labor unrest
Environment
-President’s position
-Edmund S. Muskie
-William D. Ruckelshaus
-Domestic Council
-Business and environment
-Government expenditures
-Parks
-Clean air and clean water
-San Clemente
-Jobs
-California
-Smog
-London
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-Los Angeles
-Automobiles
-Weather
J. D. Ehrlichman left at 11:46 am
President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with US ambassadors Conv. No. 255-33 (cont.)
-Drugs
Press
-SALT
-Unknown person and John A. Scali
-Administration poll on public awareness
[Forename unknown] Derge [sp?]
-PRC
-George H. Gallup and Louis Harris polls
-Administration’s polls
President’s forthcoming speech
-Oklahoma
-Press coverage
-Price and Peterson
President’s message
-Mitchell
-Charles W. Colson
-J. D. Ehrlichman
-Timing
-1972 Republican Convention
-Invitation to White House
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 29s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
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Staff duties
-J. D. Ehrlichman
-Shultz
Public opinion polls
-Environment Conv. No. 255-33 (cont.)
-J. D. Ehrlichman
-Ruckelshaus
-Business
-Labor
-E. M. Kennedy
-Boston politicians
President’s schedule
-Photograph with group
-Marie Lombardi
-Felix E. Larkin
-John A. (“Jack”) Mulcahy
Manolo Sanchez entered at unknown time after 11:46 am
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 3s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:00 pm
President’s schedule
-Larkin
The President left at an unknown time before 12:00 pm
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9
[Non-historical]
[Duration: 29s ]
Conv. No. 255-33 (cont.)
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9
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The President entered at an unknown time after 11:46 pm
Larkin
-Wellington T. Mara
-John J. Breslin, Jr.
The President and Haldeman left at 12:00 pm