Conversation: 500-017
Prev: 500-016 Next: 500-018Start Date: Tuesday, May 18, 1971 4:16 PM
End Date: Tuesday, May 18, 1971 4:35 PM
Participants:
Linkletter, Arthur F. ("Art"); Shumway, DeVan L.; Atkins, Oliver F. ("Ollie"); Ehrlichman, John D.Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:06:39
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:25:36
NARA Description:
On May 18, 1971, Arthur F. ("Art") Linkletter, DeVan L. Shumway, Oliver F. ("Ollie") Atkins, and John D. Ehrlichman met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:16 pm to 12:35 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 500-017 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 500-17
Date: May 18, 1971
Time: 12:16 pm - 12:35 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Arthur G. (“Art”) Linkletter and DeVan L. Shumway; Oliver F. (“Ollie”)
Atkins was present at the beginning of the meeting.
Greetings
John D. (“Jack”) Wrather, Jr.
-Photograph arrangements
Linkletter's book, Dear Mr. President
-Secretaries
-Herbert G. Klein
-Number of copies
-Cost
-Children's letters to President
Drug use
-Linkletter's trips around the country to conventions
-Armed forces
-Travis Air Force Base (AFB), Fort McClellan
-Causes
-Vietnam
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-Europe
-Report from Robert H. Finch
-Linkletter's categories of drug users
-Curiosity seekers
-Recreational users
-"Weekenders"
-Dependent ones
-"Heads", "freaks"
-Addicts
-Linkletter's work
-Grammar school, junior and senior high schools
-Educational programs
-Marijuana
-Work of commission on marijuana and drug abuse
-President's stance on legalizing drugs
-Alcohol
-Differences between alcohol and marijuana
-Effects
-Grades and strengths of marijuana
-Dr. Harvey House (sp?), chief clinical psychiatrist at University of California at
Fresno
-Study of the effects of marijuana
-Dr. Bertram S. Brown of National Institute of Mental Health [NIMH]
-Statement in press on marijuana
[The President talked with an unknown person [John D. Ehrlichman?] at an unknown time
between 12:16 pm and 12:35 pm]
[Conversation No. 500-17A]
-Brown's tenure
[End of telephone conversation]
-Brown's statements
-Alcoholics
-Differences between alcohol and marijuana
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Conv. No. 500-17 (cont.)
-Codeine
-Alice Roosevelt Longworth
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-Medical use of morphine
-Civil War
-Effect of Drugs
-The President’s view
-Asia
-Middle East
- Latin America
-China
-India
-Burma
-Communist countries
-Soviet Union
-Use of Alcohol
-Sweden
-Finland
-Great Britain
-Ireland
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-Drug use effects
-Effect of drugs on street gangs in Brooklyn
-Billy Wilkerson
-"Cross and Switchblade"
-Cost of illegal drugs
Demonstrators
-Arrests Conv. No. 500-17 (cont.)
-Public reaction
-President's, John N. Mitchell's, and police chief's roles
Linkletter's work
Presentation of cuff links
-Tricia Nixon's wedding
Paul W. Keyes
-Role with “Laugh-In” television series
Bohemian Grove
-Walter Trohan
-President's attendance
Linkletter and Shumway left at 12:35 pm.