Conversation No. 736-2

Date: June 15, 1972
Time: Unknown between 5:25 pm and 6:43 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

     White House Head of State dinner
          -The President’s toast
                -Translation
          -Luis Echeverria Alvarez toast
                -Translation

John D. Ehrlichman entered at 5:31 pm.

     Greetings

     White House Head of State dinner
          -Translator
               -Toasts
               -Echeverria

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:46 pm.

     Ehrlichman's California trip
          -Stanford University graduation
          -Los Angeles
               -Television appearance
               -Balboa Bay Club
          -San Clemente
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               -Golf course
                    -Greenskeeper
               -Weather

    The President's schedule
         -Republican convention
              -Weather in Washington, DC
         -Travel
              -California


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    Domestic policy
        -Education bill
              -Detroit, Michigan
              -James G. O'Hara
              -Judge Stephen J. Roth
                    -Busing order
                    -Michigan busing
                          -Impact
                          -William G. Milliken
                               -Detroit
                                     -Reaction to order
                          -Knowledge of the President's position
                               -Telephone call
              -Legal opinion
                    -Statement by President
              -Warren Burger
              -Richard G. Kleindienst
                    -Legal opinion from Legal Counsel's office
                    -Department of Justice
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The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:46 pm and
5:54 pm.

[Conversation No. 736-2A]

[See Conversation No. 25-68]

[End of telephone conversation]

     Domestic policy
         -Irving Kristol's book
               -Liberals
               -Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
               -Education
               -Pornography
               -Censorship
               -Welfare
               -Moynihan
               -The President’s view
         -Detroit busing case
               -Call from Kliendienst to Ehrlichman
         -Busing
               -Charles W. Colson, Michael P. Balzano, Donald F. Rodgers
               -Intellectuals
               -Blue-collar concerns
                     -George C. Wallace
                     -Spiro T. Agnew
                     -Edmund S. Muskie
                     -Ehrlichman
                     -Balzano
               -Issue
         -Aid to parochial schools
               -John Cardinal Krol
                     -Forthcoming meeting with the President
               -Wilbur D. Mills
                     -Commentary
                     -Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
               -Krol
                     -Forthcoming meeting with the President
                     -Philadelphia Plan report
                           -Administration's reaction
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                -Philadelphia system
                      -Krol's plan
                -Chattanooga, Tennessee

The President talked with Milliken between 5:46 and 5:54 pm.

[Conversation No. 736-2B]

[See Conversation No. 25-69]

[End of telephone conversation]

     Domestic policy
         -Busing
               -Milliken's position
               -Racial issue
         -Education
               -Harvard University
                     -Professor's analysis on busing
                           -Opposition from Harvard University
               -Academic freedom
                     -Stanford
                           -Genetics teacher
                           -Conditions on campus
         -Dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane [DDT]
               -William D. Ruckelshaus's position
               -Nobel prize winner
                     -Conversation with the President
                           -Russell E. Train
                           -Ceylon
                                 -Malaria deaths
               -Staff at Environmental Protection Agency [EPA]
                     -Composition
                     -Ruckelshaus’s role
                     -Comparison with regulatory agency
               -White House position
                     -Ruckelshaus
                           -Sweden
                     -Department of Agriculture's views
                     -Norman E. Borlaug
                     -Ruckelshaus
                     -Federal Trade Commission [FTC]
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          -Appeal of decision
                -John C. Whitaker
                -The President’s position
                -Borlaug
                -Clifford M. Hardin
                -Cotton growers
     -Education
          -Harvard University study
                -Edward L. Morgan's synopsis
          -Kristol’s book
                -Cost of higher education
                      -University of California, Berkeley
                           -Background of students
          -Student loans
                -Administration policy
                -Grants
                      -Students
                      -University
                -Terms
                -The President’s position
          -James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
                -Address at Stanford University
                      -Student reception
          -Stanford University graduation
                -Viet Cong flag

Caspar W. Weinberger
    -Ehrlichman
    -George P. Shultz
    -Frank C. Carlucci
    -Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.

Welfare reform
     -Ehrlichman's meeting with Elliot L. Richardson
     -James D. Hodgson
     -Abraham A. Ribicoff
     -The President's forthcoming meeting with Richardson
           -Revenue sharing
           -Budget problems
                 -Ribicoff’s program
     -Administration policy
           -Ehrlichman’s forthcoming meeting with Richardson
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                    -Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
          -Clark MacGregor

     Social Security bill
          -John N. Mitchell
                -Meeting with Ehrlichman and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
          -Veto possibility
                -Congressional override

     Revenue sharing
         -Lobbying by governors and mayors
         -Russell B. Long
         -George H. Mahon
               -Support for the President
               -Taxes
         -Budget
         -Weinberger
         -Pepperdine College speech by Ehrlichman
               -Federal expenses
                     -Tax cuts
               -Brookings Institution report
               -Cuts in federal expenses
                     -Administration policy
                     -Necessity
                     -Taxes

Haldeman entered at 6:15 pm.

     Ambassadorial appointments
         -The President’s view
         -Quality
         -Robert H. McBride
         -Herbert G. Klein
              -Mexico
              -Qualities

     American translators
         -McBride
         -Donald F. Barnes
               -Abilities
         -US French translator
               -Shortcomings
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-The President’s view
-US Polish translator
     -Shortcomings
     -The President’s previous trip to Poland
           -National Security Council [NSC]
           -State Department
           -Henry A. Kissinger
     -Strengths
     -Pataloski [Alexander Akalovsky?]
     -Walter J. Stoessel, Jr.
           -Embassy staff
-Procedure for selecting translators
     -State Department
     -Kissinger’s office
     -Presidential translators
     -Comparison with Soviet and Chinese translators
     -Victor Sukhodrev
           -US-Soviet translator
                 -Accuracy
           -Haldeman’s view
           -Fluency
     -Vernon A. Walters
           -Evaluation of translators
           -Pataloski [?]
     -Sukhodrev
     -Chinese translator
           -Chou En-lai
           -Mao Tse-tung
-Language schools in US
     -Walters
     -Requirements
-US translator in Japan, [Forename unknown] Whickel (sp?)
     -Wife
-US Spanish translator
-US French translator
     -Woman translator
           -Strengths
-Woman translators
     -The President’s view
     -Shortcomings
     -Chou En-lai
-French translator
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     -German translator
     -Mobility of an individual translator
           -Bonn
                 -Meetings with Willy Brandt
           -Tokyo
     -The President’s trip to Poland
           -Quality of US translation
                 -Problems
           -Poland's translator
                 -Strengths
     -Military language school
           -Quality
     -Recruitment
           -Problems
           -Kissinger
                 -Winston Lord
     -US Polish translator
           -Vernon C. Coffey's comment to Haldeman
           -Pataloski [?]
           -Ehrlichman's appearance at Pepperdine College

World War II
    -Winston S. Churchill's Triumph And Tragedy
         -Yalta and Potsdam Conferences
              -Poland
              -Polish underground
              -Franklin D. Roosevelt's Illness
              -State Department
              -Romania
              -Czechoslovakia
                    -Dwight D. Eisenhower
                    -Prague
              -Denmark
                    -Soviets
              -American concerns
                    -Military victory
                    -Soviet allies
                    -Churchill's concerns
              -Roosevelt
              -Harry S. Truman
              -State Department
                    -Role in Yalta
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International Affairs
      -Poland
           -Political attitudes
                 -Soviet Union
           -William P. Rogers
           -Soviet Union
           -The President’s previous trip to Poland
                 -Response to the President in Warsaw
      -Romania and Yugoslavia
           -Strength of Communist ideology
      -Poles
           -Political attitudes
      -Romanians
           -Culture
           -Spanish
      -Yugoslavians
      -Czechs
      -Hungarians
      -Soviets

Foreign policy personnel
     -Ambassadors
     -Foreign service
     -Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
          -Problems
                -The President’s view
     -The President’s view
     -Ambassadors
          -US Ambassador to Sweden
                -Jerome H. Holland
                       -Resignation
                -Kissinger
                       -Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
                -Replacement
                -Rogers
                -Charge d'affaires
                       -[Forename unknown] Graham
                -Status of post
          -Spain
                -Ambassador
                       -Potential problems
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                     -State Department
          -Herbert W. Kalmbach
               -Appointments
               -W. Clement Stone
               -Leonard K. Firestone
          -Walter H. Annenberg
               -Firestone
                     -Possible press story
                           -Annenberg’s possible resignation
                     -Wife
          -Ambassadors
               -Functions
               -Annenberg
                     -[Elizabeth, Queen Of England] Elizabeth II
          -Spain
               -Horacio Rivero
                     -Confirmation
          -Ambassadorships
               -Prestige
          -Soviet Union
               -Replacement
               -Dwight L. Chapin
                     -Jacob D. Beam
                           -Performance
                           -Mrs. Beam
                           -Performance
               -Stone
                     -Preference
                           -Great Britain

Personnel
     -Kleindienst
          -Selection of Deputy Attorney General
                -Ruckelshaus
                -Ralph E. Erickson
                      -Office of Legal Counsel
                -William French Smith
                -John W. Dean, III
                      -Age
                      -Qualities
          -Erickson
                -Qualities
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                 -Background
                       -Gibson, Dunn, and Crutcher
                 -Busing case
                 -Loyalty
     -Office of Legal Counsel
           -Recruitment
                 -William H. Rehnquist
     -Kleindienst
           -Ehrlichman’s forthcoming call

Kissinger
     -Schedule
           -Japan
           -Soviet Union trip
     -California trip
     -Qualities
     -Congressional briefing
           -J. William Fulbright's response

White House dinners
     -Toasts
          -Statements
                -Importance
          -Patrick J. Buchanan
                -Effect
          -Value
                -Publicity

Education
    -Memorandum by Morgan

US foreign policy
     -Summit meetings
            -People's Republic of China [PRC]
            -Soviet Union
            -Effect
     -Mexico
     -Great Britain
     -France
     -Italy
     -Germany
     -The President's meeting with Echeverria
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          -Water salinity
     -Third World nations
     -Mexico
          -Kissinger
                -Mexican Foreign Minister
                      -Salinity question
     -Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson
          -State dinners
          -State visits
     -Eisenhower
          -Churchill
          -[Maurice] Harold MacMillan
          -North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
     -Kennedy and Johnson
          -Foreign leaders
     -Echeverria
          -Importance
          -The President’s view
          -Support for the President

US domestic policies
    -Leon Sullivan
          -Meeting
          -Speech
                -Statement on the President
                      -Equal opportunity
    -Floyd B. McKissick, Sr.
          -Statement
    -Sullivan statement

Echeverria’s visit to the US
    -Mexican politics
          -Angela Davis
          -Demonstrations in US at Echeverria's public appearances

Davis’s trial
     -Outcome

Demonstration
    -Los Angeles
         -Police
         -City Council
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                 -Mexicans

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 6:15 pm.

      The President's briefcase

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 6:43 pm.

      Decisions for 1973
           -Buchanan [?]
           -Announcements

The President, et al. left at 6:43 pm.