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510–3

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510–3
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • John D. Ehrlichman
  • Stephen B. Bull
June 2, 1971
Conversation No. 510-3

Date: June 2, 1971
Time: 3:16 pm - 4:15 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.

Drug abuse
-President's forthcoming meeting
-Joint Chiefs of Staff
-Department of Defense [DOD] officials
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/08)




-John N. Mitchell
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Possible State Department meeting
-John N. Irwin, II
-Possible use of tape by Ehrlichman
-Robert S. Ingersoll's report
-Public relations
-Possible meeting on foreign policy aspects
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Appearance on \"Issues and Answers\"
-Donald H. Rumsfeld, Robert H. Finch
-Ash Council
-Public education
-Announcement of legislation
-Government reorganization
-Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe
-Conversation with Ehrlichman
-Work in drug treatment
-Conversation with Ehrlichman
-Possible announcement of appointment
-Possible visit by President
-Richard B. Ogilvie
-Possible legislation
-Equipment
-Money
-Retention of addicted soldiers in military
-Treatment
-Urinalysis
-Director of administration's program

Peter G. Peterson
-Forthcoming conversation with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Ehrlichman
-George P. Shultz
-Charles Shultze
-John W. Gardner

Shultze
-Brookings Institute
-Possible role with administration
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Tape Subject Log
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Meeting at 5 pm
-Joseph Irwin Miller
-Kissinger, Shultz, Ehrlichman


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 Conv. No. 510-3 (cont.)
[Privacy]
[Duration: 15s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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-Peterson
-Purpose
-Gardner
-Shultze
-Kermit Gordon

Appointments
-Hollis M. Dole
-[Forename unknown] Allen

Drugs
-President's memo to Ehrlichman
-Death penalty
-Lindbergh law
-Mandatory prison sentences
-Role of doctors in addiction
-President’s upcoming speech to the American Medical Association [AMA]
-Jaffe
-Pharmaceutical companies' actions
-Provisions of new law
-Role of doctors in addiction
-Medics in Vietnam
-Jaffe's views
-Addiction
-Motivation
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-Drinking
-Art Linkletter's views
-Legalization of marijuana
-Jaffe's views
-Effect on society
-Study of heroin addicts
-Previous use of marijuana
-Cigarettes and cancer Conv. No. 510-3 (cont.)
-Marijuana
-President's conversation with Julie Eisenhower, June 1
-Jaffe’s view
-Reliability of statistics
-Epidemic cycles
-Boy Scouts' education program
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.'s role
-Statistics

Black Caucus' budget requests
-Cost
-President's possible response
-President's statements during meeting
-Effect on federal budget
-Tax increases

Drug abuse
-Polls
-Haldeman

Law and Order issue
-Mitchell's role
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Popular fears

Boeing Corporation
-Department of Transportation [DOT] contract to Vertol Corporation
-Urban mass rapid transit
-President’s views

Supersonic Transport [SST]
-William M. Magruder's efforts
-Possible US-Japan partnership
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with Peterson and Magruder
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-Magruder's Visit to Paris Air Show
-Flight in Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]’s SST
-Mitsubishi


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 Conv. No. 510-3 (cont.)
[National Security]
[Duration: 36s ]


-U.S.-JAPAN RELATIONS


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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-Peterson
-Magruder
-Briefing
-Japanese trade situation

Law and Order
-Ehrlichman's conversation with Robert R. Douglas
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-$100,000,000
-Law Enforcement Assistant Act [LEAA]
-Need for narcotics court in New York City
-LEAA

Unemployment figures

National Science Foundation
-Government funds for college professors
-Applied sciences
-Cambodia
-Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.
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Unemployment
-Need for movement
-National public service bill
-President's possible action
-Effect
-Administration's actions
-Special revenue sharing
-Provisions Conv. No. 510-3 (cont.)
-Shultz's views
-Political considerations
-Shultz
-John B. Connally
-Role with administration
-Performance in office
-Speech

Revenue sharing
-Wilbur D. Mills
-David S. Broder's article
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Hearings
-Views
-Walter W. Heller, Joseph A. [?] Pechman
-Political value
-Mills
-Rockefeller
-Polls

Polls
-Foreign policy
-USSR, Peoples Republic of China [PRC]
-“Need for an enemy”
-Connally

President's press conference June 1
-Police handling of May Day demonstrators
-President's demeanor
-Response

Administration’s positions
-Response to opponents
-Harry S. Truman
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-Integrity of the Presidency
-Raymond K. Price, Jr. and Leonard Garment
-Muskie
-President's press conference June 1
-President’s views
-Politics versus principle
-President's image Conv. No. 510-3 (cont.)
-William L. Safire's views
-White House correspondents' dinner

Black Panthers
-Ehrlichman's dispute with Mayor of Seattle
-Ehrlichman's mail

Need to establish positions
-Connally's views
-Spiro T. Agnew's attacks on press

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:15 pm

President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:15 pm

Administration appointments
-Conservatives
-General Counsel of National Labor Relations Board [NLRB]
-Richard T. Burres
-Conversation with Ehrlichman June 2
-Possible offense to labor
-James D. Hodgson's views
-President's relations with George Meany
-Burres
-Relations with Hodgson and Shultz
-Service with Arthur F. Burns
-Farm labor problems
-Ehrlichman's possible conversation with Charles W. Colson
-Burres

Personnel
-Martin C. Anderson
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-Forthcoming conversation with Ehrlichman
-Possible role with administration
-Shultz
-Views
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Possible political plans
-Replacement
-Peter M. Flanigan Conv. No. 510-3 (cont.)
-Edwin L. Harper
-Flanigan
-Harper
-Anderson
-Possible tole with administration

Unemployment
-Public service jobs bill
-Pierre Rinfret's prediction
-Level
-Civilian Conservation Corps [CCC] approach
-Urban problems
President's press conference
-Response to drug problem
-Public reaction
-Dan Rather

Administration personnel
-Connally
-Kissinger
-Cabinet
-Richardson
-William P. Rogers
-Conversation with President of Colgate University


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Privacy]
[Duration: 1m 24s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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-George W. Romney
-John A. Volpe
-Romney
-Volpe
Conv. No. 510-3 (cont.)
Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:15 pm

President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:15 pm

Administration personnel
-Maurice H. Stans
-Hodgson
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Presidency
-Richardson
-Connally
-Richardson
-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson

Erhlichman left at 4:15 pm
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