Conversation No. 96-1

Date:  March 20, 1972
Time:  3:38 pm - 4:48 pm
Location:  Cabinet Room

The President met with William P. Rogers, John B. Connally, Melvin R. Laird, Earl L. Butz, George H. W. Bush, Richard G. Kleindienst, Richard M. Helms, Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe, Myles J. Ambrose, Nelson G. Gross, John E. (AJack@) Ingersoll, General Alexander M. Haig, Jr., John D. Ehrlichman, Egil (ABud@) Krogh, Jr., Geoffrey C. Shepard, and Walter Minnick; the White House photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting

	[General conversation/Unintelligible]

	International narcotics situation
		-Abuse
		-Cabinet Committee on International Narcotics Control
			-Importance
		-Heroin
			-Traffic
			-Amount
			-Addicts
			-International agreements
		-[Unintelligible]
		-Jaffe
		-Domestic and international fields
		-United States= Border Patrol
		-United States= Bureau of Customs
		-Overseas law enforcement
			-Narcotics intelligence
				-Federal agencies
		-Overseas treatment and rehabilitation
		-Meeting with ambassadors
			-Narcotics boards

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[Duration:  22s  ]

	ACTIVITIES

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			-International narcotics control
				-Cabinet Committee
					-Subcommittees
				-Public information
		-Distribution throughout the world
			-United States
				-Air
				-Sea

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[Duration:  1m 45s  ]

	COUNTRIES

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		-[Unintelligible]
		-New York
		-Washington, DC police force
			-Heroin
				-Buys
				-Price increase
				-Opium
				-Law enforcement
		-Opium traffic

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	Countries

[To listen to the segment (1m51s) declassified on 02/28/2002, please refer to RC# E-586.]

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		-Penalties
		-Law enforcement
		-Lawyers

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[Duration:  10m 46s  ]

	COUNTRIES

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		-United Nations= Drug Abuse Control Program
			-Funds
				-Thailand
			-Law enforcement
				-Burma
			-African countries
				-Drug programs
			-Secretary General
			-Soviet views of drug problems
				-Funding
			-Narcotics laboratory
				-Marijuana
			-Programs
				-Secretary General
			-Countries

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[Duration:  4m 19s  ]

	ACTIVITIES

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				-Coordinate information
				-Personnel
				-Washington, DC
				-Coordination
				-Customs officials
				-Jurisdiction
					-Need for arbitrator
		-United States
		-Jaffe
			-Personnel
			-Jurisdiction
			-Personnel
		-Cooperation

	[Unintelligible] 

		-Arbitrator
			-Cabinet officer
				-Attorney General
		-Cabinet Committee
		-Policy
		-Inter-agency conflicts
			-Cabinet officers
			-Arbitrator
				-Connally
			-New guideline preparation
			-Law enforcement officials

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	Activities

[To listen to the segment (21s) declassified on 02/28/2002, please refer to RC# E-586.]

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			-Guidelines
			-Bureaucrats
		-Federal agencies
		-New York
			-The President=s visit
				-Youth
		-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
		-Vietnam
			-Heroin
				-Medication
		-Programs
		-Methadone
			-Overdose
		-Problems
		-Congress
		-Field hospitals
		-Law enforcement
		-Heroin treatment
		-Cost of drugs
		-Crime
		-Compared to alcohol
		-Heroin addicts
		-Congress
			-Programs
		-Marijuana
			-Alcohol
			-Criminals
				-Drug related
			-College students
				-Ivy League
		-Legalization of marijuana
		-Crime
		-Heroin
			-Addict
			-Crime
			-Rights of users
				-Public opinion
			-Black market
			-Blacks
				-Black Caucus
					-Issue of drugs
						-Concern
				-Edward Bennett Williams
				-New York
		-Problems
		-Heroin

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	Countries

[To listen to the segment (43s) declassified on 02/28/2002, please refer to RC# E-586.]

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		-Heroin
			-Crime
		-Penalties
		-Distributors
			-Penalties

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	Country

[To listen to the segment (18s) declassified on 02/28/2002, please refer to RC# E-586.]

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			-United States
				-Laws
				-Youth

	[General conversation/Unintelligible]

The President, et al. left at 4:48 pm

Conversation No. 96-2

Date:  March 21, 1972
Time:  3:03 pm - 4:06 pm
Location:  Cabinet Room

The President met with John J. McCloy, William C. Foster, Kermit Gordon, James L. Killiam, General Lauris Norstad, Jack Ruina, William W. Scranton, John A. Wheeler, Helmut (AHal@) Sonnenfeldt, and General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]

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	Arms control and disarmament

	[Unintelligible]

[To listen to the segment (58m) declassified on 02/28/2002, please refer to RC# E-586, E-587.]

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The President, et al. left at 4:06 pm

Conversation No. 96-3

Date:  March 21, 1972
Time:  4:09 pm - 4:20 pm
Location:  Cabinet Room

The President met with George Thames, Joe Scherschel, Gordon Gahan, Francis Routt, Fred Maroon, Bruce Dale, Jim Blair, Frank E. Cancellare, James McNamara, Charles Fekete, Bob Boyer, Ron Van Norstand, and James Norling; the White House photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]

	White House News Photographers= Association=s annual photo contest
		-Sound man award
		-Winners
			-Schedule
		-Dale
			-National Geographic
				-World
				-The President=s daughter
		-Newsreels
		-Photographer of the Year
		-American tourists
		-News
		-The President=s trip abroad
			-Geographic articles
		-Photograph of the group
		-[Unintelligible]
		-Party
		-Photographs

	[General conversation/Unintelligible]

The President, et al. left at 4:20 pm

Conversation No. 96-4

Date:  March 23, 1972
Time:  3:02 pm - unknown before 3:56 pm
Location:  Cabinet Room

The President met with John B. Connally, Herbert Stein, Donald H. Rumsfeld, J. Philip Campbell, Peter G. Peterson, James D. Hodgson, George W. Romney, George P. Shultz, General George A. Lincoln, Virginia H. Knauer, Arthur F. Burns, James W. McLane, Albert E. Abrahams, Joseph Mullaney, Marvin H. Kosters, Richard B. Cheney, James Connor, Richard J. Alfultis, Donald Smith, Clark MacGregor, William L. Gifford, and Charles R. Perry; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]

	[General conversation/Unintelligible -- camera noise]

	National economy
		-US Department of Agriculture [USDA]
			-Food prices
				-Announcement
				-Cattle
		-Pay Board
			-Structure
		-The President=s schedule
			-Meeting
				-Connally
				-Shultz
				-Rumsfeld
				-Stein
				-Pay Board
					-Price Commission
					-Members
					-Public board
					-Corporations
		-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
		-Politics
			-Democratic candidates
				-Pay Board
					-Prices
			-Leaders
				-Public interest
		-Private and public interest
			-Cost of living
				-Control
					-Phase I and Phase II
		-American people
			-Wage earners
			-Support
		-Council
			-Public statements
		-Pay Board
			-Members
			-Role
				-Success
			-The President
				-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO] convention
			-Labor
				-Cooperation
			-Public board
		-Wage-price controls
		-Longshoremen
			-Pay increase
				-Percentage
		-Interest of the American people
		-Wage-price controls
		-Food prices
			-Increases
				-Percentages
				-Last six months
		-Employment
		-Real earnings
		-Senators
		-Press statements
		-Pay Board
		-White House
		-Organized labor
		-William L. Safire
			-New York Times
		-Inflation
		-Bargaining
			-Give and take
		-Burns
		-Dividends
			-Guidelines
				-Percentages
		-Interest rates
			-Mortgages
			-Dividends
			-Mortgage bankers
			-Mandatory controls
			-Congress
			-Voluntary restraint
		-Congress
		-Burns
			-Testimony before Congress
				-Interest rates
					-Student loans
					-Automobiles
					-Housing
					-Money market rate
		-Employment
		-Food prices
		-Wholesale prices
		-Retail prices
		-Wholesale and retail value
			-Percentages
			-Farm retail
				-Value
				-The farmer
					-Benefits
		-Secretary of Agriculture
			-Farmers
			-Farm prices
				-World prices
				-Increase in food prices
					-Administration role
					-Disposable income
					-Eggs
					-Meat
					-Tricia Nixon Cox and Edward R. F. Cox
						-Dinner
							-The President
							-Beef and chicken
					-Connally=s neighbor
						-Cost of food
					-Farm costs
					-Poultry and eggs
					-Retail
						-Profit margins
					-The farmer
					-Farm income
		-Future
		-August, 1972
		-Farm prices
			-Past compared with present
			-Wholesale compared with retail
			-Food prices
				-Washington, DC
					-Comparisons
			-Politicians
			-Food prices
				-Concern
				-Connally
				-Food chains
				-Farmers
				-Controls
				-Retail
				-Rumsfeld
				-Statement
					-Connally
				-Price of shoes
					-Comparison
						-Predictions
		-USDA
		-Department of Commerce
		-Controls
			-Prices
		-Council on International Economic Policy
		-Purchasing power
		-COLC
		-Price control
		-Appropriations Committee

	[Unintelligible -- recording malfunction]

		-Argentina
			-Hoof-in-mouth disease
				-Cattle
					-Export control
		-Prices
		-Shoes
			-Agreement
				-David M. Kennedy
				-Spain
				-Exports
		-Farmers
		-Export controls

Recording ends at an unknown time before 3:56 pm, while the conversation is in progress