529–21

Conversation No. 529-21

Date: June 28, 1971
Time: 10:54 am - 11:38 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Vernon E. Jordan Jr., Robert J. Brown, John D. Ehrlichman, George P.
Shultz, and Leonard Garment; Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins was present at the beginning of the
meeting.

Greetings

General conversation

Jordan’s position
-Activity

National Urban League
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-Upcoming convention
-Attendance
-Personnel
-Harold R. Sims

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 10:54 am.

Refreshments Conv. No. 529-21 (cont.)

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:38 am.

Jordan's background
-Marvin W. Russell
-President and Jordan’s 1956 DePauw University meeting
-Eugene S. Pullian
-Russell J. Humbolt [?]
-Work
-Family
-Work
-Early experience
-DePauw University
-Experiences
-Responsibilities
-Benefits
-Humbolt [?]
-Pullian
-Resignation from DePauw University Board of Trustees

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 10:54 am.

Presentation to President
-Photograph
-1956 President and Jordan meeting [?]
-Description

National Urban League
-Jordan’s leadership
-Timing
-Whitney M. Young, Jr.
-Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
-Mystique
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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:35 am.

-Youth
-Death
-Jordan’s leadership
-Youth
-Benefits
-Youth Conv. No. 529-21 (cont.)
-Courage
-Relationship with administration
-Shultz and H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Young
-Administration commitment
-Calls to Ehrlichman and Shultz
-Cooperation
-Contact with President
-Disagreements
-Jordan's address to unknown college
-Money available
-Money cuts for schools
-Programs
-Funds for the Urban League
-Department of Labor
-Other agencies
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-Office of Economic Policy
-Department of Defense [DOD]
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB] coordination
-Sims
-Credit to administration
-Movement from House of Representatives and Senate
-President's experience
-Jordan's residence
-Funds for Urban League
-Source
-Drug program
-Effect of drug problem
-Veterans
-Youth
-Racial distinction
-Education money
-Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe
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-Education programs of Urban League
-Atlanta
-Need for drug program
-Scope of problem
-Public relations
-Achievements of Urban League
-Need to provide service
-Jaffe Conv. No. 529-21 (cont.)
-Urban League role in drug programs
-Public relations
-Urban League mission
-President’s suggestions
-Black Caucus
-Charles B. Rangel
-Domestic problems
-Supply
-Turkey
-France
-Vietnam
-Drug programs
-Appeal to various groups
-Rangel
-President’s suggestions
-Need to broaden scope
-Donald McI. Kendall
-Competition for money
-Urban coalitions
-Obscure sources
-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
[NAACP]
-Unknown Atlanta girl
-School paper
-Drug knowledge
-Background
-Drug programs
-Teacher training
-Need for current knowledge
-John Mackey visit
-Responsibility of athletes in education
-Carl M. Yastrzemski
-Jordan’s press conference
-Revenue sharing discussion
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-Clarence Coleman
-Edwin L. Harper
-Information session
-Welfare reform
-Administration efforts
-Drawbacks
-Change in approach
-Urban League position Conv. No. 529-21 (cont.)
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Expertise
-Urban League approach
-Goals
-Effect on worker
-Manpower and revenue sharing
-Training benefits
-Link to welfare
-Administration's overall approach to welfare and revenue sharing
-Objectives
-Rise of self-respect
-Incentives
-Sensitivity to citizens
-Urban League
-President’s visit to New York offices
-Emphasis on dignity and self-respect
-Benefits to all races
-Chicanos
-Whites
-Blacks
-Focus on social problems
-Task force approval
-West Virginia
-Mississippi
-Alabama
-Illinois
-Aid to poor
-Message from Washington
-George Bartlett
-Welfare and revenue sharing
-Senate action
-Senate sentiment
-Opposition to social programs
-Need for support in Senate
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-Alternative Senate plans
-New York problems
-Inadequacy of present system
-Administration efforts
-Drug, welfare and revenue sharing programs
-Richardson
-James D. Hodgson
-Arthur A. Fletcher Conv. No. 529-21 (cont.)
-Philadelphia program
-Need for specifics
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Urban League opportunities
-New leadership
-Jordan
-Opportunity
-Need for initiatives
-Theodore (“Teddy”) Roosevelt
-Jordan
-Responsibilities to constituents
-Extremes of behavior
-Administration efforts
-Welfare
-Urban problem
-Desegregation
-Basis for relations with Urban League
-Cooperation on drug and revenue sharing

Shultz and Garment left at 11:35 am.

Autograph

Gift presentation
-Jordan
-Martha's Vineyard
-Golf balls
-Kendall
-Paperweight
-Pens
-Jordan’s daughter
-Jordan's secretary
-Jordan's wife
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Football
-Jordan's career
-Size of players
-Mackey
-Melody[?]
-Southern California star
-Kansas City Chiefs

Jordan and Brown left at 11:38 am.

Language of press statement

Ehrlichman left at 11:38 am.