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created DEA [Drug Enforcement Administration] occurred, the selection of [John R.] Bartels, the selection of [Robert L.] DuPont, the dealing of initiatives and trying to catch up with the new Department of Justice. You know, they went through same Attorney Generals rather rapidly. There will be almost nothing in the way of correspondence with [Elliot L.] Richardson. Richardson did nothing in the way of contact with the White House; he ran an independent entity and there was very little give and take. You'll find almost, you'll find memos that asked them to do things, and there will be no response in the file. Then, you'll find, when [William B.] Saxbe got on, a lot of mail going that way, saying "Here's what we're doing," "here's why," "I need your help on this," "I need your help on that," and it will start being directed also to Silberman, up until August 9. A lot of mail going to Silberman, [but] almost none with Treasury because of the reorganization. There are a couple of other new topics that we did: privacy will all be in there, in mine, and there's a Domestic Council Committee on privacy that [Philip W. ] Buchen was doing work on. Now I don't know what, whether you get the Vice President's papers. TG: No, no. GS: O.K. TG: [Gerald R.] Ford's papers are his own GS: O.K., O.K. TG: . as is the case with every Vice President. GS: Then you'll see probably half the correspondence on privacy and almost all of it on campaign reform. Now, once we move past the 21

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