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OCR Page 1 of 40THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
August 26, 1971
MEMORANDUM TO THE PRESIDENT
THE
PRESIDENT
HAS
SEEN
FROM: Patrick J. Buchanan
The attached article in Atlantic, plus two reviews of it in
Time and Newsweek, is a seminal piece of major significance for
U.S. society -- in where its conclusions lead. Basically, it dem-
onstrates that heredity, rather than environment, determines in-
telligence -- and that the more we proceed to provide everyone
with a "good environment, 11 surely the more heredity will become
the dominant factor - - in their intelligence, and thus in their suc-
cess and social standing. It is almost the iron law of intelligence
that is being propounded here -- based on heredity. This fellow is
for sure to get the Jensen-Shockley treatment for this thesis. But
the importance of this article is difficult to understate. If correct,
then all our efforts and expenditures not only for "compensatory
education" but to provide an "equal chance at the starting line" are
guaranteeing that we wind up with the intelligent ones coming in
first. And every study we have shows blacks 15 I.Q. points below
whites on the average. This is a powerful and seminal article
would suggest that the President write Irving Kristol and Pat
Moynihan, among others for possible refutation.
If there is no refutation, then it seems to me that a lot of
what we are doing in terms of integration of blacks and whites --
but, even more so, poor and well-to-do, is less likely to result in
accommodation than it is in perpetual friction -- as the incapable
are played consciously by government side by side with the capable.
This piece could serve, frankly, as an intellectual basis, for
political decisions either "realistic" or rather frightful.
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