Date: March 29, 1972
Time: 3:07 pm - 3:15 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Clark MacGregor; H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman can be heard in the
background.
[See Conversation No. 328-19]
Busing
-MacGregor’s meeting with Southern Congressmen
-Busing issue
-Number
-Members of the House
-Location
-Leslie C. Arends’s whip office
-Joe D. Waggonner, Jr.
-Thomas N. Downing
-Results
-Gerald R. Ford
-Richard H. Poff
-Constitutional amendment
-Moratorium
-Congressmen’s views
-Moratorium
-Congressmen’s views
-Court order
-Section 406 of five and ten year cleansing provisions
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-Moratorium
-Waggonner Amendment
-Old and new busing order
-Equal Educational Opportunities Act proposal
-Waggonner Amendment
-Language
-Three Sisters Bridge opinion
-[Warren E. Burger]
-Authority of Congress
-Administration support
-Ford and Poff support
International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Senate hearings
-Report to the President
-James O. Eastland’s position
-Latest developments
-Discussion
-Haldeman
-Charles W. Colson
-Wallace H. Johnson
-Vote on termination
-Eastland
-Possible filibuster
-Timing
-Continuation of hearings
-Republican Senators’ views
-Richard G. Kleindienst debate
-White House opposition
-Senate Judiciary Committee
-MacGregor’s report to the President
-Harold S. Geneen testimony
-Additional witnesses
-Eastland
-Unknown secretary and unknown lawyer
-Geneen
-Performance
-Termination of hearings
-Republican Senators’ views
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
-Hugh Scott
-Strategy
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-Kleindienst confirmation
-White House position
-Edward M. Kennedy versus the President on the issue
-Vote
Haldeman can be heard talking in the background.
-Termination of hearings
-Number of votes needed
-MacGregor’s efforts
-Public response
-ITT confusion