322–28

Conversation No. 322-28

Date: March 7, 1972
Time: 2:35 pm - 3:00 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Press briefing
-The President’s schedule
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-Congressional leadership meeting
-Busing
-Meeting
-Timing
-Camp David
-Purpose
-Meeting with Cabinet
-Timing
-Possible message
-Timing
-Ziegler’s talk with John D. Ehrlichman
-Decision
-Timing
-Florida primary
-Influence
-Domestic issues
-Foreign policy
-William P. Rogers
-Meeting
-Testimony
-General topics
-Domestic issues
-Revenue sharing
-George W. Romney
-Dinner
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-Award to Dr. Thomas E. (“Doc”) Morgan
-Bipartisan foreign policy
-New Hampshire primary


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-New Hampshire primary
-Press coverage
-Timing
-Gerald L. Warren
-The President’s previous conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Questions
-Primary
-John N. Mitchell
-Press referrals
-White House press practices
-Comment on the primaries
-Economic matters
-Herbert Stein
-Previous conversation with Ziegler
-Progress report
-Wage and price freeze
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Press briefing
-White House response
-Television networks
-Dita D. Beard
-White House response
-Memorandum
-Hugh Scott’s statement
-Rogers
-Revenue sharing
-Busing message
-Timing
-Price, Ehrlichman, George P. Shultz
-Rogers
-Washington story
-Time for foreign leaders
-Mao Tse-tung
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Mao Tse-tung
-Chou En-lai
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Ziegler’s schedule
-Disney World
-Orlando paper
-Miami Herald

ITT
-Press coverage
-Washington Post
-Washington Star
-New York Times

Ziegler left and Henry A. Kissinger entered at 2:46 pm.

Meeting with Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Rogers
-Press conference
-White House position
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

John B. Connally
-Kissinger’s meeting
-Communiqué
-Criticism
-Taiwan, Republic of China

Rogers
-State Department
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Trade
-Conduct
-Differences
-Azores
-President’s work habits
-State Department
-November 1972
-Vietnam negotiations
-Perception of the President
-Politics
-State Department
-PRC trip
-Hangchow
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-The President’s efforts
-Concessions
-Foreign policy
-Connally’s view
-Possible replacement
-[Unintelligible]
-USSR trip
-Timing

The President’s schedule
-Quadriad meeting, March 8, 1972

Kissinger’s schedule
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]

Meeting

Kissinger left at 3:00 pm.