324–12

Conversation No. 324-12

Date: March 20, 1972
Time: 5:21 pm - 6:30 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 21-116]

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 5:30 pm.

[End of telephone conversation]
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International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-John N. Mitchell
-Colson
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Jack Gleason
-Gleason’s employment
-ITT
-Kevin P. Philips
-Gleason
-Financing
-Campaign
-Milk Fund
-President
-Maurice H. Stans
-Harry S. Dent
-Kalmbach
-Fundraising role
-Knowledge of 1970 campaign financing
-Possible danger to administration
-Candidates
-Story
-Kalmbach
-Ambassadorships
-Haldeman
-Congressional campaigns
-Fundraising
-Murray M. Chotiner
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Robert H. Finch
-Haldeman’s role in 1970 campaign financing
-List
-Colson
-Money
-Purposes
-John W. Mulcahy
-Stans
-Mulcahy
-Amount
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-Candidates
-Finances
-Reporting
-Investigation
-District of Columbia [DC] committees


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-Colson
-Democrats
-Justice Department
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson, Hubert H. Humphrey

The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming press conference
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Television
-ITT
-Proposed meeting with Marshall Green
-Timing
-The President’s forthcoming press conference
-Key Biscayne
-Advertising Council
-Gridiron dinner
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew’s view
-The President’s attendance
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-Friends
-Possible statement
-Women’s liberation
-Friends
-Richard (“Dick”) Wilson
-Terry Green
-Roscoe Drummond
-Edgar Allan Poe
-Possible attendance by Agnew or the President
-Agnew’s view
-California
-Unknown man
-Wife

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 5:30 pm and 5:50
pm.

[Conversation No. 324-12A]

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Ronald L. Ziegler

[End of telephone conversation]

The President’s schedule
-Gridiron dinner
-Herbert G. Klein
-Ziegler’s view
-The President’s possible attendance
-Agnew’s possible attendance
-Wilson

ITT case
-White House strategy
-Life story on convention
-White House response
-Department of Justice
-San Diego
-President’s view
-Coverage of ITT antitrust case
-Contribution
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-Amount
-San Diego
-Russell B. Long
-Edward M. Kennedy
-John V. Tunney
-Birch E. Bayh, Jr.
-White House strategy
-Christmas

The President’s schedule
-Gridiron dinner

Ziegler entered at 5:50 pm.

Briefing
-Drugs
-Life story

Gridiron dinner
-Agnew’s possible attendance
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Petition
-Boycott
-Women
-William P. Rogers
-Forthcoming call from Haldeman
-The President
-Agnew
-California
-Public relations judgment

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:50 pm and
5:56 pm.

[Conversation No. 324-12B]

[See Conversation No. 21-117]

[End of telephone conversation]
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Haldeman left at an unknown time before 5:56 pm.

Drug abuse
-Marijuana
-Heroin
-Dr. Jerome H. Jaffee
-Methadone

Gridiron dinner
-Paul Healy
-Women
-Ziegler’s view
-Mrs Nixon
-Ziegler’s view
-The President’s attendance
-Agnew’s attendance
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-The President’s view
-White House Correspondents’ Dinner

The White House operator talked with the President at 5:56 pm.

[Conversation No. 324-12C]

[See Conversation No. 21-118]

[End of telephone conversation]

ITT case
-Ziegler’s questions from the press
-Committee
-Dita D. Beard memorandum
-Justice Department
-Anderson

The People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Press coverage
-John A. Scali
-Ziegler
-Haldeman
-Rogers
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-Dwight L. Chapin
-Speeches
-Scali
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Rogers
-California
-Kissinger

Press conference
-Timing
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Food prices
-Economy
-Press corps
-Morning briefings
-Afternoon briefings
-Time
-Forthcoming state dinner

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 5:56 pm and 6:25
pm.

[Conversation No. 324-12D]

State dinner
-Ziegler
-Arrangements
-East Room

[End of telephone conversation]

-Dining Room

Press coverage of drug story

Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 5:56 pm.

Gridiron dinner
-Rogers
-Hawaii
-Adele (Langston) Rogers
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-Rogers’s view
-The President’s attendance
-Agnew’s possible attendance
-Connally
-Rogers
-Administration boycott
-Kissinger
-ITT
-PRC
-Rogers’s and Agnew’s attendance at previous Gridiron dinner
-Connally
-Warren E. Burger
-Ranking as Chief Justice
-Cabinet officers
-Rogers
-The President’s view
-Agnew
-The President’s attendance
-The President’s view
-Women
-Rogers
-Agnew
-Rogers’s view
-Haldeman’s view
-Bohemian Grove
-Agnew
-Cabinet officers
-Kissinger
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Rogers
-Humphrey’s attendance
-Democrats
-The President’s schedule
-California
-Florida
-Forthcoming meeting with Marshall Green

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:56 pm.

Item for Haldeman
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Bull left at an unknown time before 6:25 pm.

The President’s schedule
-Easter
-The President’s attendance at the Gridiron dinner
-Rogers
-Poe
-Agnew
-Burger
-Democrats
-Florida
-Rogers
-California
-Florida
-Biological Weapons Convention signing ceremony
-Time
-Press conference
-Green meeting
-Duration
-Rogers
-Green
-Rogers
-Press corps
-Kissinger
-Taiwan, Republic of China, as a news topic
-Rogers
-Cabinet officer
-Press conference
-Rogers
-Green

Ziegler left at 6:25 pm.

The President’s schedule
-Signing ceremony for the Drug Abuse Office and Treatment Act of 1972
-Bull
-East Room
-State Dining Room
-Number of guests
-Drugs
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-Executive Office Building [EOB] compared to the White House
-Indian Treaty Room
-The President’s view
-Time
-Forthcoming meeting with Nihat Erim
-Arrival time
-Television coverage
-Oval Office
-Guests
-Number
-Preachers, blacks
-Gridiron dinner
-The President’s attendance
-Rogers
-Ziegler
-Press
-Burger
-Call from Rogers
-The President’s forthcoming trip to Moscow
-Possible trip to Poland
-Polish Foreign Minister
-Walter J. Stoessel, Jr.
-The President’s forthcoming trip to Iran

The President and Haldeman left at 6:30 pm.