681–5

Conversation No. 681-5

Date: March 9, 1972
Time: 4:41 pm - 5:35 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.


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The President’s schedule
-Telephone call from John B. Connally
-Possible meeting
-Economic policy

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:41 pm.

The President’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:15 pm.

The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming breakfast
-George Meany
-Henry A. Kissinger

Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:41 pm.

-Meany
-George P. Shultz

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:15 pm.

-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-National wreath laying ceremony
-Congressional resolution
-Participants
-Carol Hanson
-Evelyn Grubb
-Janice Ray
-William E. Brock, III
-Robert J. Dole
-John H. Rousselot
-Harrison A. Williams
-Jack Edwards [?]
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Press
-John D. Ehrlichman, Elliot L. Richardson, Arthur S. Flemming, Shultz
-Meeting
-Social Security
-Prescription drugs
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-Richardson
-Domestic issues
-Ehrlichman
-Water bill
-Forthcoming meeting with Connally
-Shultz
-The President’s view
-Busing meeting
-Shultz
-Forthcoming meeting
-Ehrlichman
-Connally
-Shultz
-Timing

Approval polls
-White House
-November 1971, January 1972, and March 1972 polls
-Comparison of percentages
-Men and women
-Elderly and youth
-Vietnam War
-The People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Blacks
-John F. Becker poll
-State polls
-Vietnam War


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-Vietnam War
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-Economics
-The President
-Characteristics
-Percentages
-George H. Gallup

Kissinger
-Kalb interview

Television special
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-“World Ambassador”
-United States Information Agency [USIA]
-Documentary
-Local stations
-Networks
-“The Nixon Years”
-Tribute to Mrs. Nixon
-Democratic Convention
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Unknown man
-Madison Square Garden

Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:41 pm.

The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting
-Ehrlichman and Shultz

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:15 pm.

Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1970 [?]
-Signing
-Ehrlichman
-Robert H. Finch
-Leonard Garment
-Charles W. Colson [?]
-Connally
-18 year olds
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Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:41 pm.

The President’s schedule
-Executive Office Building [EOB]

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:15 pm.

Connally

The President’s schedule
-Social Security meeting
-Busing meeting
-Bill signing

Transportation use
-The President’s use of helicopters
-Compared to Dwight D. Eisenhower

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Jack N. Anderson
-Marlow W. Cook
-Roman L. Hruska
-Cook
-James O. Eastland
-Unknown man
-Interview
-Testimony
-Dita D. Beard
-John N. Mitchell
-Call from the President

Kissinger entered at 5:15 pm.

The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Kissinger’s meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Announcement of agreements
-Agreements
-Grain and trade
-Maritime
-Incidents at sea
-Health
-Science
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-Space
-Environment
-Earl Butz
-Grain deal
-Soviet Commerce Minister
-Peter G. Peterson
-David W. Kendall’s view
-Public relations
-Robert J. McCloskey
-State Department
-William P. Rogers
-Dobrynin
-White House staff
-Soviet secret police
-Communication with Secret Service
-Dobrynin
-Public relations
-Rogers
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Dobrynin
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Ziegler
-Dobrynin
-McCloskey
-The President’s view
-Rogers
-NATO
-The President’s previous trip around the world
-Dobrynin
-Advance arrangements
-Press
-Ziegler
-Secret Service
-McCloskey

ITT case
-Haldeman’s forthcoming telephone call to Mitchell
-Peter M. Flanigan [?]
-Haldeman’s view
-Anti-trust activity
-Ehrlichman
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Busing
-Announcement

PRC
-Instructions for cadres
-Imperialists
-Use of word
-US-PRC relations
-Trade
-Technical personnel
-Kissinger’s view
-Dobrynin
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Chinese sources
-Kissinger’s October trip to the PRC
-Soviet forces in Asia
-Missiles
-Kissinger’s response
-PRC relations with the US, Soviet Union, Japan,and India
-Kissinger’s view
-Kissinger’s view
-September upheaval in PRC
-The President’s meeting with Mao Tse-tung
-PRC opponents
-Soviet Union
-Mongolia

The President’s forthcoming Soviet trip
-State Department
-McCloskey
-Rogers
-Compared to the PRC trip
-Agreements between the US and Soviet Union
-Rogers
-Memorandum
-Taiwan, Republic of China and PRC
-Names of each country

Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:15 pm.

The President’s schedule
-Ehrlichman
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-Location
-Busing meeting

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:18 pm.

The President’s forthcoming Soviet trip
-Kissinger’s meeting with Dobrynin
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Submarines
-Conversion of missiles
-Gerard C. Smith

Haldeman left at 5:18 pm.

-Grain deal
-Preliminary negotiations
-Butz
-Clarence D. Palmby
-Butz
-Dobrynin
-The President’s schedule
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Warsaw
-NATO
-Iran
-Japan
-Leningrad
-Moscow
-Tiblisi, Georgia
-Iran
-Tiblisi
-Frank J. Shakespeare
-SALT
-Middle East

The President and Kissinger left at 5:35 pm.