685–3

Conversation No. 685-3

Date: March 14, 1972
Time: 9:52 am - 11:49 am
Location: Oval Office

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

Weather
-Spring
-Cherry blossoms

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Developments
-Senate
-Executive session
-John N. Mitchell testimony
-Harold S. Geneen

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 9:52 am.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:06 am.

ITT case
-Investigation
-Miami
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 685-3 (cont.)

-Typewriters
-Dita D. Beard
-Committee schedule

Arthur K. Watson
-Jack N. Anderson's article
-William P. Rogers
-Paris
-Watson's behavior aboard airplane
-Rogers
-Carl B. Albert
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Chappaquiddick

The President talked with an unknown person [Henry A. Kissinger?] at an unknown time
between 9:52 am and 10:06 am.

[Conversation No. 685-3A]

Watson story
-The President’s view
-Anderson
-Boggs
-Albert
-John N. Mitchell
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-State Department
-The President’s view

[End of telephone conversation]

Watson story
-Kissinger

Martha Mitchell
-The President’s view
-Public appearances
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 685-3 (cont.)

-Woman’s Club
-Martha Mitchell
-Adele (Langston) Rogers
-Elinor I. (Judefind) Agnew
-Davenport, Iowa
-Request for speakers
-Martha Mitchell
-Elinor Agnew
-Adele Rogers
-Barbara (Masters) Laird
-Helen D. Bentley
-Marina von N. Whitman
-Martha Mitchell
-Whitman

Arthur F. Burns
-The President’s schedule
-John B. Connally

Watson story
-Anderson
-Readership
-F. Donald Nixon

Kissinger
-Marvin L. Kalb

People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Memorandum
-Press coverage
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] special
-Announcement of US-PRC channel
-Watson
-Memorandum to Haldeman
-John A. Scali
-Talk with Haldeman
-Press coverage
-Hugh S. Sidey
-News summary
-Kissinger’s possible television appearance
-Kalb
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 685-3 (cont.)

-Stewart J.O. Alsop
-Sidey
-Television
-Kalb
-Lyndon B. Johnson

Kissinger entered at 10:06 am.

Kissinger’s possible television appearance
-Kalb
-Timing
-The President’s forthcoming press conference

Watson story
-News coverage
-Donald Nixon
-Pan American Airlines
-Najeeb E. Halaby
-Passenger
-Position
-Watson


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-The President’s view
-Stewardesses
-Stewards
-Eastern Airlines

Japan
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 685-3 (cont.)

-American Assembly meeting
-Kissinger
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Rogers
-Schedule
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Richardson
-Kissinger's schedule

The President's schedule
-California
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Gridiron dinner
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-The President as Vice President

John D. Ehrlichman
-Work on economic projects
-Connally

Panda story
-Network coverage
-Watson and the PRC
-New York Times
-Kissinger's call to Watson

PRC contact with Watson
-North Vietnamese

Wall Street Journal
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Suggestions by the President
-Sidey

Kissinger left at 10:12 am.

The President's schedule
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Kalb
-Press conference
-Timing
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 685-3 (cont.)

-Congressional recess
-Kissinger's schedule
-California
-Gridiron dinner
-The PRC trip
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Kissinger's schedule
-Meetings with Power groups
-Dwight Chapin
-Chicago
-Key States
-Cleveland
-Philadelphia
-Economic clubs
-California
-New York
-Chicago
-Philadelphia
-Texas
-Houston
-Dallas-Ft. Worth
-Connally
-Talk with Haldeman
-Kissinger
-Dinner
-Kissinger's schedule
-Scali
-Kalb

Anderson story
-Watson
-White House staff
-Reactions
-Charles W. Colson

Connally
-Contact with Haldeman

Radio talks
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-PRC
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 685-3 (cont.)

-Preparation
-Trilogy of talks
-Forthcoming Soviet trip

1972 campaign
-Contributions
-Statement
-William L. Safire
-Primaries
-The President
-General elections

Pentagon Papers story
-John F. Kennedy
-McGeorge Bundy
-1950’s
-Vietnam
-Declassification
-Campaign
-Counter attacks
-Robert J. Dole
-American Telephone and Telegraph [AT&T]

Pandas
-Network coverage
-PRC
-Crosby S. Noyes
-Washington Star
-Washington Post
-National Zoo
-Mating
-London Zoo
-Peking Zoo
-Baby panda
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Cage facilities
-Climate control
-National Zoo
-Tourists
-Names
-Chinese words for peace and friendship
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 685-3 (cont.)

-San Diego Zoo
-National Zoo
-News item

The President's schedule
-Camp Hoover
-Distance
-Helicopter
-Camp David
-Visit
-Timing
-Dinner
-Testimony
-Announcements
-Forthcoming Soviet trip
-Busing
-Press conference
-Questions
-ITT

Busing issue
-Early morning staff meeting
-Richard K. Cook
-The President
-Television
-Exposure to the public
-ITT issue
-Congressional support
-John D. Ehrlichman and George P. Shultz
-Safire
-Democrats
-Request for equal time
-Speech
-Draft
-Price
-Leonard Garment
-Congress
-Timing
-Legislation
-Speech draft
-Wording of conclusion
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 685-3 (cont.)

-Blacks in government
-The President’s view
-Liberals
-Garment
-Daniel P. Moynihan
-Ehrlichman
-Shultz
-Richardson
-Civil rights lawyers
-Blacks
-Jewish liberals

The President's schedule
-Business Council
-Cabinet members
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Herbert Stein
-[Peter G. Peterson]
-Haldeman’s view
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Connally
-Peterson
-ITT comparison
-White House
-Peterson
-Possible domestic trips
-Chicago trip
-Soviet trip
-California trip
-Timing
-Themes
-Environment
-Law enforcement
-Black convention
-Concern
-Drugs
-Suburbs
-Possible Administration initiative
-Central cities
-Drugs
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 685-3 (cont.)

-Environment
-Timing
-Reaction by the public
-New York
-Pennsylvania
-Ohio
-Pittsburgh
-New York City
-Televised press conferences
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Trip throughout the US
-Purpose
-Press
-Washington, DC
-Congress
-Need for subjects
-Political rally
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Event in Birmingham, Alabama, May 25, 1971
-Official photographs
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Howard A. Cohen [?]
-Photography
-Single portrait
-Atkins
-Arnold Newman
-Hollywood photographers
-Painting or sculpture
-Possibility
-American Medical Association [AMA] meeting
-Chairman of the Board
-Meeting with the President
-The President's attendance
-Colson
-Meeting with four outstanding young farmers
-Earl L. Butz
-South Dakota
-Time
-Directors of Honor America Day
-Meeting
-J. Willard Marriot, Jr.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 685-3 (cont.)

-Meeting with Republican leaders
-Senate
-House of Representatives
-Meeting with Democratic leaders

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 10:49 am.

The President’s forthcoming trip to Canada
-Announcement
-Gerald L. Warren
-Mrs. Nixon
-Attendance
-Confirmation with office

Ziegler left at 10:50 am.

The President’s forthcoming trip to Canada
-Ziegler
-Question
-Mrs. Nixon
-Constance M. Stuart

The President's schedule
-Interstate Commerce Commission [ICC]
-Donald L. Jackson
-Resignation
-Meeting with the President
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Country wide tour
-California
-Organization of American States [OAS]
-Canada
-Philadelphia
-Dinner
-Sons of Italy
-John Cardinal Krol
-Frank Rizzo
[Forename unknown] Balteiri [sp?]
-Comparison to Knights of Columbus
-Time
-The President's attendance
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 685-3 (cont.)

-John A. Volpe's attendance
-Presidential speech
-John J. McLaughlin
-Jewish editors
-Southern Baptists
-Philadelphia
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham crusade
-Dallas
-Southern Baptists
-Sons of Italy

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:50 am.

The President's schedule
-Ehrlichman and Edward L. Morgan
-Meeting with the President

Bull left at 10:57 am.

Sons of Italy dinner

Agnew
-Votes
-Network coverage

An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time before 10:57 am.

Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.

John N. Ashbrook

Ehrlichman and Morgan entered at 10:57 am.

Busing speech
-Television address
-Price's draft
-The President's work

Haldeman left at 10:58 pm.

-Safire
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 685-3 (cont.)

-Length of address
-Wording
-Time
-Briefing on legislation, March 17, 1972
-Draft
-Safire
-Third draft
-Length of address
-Cook
-Equal time
-Democrats
-Price's draft
-Wording
-Rights

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Nassir Assar
-Central Treaty Organization [CENTO]
-Jack R. Miller

Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:58 am.

Miller meeting
-Kiwanis International
-Time
-Press photograph
-Atkins

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:49 am.

Busing issue
-Statutes
-Equal educational opportunity rights
-Tulsa, Oklahoma
-Phoenix, Arizona
-De facto
-De jure
-Courts
-Garment
-Mitchell
-Robert H. Bork
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 685-3 (cont.)

-Law professor
-Constitutional issue
-Moratorium
-Parents
-Children
-Transfers from majority-status to minority-status schools

The President talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 10:58 am and 11:49 am.

[Conversation No. 685-3B]

The President’s forthcoming meeting with Assar
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Kissinger's schedule

The President talked with Haig at an unknown time between 10:58 am and 11:49 am.

[Conversation No. 685-3C]

The President's schedule
-Upcoming meeting
-Time
-Assar
-Nazmi Akiman

[End of telephone conversation]

Busing
-Children's age
-Grades
-Civil rights
-Constitutional issue
-Sixth grade and below
-Price
-Mitchell
-Garment
-Price and Garment
-Civil rights people
-Liberal press reaction
-The President’s view
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 685-3 (cont.)

-1972 election
-Price and Garment
-Sixth grade and below
-Parents
-Percentage of children bused
-Percentage from previous year
-Liberals
-Speech
-Safire
-Wording
-“Racial balance”
-Bork
-James Coleman
-Moynihan
-Multi-racial experiences
-Virginia's governor [Linwood Holton]
-Holton’s previous conversation with Ehrlichman
-Black compared to white
-The President’s view
-Moynihan
-Intelligence quotients
-Japanese and Chinese
-Blacks
-British and Irish
-Edmund Burke
-Price
-Racial equality
-French Revolution
-Garment
-Liberals
-Speech draft
-Wording
-Changes by the President
-Brown vs. Board of Education
-Price
-Quality of black schools
-Money
-Legislation
-Sixth grade and below
-Moratorium
-Justice Department
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 685-3 (cont.)

-Tupelo, Mississippi
-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP]
-Desegregation
-Constitutional argument
-Supreme Court
-Congress
-Revenue sharing
-Welfare reform
-Desegregation
-No increase in busing
-Court cases
-Attorney General
-Tupelo, Mississippi
-Exeptions
-Attorney General of the US
-De jure segregation
-Additional busing
-Clark MacGregor
-Constitutional amendment
-House of Representatives
-Speech, March 16, 1972
-Safire
-Length
-Briefing
-Congressional leaders
-March 17, 1972
-Speech
-Date
-Briefing for key Senators and Congressmen
-Press
-Message to Congress
-The President's talk with Haldeman
-Lawyers
-Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-List of all Schedule C lawyers in government
-Pipeline Case comparison
-Lands Division of the Department of Justice
-Finances
-Title I
-Congress
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 685-3 (cont.)

-Districts
-Allocation
-Desegregation needs
-Poor districts
-Moratorium
-Use of word in speech draft
-Safire
-Soft version
-Liberals in the Administration
-Majority-minority transfer
-School construction
-Majority/Minority transfer
-Hearings
-Richardson
-Freedom of choices
-Jewish parents
-John V. Lindsay
-Forest Hills
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Black appointees
-Meeting with Ehrlichman
-Samuel C. Jackson
-Samuel J. Simmons
-Robert J. Brown
-Democrats
-Resolution
-Roy E.A. Innis
-Harlem
-Watts
-South Chicago

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 10:58 am.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:49 am.

Busing
-Effect on black children
-Black universities
-Washington Post
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 685-3 (cont.)

-New York Times
-Dallas Morning News
-Constitutional amendments
-Ehrlichman's and Morgan's work in the regions
-Editorials boards
-Michigan
-Poll
-PRC trip
-Black Caucus
-William G. Miliken [?]
-Poll
-Black caucus
-Ehrlichman in California
-Chicago
-Pasadena, California
-Pennsylvania
-Ohio
-Illinois
-Richard J. Daley
-The President’s forthcoming meeting with Assar
-CENTO
-Speech draft
-Safire and Price
-Changes
-Primary
-Domestic issue
-Regional efforts by the Administration
-Tennessee
-Kentucky
-Virginia
-Texas
-Dallas
-Ehrlichman's previous trip
-Editorial boards
-Television stations
-Luncheon
-Houston
-Black population
-San Antonio
-Mexicans
-California
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 685-3 (cont.)

-Orange County
-Ohio
-Denver, Colorado
-Illinois
-Indiana
-Indianapolis
-Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia
-Indiana
-Ohio
-California
-Texas
-Illinois
-Wisconsin
-New York
-Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Charles H. Percy
-Roman C. Pucinski
-Conservative Republicans
-Loraine (Guyer) Percy’s forthcoming trip to the PRC
-Ehrlichman and Morgan
-Meeting with Colson and MacGregor
-Public relations
-Columnists
-Example of Kissinger
-Alsop
-Television
-Show in Dallas
-Questions and answers
-Herbert G. Klein
-Speech
-Ziegler
-Time
-Length
-Briefing of congressmen
-Briefing of press
-Location
-Message to Congress
-Speech
-Price and Garment
-Richardson
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 685-3 (cont.)

-Shultz

Social Security
-Shultz [?]
-Memorandum to the President
-Twenty per cent
-Connally
-Letter to Wallace F. Bennett
-Ehrlichman
-House Resolution [H.R.] 1
-Arthur S. Flemming
-Benefits
-Percentages
-Administration
-Congress
-Cost of living increase
-Shultz
-Connally
-William E. Timmons
-Veto
-Connally
-Meeting with the President
-Taxes

Ehrlichman’s schedule

The President, Ehrlichman and Morgan left at 11:49 am.