Secret White House Tapes

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686–4
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Ronald L. Ziegler
  • H. R. Haldeman
March 17, 1972
Conversation No. 686-4

Date: March 17, 1972
Time: 7:58 - 8:04 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.


Ziegler's conversations
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-John D. Ehrlichman


Forthcoming bipartisan leaders meeting
-Robert P. Griffin
-Message to Congress
-The President’s return from the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Television
-Congress
-Michael J. Mansfield
-George H. Mahon

Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 7:58 am.

News story
-Unknown place
-Washington Post
-Ziegler’s schedule

Busing
-Ehrlichman
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 686-4 (cont.)

-Constitutional amendment
-Griffin amendment
-Press briefing
-East room
-Reporters
-Timing
-Busing speech
-Constitutional amendment
-Ehrlichman [?]
-Talk with Haldeman
-Leonard Garment
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Elliot L. Richardson
-George P. Shultz
-Support
-William E. Brock, III
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-John G. Tower
-Washington Post
-George S. McGovern
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Edward M. Kennedy
-McGovern
-George C. Wallace
-John N. Ashbrook
-Henry M. (\"Scoop\") Jackson
-Brock
-Hugh Scott
-Newspapers
-McGovern
-John V. Lindsay
-Roy Wilkins
-News
-Congress of Racial Equality [CORE]
-Thomas G. Wicker
-Sander Vanocur
-Percentage of people supporting the President’s policy
-Comparison to New Hampshire primary
-Professors
-Telephone calls
-Computer
-Overall reactions
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 686-4 (cont.)

-Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak
-Florida primary
-Wallace
-Archie Bunker
-All in the Family

Ziegler and Haldeman left at 8:04 am.
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