692–7

Conversation No. 692-7

Date: March 23, 1972
Time: 5:23 pm - 6:24 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

National economy
-George Meany’s resignation from the Pay Board
-The President's statement
-Ronald L. Ziegler's views
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-John B. Connally's forthcoming statement
-Content and phraseology
-Length of statement
-Possible press coverage
-Views of Hugh Scott, John W. Byrnes, Gerald R. Ford

The President's role in government
-Use of television
-Leadership
-Connally
-Haldeman’s view
-Press conferences
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 692-7 (cont.)

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-Arthur F. Burns
-Appointment to Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
-George P. Shultz
-Frederic V. Malek
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Connally
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Shultz

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 5:23 and 5:33 pm.

[Conversation No. 692-7A]

Charles W. Colson's schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

National economy
-Pay Board
-The President's statement regarding Meany's resignation
-William L. Safire's draft
-The President’s August 15, 1971 statement
-Content and phraseology
-Special interests
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-The President's opponents' attack on International Telephone
and Telegraph [ITT]
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 692-7 (cont.)

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The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:23 and 5:33
pm.

[Conversation No. 692-7B]

[See Conversation No. 22-5]

[End of telephone conversation]

-Press conference
-Ziegler
-John N. Mitchell
-President’s response

The President talked with Ziegler between 5:33 and 5:34 pm.

[Conversation No. 692-7C]

[See Conversation No. 22-6]

[End of telephone conversation]

Colson entered at 5:34 pm.
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 692-7 (cont.)

National economy
-Pay Board
-The President's statement on Meany's resignation
-Meany’s representation of American labor force
-Meany's resignation
-Louis P. Harris's views
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Food prices
-Pay Board
-Meany's resignation
-Connally
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Colson's conversation with Connally
-Special interests
-Harris's views


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National economy
-Pay Board
-Leonard Woodcock's resignation
-Possible political effect
-Meany
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Democratic candidates
-Public's views

ITT case
-Dita D. Beard memorandum
-Efforts of the Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Independent experts
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Tape Subject Log
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-[Forename unknown] Conrad's report
-Withdrawal
-John D. Ehrlichman's efforts
-Possible report
-Tests by Pearl L. Tytell
-Tests by an unknown man in Chicago [Walter McCrone?]
-W. Clement Stone
-Tests by the Treasury Department
-J. Edgar Hoover's cooperation
-Forthcoming letter to Senate committee
-Conrad
-Ehrlichman's efforts
-Tytell's role
-Alger Hiss case
-Husband
-FBI’s view
-Beard
-Forthcoming testimony
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Health
-Ziegler
-Unknown woman in Canada
-Clifford Irving case
-Efforts of Marlow Cook, Roman L. Hruska, Hugh Scott
-Memorandum
-Tests by experts
-Public relations benefits
-White House strategy
-Tytell
-McCrone
-Methodologies

Voltaire's comment regarding women and virtue

Beard
-Kennedy's efforts
-Views of other senators
-Scott
-Kennedy's conversation with James O. Eastland
-Harold S. Geneen
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Philip A. Hart
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-Clifford Irving, Howard Hughes
-Ehrlichman's conversations with J. Edgar Hoover
-Memorandum
-Testimony by experts
-Tytell

National economy
-Pay Board
-The President's statement regarding Meany's resignation
-Content and phraseology
-Meany's resignation
-Jay Lovestone
-Colson's conversation with Victor Riesel
-Motives and expectations
-Partisanship
-The President’s address to the American Federation of Labor-
Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO] in Bal
Harbour, Florida, November 19, 1971
-Shultz
-Mamie G.D. Eisenhower
-The President's statement
-Effect on building trades unions
-Calls by George T. Bell and James D. Hodgson
-Colson's forthcoming call to Peter J. Brennan
-AFL-CIO
-Meany’s representation of American labor force
-International Brotherhood of Teamsters
-Autoworkers
-Longshoremen’s strike
-The President's response
-Possible television speech
-Birch E. Bayh, Jr.
-Busing
-Equal time
-ITT

Television networks
-Equal time
-Balance on news broadcasts
-Busing
-Vietnam
-Views regarding busing
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National economy
-Pay Board
-Meany's resignation
-The President's response
-Harry S. Truman
-Public response
-Stock market
-Stock market
-Gross National Product [GNP]
-Views of Connally and Herbert Stein
-Retail sales
-Statistics
-Efforts of government agencies
-The President's memorandum to Shultz and Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Department of Defense
-Weinberger
-Ehrlichman
-Decline in government purchases
-News summary
-Shultz
-Haldeman's forthcoming meeting with Melvin R. Laird and [David] Kenneth
Rush
-Twice weekly reports to the President
-Government purchases
-Vietnam
-Shultz
-Weinberger
-Robert C. Moot
-Reports to the President

Haldeman's conversation with Harry Cohen of Hornblower and Weeks
-Stock market
-The President's previous trip to the People's Republic of China [PRC]

The President's previous trip to the PRC
-Exhibit
-Haldeman’s view
-Circulation
-John Scali's schedule
-PRC ping pong team
-Television
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 692-7 (cont.)

-Under Secretaries
-Congressional groups
-Sub-cabinet
-White House staff
-Briefing on the President's PRC trip
-Compared to Henry A. Kissinger's briefings
-Effectiveness
-Scali’s status as a Democrat
-Associated Press [AP]
-Daniel Patrick Moynihan
-Newsworthiness
-Compared to ITT and busing
-The President's forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union

State Department files on Congressional trips
-Scali
-Requests by William A. Gill, Jr. and Stewart M. Hensley
-Arthur K. Watson
-Hiram L. Fong’s comment in a committee hearing
-Marshall Green
-Congressmen's activities in foreign countries
-Counterpart funds
-Immunity
-Colson's previous conversation with William B. Macomber, Jr.


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-Contrasted with the President's foreign travel
-The President’s travels as a private citizen
-Businessmen
-Counterpart funds
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-Allen J. Ellender
-Colson's conversation with Macomber
-William P. Rogers
-John E. Hunt
-Statement
-Watson
-Kennedy
-Paris
-Funeral of Charles A.J.M. de Gaulle
-Mexico
-Alaska
-Watson

1972 campaign
-Possible threats by administration

ITT
-American Telephone and Telegraph [AT&T]
-Robert J. Dole
-Democrats' debt
-Possible threats by administration
-Investigation
-FBI
-Typewriter
-Jack N. Anderson
-Possible leaks by the administration
-Possible break-in
-Possible leaks by the administration
-Carl B. Albert, [Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Efforts of Herbert G. Klein and Colson
-Brit Hume
-White House investigation
-Relationship with Drew Pearson
-Media coverage
-Time and Newsweek
-Stories regarding ITT
-Veracity
-Salvador Allende Gossens
-Time, Newsweek
-Influence
-Readership
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The President's forthcoming speech to the Canadian Parliament
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-The President's possible efforts

The President's forthcoming radio speech on the Supreme Court
-Price


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Unknown man
-Wife
-Colson’s view
-CPI

The President's activities

Administration public relations
-Polls
-Drug issue
-Meany
-Harris
-Problems
-Congress
-Media

Haldeman and Colson left at 6:24 pm.