698–9

Conversation No. 698-9

Date: March 30. 1972
Time: 5:32 pm - 6:11 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

The President's schedule
-Prior meeting with Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-George Meany
-Forthcoming speech at the National Catholic Educational Association [NCEA]
convention
-Wisconsin primary
-Timing

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 5:32 and 5:51 pm; the
President conferred with Haldeman during the call.

-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Length
-Buchanan
-Completion
-Timing

[End of telephone conversation]

-Opinions whether to give the speech
-Pro and con
-Debates
-Domestic Council
-Meeting
-Charles W. Colson
-George P. Shultz
-John B. Connally

Canadian trip
-Schedule
-State dinner
-Roland Mitchener
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-Luncheons
-Pierre E. Trudeau
-Entertainment
-Buffet
-Receiving line
-Mitchener
-Arrival time

Soviet trip
-Kissinger's meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Poland
-Stopover
-Kissinger

[The following portion of this conversation is included in RG 460; the WSPF did not transcribe
this portion.]

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Colson
-Discussions
-Colson
-Vacation
-Other work
-John D. Ehrlichman
-The administration’s anti-trust policy
-Statements
-News stories
-Meeting
-Memoranda
-John N. Mitchell
-Richard W. McLaren

[End of RG 460]

Forthcoming speech to the NCEA
-Timing
-Wisconsin primary
-Television
-Time
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

Phillip V. Sanchez
-Background
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-Meeting with the President
-Discussion
-Position
-Haldeman’s view
-Lawyer

American Cancer Society meeting
-Ann Landers
-Letter
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-[Mike Finamore]
-Leukemia
-Finamore
-Statement to the President
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-John F. Kennedy

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:32 pm.

Birthday calls

Meeting with Colson

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:51 pm.

Telephone calls
-Birthday greetings
-Associates of the President
-Senators and Congressmen
-One call per day
-Notes
-Edward J. Gurney
-Marlow W. Cook
-Hugh Scott
-Congratulation calls
-Fitzsimmons
-Pay Board
-Meeting
-Notes
-Criteria for notes
-General Services Administration [GSA]
-The President as Vice President
-Letters from Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Sanchez
-Invitation to the state dinner for Luis Echeverria Alvarez
-Rose Mary Woods
-List
-Romana Acosta Banuelos
-Food
-Fred Waring
-Eisenhower
-Press reaction

Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
-Waring
-Alice Roosevelt Longworth
-Naming of center
-Kennedy
-Kennedy family
-[William McC. Blair, Jr.]
-Roger C. Stevens
-Personnel Committee
-Trustees
-Administration action

Colson entered at 5:51 pm.

Fitzsimmons
-Experience
-George Meany
-Election
-Meeting with the President
-Discussion
-Compared to the President’s breakfast with Meany
-Stephen B. Bull
-Longshoremen
-Building trades
-Unions
-Meany
-Henry M. (\"Scoop\") Jackson
-Leonard Woodcock
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Democratic National Convention
-Muskie
-Meany
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-Woodcock
-American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial
Organizations [AFL-CIO]
-Control by Meany
-Meany
-John L. Lewis
-Talk with Colson
-Meany
-Constituency
-Columbia Country Club
-Burning Tree
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Meany
-Membership for Fitzsimmons
-Chevy Chase
-Joseph Vitolio [sp?]
-New York
-[First name unknown] Schlesing [sp?]
-Einar Mohn
-Murray R. (“Dusty”) Miller
-George T. Bell
-Meeting with eastern Ohio business agents of all unions
-[First name unknown] Galtieri [sp?]
-International Brotherhood of Teamsters
-Support for the President
-James R. (“Jimmy”) Hoffa
-Television appearance
-Endorsement for the President
-Issues and Answers
-Meany
-Relationship with the Administration
-Breakfast meeting with the the President
-Connally
-Labor leaders
-Compared to businessmen
-View of the President
-Vocabulary
-George P. Shultz
-Relationship with Fitzsimmons
-Golf

The President's schedule
-Golf
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-Meany
-Fitzsimmons
-Shultz
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

Colson's schedule

Dinah Shore Show
-Landers
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Taping
-Timing
-The President’s trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]

Colson's schedule
-Vacation
-Golf
-Greenbrier
-Truman Wright
-Homestead
-Williamsburg
-New England
-Jack J. Dreyfus, Jr.
-Boston
-Cape Cod

Aid for parochial schools
-Shultz
-Speech at the NCEA
-Timing
-Wisconsin primary
-Catholics

The President's schedule
-Sons of Italy
-John Cardinal Krol
-Philadelphia
-Aid for parochial schools
-Controversy
-Cardinal Krol
-Terence Cardinal Cooke
-The President's announcement
-Archdiocese press
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-Catholic Standard

News events
-Politics
-Wisconsin primary
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Birch E. Bayh, Jr.
-ITT

[The following portion of this conversation is included in RG 460; the WSPF did not transcribe
this portion.]

ITT
-Public opinion
-Mail
-Congressional
-White House
-Party workers
-Republican National Committee
-Edward Kennedy
-Kleindienst
-Talk with James O. Eastland
-Possible closing of hearings
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Statement

[End of RG 460]

Economy
-Grand Union food chain
-Announcement of freeze on prices
-Meat
-Poultry
-Public psychology
-Connally
-Networks
-Grand Union

Rose Mary Woods entered at 6:08 pm.

Dinah Shore Show
-Appearance by Julie Nixon Eisenhower
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Haldeman's schedule

Haldeman and Colson left at 6:08 pm.

Dinah Shore Show
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower's appearance

The President’s schedule


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Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 6:08 pm.

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:11 pm.


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White House bonsai trees


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The President and Woods left at 6:11 pm.
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