323–33

Conversation No. 323-33

Date: March 17, 1972
Time: 3:05 pm - 4:37 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

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

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Ronald L. Ziegler’s meeting with the President
-Strategy
-White House involvement
-Charles W. Colson
-Photograph
-Dita D. Beard and Jack N. Anderson’s secretaries
-Party
-Marlow W. Cook
-Colson
-Newspapers
-White House involvement
-Anderson
-Colson
-Ziegler
-Party
-Waiter’s statement
-Colson
-Doorman’s statement
-Harold S. Geneen
-Sheraton Hotel
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-Beard


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-Investigation
-Colson
-Beard memorandum
-Typewriter
-Pearl L. Tytell
-Senate hearings
-Lawyers
-Press conference
-Deposition
-Beard’s secretary
-Typing of memorandum
-Typewriter
-Tytell
-Type of ribbon
-Timing of typing of memorandum
-Roman L. Hruska [?]
-Speech in the Senate
-Charges
-Authenticity of memorandum
-Howard Hughes comparison
-Typewriter
-Beard
-Republicans
-Confirmation of Richard G. Kleindienst
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-Investigation of Anderson
-Spiro T. Agnew’s speech
-Draft
-Timing
-Memorandum
-Ziegler
-Questions
-White House involvement
-Photograph


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Public relations
-The President’s previous trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-[The President’s recent meeting with Citizens Advisory Council on Status of
Women]
The President’s previous speech on busing
-Haldeman’s view
-Public interest in issue
-Image of President during speech
-Compared to press conference
-Time
-Teleprompter compared to reading
-Length of speech

Press
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Colson
-Editorial material
-Congressional hearings
-Alger Hiss investigation and Joseph McCarthy era
-Rules of the court
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-The President’s instructions
-Double standard by press
-Forthcoming paper
-Period from 1947-1950
-McCarthy era
-Congressional committees
-Attacks by press
-Forthcoming press briefings
-Herbert G. Klein
-Agnew
-The President
-Slander by the press
-Attorney General
-White House staff
-Liberals
-Paper or article
-Buchanan


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The President’s schedule
-Use of Camp David
-William P. Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-White House staff
-Church services
-Forthcoming Soviet trip
-Summer
-Conventions
-Campaign
-Church services
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-Press conferences and briefings



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Unknown man
-Compared to Walter Taylor
-South American trip
-The President’s view

George H. W. Bush
-Speeches
-Foreign policy
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-Partisan requests
-Fundraisers
-The President’s view
-Role as US ambassador to the United Nations [UN]
-Rogers
-Private social functions
-Forthcoming dinner
-Guests
-John B. and Idanell B. (“Nellie”) Connally
-Haldemans
-Russell B. Long
-Betty Beale
-Austrian Ambassador [Karl J. Gruber?]
-Haldeman’s view
-Theodore L. Elliot, Jr.[?]
-Composition of dinner guest lists
-Austrian ambassador [Gruber?]
-Haldeman’s view
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-The President’s view

Connally
-Haldeman’s view
-The President’s view
-Price draft of unknown speech
-Haldeman’s view
-Herbert Stein
-Stein’s view
-Paul Volcker
-Past meetings at sub-secretary level
-Charls E. Walker
-The President’s view
-Peter Flanigan
-The President’s view
-Haldeman’s view

Foreign Policy
-Biological weapons
-The President’s possible participation in a treaty signing
-Rogers and Henry A. Kissinger
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Aleksei N. Kosygin’s possible attendance at ceremony
-Moscow
-British
-London
-Dobrynin
-PRC
-Possible remarks by the President
-Location of ceremony
-White House
-State Department
-Number of guests
-East Room
-Proposed meeting with Manea Manescu[?]
-Rogers and Kissinger
-Possible message from Nicolae Ceausescu

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with John C. Stennis
-Clark MacGregor’s request
-War powers legislation
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The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 3:05 pm and 4:34
pm.

[Conversation No. 323-33A]

Unknown person’s schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Phillip V. Sanchez

Press conference
-Timing
-Preparation
-Television
-ITT answer
-Richard G. Kleindienst confirmation
-National television
-Timing
-The President’s view
-The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming state dinner
-Florida
-ITT
-Beard’s testimony
-Anderson
-White House involvement
-Busing
-Moratorium
-News coverage
-Preparation
-Radio
-Microphones
-Television
-Locations
-California
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 14s ]


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The President’s schedule
-Dinners
-White House photographers’ dinner
-White House Correspondents’ dinner
-The President’s view
-Gridiron dinner
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Ray Bill [?] delegation


Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:05 pm.


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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:34 pm.


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The President’s schedule
-Chief Justice dinner
-Mexican delegation
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-George R. S. Baring [Earl of Cromer] lunch

Busing issue
-Right wing compared to left wing
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Strom Thurmond
-Legislation
-Constitutional amendment
-Moratorium
-The President’s view
-Supreme Court
-Southerners
-William J. Brennan, Jr.
-Edward L. Morgan
-The President’s view
-Questions from the press
-Haldeman’s view
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Haldeman’s view
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Dwight L. Chapin

1972 campaign
-Activity in Dade County, Florida
-Sign postings
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Busing
-Strategy
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Colson

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The President’s schedule
-Press conference

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An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time after 3:05 pm.

Call to Kissinger
-Haldeman

Haldeman talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 3:05 pm and 4:34 pm.

[Conversation No. 323-33B]

Kissinger’s schedule
-Meeting
-Old Executive Office Building Office [EOB]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President’s schedule
-Press conference
-Timing
-In-office
-Television
-ITT answer
-Options
-Comments
-Kleindienst

The President talked with Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 3:05 pm and 4:34 pm.
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[Conversation No. 323-33C]

Busing issue
-Statement
-Southerners
-Moratorium
-Constitutionality
-Congress
-Leaders
-Moratorium
-Legislation
-Intervention by the Department of Justice [DOJ]
-Kleindienst confirmation
-Mitchell
-Michigan cases

[End of telephone conversation]

Busing issue
-Legislation
-South
-Compared to North
-North
-Travel time for children
-Poor people
-Previous speech
-Constitutional amendment
-Court cases
-Public opinion

The President talked with the White House operator at 4:34 pm.

[Conversation No. 323-33D]

[See Conversation No. 21-101]

[End of telephone conversation]

Busing

The White House operator talked with the President at 4:34 pm.
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[Conversation No. 323-33E]

[See Conversation No. 21-102]

[End of telephone conversation]

Richard G. Kleindienst
-Denver
-Los Angeles
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Forthcoming call from Haldeman

Kissinger entered at 4:35 pm.

Dobrynin
-Telephone call

Kissinger’s schedule
-Trip
-Ride
-Time

The President, Haldeman, and Kissinger left at 4:37 pm.