325–1

Conversation No. 325-1

Date: March 14, 1972
Time: Unknown after 4:55 pm until 5:52 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]

Press conference

Media relations
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Charles W. Colson
-Herbert G. Klein
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-Colson
-Staff
-The President’s view
-The President’s role
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

Financial contributions
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Ziegler’s press conference
-$400,000.00
-Republican National Committee [RNC]
-President’s knowledge
-Ziegler
-White House
-Blair House dinners
-John B. Connally
-Companies and industries
-Business
-Anti-Trust
-F. Donald Nixon
-Trans World Airlines [TWA]
-Democrats
-Hubert H. Humphrey
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The People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Material for speakers
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-World reaction
-Patrick J. Buchanan

Foreign trade
-Soviets-Peter M. Flanigan
-Involvement
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Forthcoming meeting with Flanigan
-Politics
-Kissinger
-Possible meeting with Flanigan and the President
-State Department
-Flanigan compared with Kissinger
-Forthcoming meeting between Flanigan and Kissinger

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:55 pm and 5:52
pm.

[Conversation No. 325-1A]

[See Conversation No. 21-71]

[End of telephone conversation]

Foreign trade
-Kissinger’s concerns
-Peter G. Peterson
-Earl L. Butz
-Flanigan

An unknown person talked with the President at an unknown time between 4:55 pm and 5:52
pm.

[Conversation No. 325-1B]

[See Conversation 21-72]

[End of telephone conversation]
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Administrations
-The President’s view
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-John F. Kennedy

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr. at an unknown time between 4:55 pm and 5:52
pm.

[Conversation No. 325-1C]

Foreign trade
-The President’s previous conversation with Haldeman
-Flanigan
-Kissinger
-Butz
-Peterson
-State Department
-Politics and economics
-Flanigan
-Kissinger
-Peterson
-Butz

[End of telephone conversation]

-Kissinger
-Flanigan and Peterson
-White House
-Kissinger
-Peterson
-Butz
-Flanigan

Flanigan
-The President’s view
-Businessmen
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Donald McI. Kendall
-Jack Drown
-Colson
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-Democrats
-Edmund S. Muskie

The President talked with Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 4:55 pm and 5:52 pm.

[Conversation No. 325-1D]

The President’s forthcoming speech on busing
-Camp David
-Possible staff meeting
-News stories
-Flanigan
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Helicopter
-Writers
-William L. Safire
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.

[End of telephone conversation]

The President’s schedule
-Camp David
-Meeting
-Republicans
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Interruption
-Unknown woman
-Letter
-Baseball

The PRC trip
-George H. Gallup poll
-Awareness of the American public
-Percentage

The President’s schedule
-Republican National Convention
-California
-Democrats
-National Convention
-Congress
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Conv. No. 325-1 (cont.)


-Republican Convention
-Miami
-Television
-Press
-The President’s view
-Congress
-Recess
-Vacation
-San Clemente

Ziegler
-Press briefings
-Frequency

The President’s schedule
-Republican National Convention
-Washington


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San Francisco
-Connally
-Historic buildings
-1906 earthquake
-General Services Administration [GSA]
-U.S. Mint
-Mary T. Brooks
-Computer center
-Museum
-Connally
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-Restoration of the original furniture
-The President’s possible announcement
-Haldeman’s view
-Gateway West Park

The President’s schedule
-Camp David
-Timing
-Forthcoming staff meeting
-Helipad

Haldeman talked with an unknown [Ehrlichman?] person at an unknown time between 4:55 pm
and 5:52 pm.

[Conversation No. 325-1E]

Camp David
-Forthcoming staff meeting
-Timing of the President’s trip
-Safire
-Price
-Edward L. Morgan
-Ehrlichman [?]
-Secretaries
-Rose Mary Woods

[End of telephone conversation]

Forthcoming staff meeting at Camp David

Historic building in San Francisco

Haldeman left at 5:52 pm.