461–2

Conversation No. 461-2

Date: March 2, 1971
Time: 10:26 am - 11:00 am
Location: Oval Office

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

President’s schedule
-Reporters
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon
-Forthcoming Irish event
-Herbert J. (“Jackie”) Gleason
-Health
-Irish Castle group
-Irish Rovers
-Lennon Sisters
-Irish Rovers
-Repertoire
-Medal of Honor ceremonies
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-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Number
-Major General James D. (“Don”) Hughes

Ziegler entered at 10:27 am

-President’s role
-Press coverage Conv. No. 461-2 (cont.)
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Photographs
-President’s remarks
-Vice President Agnew’s role
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Dwight D. Eisenhower Administration
-President’s presentation
-Korean War
-Vietnam War
-Number
-Easter Seals
-President’s participation
-Open Hour
-Robert Young
-Cause
-Young
-Previous attendance at White House events
-Health
-Wife

Press briefings
-John N. Mitchell
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Manpower briefing, March 4, 1971
-Urban briefing, March 5, 1971
-President’s upcoming press conference
-Rochester

The President’s schedule
-Press conference
-An announcement
-Timing
-Mark I. Goode
-Length
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-Peter Lisagor
-Wire services
-Format and topics
-Foreign policy
-Domestic policy

Ziegler’s briefing
-The President’s forthcoming press conferences Conv. No. 461-2 (cont.)
-Topics
-Middle East
-Law Enforcement Assistance Administration [LEAA]
-Textiles
-Middle East
-Henry A. Kissinger

President’s trip to Des Moines
-Upcoming trip to Rochester
-Problems in Des Moines
-Press coverage
-Demonstrators
-Howard K. Smith
-William A. Gill, Jr.
-Coverage
-Ziegler’s forthcoming conversation with Gill
-Gill’s news coverage
-A hardhat
-Laos
-Charles W. Colson
-Building Trades Council
-Peter J. Brennan
-Walt W. Rostow [?]
-Number of hardhats
-News coverage
-National Farm Organization
-Numbers
-Students for a Democratic Society [SDS]
-Drake University
-Organization
-Gerald L. Warren
-Dan Rather
-Rather’s report
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President’s schedule
-Rochester
-Plans
-Ronald H. Walker
-Presidential events
-Motorcade
-Press bus
-Dwight L. Chapin’s role Conv. No. 461-2 (cont.)

Public relations
-President’s previous speech to Iowa legislature
-Importance
-Coverage
-Rather, Columbia Broadcasting Company [CBS] coverage
-New York Times
-Governor Warren E. Hearnes
-Donald Oberdorfer, Jr.
-Gill
-Oberdorfer
-Headlines in Washington Post
-Robert Boyd
-Knight News
-Wire service
-Herbert E. Kaplow
-Radio coverage
-Oberdorfer, Washington Post
-Demonstration
-A report
-Missouri, Illinois, Iowa
-Robert D. Ray
-Demonstration
-Press reports

[Unintelligible]

Haldeman left at 10:45 am

Mitchell entered at 10:45 am

Greetings
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Mitchell’s forthcoming press conference
-The President’s role
-LEAA
-Manpower
-Revenue sharing
-Urban development
-Crime
-President’s role Conv. No. 461-2 (cont.)

Ziegler left at an unknown time after 10:45 am

Wiretapping
-Congress
-Administration plans
-Constitutionality
-Cases
-An internal security case
-Possible appeal to Supreme Court
-Congress
-President’s call for review
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Mitchell’s conversation with Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield, Hugh Scott, and Carl
B. Albert

US Capitol security
-Possible reorganization of police force
-Chief [Forename unknown] Buzzie [?]
-Chief [Forename unknown] Kidd
-Compared with White House security
-Albert’s response
-Department of Justice assistance
-1954 attack on House of Representatives by three Puerto Rican nationalists
-Bombing incident
-Injury
-Warning
-Search
-Police
-Congress
-Executive Protective Service [EPS]
-Mansfield, Scott
-Bombing
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Mitchell’s forthcoming press conference
-Special revenue sharing
-LEAA
-Funds for Capitol police
-Revenue sharing
-Matching funds
-Importance
-Mitchell’s comments Conv. No. 461-2 (cont.)

[The President talked with the White House operator at 10:53 am]

[Conversation No. 461-2A ]

Call to Albert

[End of telephone conversation]

Ziegler entered at 10:53 am

Mitchell’s forthcoming press conference
-Capitol police
-Colson
-Possible questions
-LEAA
-Capitol Police
-Possible reorganization
-Albert, Scott, Mansfield
-William Walker
-Executive Protective Branch, Secret Service
-General Services Administration [GSA]
-Department of Justice
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-LEAA funds
-Mitchell’s comments
-US Capitol police
-Possible headlines
-Revenue sharing
-President’s role

Ziegler left at 10:55 am

John W. McCormack
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[The President talked with Albert between 10:55 am and 10:59 am]

[Conversation No. 461-2B ]

Mitchell’s forthcoming press conference
-LEAA
-Matching funds Conv. No. 461-2 (cont.)
-Mitchell’s conversation with Albert

US Capitol police
-Funds
-Training
-Gerald R. Ford and Albert’s role
-Compared with White House police reorganization
-EPS
-Congressional appropriation
-Embassy duty
-Funds
-Congressional appropriation
-Importance
-Bombing incident
-President’s speech in Des Moines
-Needs
-EPS
-Compared to US Capitol police
-Possible meetings
-Attorney General’s staff
-McCormack’s position
-Assistance

[End of telephone conversation]

President’s call to Albert

Mitchell’s forthcoming press conference
-LEAA

The President and Mitchell left at 11:00 am
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