677–10

Conversation No. 677-10

Date: March 6, 1972
Time: 12:31 pm - 1:28 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman and Alexander P.
Butterfield.

The President’s schedule

Butterfield left at 12:31 pm.

Education
-Blacks
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Paper presented by an unknown person
-Constitutional amendment
-Press
-Congress
-Hugh Scott
-The President’s forthcoming meeting with the Cabinet Committee on Education
-Final paper
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Justice Department
-Office of Legal Counsel
-Civil Rights Division
-White House role
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Tape Subject Log
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Speech on busing
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Amendments
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Haldeman’s view
-First draft
-Price
-“Soft” moratorium
-Editing
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Constitutional amendment
-Blacks
-The President’s forthcoming meeting with George W. Romney
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Projecting press headlines
-Moratorium
-Constitutional amendment
-Price’s draft


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Buchanan
-The President’s view
-Buchanan’s efforts
-Supreme Court problems
-Day care centers
-Cambodia
-Anti-ballistic missiles [ABM]
-Staff conservatives
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-Leonard Garment
-Public relations efforts
-Possible resignation
-Ehrlichmans’s view
-Trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Talk with Haldeman
-Buchanan’s support for the President’s position
-As staff member
-As private citizen
-Role in campaign
-Role in White House
-Buchanan’s view of the Shanghai Communiqué
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-William P. Rogers
-The President’s re-election
-Shanghai Communiqué
-Haldeman’s view
-Journalism
-Role as policy maker
-Shelly A. (Scarney) Buchanan
-1972 election
-The President’s trip to the PRC
-Buchanan’s criticism of the wording of the Communiqué
-Japan
-PRC compared to China
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-US treaty commitments
-Japan
-Taiwan
-PRC treaty commitments
-North Vietnam
-Rogers
-Buchanan in foreign policy field
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-Soviet Union
-Talk with Haig
-Soviet Union
-The President’s view
-Triangular diplomacy
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-Kissinger
-Taiwan
-Japan
-India
-Philippines
-Thailand
-Cambodia
-Work with conservatives
-House Resolution [HR] 1
-Day care
-Liberals
-John N. Ashbrook candidacy
-News summary


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Press conference
-Ehrlichman
-PRC
-Busing
-Camp David
-The President’s forthcoming meeting with the Cabinet Committee on
Education

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-John N. Mitchell’s statement
-President’s statement
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Talk with Ehrlichman
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-Dita D. Beard’s doctor
-Jack N. Anderson
-Beard
-Knowledge of memorandum contents
-Conversation with Mitchell
-Meeting at Louie B. Nunn’s house
-Beard’s social life
-Doctor’s testimony
-Mitchell’s statement
-Possible public statement
-President
-Investigation
-The President’s relationship with Mitchell
-Kleindienst’s nomination
-Settlement procedure
-Flanigan and Kleindienst
-Harold S. Geneen
-Canteen Corporation
-Geneen meeting with Ehrlichman
-Justice Department negotiations
-Talk with Mitchell
-Mitchell’s talk with Richard W. McLaren
-Mitchell’s self-disqualification
-Kleindienst role
-Flanigan role
-Hiring of economic consultant
-Job description
-Determination of consultant
-San Diego contribution
-Republican party
-Financial status
-Anti-trust
-Ehrlichman’s memorandum to Mitchell
-Prosecution’s actions
-McLaren’s actions
-Anderson
-View of situation
-Quid pro quo

Elmer H. Bobst
-Cancer information
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 677-10 (cont.)


-Appointment as special consultant to the President’s Cancer Panel
-[Forename unkown] Baker

White House staff
-Buchanan
-Political extremists

ITT case
-Knowledge of situation
-Charles W. Colson
-Flanigan
-William L. Safire
-Contributions
-Richard A. Moore
-Justice Department
-Kleindienst
-Anderson papers
-Book

Book published
-PRC trip
-Ehrlichman’s view of book
-Timing of publication

Housing policy
-Edward L. Morgan
-The President’s forthcoming meeting with George W. Romney

White House news summaries
-Emphasis on negative stories
-The President’s view
-Kissinger

Ashbrook
-California

William F. Buckley, Jr.
-US Information Agency [USIA] advisory committee
-PRC trip

James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.
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-William S. White
-Lunch with Ehrlichman

Busing
-Blue ribbon committee
-Blacks
-Liberals
-Scott and Michael J. Mansfield

Construction project
-Memorandum

Haldeman’s recent talk with Buchanan

Haldeman and Ehrlichman left at 1:28 pm.