677–5

Conversation No. 677-5

Date: March 6, 1972
Time: 9:12 am - 10:30 am
Location: Oval Office

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

Busing
-John D. Ehrlichman

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 10:24 am.

The President left and re-entered at an unknown time between 9:12 am and 10:24 am.

William P. Rogers

The People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Substance
-The President’s report
-Shanghai Communiqué
-Rogers
-Henry A. Kissinger’s backgrounder in Shanghai

The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Council of Black Appointees [?]

Haldeman’s schedule
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Responsibility
-Possible resignation
-Timing

An unknown person [Manolo Sanchez?] entered at an unknown time after 9:12 am.

-Possible position
-Committee to Re-elect the President [CRP]
-Answer desk
-John N. Mitchell
-Press relations
-Harry S. Flemming
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Tape Subject Log
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-Charles W. Colson
-[Unknown person]

The unknown person [Sanchez?] left at an unknown time before 10:24 am.

-White House staff
-The President’s view
-Personal views of staff members
-Buchanan
-Productivity
-Haldeman’s talk with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Possible resignation
-Buchanan’s talk with conservatives
-Public relations
-Supreme Court justices
-Day care
-Busing
-Cambodia
-Anti-ballistic missile [ABM] defense
-James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.
-Ability
-Compared to Lee W. Huebner
-Shelley A. (Scarney) Buchanan
-Resignation
-Timing
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-PRC

The PRC trip
-News summary
-Los Angeles Times editorial
-Martin Z. Agronsky
-Peter Lisagor
-Kissinger
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Colson
-Louis P. Harris
-The President’s image
-Baltimore Sun
-Lisagor
-Significance
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 677-5 (cont.)


-The President’s image
-“Kitchen debate”
-Effect on 1960 election
-Press coverage
-Kissinger
-Talk with the President
-Media coverage
-News summary

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC] report
-The President’s schedule
-Sheraton Hotel
-Press release
-Origin
-Republican convention
-C. Arnholt Smith
-Public relations
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Statement
-Clark MacGregor
-Ziegler’s statement
-Circumstances
-Flanigan
-Richard McLaren
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Michael J. Ramsden
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Background
-Study done for the White House
-Sheraton decision
-ITT reaction to decision
-Flanigan
-Ramsden
-White House appearance to public
-Jack Gleason
-Testimony
-Fundraising role
-Dita D. Beard memorandum
-Mitchell
-Colson
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Tape Subject Log
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-William L. Safire
-Richard A. Moore
-Safire
-Flanigan
-Washington Post
-NBC
-New York Times
-Washington Star
-Kleindienst
-Colson
-Mitchell
-Reopening hearings
-Haldeman
-Justice Department
-Domestic Council study on anti-trust policies
-Possible release
-Effect on ITT case
-Effect on anti-trust
-Effect on Kleindienst
-Jack N. Anderson papers
-White House
-Mitchell
-Gleason
-Baltimore Sun
-Republican National Convention
-Hotels
-Robert H. Finch
-Herbert G. Klein
-Robert C. Wilson
-William E. Timmons
-Sheraton
-San Diego Host Committee
-White House response
-Brad Hayes
-Unknown man
-San Diego offer
-Sheraton contribution
-Amount
-Circumstances
-Klein, Finch
-Edwin Reinecke
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 677-5 (cont.)


-Flanigan
-Kleindienst
-Justice Department
-Flanigan
-White House statement
-Ramsden
-Bakcground
-Sherman Adams case
-Gleason
-Role as fundraiser
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Public relations job
-Kevin P. Phillips
-Newsletter
-ITT possible witnesses
-Beard’s doctor
-Mitchell
-Gleason
-James O. Eastland calls witnesses
-Beard interview with Anderson
-Beard
-Involvement
-Rose Mary Woods
Beard memorandum
-People mentioned in memorandum
-Louie B. Nunn
-Haldeman
-Mitchell
-Arrangements made
-Contribution
-Republican National Convention
-Haldeman
-Contribution
-San Diego
-Anderson
-Ramsden
-Rumsfeld
-Beard memorandum
-Leaking of memorandum
-William R. Merriam
-Colson
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 677-5 (cont.)


-Role in hearings
-Mitchell
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Views
-Kleindienst
-William P. Rogers
-George P. Shultz
-Colson, Safire, Ehrlichman, MacGregor, Klein
-Reactions
-Strategy
-Wallace H. Johnson
-Job history
-Justice Department
-Johnson compared to William H. Rehnquist
-Assignment
-Moore
-Other White House involvement
-Shultz, Kissinger
-Rumsfeld and Herbert Stein
-Public relations for White House
-Harold S. Geneen
-Canteen Corporation
-Statements
-Justice Department
-Ziegler
-Justice Department
-McLaren
-[Forename unknown] Engsberg [?]

Bureaucracy
-The President’s view
-The President’s previous conversation with Haldeman
-Replacement of Schedule C employees

Public relations
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Key Biscayne
-Admiration from the public
-New York
-Meeting with Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Haldeman
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 677-5 (cont.)


-Admiration from the public
-Dinner in Miami Beach
-[Forename unknown] Weis [sp?]
-Reservation
-Lawrence M. Higby
-Lisagor
-Charles Corddry
-Haldeman’s view
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Public relations problems
-New Hampshire
-Democratic candidates debate
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Vance Hartke
-Craig Williams’s report
-Election problems


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Busing
-Buchanan
-Senate vote
-Ehrlichman
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.’s speech draft
-Constitutional amendment
-Chance for ratification
-Senate vote
-Effect on Americans

ITT
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 677-5 (cont.)


-Kleindienst
-Comparison to Dwight D. Eisenhower
-White House statement
-$100,000
-Mitchell’s testimony
-Gleason and Birch E. Bayh, Jr.
-Questioning
-Contribution

John B. Connally’s schedule

The President’s schedule
-National Advisory Committee on Child Nutrition
-Report
-Earl L. Butz
-Photographs
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Size of committee
-Timing of possible meeting
-Ziegler
-Possible meeting with Robert Strausz-Hupe
Strausz-Hupe’s forthcoming trip to Belgium
-Forthcoming meeting in the Roosevelt Room
-Summer Youth Program
-Five unidentified mayors
-Elliot L. Richardson, James D. Hodgson, and Rogers C.B. Morton
-Colson
-Possible meeting with senior citizens
-Forthcoming special message to the Congress on Older Americans
-Henry Cabot Lodge meeting
-Rome
-Possible meeting with Iakovos
-Greek Orthodox group
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Possible meeting with Robert S. Ingersoll
-Ingersoll’s forthcoming trip to Japan
-The President’s view
-Possible sound clip for the National Health Forum
-Possible meeting with officials from the National Alliance of Business [NAB]
-Possible meeting with the General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and
Disarmament
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 677-5 (cont.)


-John J. McCloy
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Kissinger
-Robert F. Ellsworth
-David Packard
-Possible meeting with Advertising Council
-Colson
-The President’s view
-Jews
-Economy
-Reception
-Possible meeting with the Inter-American Defense Board
-John F. Kennedy

Bull entered at 10:24 am.

The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting on busing
-Ehrlichman

Bull left at 10:25 am.

The President’s schedule
-Various possible meetings
-Signing ceremony on the Biological Weapons Convention
-Geneva
-State Department
-The President
-British
-Soviets
-Rogers
-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
-Princeton University
-Question and answer [Q&A] session
-PRC
-Youth
-The President’s view
-Congress
-Press conferences
-George H. Mahon and Grover E. Murray, President of Texas Tech University
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Tape Subject Log
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-American Association of Engineers
-Catholic University graduation
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-The President’s view
-Possible demonstrators
-Colson
-White House Conference on Youth

Ehrlichman and Edward L. Morgan entered at 10:25 am.

Busing
-Congressional leadership meeting
-Ehrlichman memorandum
-MacGregor
-De-segregated housing
-[Forename unknown] Jackson
-Morgan’s work

The President left at an unknown time after 10:25 am.

-Moratorium on busing
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-Left wing

The President entered at an unknown time before 10:30 am.

-Upcoming meeting with President’s Commission on School Finance

The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Council of Black Appointees

The President, Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Morgan left at 10:30 am.