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  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • H. R. Haldeman
  • UNKNOWN
  • Rose Mary Woods
  • Jayne Brumley
  • Stephen B. Bull
  • Ronald L. Ziegler
  • James C.H. Shen
March 6, 1972
Conversation No. 678-4

Date: March 6, 1972
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:04 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-John N. Mitchell’s statement
-John E. Ehrlichman’s forthcoming meeting with Mitchell

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:00 pm and 4:11 pm.

[Conversation No. 678-4A]

The President’s schedule
-George W. Romney’s schedule
-Ehrlichman’s schedule
-Mitchell

[End of telephone conversation]

ITT case
-Wallace H. Johnson
-Mitchell
-Charles W. Colson
-Mitchell
-Richard G. Kleindienst
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 678-4 (cont.)


-Johnson
-Coordinator
-Strategy
-Ehrlichman
-Johnson
-Colson
-William H. Rehnquist
-Richard A. Moore
-William L. Safire
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-Colson
-Mitchell statement
-Testimony
-Jack N. Anderson
-Kleindienst
-Dita D. Beard memorandum
-Doctor
-Drew Pearson meeting
-Party
-Mitchell
-Louie B. Nunn
-Jack Gleason
-William E. Timmons and Harry S. Dent
-San Diego

Rose Mary Woods entered at 4:11 pm.

ITT case
-Beard
-1969
-Republican dinner
-Nunn
-John C. Whitaker
-New York
-Ted Rodgers’s secretary
-Doctor
-Memorandum
-Mitchell
-Johnson
-Circumstances
-Nunn
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 678-4 (cont.)


-Mitchell
-Lee R. Nunn
-James E. Bassett
-White House
-Mitchell
-Kleindienst
-Colson
-William R. Merriam
-Role
-Beard

Woods left at 4:12 pm.

The President talked with Mrs. Jayne Brumley between 4:12 pm and 4:13 pm.

[Conversation No. 678-4B]

[See Conversation No. 21-2]

[End of telephone conversation]

ITT case
-Beard
-Woods
-Rodgers
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Mitchell’s statement
-Johnson
-The President’s schedule
-Mitchell’s testimony
-Mitchell’s statement
-Doctor
-Kleindienst
-Nomination
-Withdrawal
-Johnson
-Ehrlichman

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 4:13 pm.

-Johnson
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 678-4 (cont.)


-Mitchell

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 4:26 pm.

-Public relations
-Problems
-Contribution
-Circumstances
-Confirmation
-Flanigan
-Involvement
-Kleindienst

1972 campaign
-Polls
-White House
-Undecided
-Approval
-Disapproval
-The People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-The President’s view
-Confidence in government
-Approval
-Peace speech, 1970
-George H. Gallup
-January 1971
-Laos

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:13 pm.

Request for Ronald L. Ziegler to come to the Oval Office

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:26 pm.

Polls
-Gallup

Patrick J. Buchanan

John B. Connally
-Meeting with the President
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 678-4 (cont.)


-Testimony
-Herbert Stein
-George P. Shultz
-PRC trip briefing
-Haldeman
-Ehrlichman
-Meeting with Henry A. Kissinger
-Ehrlichman
-Treasury Department

Ziegler entered at 4:26 pm.

Press briefings
-Gerald L. Warren
-Morning announcements
-Ziegler’s forthcoming afternoon briefings
-Schedule
-Timing
-Wire service story
-Neil H. McElroy
-Media
-Sans Souci
-The President’s forthcoming press conference
-Radio
-ITT
-Mitchell’s statement
-Questions
-The President’s forthcoming press conference
-The PRC trip
-Busing
-Florida primary
-Moratorium
-United Press International [UPI] story
-Constitutional amendment
-Leaks
-Ehrlichman
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Justice Department
-Questions
-Blacks
-Florida primary
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 678-4 (cont.)


-Ehrlichman
-George C. Wallace
-Busing announcement
-Influence
-Timing
-Television
-Newspapers
-Camp David

Kissinger entered at 4:35 pm.

James C.H. Shen

Busing announcement
-Timing
-Florida primary

Haldeman and Ziegler left at 4:36 pm.

PRC
-Message to the President
-Delivery by ambassador

North Vietnam
-Message to the US
-Linkage of Taiwan, Republic of China to Vietnam
-State Department
-Hugh Scott statement
-Kissinger’s view

PRC
-Vietnam
-The President’s message
-Paris contacts
-Schedule of messages to PRC and North Vietnam
-Shen
-Linkage of Taiwan to Vietnam
-State Department
-Scott’s statement
-Peace talks
-Possible PRC message
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 678-4 (cont.)


-Public statement
-Message
-William P. Rogers
-Forthcoming press conference

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Shen
-Photographs

Shen entered at 4:44 pm.

Greetings

Shen’s schedule
-The President’s possible message to Chiang Kai-shek
-Taiwan
-Chou En-lai

Taiwan
-Chiang Kai-shek
-Meeting with Marshall Green
-Kissinger
-Kissinger’s meeting with Shen
-Shen’s meeting with Chiang Kai-shek
-The President’s view
-Kissinger’s talks with PRC officials
-Green
-Rogers’s talk with PRC officials
-Kissinger
-The President’s talks with PRC officials
-Chou En-lai
-Allegations of secret deals
-Chou En-lai
-Renunciation of force
-Shanghai Communiqué
-Kissinger’s backgrounder in Shanghai
-Chiang Kai-shek
-Chou En-lai
-Shanghai Communiqué
-Desire for peaceful settlement
-Timing
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 678-4 (cont.)


-US commitment to Taiwan
-Kissinger’s view
-Message to the Congress transmitting third annual report on US foreign
policy, February 9, 1972 [World Report]
-Democrats in the US
-Vietnam comparison
-Quemoy and Matsu
-Mao Tse-tung
-Chou En-lai
-The President’s view
-Isolationism in the US
-Vietnam
-Japan
-Philippines
-Thailand
-Korea
-Taiwan
-Statement by Taiwanese Foreign minister
-US role in a possible PRC-Taiwan settlement
-Comparison to Israeli-Arab situation
-Shanghai Communiqué
-Unilateral declarations
-Taiwan
-Korea
-Japan
-South Vietnam
-Taiwan
-Wording
-“Province” compared to “part”
-The President’s message to Chiang Kai-shek
-(Madame) Chiang Mayling Soong
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-PRC-Taiwan settlement
-Vietnam
-Peace and friendship

Shen’s schedule
-Hawaii
-Forthcoming meeting with Kissinger
-The President’s schedule
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 678-4 (cont.)


The President’s regards
-Taiwanese defense minister

Kissinger and Shen left at 5:04 pm.
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