683–9

Conversation No. 683-9

Date: March 13, 1972
Time: 1:10 pm - 2:02 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

Ronald S. Berman
-Leonard Garment
-The President’s view
-Intellectuals

James Keogh’s book [President Nixon and the Press]
-Autographed copy for the President
-Possible sales
-The President
-Speech writing
-Historical material
-Thomas Jefferson quote
-White House staff
-The press
-Edith Efron’s book [The News Twisters]
-Jefferson
-Letter to James Monroe
-James K. Polk
-Emissary to Mexico
-Press
-Abraham Lincoln
-The President’s relationship with the press
-The President as Vice President
-Alger Hiss case
-John Adams
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 683-9 (cont.)

-Television
-Cambodia
-Campus unrest
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Drew Pearson
-John N. Mitchell
-Herbert G. Klein
-Breakfast in the Jungle chapter
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-The President’s November 3, 1969 speech
-Network commentary
-Agnew’s previous speech in Des Moines

The President’s schedule
-Gridiron dinner
-White House correspondents dinner
-Haldeman’s previous conversation with John B. Connally
-The President’s possible trip to Texas
-California
-Texas
-Rotary
-Possible event in San Angelo
-The President’s forthcoming trip to Canada

Berman
-The People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip

Campaign finances
-Law requirements
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Maurice H. Stans
-List of contributors
-Edmund S. Muskie


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International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Clark MacGregor’s meeting with the President

Polls
-Muskie

An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 1:10 pm.

MacGregor’s location

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 1:26 pm.

Henry A. Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-Jack N. Anderson papers
-Kissinger’s threatened resignation
-India-Pakistan situation
-State Department
-Rogers

The President’s schedule
-Gridiron dinner
-Cabinet officers
-Rogers’s attendance
-California
-Agnew

MacGregor entered at 1:26 pm.

MacGregor’s health
-Robert H. Finch’s health
-The President

Rogers and Kissinger
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with congressmen
-Thomas E. (“Doc”) Morgan
-Richard K. Cook
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 683-9 (cont.)

-MacGregor’s forthcoming talk with Morgan
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs and Gerald R. Ford
-State Department representative
-Dinner
-Kissinger and the Foreign Relations Committee members
-Blair House
-Prior occasions
-J. William Fulbright
-John Sherman Cooper
-David M. Abshire
-MacGregor’s talk with Rogers
-Rogers’s role as Secretary of State
-Kissinger’s previous conversation with MacGregor
-Key Biscayne
-Rogers’s comments
-Rogers
-Stewart J.O. Alsop’s article in Newsweek
-The possibility of Kissinger as Secretary of State
-MacGregor’s proposed meeting with Kissinger and Rogers
-Timing
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Scheduling
-Rogers’s comments
-State Department representative
-Congressmen
-Senators
-War powers issue
-MacGregor’s dinner
-Clement J. Zablocki
-Wayne L. Hays
-Cooper
-W[illiam] Stuart Symington
-Blair House
-Rogers’s comments
-Seating
-Zablocki comments
-Barbara MacGregor
-Rescheduling
-Abshire
-Rogers
-Press coverage of Kissinger
-India-Pakistan war
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Aug-01)
Conv. No. 683-9 (cont.)

-State Department
-MacGregor’s dinner
-Rogers’s comments
-Barbara MacGregor
-Experience in Washington, DC
-Political gossip
-Conflict
-Public interest
-Washington, DC
-Minneapolis
-Whittier, California
-Alsop column
-Social circles
-Alsop column
-Diplomats
-MacGregor’s dinner
-George D. and Lola Aiken
-John and Lorraine Cooper
-William Meyer
-Meeting with congressmen
-Rescheduling
-Morgan
-MacGregor’s forthcoming statement
-Boggs, Carl B. Albert, Ford
-Partisans
-Republican attendance
-Foreign Affairs Committee
-War powers issue

ITT case
-Stock decrease
-Announcement date
-Harold S. Geneen
-Richard W. McLaren
-Erwin N. Griswold
-Contributions
-Justice Department
-Settlement
-Hearings
-MacGregor’s role
-James O. Eastland
-Meeting with MacGregor
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Aug-01)
Conv. No. 683-9 (cont.)

-Mitchell
-Witnesses

MacGregor’s health


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MacGregor’s health

MacGregor left at 1:49 pm.

MacGregor

ITT case
-Status
-Mitchell
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Confirmation
-Attorney General
-Withdrawal
-Effect on hearings

Rogers
-Previous dinner with MacGregor
-Conversation with Zablocki
-Interviews
-Foreign policy

Keogh’s book [President Nixon and the Press]
-Request for copies
-[Dwight] David and Julie Eisenhower
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 683-9 (cont.)

-Edward R.F. and Tricia Nixon Cox
-Commentary
-The President’s speech
-Agnew’s speech

The President’s schedule
-Public television programs
-Press conference
-Speech
-Question and answer sessions
-Coverage
-Detroit
-The President’s use of television

Rogers
-MacGregor
-Rescheduling meeting
-State Department

Marina von N. Whitman [?]
-Robert Whitman

Haldeman left and Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 1:49 pm.

Instructions
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

The President’s schedule
-Charles W. Colson
-Kenneth W. Clawson

Sanchez left at 2:02 pm.