684–1

Conversation No. 683-20/684-1

Date: March 13, 1972
Time: Unknown after 3:48 pm until 6:03 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Charles W. Colson and Kenneth W. Clawson; the conversation was in
progress when the recording began. This conversation continues from Oval 683.

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Robert C. Griffin
-Talk with Colson
-Vice PresidentSpiro T. Agnew
-Contributions
-Richard W. McLaren
-Settlement
-Possible television appearance
-Need for cohesive response
-Robert C. Wilson
-John N. Mitchell
-Meeting with Colson
-People involved
-Anti-trust policy study
-John B. Connally
-Richard G. Kleindienst confirmation
-Wallace H. Johnson
-Kleindienst confirmation
-Louie B. Nunn
-Relationship with Dita D. Beard
-Party
-Beard's meeting with Mitchell
-Kleindienst
-Confirmation hearings
-Testimony
-The President's schedule
-Press coverage
-Beard's secretary
-Memorandum
-Jack N. Anderson's secretary
-Possible testimony
-Anderson
-Relationship with Beard
-Beard's habits
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 684-1 (cont.)

-Beard memorandum
-Conflicting stories
-William R. Merriam
-Beard’s secretary
-Typewriter
-Testimony
-Typing
-Compared to Alger Hiss case
-Different people's typing style
-Investigation
-Secretary
-Beard
-Howard Hughes fraud
-Clifford Irving
-Typewriters
-Letters
-Priscilla Hiss
-Son
-Misspellings
-Merriam
-Staff of ITT
-Offices
-Beard
-Press coverage
-Hearings
-Kleindienst
-Robert J. Dole
-Democrats
-Campaign funds
-Kleindienst
-Hearings
-Reactions
-Sherman Adams comparison
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-President’s views

Clawson left at 4:37 pm.
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 684-1 (cont.)

ITT
-Anderson
-Typewriters
-Investigation
-Beard memorandum
-Kleindienst
-The President
-Press coverage
-Anderson
-Brit Hume
-Clawson
-Mitchell
-Role
-Knowledge of contribution
-Kleindienst
-Peter M. Flanigan
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Harold S. Geneen
-Mitchell’s testimony
-Anti-trust case
-Discussion
-McLaren
-Policy issue
-Geneen
-Edwin Reinecke
-Conversation with Mitchell
-Contribution
-Administration
-Geneen
-Conversations with Flanigan, Mitchell, Ehrlichman and Colson
-Ehrlichman’s conversation with the President
-Jack Brooks
-Vance Hartke
-Philip A. Hart
-Emmanuel Celler
-Peter W. Rodino, Jr.
-Democrats
-Files
-Flanigan, Colson, Ehrlichman
-Justice Department relations
-Policy
-Connally
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 684-1 (cont.)

-Dates
-Edward J. Gerrity, Jr. meeting with Agnew
-Meeting with Geneen
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Federal Communications Commission [FCC]
-Contribution
-Wilson
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Memorandum to Mitchell
-Herbert G. Klein and Robert H. Finch
-San Diego
-Hearings
-Advice
-Beard
-Anderson's secretaries
-Administration
-Kleindienst
-Possible resignation
-Congressional reaction
-Press
-Greg Yearning
-Gerald R. Ford
-Mitchell
-Memoranda
-Flanigan
-Business dinners
-Blair House
-National Association of Manufacturers [NAM]
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Dishonesty within administration

1972 campaign
-Finances
-Edmund S. Muskie
-President
-New campaign finance law
-Muskie
-Reporting contributions
-Press
-Unknown man's reports to Colson
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 684-1 (cont.)

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Press stories
-New Hampshire primary
-Bombings
-Paris negotiations between the US and the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-ITT
-Sherman Adams case comparison
-The President’s role
-Eisenhower
-Adams
-Styles Bridges
-Adams
-Role in government
-Bernard Goldfine
-Norris Cotton [?]
-Bridges
-Compared to Kleindienst

ITT hearings
-Kleindienst
-Strategy
-Joseph McCarthy
-Hiss case
-Harry S. Truman
-Washington Post
-New York Times
-Typewriter
-Whitaker Chambers
-Views on communism
-The press
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 684-1 (cont.)

-Marquis W. Childs
-Jewish people
-Silberberg [Nathan G. Silvermaster]
-Elizabeth T. Bentley
-Lee Pressman
-Chambers
-Experiences in World War II
-Soviet Union
-Adolf Hitler
-Communism
-Schedule

The PRC trip
-Effect of ITT case
-Clayton Fritchey
-Compared to ITT case
-Public confidence in the President
-Louis P. Harris
-Polls
-Minnesota
-Robert P. Griffin
-Harris
-Muskie


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ITT
-Kennedy, Birch E. Bayh, Jr. and Anderson
-Beard memorandum
-Typewriter
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 684-1 (cont.)

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:37 pm and
5:11 pm.

[Conversation No. 683-20/684-1B]

[See Conversation No. 21-55]

[End of telephone conversation]


Clawson
-The President’s view
-Washington Post
-Clark R. Mollenhoff

Colson left and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 5:11 pm.

The President talked with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon between 5:11 pm and 5:12 pm.

[Conversation No. 683-20/684-1C]

[See Conversation No. 21-56]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Key Biscayne
-John B. Connally’s possible trip
-Idanell B. (“Nellie”) Connally
-Mitchell’s possible trip

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:12 pm.

Washington Star
-Copy for the President

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:27 pm.

Washington Star
-Panda story
-Mating of pandas
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 684-1 (cont.)

Mitchell's schedule
-Key Biscayne
-Connally’s schedule
-Haldeman's schedule

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming event in Texas

ITT case
-The President's talk with Colson
-Mitchell
-Geneen
-Justice Department

PRC
-Exhibits
-The President’s memorandum
-Tourist interest
-Rex W. Scouten
-Pictures
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Menus
-Chopsticks
-Place cards
-Pandas
-The President's call to Crosby S. Noyes

ITT case
-Memoranda
-Ehrlichman
-Flanigan
-Files
-Geneen
-The President's talk with Colson
-Kleindienst confirmation
-Ehrlichman
-White House strategy
-Beard
-Beard's and Anderson's secretaries
-Typewriters
-Investigators
-Misspelled words
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 684-1 (cont.)

-Hiss case
-Beard
-Testimony
-Anderson's secretary
-E. Kennedy's involvement
-Mitchell's testimony
-Press conference
-The President's schedule
-Beard's testimony
-Denver
-ITT offices
-Jack Gleason

The President's schedule
-Church service
-Rose Mary Woods
-Type of guests
-Sub-Cabinet level appointees
-Congressmen
-Handshaking
-Haldeman's talk with Henry A. Kissinger
-Kissinger's forthcoming vacation
-Haldeman's talk with William P. Rogers

Woods entered at 5:27 pm.

Woods's schedule
-Helene (Colesie) Drown

The President's schedule
-Church service
-Guest lists
-White House staff
-Secret Service
-Assistant secretaries
-Shaking hands
-Choir
-Photographs
-Shaking hands
-Closing speech by the President
-Personal friends
-Forthcoming dinner for Nihat Erim
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 684-1 (cont.)

-Forthcoming dinner for Hussein Ibn Talal [Hussein, King of Jordan]
-Forthcoming Organization of American States [OAS] dinner
-Possible for 12th Mexico-US Interparliamentary Conference
-Unknown dinner
-Maurice H. Stans
-Gridiron dinner
-Terry Thompson's [?] visit
-Church service
-Thompson's wife
-Trans World Airlines [TWA]
-Timing
-Church services
-1972 election
-Forthcoming dinner for Erim
-After dinner entertainment
-Dinners
-Plans for after dinner events
-Black tie compared to white tie
-Dinner for Erim
-Dinner for Hussein
-Acapulco
-Puerto Vallarta
-Former president of Mexico
-Lunches
-Amistad Dam
-Entertainment
-Dorothy Kirsten
-Gordon MacRae
-Kirsten
-Kirsten Flagstad
-Kirsten and John D. French
-Lainie Kazan
-Choirs for White House church services
-Compared to singers
-Novel read by Haldeman
-Fictional First Lady
-Party at the White House
-London rock group
-Church service
-Guest list
-Arthur F. Burns
-Cabinet members
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 684-1 (cont.)

-Tricia Nixon Cox's attendance at a dinner
-Compared to White House social events
-Rich people in attendance
-Young people
-Robert C. (“Bob”) Wilson
-Hugh Scott
-Robert J. Dole
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Woods’s attendance
-Stans
-John N. Mitchell
-Paul Garvey
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell


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The President’s previous conversation with Nixon
-Busing issue
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 684-1 (cont.)

-Ehrlichman


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Church service

News stories
-British officer
-Soviet Union
-Pandas
-Mating

Woods left at 5:53 pm.

ITT
-Flanigan
-Analyst [Richard J. Ramsden]
-Investment firm
-Background
-Democrats
-Beard
-Testimony
-Witnesses
-Beard memorandum

Kissinger
-Possible resignation
-Talk with Haldeman
-Rogers
-The President’s view
-Forthcoming US-Soviet Union Summit
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 684-1 (cont.)




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Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:53 pm.

The President's schedule
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-California

Refreshment

Haldeman and Sanchez left at 6:03 pm.