687–3

Conversation No. 687-3

Date: March 17, 1972
Time: 12:19 - 1:14 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Stephen B. Bull.

[Discontinuities appear on the original tape. See Conversation No. 686-12.]

The President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time after 12:19 pm.


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Henry A. Kissinger entered at 12:36 pm.

Arthur K. Watson
-Recent episode on airline flight
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Unknown Woman
-Money
-Shoes
-State Department
-The President’s view
-Secret Service
-Health
-Rockefeller
-Visits by Kissinger
-The President's trips to France
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 687-3 (cont.)

Foreign policy
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Cambodia
-Vietnam
-Offensive
-Timing
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Melvin R. Laird
-Peter G. Peterson
-Earl L. Butz

John D. Ehrlichman entered at 12:42 pm.

-State Department
-Rogers's memorandum
-Monetary affairs
-John B. Connally
-Azores
-Rogers

Kissinger's schedule
-Acapulco
-Timing
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Carl W. Renstrom
-Property


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Domestic issues

Foreign policy
-The President’s forthcoming Soviet trip
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 687-3 (cont.)

-Reading files

Kissinger's schedule

-Forthcoming meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Map Room

Kissinger left at 12:55 pm.

Kissinger
-Schedule
-The President’s view

Briefings
-Ehrlichman’s role
-George P. Shultz
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Congressmen
-Busing
-Left
-Right
-Length
-Attendance

Ehrlichman's schedule
-California
-San Francisco

Busing
-Michael J. Mansfield proposal
-Press coverage
-Congress
-Courts
-Robert P. Griffin statements
-Possible bill
-Justice Department
-Constitutional amendment
-Leaders
-William M. McCulloch
-Jacob K. Javits
-The President's statement
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 687-3 (cont.)

-James O. Eastland
-Courts
-Constitutional amendment
-The President
-Congress
-Leaders meeting
-Ehrlichman's conversation with Javits and Albert H. Quie
-Moratorium
-Press conference
-The President's statement
-Griffin
-George C. Wallace
-Lawyers
-Constitutional amendment
-Legislative approach
-Shultz
-Press
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Work on the message to Congress
-Moratorium
-Busing orders
-Significance
-Public opinion
-Television coverage
-The President’s previous meeting with the Citizen’s Advisory Council on the
Status of Women
-Discussion of the PRC trip
-Haldeman’s previous meeting with White House Fellows
-Busing compared to the PRC trip
-Ehrlichman’s meeting with group

Social Security and welfare reform
-Domestic issue
-Connally
-Talk with Ehrlichman
-Cabinet meeting
-Forthcoming meeting with Ehrlichman

Busing
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew’s statements
-Constitutional amendment
-Federal aid
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 687-3 (cont.)

-Moratorium
-Blacks
-Speech
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Edward L. Morgan
-Shultz
-Agnew
-The President’s view
-National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Talk with Haldeman
-Domestic issues
-Compensatory education
-Daniel P (“Pat”) Moynihan
-Rockefeller
-Caspar W. (“Cap”)Weinberger
-Conversation with Ronald W. Reagan
-Linwood Holton
-Israel
-Drafts of speech
-William L. Safire
-Buchanan
-Speech
-Charles W. (\"Chuck\") Bailey
-Delivery
-Wallace
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-John V. Lindsay
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Television
-Chance for American citizens to compare the President with the
Democratic candidates
-Racism
-Neighborhood schools
-Social planners
-Buchanan
-Press briefing
-Judges
-Rulings
-Racial balance
-Examples
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 687-3 (cont.)

-Morgan

The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Dobrynin

Briefings
-Ehrlichman
-Tone
-Senate
-Leaders meeting
-The President's note
-Chairman of the Cabinet Committee

The President’s forthcoming meeting with Dobrynin
-Haldeman

The President, Haldeman and Ehrlichman left at 1:14 pm.