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885-007a
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • H. R. Haldeman
  • Stephen B. Bull
March 20, 1973
Conversation No. 885-7

Date: March 20, 1973
Time: 6:00 pm - 7:10 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

President's schedule
-William P. Rogers [?]
-Haldeman
-National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse
-Raymond P. Shafer
-John D. Ehrlichman's recommendation on meeting
-Publicity
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Shafer
-Submission of final report to President
-Photographs
-Press
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Meeting with Gen. John B. Flynn
-Postponement
-Labor Management Advisory Board
-George P. Shultz
-Withdrawal of request
-Consumer Price Index [CPI] release
-Meeting with President
-Postponement
-Meeting with Flynn
-Congressional Campaign Committee
-Mrs. Bruce Bedford
-Announcement
-Carlos Sanz deSantamaria

Bull left at an unknown time before 7:10 pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

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Conversation No. 885-7 (cont’d)




John B. Connally
-Return from Europe


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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]

George Christian
-Harry S. Dent
-Party switch
-Timing

[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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Terry L. Decker
-Job change
-New York
-Lucy A. Winchester
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower's executive assistant
-Competence
-Knowledge of First Family
-Bull

President's meeting with Ehrlichman
-Meetings with counselors
-Organization
-Cabinet involvement
-Earl L. Butz
-Cabinet meetings
-New cabinet
-Loyalty
-George W. Romney, John A. Volpe, Peter G. Peterson
-Value
-Topics
-Economics
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-Economics
-Quadriad
-Number at meeting
-Ehrlichman’s role
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Purpose
-Harry S. Truman's meetings with Congress members
-Meetings with Cabinet, Congressional leaders
-Number
-Purpose
-Presence of staff members
-William L. Safire, Raymond K. Price, Jr., Thomas C. Korologos
-Meetings with staff
-Value
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Ronald L. Ziegler
-John W. Dean, III
-Scheduling
-Cabinet meetings
-Ehrlichman’s role
-Earl L. Butz
-Agriculture Department
-Natural resources
-Value
-Purpose
-Counselor meetings
-Value
-Roy L. Ash
-Meetings with President
-Assistants to President
-Haldeman, Ash, Shultz, Ehrlichman, Kissinger
-Common issues
-Value
-Cabinet meetings
-Value
-Decision making
-Haiphong
-Bombing
-Disagreements and recommendations
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-Record

Vietnam settlement
-President's decisions
-Bombing of Laos
-Alexander M .Haig, Jr.
-Doubts
-Kissinger's trip to Mexico
-Bombing resumption
-Value
-Public reaction
-Press
-North Vietnam
-Laos
-Ho Chi Minh trail
-Prisoners of War [POW] release
-Kissinger
-Risks
-Signal
-Infiltration from North Vietnam
-South Vietnam
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-US commitment
-POW release
-Risks
-Ho Chi Minh trail
-US public reaction
-Kissinger’s recommendation
-POWs
-Rashness
-Haldeman’s call to Kissinger
-Risks
-Public Reaction
-P.O.W. Reaction

Kissinger
-Vacation
-Discussion with President
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

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-Place
-Mexico
-California
-Thieu
-Arrangements
-Departure
-State of the world message
-Thieu
-Preparation

Leaks
-Julienne L. Pineau
-Newsweek reporter
-John A. Scali
-Hugh Sidey
-Time
-Kissinger
-Conversations with reporters

Theodore H. (“Teddy”) White
-Deadline on book
-Memorandum
-Book
-Last Chapter

Heads of State visits
-[Shah of Iran] Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
-Scheduling
-Dinner
-Dress
-Scheduling
-Guilio Andreotti
-Agnew
-Golf Game
-Francis A. (“Frank”) Sinatra
-Cancellation
-Shah of Iran
-California
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

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Conversation No. 885-7 (cont’d)



-Golf
-Andreotti
-Activities
-Golf
-Precedent
-Sinatra
-Kakeui Tanaka
-President's meeting with Ali Bhutto
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Arrangements
-Dinner
-Meeting with Tanaka
-Ivory Coast
-Meeting with William R. Tolbert, Jr.
-Kissinger's recommendation
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Statement Department
-Tolbert visit to US
-Prayer breakfast
-Office call
-Commencement address
-San Francisco State University
-Grambling College
-Dinner
-Scheduling
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Andreotti
-Sulman Franjieh
-Lebanon
-Rogers's recommendation
-Kissinger
-Fall Of 1973
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Iran
-Japan
-Thailand
-Poland
-Frequency
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-Franjieh
-Travel
-Tolbert
-Informal basis

President’s schedule
-California trip
-Topeka, Kansas
-Distance
-Veterans Vocational Skills Training Center
-Value of visit

[A transcript of the following portion of the conversation appears in U.S. v. Mitchell,
Government Ex. 11A, 00072-00097 (1-26).]

The President and Haldeman left at 7:10 pm.
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