Conversation No. 21-1

Date:  March 6, 1972
Time:  4:00 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Jayne Brumley

[See Conversation No. 678-3]

Conversation No. 21-2

Date:  March 6, 1972
Time:  4:12 pm - 4:13 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Jayne Brumley.

[See Conversation No. 678-4B]

Condolences on the death of Calvin E. Brumley
	-New Hampshire
	-Brian Brumley
		-New England
	-The President’s previous talk with John B. Connally
		-Florida
	-Calvin Brumley

Conversation No. 21-3

Date:  March 6, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:13 pm and 7:14 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 21-4

Date:  March 6, 1972
Time:  7:14 pm - 7:15 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

The President’s instructions

Conversation No. 21-5

Date:  March 6, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:15 pm and 7:36 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 21-6

Date:  March 6, 1972
Time:  7:36 pm - 8:02 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Baltimore Sun
-Charles Corddry article
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-John N. Mitchell
-Political contribution
-Convention site
-Robert C. Wilson
-Mitchell
-Colson’s work
-Internal memos
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Anderson papers
	-India-Pakistan
-Jack N. Anderson
-Dita D. Beard
-Memorandum
	-Mitchell
	-Issues
	-President’s trip to People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
	-Democrats
	-Media
			-Washington Post
			-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
			-The President’s view

President’s trip to PRC
-Louis Harris memorandum
	-The President’s view
		-Personal image
			-PRC
			-Taiwan, Republic of China
			-Vietnam
		-Nikita S. Khrushchev
		-Dwight D. Eisenhower
		-Harris memorandum
-The President’s handling
-Democrats
-John F. Becker poll
-Approval of the President
	-New Hampshire

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Economy
-Stock market
	-All-time high
		-1968
	-Current value of index
		-Compared to 1971
	-New York Times
	-Colson’s previous conversation with the First National Bank of Boston
-Market
	-Public nature
-Economic figures
-Optimism
	-Colson’s previous conversation with William H. Donaldson
		-New York
		-Volume of trading
			-Institutions
			-Public market
	-Stock brokers
	-Colson’s proposed conversation with Donald T. Regan
-Herbert Stein
-Figures on plants and equipment
	-Manufactured goods
	-Durable goods
-The President’s view
	-Paul W. McCracken compared to Stein
-Meeting
-Memorandum
-Retail sales
	-Colson’s view
-Albert E. Sindlinger
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Proposed meeting with the President
-Forthcoming State Dinner for Nihat Erim of Turkey
-John B. Connally
-Poll results
-Trading in market
-PRC
-Public recognition

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Conversation No. 21-7

Date:  March 6, 1972
Time:  8:23 pm - 8:28 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger talked with the President.

	US-People’s Republic of China [PRC] relations
	-Report from New York
-PRC reaction to US statements
	-Taiwan, Republic of China
	-Vietnam
	-Possible forwarding of reaction to William P. Rogers
	-Proposed message to PRC officials
		-State Department
-PRC approval of visit by delegation from the House of Representatives
	-Use of public channel
-PRC reaction to US statements
	-Kissinger’s view
-Proposed US response to PRC
	-Statement on Vietnam
-Edward R.G. Heath
	-Taiwan
		-Vietnam
-Message from North Vietnam
	-Le Duc Tho
		-PRC
			-Soviets
-Announcement of public channel
-Kissinger’s previous conversation with Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-PRC reaction to US statements
	-Previous statement by Hugh Scott
		-State Department
	-Possible forwarding of reaction to Rogers
-Vietnam
-Troop withdrawal announcement
	-The President’s view
	-Timing
-Possible forwarding of PRC reaction to Rogers
	-State Department

Conversation No. 21-8

Date:  March 7, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:58 am and 10:57 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Timothy G. Elbourne

[See Conversation No. 679-7]

Conversation No. 21-9

Date:  March 7, 1972
Time:  10:57 am - 10:58 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Timothy G. Elbourne.

[See Conversation No. 679-8A]

President’s trip to People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Elbourne’s work
	-Ronald L. Ziegler
	-Vernon C. Coffey

Conversation No. 21-10

Date:  March 7, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:45 pm and 2:15 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to William M. Colmer

[See Conversation No. 322-20]

Conversation No. 21-11

Date:  March 7, 1972
Time:  2:15 pm - 2:17 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with William M. Colmer.

[See Conversation No. 322-23]

Colmer’s decision not to run for public office
-Newspaper story
-Invitation to White House reception
-South
	-Colmer
-Richard B. Russell
-Invitation to luncheon
	-Timing
		-William [E. Timmons]
-Colmer’s appreciation

Conversation No. 21-12

Date:  March 7, 1972
Time:  2:18 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Abraham A. Ribicoff

[See Conversation No. 322-24]

Conversation No. 21-13

Date:  March 7, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:18 pm and 2:26 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Abraham A. Ribicoff’s location
-Rochester, Minnesota
	-Mayo Clinic
		-Ruth Siegel Ribicoff

Conversation No. 21-14

Date:  March 7, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:18 pm and 2:26 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 322-25]

	Request for a call to Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Conversation No. 21-15

Date:  March 7, 1972
Time:  2:26 pm - 2:27 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

[See Conversation No. 322-26]

Henry A. Kissinger’s schedule
-John B. Connally
-The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Kissinger
	-Executive Office Building [EOB]

Haig’s appreciation

Press conference by William P. Rogers
-Role in Peking
-Compared to previous summits
-Foreign policy
-State Department
-The President’s view
-Soviet trip
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Plenary session
-Chou En-lai
	-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Participation in diplomatic meetings
-National Security Council [NSC]
	-State Department meetings
-State Department
	-Head of State meetings
	-The President’s view

Conversation No. 21-16

Date:  March 7, 1972
Time:  2:29 pm - 2:38 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Abraham A. Ribicoff.

[See Conversation No. 322-27]

Ruth Siegel Ribicoff
	-Previous Republican Congressional Leadership meeting
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

Conversation No. 21-17

Date:  March 7, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:38 pm and 10:08 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Conversation No. 21-18

Date:  March 7, 1972
Time:  10:08 pm - 10:14 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

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

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Conversation No. 21-19

Date:  March 7, 1972
Time:  10:21 pm - 10:29 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

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

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Conversation No. 21-20

Date:  March 8, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:25 am and 11:49 am
Location:  White House Telephone

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with the White House operator.

John N. Mitchell’s return call

The President and Henry A. Kissinger can be heard in the background.

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Conversation No. 21-21

Date:  March 8, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:25 am and 11:49 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with John N. Mitchell’s secretary.

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with Mitchell.

Congressional dinner
-The President’s possible attendance
-Clark MacGregor
	-Republicans
	-Mitchell’s view
-MacGregor
	-Haldeman’s view
		-Peter H. Dominick
-Dominick
	-Maurice Stans
-Haldeman’s view
	-Effect of President’s attendance
		-Press reaction
			-Contributors
			-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming press conference
	-Preparation time
-Dinner questions
-Future political events
-Testimonial dinner for Gerald R. Ford
-The President’s possible appearance
	-Mitchell’s view

Lane Dwinell
-The President’s possible telephone call
-Possible note
-Mitchell’s view
-Frank Dale

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Congressional dinner

Dwinnell call
	-Note

Mitchell’s previous meeting with John B. Connally
-George Meany
	-Forthcoming breakfast with the President
-William P. Rogers
-Connally’s view
	-Secretary of State
	-Henry A. Kissinger
		-Mitchell’s view
		-Haldeman’s view
-Relations with the President
	-Haldeman’s view
		-Rogers’s previous meeting with the President

Mitchell’s forthcoming testimony
-Capitol Hill
--James O. Eastland
	-Mitchell’s view

New secretary of state

Conversation No. 21-22

Date:  March 8, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:50 am and 4:40 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 321-26]

	Request for a call to Ronald L. Ziegler

Conversation No. 21-23

Date:  March 8, 1972
Time:  4:40 pm - 4:43 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

[See Conversation No. 321-27]

Ziegler’s press briefing
-The President’s forthcoming press conference
-Busing
-The President’s recent meeting with Cabinet committee and staff
	-Forthcoming meeting
-Camp David
-Timing of decision
	-Forthcoming referendum in Florida primary
-Questions at briefing
	-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
	-People’s Republic of China
	-Lockheed Aircraft
	-Wheat deal
	-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-New Hampshire primary results
-The President’s appreciation for support
-Statement
-John N. Mitchell
-Citizens committee
-Press conference

Conversation No. 21-24

Date:  March 8, 1972
Time:  4:56 pm - 5:01 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 321-29]

Kissinger’s schedule

The President’s forthcoming press conference
-Questions from the press
	-Taiwan, Republic of China
		-Renunciation of force
			-Phrasings

Kissinger’s Schedule
-Japanese officials
-Forthcoming meeting with Melvin R. Laird
-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Possible appointment
-Office of the Vice of Staff, US Army
	-The President’s view
	-Kissinger’ view

	The President’s forthcoming press conference
	-Shanghai communiqué
	-William P. Rogers
-Withdrawal of forces from region
	-Taiwan
	-Patrick J. Buchanan
	-Kissinger’s view
		-Rogers
	-Indochina
		-Hanoi
			-Thailand
	-Prisoners of war [POWs]

Conversation No. 21-25

Date:  March 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:00 am and 9:59 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Stephen B. Bull

Conversation No. 21-26

Date:  March 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:00 am and 9:59 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 681-2A]

	Request for a call to Red Skelton
		-Washington, DC
		-Florida

Conversation No. 21-27

Date:  March 9, 1972
Time:  9:59 am - 10:00 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Richard (“Red”) Skelton.

[See Conversation No. 681-2B]

Florida
-Appreciation
-Skelton’s support
-Skelton’s act
	-The President request
		-“The Flag”

Conversation No. 21-28

Date:  March 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:00 am and 12:31 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 681-2C]

	Request for a call to Tricia Nixon Cox

Conversation No. 21-29

Date:  March 9, 1972
Time:  12:31 pm - 12:34 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox.

[See Conversation No. 681-2D]

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	Portrait
		-Today show
		-Evening news

Cloisonne vases from the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Exhibit
-Cambridge, Massachusetts
-Harvard University
-Walter H. and Leonore (Cohn) Annenberg

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Conversation No. 21-30

Date:  March 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:34 pm and 12:56 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Tricia Nixon Cox

Conversation No. 21-31

Date:  March 9, 1972
Time:  12:56 pm - 12:57 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox.

[See Conversation No. 322-30]

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Conversation No. 21-32

Date:  March 9, 1972
Time:  12:58 pm - 12:59 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Tricia Nixon Cox talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 322-31]

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Conversation No. 21-33

Date:  March 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:59 pm and 1:48 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Tricia Nixon Cox

[See Conversation No. 322-32]

Conversation No. 21-34

Date:  March 9, 1972
Time:  1:48 pm - 1:51 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox.

[See Conversation No. 322-33]

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Conversation No. 21-35

Date:  March 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:51 pm and 1:57 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 322-34]

	Request for a call to Ronald Ziegler

Conversation No. 21-36

Date:  March 9, 1972
Time:  1:57 pm - 1:58 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler..

[See Conversation No. 322-35]

The President’s schedule
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Forthcoming meeting with Ziegler
		-Forthcoming press briefing
		-Busing
			-Potential question
		-Timing

Conversation No. 21-37

Date:  March 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:58 pm and 2:39 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 322-37]

	Request for a call to John N. Irwin, II

Conversation No. 21-38

Date:  March 9, 1972
Time:  2:39 pm - 2:40 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with John N. Irwin, II.

[See Conversation No. 322-38]

State Department
-Press relations
-George Sherman
-Washington Star article
-Attempt to divide the White House and the State Department
	-John Foster Dulles
-Irwin’s job
	-The President’s view

Conversation No. 21-39

Date:  March 9, 1972
Time:  4:03 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 322-43]

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Conversation No. 21-40

Date:  March 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:03 pm and 7:10 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

An unknown man talked with a unknown woman.

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Conversation No. 21-41

Date:  March 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:21 am and 1:00 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 682-8A]

	Request for a call to J. William Fulbright

Conversation No. 21-42

Date:  March 10, 1972
Time:  1:00 pm - 1:02 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with J. William Fulbright.

[See Conversation No. 682-8B]

Henry A. Kissinger’s schedule
-Forthcoming lunch with Fulbright

The President’s schedule
-Camp David
-Busing

The President’s trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
	-Fulbright’s view

The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-US-PRC relations
	-US-Soviet relations
-Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Golf
	-Fulbright’s health

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Fulbright’s support

Conversation No. 21-43

Date:  March 10, 1972
Time:  3:07 pm - 3:08 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

[See Conversation No. 682-9A]

Julie Nixon Eisenhower on the line

Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 682-9B]

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Conversation No. 21-44

Date:  March 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:23 pm and 3:53 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

John D. Ehrlichman talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 682-9C]

	Request for a call to Edward L. Morgan

Ehrlichman talked with Edward Morgan

[See Conversation No. 682-9D]

Ehrlichman’s location

Speech draft
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-The President

Conversation No. 21-45

Date:  March 12, 1972
Time:  7:46 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to John D. Ehrlichman

Conversation No. 21-46

Date:  March 12, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:46 pm and 8:05 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

John D. Ehrlichman’s location

Conversation No. 21-47

Date:  March 12, 1972
Time:  8:05 pm - 8:35 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

John D. Ehrlichman talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 322-48]

Busing message to Congress [March 17, 1972]
-Draft
-Constitutional amendment
-Wording
-Conclusion
-Editorial changes
-Title One
-Los Angeles
-New York
-Kansas City
-The President’s view
	-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Court decisions
	-Congress
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming meeting with Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-“Lost generation”
-Blacks
-Money
	-Improvement of education
-Racial equality
-Equality of opportunity
-Courts
-Districts
-States
-Regions
	-South
-Children
	-Victims
-Congress
-North and South compared
-Congress
-Price’s writing style
	-The President’s view
-Inequalities of court decisions
-Race
-Children
-States
-Regions
-Moratorium on forced busing
-Brown vs. Board of Education
-Changes
-Education compared to transportation
-Progress
	-Equal opportunity
-Opposition to busing
-Blacks and whites
-Equal opportunity
-Changes
-“Lost generation”
-Money
	-Advantages of education over busing
-Removal of pages
	-Districts
	-California
	-New York state
	-Kansas City
	-Ohio
-Constitutional amendment
-Conclusion
-Administration accomplishments
	-Desegregation, jobs, business ownership, federal service
-Moratorium on forced busing
-Conclusion
-Beginning of speech
-Changes
	-Congress
		-14th Amendment
	-Equal Educational Opportunity Act
-Moratorium on forced busing
-Sixth grade
-Civil rights
-Leonard Garment
	-Trade-offs
-De jure segregation
	-De facto segregation
		-The President’s view
-Cabinet level committee
-Price’s view
-Garment’s view
-Ehrlichman’s view
	-Busing
-Equality of opportunity
	-The President’s view
		-Justice Department
-Cabinet level committee
	-Location of schools
	-Construction of power plants
		-Environmental regulations
-Segregation-desegregation
	-Title Two, unlawful practices
	-New schools
	-Additions to school buildings
-Price
-Forthcoming talk with Ehrlichman
-Third draft
-Timing of speech
-Conclusion
-Price’s view
	-Trade-offs
-New rights
	-Option paper
	-Liberal
	-The President’s view
		-Improvement of existing schools
-Mexican-Americans
-Bilingual education
-Need to broaden scope
-Timing of corrections
	-The President’s schedule
-Elliot L. Richardson and Garment
-Leaks
-Lobbying by Administration officials
	-Response by Ehrlichman
-Newspapers
-Impact of the President’s decision
-Possible resignation of civil rights lawyers at HEW
	-The President’s view
		-Election
		-Civil rights division of Justice Department

Conversation No. 21-48

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  10:06 am - 10:07 am
Location:  White House Telephone

Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked with the President; an unknown man can be heard in the background.

[See Conversation No. 683-3A]

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Conversation No. 21-49

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:07 am and 11:16 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 683-4A]

	Request for a call to Crosby S. Noyes of Washington Star

Conversation No. 21-50

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  11:16 am - 11:21 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Crosby S. Noyes.

[See Conversation No. 683-4B]

Washington Star
-Pandas from the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Placement
-Decision by the President and Thelma C. (“Pat” Nixon
-National Zoo
-San Diego
-St. Louis
-New York
-Chicago
-National Zoo
-Climate of Washington, DC
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
	-Mating problems of pandas
-Arrival time
-Ziegler
-Director of National Zoo
	-Musk Oxen

Conversation No. 21-51

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:21 am and 3:50 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 683-4C]

	Request for a call to Constance M. Stuart

Conversation No. 21-52

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:21 am and 3:50 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with Constance M. Stuart.

[See Conversation No. 683-4D]

Pandas
-Briefing
-Placement
-National Zoo
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Arrival date
-Stuart’s reaction
-Mrs. Nixon’s involvement
	-Previous visit to panda facility in the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
		-National Zoo
		-Peking Zoo
		-Climate of Washington, DC

Conversation No. 21-53

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:21 am and 3:50 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 683-19]

	Request for a call to James Keogh

Conversation No. 21-54

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  3:50 pm - 3:52 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with James Keogh.

[See Conversation No. 683-20/684-1A]

Keogh’s book [President Nixon and the Press]
-Autographed copy given to the President
-Interest in book
-Content
-Review
-Compared to Edith Efron book [The News Twister]
-Kenneth W. Clawson
	-Former career as a writer
-Forthcoming book by Keogh
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Informatio for book
-Quotes and anecdotes
-The President’s reading habits

Conversation No. 21-55

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:52 pm and 5:11 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

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

	Request for a call to Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

Conversation No. 21-56

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  5:11 pm - 5:12 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon.

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

Pandas
-Call to Constance M. Stuart
-National Zoo
-Climate
-The President and Mrs. Nixon
-Arrival
-Mrs. Nixon’s possible appearance
-Possible story
-Swearing-in ceremony of Marina von N. Whitman
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Children’s reaction

The President’s schedule
-Busing
-John D. Ehrlichman and Edward L. Morgan

Conversation No. 21-57

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  6:07 pm - 6:08 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 323-9]

The President’s schedule
-The President’s forthcoming trip to Canada
-Canadian announcement
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon’s possible attendance
-Schedule

Conversation No. 21-58

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  6:12 pm - 6:17 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

[See Conversation No. 323-10]

Drafts of busing speech

Kissinger’s previous meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Announcement of the President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Timing
-Delegation
	-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
	-Women
		-The President’s view
				-Previous announcement for the President’s trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
		-Mrs. Nixon
		-William P. Rogers
	-Ronald L. Ziegler

Cambodia
-Richard M. Helms
-Fred Ladd
-[Emory C. Swank]
	-The President’s view
-Possible appointee for ambassadorship
	-Charles S. Whitehouse
	-William M. Colmer
	-Pacification 
		-Lyndon B. Johnson
			-Vietnam
	-Kissinger’s view
-Whitehouse
	-Adm. Horacio Rivero, Jr.
	-The President’s view
		-Military experience
		-Whitehouse
		-Navy
	-Pakistan
		-Military aid
		-India
	-US military assistance to Cambodia
	-The President’s view
		Compared to State Department appointee
			-Military Assistance Group [MAG]
			-Kissinger’s view

Kissinger’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Thomas E. (“Doc”) Morgan
-Timing

Conversation No. 21-59

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:17 pm and 6:22 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 323-11]

	Request for a call to Ronald L. Ziegler

Conversation No. 21-60

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  6:22 pm - 6:28 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

[See Conversation No. 323-12]

Press briefing
-Busing
-Ziegler’s responses
	-Florida primary
	-National problem
	-Message to Congress
		-Associated Press [AP]
	-White House staff
-William P. Rogers question
-Pandas
-Crosby S. Noyes
-The President’s view
	-The National Zoo
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Washington Star article
-Robert Walters
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Dillon Reed
-Circumstances
-Discussion of settlement
	-Divestiture
		-Grinnel Corporation
	-Charles W. Colson
	-Walters
	-Washington Star
	-Colson
-Democrats
-Political issue
-Marlow W. Cook’s statement
-Gerald R. Ford’s statement
-Citizens committee
-Campaign contributions
-Press conference
-Pandas
-Busing
-Timing
-The press
-James Keogh’s book [President Nixon and the Press]
-Reporters questions
-Busing
-Campaign
-White House and Administration
-Reviews of book
-The President’s view

Conversation No. 21-61

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  6:28 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 323-13]

	Request for a call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 21-62

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  6:29 pm - 6:34 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 323-14]

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Colson’s call to Smith Hempstone
-Robert Walter’s article in the Washington Star
-Grinnell company
-Peter M. Flanigan
					-Dillon Reed
-Divestiture
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Washington Star
	-Editorial
		-Apology
-Ad
-Call to Hempstone
-Crosby S. Noyes
						-Panda story
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-Jack N. Anderson
-Call to Walters
-Investigation
-Typewriter experts
-Dita D. Beard
-Washington Star
-Hempstone
-Newbold Noyes
-Crosby Noyes

Conversation No. 21-63

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  12:36 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 685-8]

	Request for a call to John N. Mitchell

Conversation No. 21-64

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  12:36 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 685-9]

John N. Mitchell’s location
	-Capitol Hill

Conversation No. 21-65

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:36 pm and 2:55 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 685-11]

	Request for a call to William L. Safire

Conversation No. 21-66

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  2:55 pm - 3:15 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with William L. Safire.

[See Conversation No. 685-12]

Busing speech, March 16, 1972
	-Length
-Content
	-Message to Congress [March 17, 1972]
-Majority
-Prejudice
-Desegregation
-Appeal to television audience
		-Effect on children
		-Example
		-Brown versus Board of Education
		-Elliot Richardson
		-Leonard Garment
		-White and black neighborhoods
		-Parents concern
-Message to Congress
-Moratorium
-Segregation and desegregation
	-George C. Wallace
-Constitutional amendment
-Moratorium
-Liberals
-Court decisions 
-Focus of speech
-Television
-Florida primary
-Timing
-Segregation
-Dual school system
-Inferior education
-Brown versus Board of Education
	-Desegregation 
	-Improvement of education
-Need for action
-Constitutional amendment
	-Length of process
			-Legislation
-Moratorium
-Equal Opportunity Education Act
-Implementation by federal agencies
-Lawyers
-Justice Department
-Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Rhetoric
	-Negro rights
	-Administration record
-Title One
	-California
	-Connecticut
-Need for support
-Wallace
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-William E. Brock, III
-Robert P. Griffin
-Message to Congress
-Constitutional rights of US citizens
-Issue described
-Average citizen
-Moratorium
-Explanation of term
-Instructions to Safire
	-Deadline for draft
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Garment
-Richardson
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Deadline
-Timing

Conversation No. 21-67

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:15 pm and 4:18 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 21-68

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  4:18 pm - 4:34 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation 322-56]

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-John N. Mitchell’s testimony
-Congressional hearings
-Colson’s talk with Robert J. Dole
-Congress
-Thomas F. Eagleton
	-The President’s view
-Peter Flanigan
-Norris Cotton
-Washington Star
-Colson investigation
-Denver
-Dita D. Beard memo
-Typewriter
-Committee
-Justice Department
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Analysis
-Typewriters
-Alger Hiss case
-White House removal
-Private investigators
-Evening Star
-Anonymous letter
-Protection of writer
-Beard
-New York
-Memo
-Jack N. Anderson
		-Authenticity
-Letters
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Protection
-Washington Star
-Robert Walter’s story
-Walter’s theory
-Ken W. Clawson
-Smith Hempstone, Jr.
-Clawson’s call to John Cassidy
-Panda story
-Crosby S. Noyes
-Hempstone
-Beard
-Girl in Canada
-Drew Pearson’s secretary, Opal Ginnis
-Committee call for testimony
-Marlow W. Cook
-Beard relationship with Ginnis
-Cook’s questions
					-Tactics
						-Compared to Hiss case
-Cook’s daughter’s wedding
					-Letter
-Richard W. McLaren
-“Face the Nation” appearance
-ITT growth
-John F. Kennedy administration
-Lyndon B. Johnson administration
-Harold S. Geneen’s statement
				-Antitrust policy
-Walter’s article in Washington Star
	-Content
-Testimony
-Mitchell
-Congressional hearings
-James O. Eastland
-Testimony
-Testimony
	-Robert C. Wilson
-Edwin Reinecke
-Robert H. Finch
-Edgar Gillenwaters
	-Democrats
	-Richard G. Kleindienst
	-Confirmation
	-Congressional hearings
	-Mitchell
	-Eastland
	-McLaren
	-Settlement
	-Press comment
	-Antitrust
	-Kennedy and Johnson administrations
-Robert F. Kennedy
	-Ramsey Clark
	-Mitchell
	-Hiss case
	-Karl E. Mundt
	-Clawson
	-Colson investigation
	-Florida primary concern

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ITT case
-Typewriter
-Need for analysis
-Beard

Conversation No. 21-69

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  4:37 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Ronald L. Ziegler

Conversation No. 21-70

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  4:37 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Ronald L. Ziegler’s location

Conversation No. 21-71

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:37 pm and 7:00 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 325-1A]

	Request for a call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 21-72

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:37 pm and 7:00 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 325-113]

Henry A. Kissinger’s location
	-New York
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Conversation No. 21-73

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:37 pm and 7:00 pm
Location:  White House operator

The President talked with the White House operator.

	 Request for a call to the Military Aide’s Office

Conversation No. 21-74

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  7:00 pm - 7:02 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Cdr. Craig S. Campbell.

The President’s schedule
-Movie
-Helicopter
	-Camp David

Conversation No. 21-75

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  7:03 pm - 7:04 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Cdr. Craig S. Campbell talked with the President.

The President’s schedule
-Movie
-Camp David
-Weather
-Timing of trip

Conversation No. 21-76

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:04 pm and 7:05 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

 	Request for a call to Cdr. Craig S. Campbell

Conversation No. 21-77

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  7:05 pm - 7:06 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Cdr. Craig S. Campbell.

The President’s schedule
-Camp David
-Timing
-Drive
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Conversation No. 21-78

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  7:06 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	 Request for a call to Manolo Sanchez

Conversation No. 21-79

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  7:06 pm - 7:07 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Manolo Sanchez.

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Conversation No. 21-80

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:07 pm and 7:10 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

John B. Connally
-Request to talk with the President
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s request to White House operator

Conversation No. 21-81

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  7:10 pm - 7:19 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

John B. Connally talked with the President.

Economics
-International monetary affairs
-Herbert Stein’s statement
-Currency controls
	-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Exchange controls in Europe
-Effect on businessmen
					-International monetary disequilibrium
						-Currency policy
-Marina von N. Whitman statements
-Interest rates
-Industrial prices
-Price controls
	-Lumber, metals and hides
-Nathaniel Samuels
-Press conference at State Department
-Arthur F. Burns
-Connally’s forthcoming speech
-Foreign Policy Council in New York
-State Department and the CEA
-Administration policy
-Talk with the President
-Whitman
-Stein
-Samuels
-The President’s view
-Connally’s forthcoming speech
-Connally’s previous conversation with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Policy
-Whitman
-Stein
-Samuel’s press conference
	-The President’s view
-US control
-Group of Ten
			-Connally’s forthcoming speech
	-Foreign Policy Council in New York
	-Administration position
-Samuels
-Whitman
	-The President’s view
	-Dow Jones
-Connally’s role
-Statements
-Stein
	-The President’s view
-Burns
-CEA
-State Department
-Control by the President
-Connally’s schedule
	-New York
-Business leaders meeting
-Walter N. Thayer
				-Forthcoming meeting
-Speech
	-Foreign Relations Council
			-The President’s view
	-CEA
-Samuels’ press conference
-Connally’s talk with William P. Rogers
-Rogers’ awareness
				-Connally’s forthcoming speech
					-Story
-Ronald L. Ziegler’s press statement

Conversation No. 21-82

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  7:19 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Conversation No. 21-83

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  7:19 pm - 7:20 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

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

Statements on international monetary affairs
-Forthcoming calls by Haldeman
-Herbert Stein
	-Ezra Solomon
	-Marina von N. Whitman
	-Presidential approval of statements
-Nathaniel Samuels
-Previous press conference by Samuels
	-The President’s view
	-Resignation

Conversation No. 21-84

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  7:22 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Ronald L. Ziegler

Conversation No. 21-85

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  7:22 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Ronald L. Ziegler’s location
	-Press reception

Call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Conversation No. 21-86

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  7:24 pm - 7:26 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

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

Ronald L. Ziegler’s schedule
-Press briefing
-John B. Connally’s forthcoming speech
	-International monetary affairs
	-Administration policy

International monetary affairs
-Haldeman’s forthcoming conversation with Herbert Stein
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Connally’s approval of all statements
-Haldeman’s forthcoming conversation with Nathaniel Samuels
-William P. Rogers
-Arthur F. Burns
-Resignation
-Haldeman’s forthcoming conversation with Connally
-CEA
-State Department
-Burns
-Rogers
	-Samuels
	-Ziegler

Conversation No. 21-87

Date:  March 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:47 pm and 9:14 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Conversation No. 21-88

Date:  March 16, 1972
Time:  9:14 pm - 9:17 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

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

[See Conversation No. 323-25]

Press briefings
-Haldeman’s previous conversation with John D. Ehrlichman
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Timing
-Speech on busing
-Message to Congress
-Cabinet

Busing
-Charles W. Colson
-Issue
-Blacks
-Washington Post
-New York Times
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Moratorium
-Congress
-Courts
-Constitutional amendment

Conversation No. 21-89

Date:  March 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:17 pm and 10:27 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Ronald L. Ziegler

Conversation No. 21-90

Date:  March 16, 1972
Time:  10:27 pm - 10:29 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Press relations
-Busing speech
-Wire leads
-Moratorium
-Delivery
	-Lighting
-Moratorium
-Constitutional amendment
-Reaction
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Morning press conferences
-Busing

Conversation No. 21-91

Date:  March 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:29 pm and 10:31 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Conversation No. 21-92

Date:  March 16, 1972
Time:  10:31 pm - 10:38 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

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

Busing speech
-Delivery

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Delivery
	-Pace
-Television networks
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Daniel L. Schorr
-Robert P. Griffin amendment
-Constitutionality
-Opinion of speech
-Norris Cotton
-John G. Tower
-Constitutional amendment
-Jacob K. Javits
-Legislation
-Robert C. Byrd
	-Majority view
-Moratorium
-Compensatory funding
-Department of Justice
-William E. Brock, III
-Constitutional amendment
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Leonard Garment
-Congress
-Paul J. Fannin
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Whitney M. Young, Jr.
-Javits
-Public mail
	-Congress
-Dewitt and Lila (Acheson) Wallace
-Charles W. Colson
-Thomas N. Downing
-Delivery
-Inferior schools
-Thomas Moody
-Mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee [Leonard R. Rogers]
-Edward Hutchinson
	-House Judiciary Committee
		-Emanuel Celler
	-Carl D. Perkins
-[C. Beverly Briley]
-William McLaughlin
-William L. Safire
-Raymond K. Price, Jr
-Deane C. Davis
-Walter R. Peterson
-Peter J. Brennan
-Samuel I. Hayakawa
-William Umstead
-Samuel L. Devine
-Howard Coughlin
	-Committee on Political Education [COPE]
		-Florida
		-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO]
		-Bayard Rustin

Conversation No. 21-93

Date:  March 16, 1972
Time:  10:40 pm - 10:49 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked with the President.

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	Busing
-Schools

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[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II joined the conversation at an unknown time after 10:40 pm.

Busing
-Moratorium
-Constitutionality
-Message to Congress
-Copy to David Eisenhower
-Roger Burns
-Griffin amendment

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Busing
-Congress
-The President’s forthcoming meeting with leaders
-Moratorium
	-1972 campaign

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Conversation No. 21-94

Date:  March 16, 1972
Time:  10:57 pm - 11:07 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with the President.

Busing speech
-Opinions
-Arch A. Moore
-D. Tenant Bryan
-Frank W. Burke
-John Loeb
-Felix McKnight
-Joe D. Waggonner, Jr.
	-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Leonard Garment
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-William S. Broomfield
-Richard R. Wainwright
-Harold E. Hyde
-Mario Machuochi [sp?]
-President of the National Association of Post Office Employees
-Editorial page editor of the Birmingham News
-Donald Goodenow
-Ken Morrell
	-Attorney General
	-Ehrlichman
-Clark T. Reed
	-The President’s view
		-Edmund S. Muskie
		-George C. Wallace
-Cruise Palmer
-Everett D. Collier
-Brady F. Black
-County Executive of Onondaga County, New York
-Cabinet members
-Earl L. Butz
-Rogers C.B. Morton
-George P. Shultz
-James Hodgson
	-Minorities
-Robert H. Finch
-Mayor Allen, Columbus, Georgia
-Martin S. Hayden
-Ehrlichman
-Talk with John B. Connally
-Connally’s schedule
-Opinions
-Edith Green
-Wires and letters
-Congress
-Herbert G. Klein
-Charles W. Colson
-George T. Bell
-Ehrlichman
-Colson
-Bell
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]

ITT case
-Dita Beard’s file

Busing speech
-Wires and letters
-Colson
-Civic groups
-American Legion
-Jaycees
-Unknown person
-Committee to Re-elect the President [CRP]
-Finch

Conversation No. 21-95

Date:  March 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:07 pm and 11:12 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to John D. Ehrlichman

Conversation No. 21-96

Date:  March 16, 1972
Time:  11:12 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Conversation No. 21-97

Date:  March 16, 1972
Time:  11:12 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s location

Conversation No. 21-98

Date:  March 16, 1972
Time:  11:13 pm - 11:18 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

Busing speech
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming briefing
-Constitutional amendment
-Moratorium
	-Legislative route
-Press
-Unconstitutionality
-Daniel L. Schorr
-Decision to make the speech
-Leonard Garment
-Delivery
-Mail to Congress
-The President’s call to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Ehrlichman’s call to Charles W. Colson
-Telegrams to congressmen
-William L. Safire draft
	-Emotional element
-Julie Nixon and [Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Black administration staff response
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming briefing
-Constitutional amendment
-Moratorium

Conversation No. 21-99

Date:  March 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:18 pm and 11:19 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Robert H. Finch

Conversation No. 21-100

Date:  March 16, 1972
Time:  11:19 pm - 11:26 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Robert H. Finch.

Busing speech
-West Coast reaction
-Finch’s location
-Finch’s schedule
-Forthcoming press conference in Los Angeles
		-Constitutional amendment
		-Moratorium
		-Legislation
-Delivery
-California interest
-New Hampshire
-Wisconsin

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Network coverage
-Effect on administration
-Effect on the Republican Party
-Big business
-Dita D. Beard memorandum
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Finch’s view
-Edwin Reinecke
	-Involvement
-Nixon’s lack of involvement in California site decision
	-Finch’s statement
	-Robert J. Dole’s statement
-Nixon’s choices
	-Chicago
	-Midwest
	-San Diego
	-Miami
-Contributions
-Reinecke

Busing speech

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Conversation No. 21-101

Date:  March 17, 1972
Time:  4:34 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 323-33D]

	Request for a call to Richard G. Kleindienst

Conversation No. 21-102

Date:  March 17, 1972
Time:  4:34 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 323-33E]

Richard G. Kleindienst’s location
	-Los Angeles

Conversation No. 21-103

Date:  March 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:34 pm and 5:29 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 324-1]

	Request for a call to Stephen B. Bull

Conversation No. 21-104

Date:  March 17, 1972
Time:  5:29 pm - 5:30 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Stephen B. Bull.

[See Conversation No. 324-2A]

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The President’s call to John D. Ehrlichman

The conversation was cut off at 5:30 pm.

Conversation No. 21-105

Date:  March 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:30 pm and 5:36 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 324-3]

	Request for a call to Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Conversation No. 21-106

Date:  March 17, 1972
Time:  5:36 pm - 5:40 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

[See Conversation No. 324-5]

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Busing speech reaction
-Southerners
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Moratorium

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Conversation No. 21-107

Date:  March 17, 1972
Time:  8:17 pm - 8:18 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Tricia Nixon Cox talked with the President.

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Conversation No. 21-108

Date:  March 18, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:07 am and 12:10 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 688-8]

	Request for a call to Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Conversation No. 21-109

Date:  March 18, 1972
Time:  12:10 pm - 12:11 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

[See Conversation No. 688-9]

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Conversation No. 21-110

Date:  March 18, 1972
Time:  2:21 pm - 2:22 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 688-18A]

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Conversation No. 21-111

Date:  March 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:30 am and 10:31 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 21-112

Date:  March 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:30 am and 10:31 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Henry A. Kissinger’s location
	-Acapulco, Mexico

Conversation No. 21-113

Date:  March 19, 1972
Time:  10:31 am - 10:33 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Kissinger’s trip to Acapulco, Mexico
-Location
-Amenities
-Mexicans
-Air Force plane delay
-Weather
-Florida
-Diver

Conversation No. 21-114

Date:  March 19, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:33 am and 6:06 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Conversation No. 21-115

Date:  March 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:15 pm and 5:21 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 324-11]

	Request for a call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 21-116

Date:  March 20, 1972
Time:  5:21 pm - 5:30 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 324-12]

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Typewriter
-Analysts
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] report
-Type of ink
-Independent analysts
-Secretary in Canada
	-Affadavit
-Dita D. Beard memorandum
-Second memorandum
-Republican convention
-San Diego
-Contributions
-Beard’s affidavit
-Beard’s June 25th memorandum
-Hugh Scott statement
-Democrats
-Witnesses
-Harold S. Geneen
-Robert C. Wilson
-Edwin Reinecke
-Life magazine
-Edward M. Kennedy
-John V. Tunney
-Scott statement
-Life magazine
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Decisions
-United States Attorney
-Press reports
-Typewriter
-Testimony of ITT employees
-Beard memorandum
-Analysts
-FBI
-Alger Hiss case
-Pearl L. Tytell
-Justice Department
-Congressional committee
-FBI report
-The press
-News summary
	-Beard’s memorandum
		-Newsweek
-Evidence
-Justice Department employee
-Hearings
-Scott statement
-Denver

Conversation No. 21-117

Date:  March 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:30 pm and 5:56 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 324-12B]

	Request for a call to John B. Connally

Conversation No. 21-118

Date:  March 20, 1972
Time:  5:56 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 324-12C]

John B. Connally’s location
	-John D. Ehrlichman

Conversation No. 21-119

Date:  March 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:56 pm and 7:36 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Stephen B. Bull

Conversation No. 21-120

Date:  March 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:56 pm and 7:36 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Cancellation of call to Stephen B. Bull

	Request for a call to Alexander P. Butterfield

Conversation No. 21-121

Date:  March 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:56 pm and 7:36 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Alexander P. Butterfield’s location

Stephen B. Bull

Conversation No. 21-122

Date:  March 20, 1972
Time:  7:36 pm - 7:37 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Stephen B. Bull.

The President’s schedule
-Timing of meetings
-Manea Manescu
-Raymond P. Shafer
-Gerard C. Smith
-Manescu
	-Romania
	-Translation
		-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Gerard C. Smith
-Shafer
-Manescu
	-Translation
	-National Security Council [NSC
-Smith
-Shafer

Conversation No. 21-123

Date:  March 20, 1972
Time:  7:59 pm - 8:00 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with John B. Connally.

Narcotics
-The President’s previous remarks
	-Permissiveness
		-Heroin
		-Marijuana
		-The President’s forthcoming remarks

Conversation No. 21-134

Date:  Unknown between March 20, 1972 and March 21, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:00 pm, March 20 and 1:03 pm, March 21
Location:  White House Telephone

The President attempted to place a call with the White House operator.

[Aborted telephone call]

Conversation No. 21-124

Date:  March 21, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:00 pm and 1:03 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 690-11A]

	Request for a call to George P. Shultz

Conversation No. 21-125

Date:  March 21, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:00 pm and 1:03 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 690-11B]

George P. Shultz’s location
-George Meany

Conversation No. 21-126

Date:  March 21, 1972
Time:  1:03 pm - 1:09 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with George P. Shultz.

[See Conversation No. 690-11C]

Drug Abuse Office and Treatment Act of 1972 signing

Shultz’s previous meeting with George Meany 
	-Meany’s possible resignation from the Pay Board
-Questions
	-General program
-Prices
-Interest rates
-Arthur F. Burns
	-Wage controls
-Earl L. Butz
-Bankers
-Hobart Rowen
-Burns
-Dollar
-Prime rate
-Bankers
-John B. Connally
-Meat prices
-Food prices
-Connally
-Cattle price
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Contracts
-Government regulation
-Small firm exemption
	-Pay Board, Price Commission
-Construction industry

Interest rates
-Connally’s possible public statement
-Burns
-Administration policy
-Prime rate
-Connally
-Burns
-Committee

Shultz’s previous meeting with Meany
-Administration position
-Democrats
-Controls compared with freedom

Conversation No. 21-127

Date:  March 21, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:09 pm and 11:19 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 21-128

Date:  March 21, 1972
Time:  11:19 pm - 11:45 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Typewriter
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Press
-Congress
-Hugh Scott briefing
-Policy committee Republican senators
-Hearings
-Democrats
-Typewriter
-Independent analysis
-James O. Eastland
-Jack N. Anderson [?]
-Press
-Blackout
-Letter
-Scott
-Networks
-Beard memorandum

State Dinner for Nihat Erim
-Mrs. and Mrs. Albert E. Sindlinger
-Mrs. Sindlinger
	-Parents
		-Turkey
-Pollster
-Armenia

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George Meany possible resignation from the Pay Board
-Frank Fitzsimmons
-Leonard Woodcock
-Fitzsimmons’s talk to Colson
	-Meany
	-I[lworth W[Ilbur] Abel
	-Floyd E. Smith
-Colson’s talk with George P. Shultz
-The President’s view
	-Interest rates
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Labor
-Meany’s previous meeting with Shultz
		-Previous American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO] convention
	-Miami
-Woodcock
-Fitzsimmons
-Wage Board
-Polls
-Herbert Stein
-Michigan opinion survey
-Sindlinger
-CPI

Colson’s health

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Miami convention
-White House investigation
-Contributions
-Corporations

	ITT case
		-Harold S. Geneen
			-Statement
-San Diego
-Beard memorandum

Drug Abuse Office and Treatment Act of 1972 signing
	-Media coverage
-Turkey
-The President’s previous comments
-Addicts
-Government agencies
-Network coverage
-Public opinion
-Polls on drugs
-George C. Wallace
-Florida

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Conversation No. 21-129

Date:  March 22, 1972
Time:  10:10 am - 10:11 am
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Alexander P. Butterfield.

[See Conversation No. 324-14A]

Briefing book delivery
-Manolo Sanchez
-Previous briefing book

Conversation No. 21-130

Date:  March 22, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:11 am and 1:12 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 324-24]

	Request for a call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 21-131

Date:  March 22, 1972
Time:  1:12 pm - 1:30 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 324-25]

Economics
-Wage and price control
-George Meany’s possible resignation from the Pay Board
	-George P. Shultz
				-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO]
	-Walkout
-Meany
-I[lworth] W[ilbur] Abel
-Floyd E. Smith
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Leonard Woodcock
-AFL-CIO
-1971 AFL-CIO national convention
	-Bal Harbour, Florida
-Public confidence
	-Colson’s view
-Meany
-Walkout
-Woodcock
-Fitzsimmons
-Previous talk with Colson
-AFL-CIO meeting boycott
-The President’s view
	-1971 AFL-CIO convention
-Shultz
-John B. Connally
-Wage Board
-Colson’s previous talk with Shultz
-Labor participation
-Fitzsimmons
-Woodcock
-Meany

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International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-News summary
-John W. Chancellor program
-Paul Duke’s comment
-Richard W. McLaren
-Settlement
-Press coverage
-Director [of the Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]]
-Press bias
-Campaign
-[Forename unknown] Massey [sp?] operation
-Dita D. Beard
-Edward M. Kennedy’s talk with James O. Eastland
-Harold S. Geneen
-Chile
-Confirmation of Richard G. Kleindienst
-San Diego
-Congressional hearings
-Jack N. Anderson
-San Diego story
-Timing
-Life magazine
-Scali
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-William A. Gill, Jr.
-Column
-Congressional hearings conduct
-Willard Edwards
-Chicago Tribune
	-Victor Lasky
	-Edwards
-Alger Hiss case
	-Editorials
-[Forename unknown] Hallett

Conversation No. 21-132

Date:  March 22, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:30 pm and 3:24 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 324-32]

	Request for a call to Charles W. Colson

Conversation No. 21-133

Date:  March 22, 1972
Time:  3:24 pm - 3:29 pm
Location:  White House Telephone

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 324-34]

Wage Board
-George Meany’s resignation from board
-Ronald L. Ziegler
	-The President’s statement
		-George P. Shultz
-John B. Connally
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Statement
-Public board
-Leonard Woodcock
	-The President’s view
	-Colson’s view
	-Edmund S. Muskie
-Wages and prices
-Public interest
-New board composition proposal
-Meany
-Colson’s view

Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Herbert Stein
-Food prices
-Possible freeze
-Meany’s statement
-Farmers compared to unions
-Public view
-Farmers
-The President’s view
-Shultz
-Good season
-Meany