Conversation No. 322-1

Date:  February 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:42 pm and 2:48 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:48 pm.

Conversation No. 322-2

Date:  February 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:42 pm and 2:48 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 20-115]

Conversation No. 322-3

Date:  February 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:42 pm and 2:48 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:48 pm.

Conversation No. 322-4

Date:  February 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:42 pm and 2:48 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 20-116]

Conversation No. 322-5

Date:  February 29, 1972
Time:  2:48 pm - 2:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Clark MacGregor.

[See Conversation No. 20-117]

Conversation No. 322-6

Date:  February 29, 1972
Time:  2:51 pm - 2:53 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 20-118]

Conversation No. 322-7

Date:  February 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:53 pm and 2:56 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:56 pm.

Conversation No. 322-8

Date:  February 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:53 pm and 2:56 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

The President’s schedule
	-Recent trip to the People’s Republic of China [ PRC]

[The President talked with Lawrence M. Higby [?] at an unknown time between 2:53 pm and 2:56 pm]

Request for a return call [from H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman?]

[End of telephone conversation]

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:56 pm.

Conversation No. 322-9

Date:  February 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:53 pm and 2:56 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 20-119]

Conversation No. 322-10

Date:  February 29, 1972
Time:  2:56 pm - 3:16 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 20-120; two items have been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 322-11

Date:  February 29, 1972
Time:  3:17 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Request to get unknown item

Sanchez left at 3:17 pm.

Conversation No. 322-12

Date:  February 29, 1972
Time:  3:17 pm - 3:18 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 20-121]

Conversation No. 322-13

Date:  February 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:18 pm and 3:23 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

The President’s schedule
-Meeting
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Kissinger’s schedule
	-Forthcoming dinner at the White House
	-Hair cut
	-Plans for the evening

Conversation No. 322-14

Date:  February 29, 1972
Time:  3:23 pm - 4:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Meeting
-Haldeman and John B. Connally
-William P. Rogers
-Connally’s tenure

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 3:25 pm.

People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Press briefing
-The President’s report
	-Herbert G. Klein
-PRC
-Conference
-Questions
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-Henry A. Kissinger
	-Shanghai
-Ziegler’s comments
-PRC
-John Thomas Downey
-William F. Buckley, Jr.
-Stanley Karnow
-Dan Rather

Kissinger and Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr. entered at 3:28 pm.

PRC trip
-Taiwan
-Rather’s report

-The President’s address of February 28, 1972
-Secretary of State
	-Haig
	-Statements on Taiwan
		-President’s position
	-Rogers
	-Capitol Hill
	-Statements on Taiwan
-Leaders meeting
-Rogers’s comments
-Statements
-Taiwan
-PRC
-Communism
-Trade
	-Proposed deal
-Rogers
-Questions to Ziegler
-Leaders meeting
-President’s instructions
	-Haig
	-Rogers
	-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
	-PRC
	-Rogers
-Haldeman’s talk with Rogers
-Industrialization
-Exhibit
-Singapore
-Taiwan
-Trade
-Taiwan
-Rogers
-Possible leaks
-Possible remarks to staff
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Press
	-Remarks by Rogers
-Leaders
-Cabinet
-Kissinger
	-Rogers’s behavior
-PRC
-Translator
-Foreign Minister
-Response
-Statements from Rogers
	-Translation
-Foreign Minister
-Ziegler’s observation
	-Boxer Rebellion
-Haig
	-Chi Peng-fei [?]
		-Transcripts of meetings
-Chou En-lai
-Meeting with Rogers
-[Unintelligible]
-Foreign Minister
	-Compared to vice foreign minister
-Rogers
	-Job performance
	-Taiwan
		-Memorandum
-Press
-Social events
	-Timing
-Industrialization
-Shanghai exhibit
	-USSR
-Haig
-Instructions
-USSR
-PRC
-USSR, 1959
	-Predicted survivability
-PRC achievements
-Cultural Revolution
-Weapons
-Standard of living
-Industry
-Education
-Haig’s upcoming telephone call to Rogers
-President’s request
	-Haig
-Kissinger
	-Representation
		-Rogers’s situation
		-Discussions on phone
-PRC
-Press
	-Comments
-Leaders
-Consistency
-Communists
-Kissinger
-US foreign policy
-PRC trip
	-Outcome of trip
-USSR
-Haig
-Meeting
-Backgrounder
-Press
-Taiwan
	-Possible comparisons
-Public reaction to PRC trip
-Indonesia
-PRC
-Diplomacy options
-USSR
-Cambodia
-PRC system compared to US system
-Advantages
-Africa
-Ziegler
-Instructions
-Florida
	-Timing
	-Gerald L. Warren
		-Fill-in for Ziegler
-Haig
-President’s schedule
	-Kissinger
		-Briefings
-Rogers
-State Department

Vietnam negotiations
-Withdrawal
-Cambodia, Laos
-Concessions
-Briefing papers
-Haig’s talk with Chou En-lai
-Peaceful settlement
	-Kissinger’s negotiations in October 1971
	-Possible US opposition
-Withdrawal
-USSR

PRC trip
-Communiqué
-Vietnam
-Settlement
-Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu
-USSR
-Instructions to Haig
	-Rogers
-Conservatives
-Washington Post
-Upcoming editorial
-Ronald W. Reagan

Haldeman and Ziegler left at 3:55 pm.

Vietnam
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters’s Meeting
-Discussion
	-Length of time
	-Location
-Le Duc Tho

PRC
-Communiqué
	-Criticism
		-W[illiam] Averell Harriman
-Rogers’s comments
-Haig’s view
-Kissinger’s view
-The President’s view
-Substance and principles
	-Chou En-lai
-Statements
-PRC
-USSR
-Technology
-Kissinger
	-Previous conversation with Jonathan T. Howe
	-Chou En-lai
		-PRC foreign minister
		-Rogers
			-US presence in Japan

	Japan

Kissinger and Haig left and Manolo Sanchez entered at 4:00 pm.

Conversation No. 322-15

Date:  February 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:00 pm and 6:18 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

The President’s schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:18 pm.

Conversation No. 322-16

Date:  February 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:00 pm and 6:18 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:18 pm.

Conversation No. 322-17

Date:  February 29, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:00 pm and 6:18 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

[Unintelligible]

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:18 pm.

Conversation No. 322-18

Date:  March 7, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:45 pm and 2:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

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The unknown person left at an unknown time before 2:15 pm.

Conversation No. 322-19

Date:  March 7, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:45 pm and 2:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

The President’s schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:15 pm.

Conversation No. 322-20

Date:  March 7, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:45 pm and 2:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 21-10]

Conversation No. 322-21

Date:  March 7, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:45 pm and 2:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President’s schedule
-George P. Shultz
-Meeting

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:15 pm.

Conversation No. 322-22

Date:  March 7, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:45 pm and 2:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

The President’s schedule
	-New Hampshire primary, March 9, 1972
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW] Congressional Award Dinner
-Transportation

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	Press briefing
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Gerald L. Warren
	-Statement
		-Appreciation to New Hampshire voters and supporters

The President’s schedule
	-Forthcoming dinner
		-Handshaking

Conversation No. 322-23

Date:  March 7, 1972
Time:  2:15 pm - 2:17 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with William M. Colmer.

[See Conversation No. 21-11]

Conversation No. 322-24

Date:  March 7, 1972
Time:  2:18 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 21-12]

Conversation No. 322-25

Date:  March 7, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:18 pm and 2:26 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 21-14]

Conversation No. 322-26

Date:  March 7, 1972
Time:  2:26 pm - 2:27 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 21-15]

Conversation No. 322-27

Date:  March 7, 1972
Time:  2:29 pm - 2:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Abraham A. Ribicoff.

[See Conversation No. 21-16]

Conversation No. 322-28

Date:  March 7, 1972
Time:  2:35 pm - 3:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Press briefing
-The President’s schedule
	-Congressional leadership meeting
-Busing
-Meeting
	-Timing
-Camp David
-Purpose
-Meeting with Cabinet
	-Timing
-Possible message
	-Timing
		-Ziegler’s talk with John D. Ehrlichman
				-Decision
		-Timing
		-Florida primary

		-Influence
-Domestic issues
-Foreign policy
-William P. Rogers
-Meeting
-Testimony
-General topics
-Domestic issues
-Revenue sharing
-George W. Romney
-Dinner
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-Award to Dr. Thomas E. (“Doc”) Morgan
	-Bipartisan foreign policy
-New Hampshire primary

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-New Hampshire primary
-Press coverage
-Timing
-Gerald L. Warren
-The President’s previous conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Questions
	-Primary
-John N. Mitchell
	-Press referrals
		-White House press practices
		-Comment on the primaries
-Economic matters
-Herbert Stein
	-Previous conversation with Ziegler
-Progress report
	-Wage and price freeze
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.

	International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
		-Press briefing
			-White House response
-Television networks
-Dita D. Beard
	-White House response
	-Memorandum
	-Hugh Scott’s statement
-Rogers
-Revenue sharing
-Busing message
-Timing
-Price, Ehrlichman, George P. Shultz
-Rogers
-Washington story
-Time for foreign leaders
-Mao Tse-tung
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Mao Tse-tung
-Chou En-lai

Ziegler’s schedule
-Disney World
-Orlando paper
-Miami Herald

ITT
-Press coverage
-Washington Post
-Washington Star
-New York Times

Ziegler left and Henry A. Kissinger entered at 2:46 pm.

Meeting with Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Rogers
-Press conference
-White House position
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

John B. Connally
-Kissinger’s meeting
-Communiqué
	-Criticism
-Taiwan, Republic of China

Rogers
-State Department 
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Trade
-Conduct
	-Differences
		-Azores
-President’s work habits
-State Department
-November 1972
-Vietnam negotiations
-Perception of the President
	-Politics
-State Department
-PRC trip
	-Hangchow
	-The President’s efforts
		-Concessions
-Foreign policy
	-Connally’s view
-Possible replacement
-[Unintelligible]
-USSR trip
-Timing

	The President’s schedule
-Quadriad meeting, March 8, 1972

	Kissinger’s schedule
		-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
			-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]

	Meeting

Kissinger left at 3:00 pm.

Conversation No. 322-29

Date:  March 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:50 pm and 12:56 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:56 pm.

Conversation No. 322-30

Date:  March 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:56 pm and 12:57 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox.

[See Conversation No. 21-31; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

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[Duration:  56s  ]

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Conversation No. 322-31

Date:  March 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:58 pm and 12:59 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

[See Conversation No. 21-32; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

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Conversation No. 322-32

Date:  March 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:59 pm and 1:48 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 21-33]

Conversation No. 332-33

Date:  March 9, 1972
Time:  1:48 pm - 1:51 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox.

[See Conversation No. 21-34; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 322-34

Date:  March 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:51 pm and 1:57 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 21-35]

Call to Ronald L. Ziegler

Conversation No. 322-35

Date:  March 9, 1972
Time:  1:57 pm - 1:58 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

[See Conversation No. 21-36]

Conversation No. 322-36

Date:  March 9, 1972
Time:  2:10 pm - 2:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Press briefing topics
-Airline bombing investigation
-Security measures
	-Additional personnel
-Time involved
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] trade
-Lockheed
-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Statement
	-Private interests
	-Principle of trade
	-Potential for future opportunities

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Testimony
-Jack N. Anderson
-John N. Mitchell
	-Timing of testimony
-Newsmen
-Anderson
-Sources
	-Executive privilege
-Senate

Press briefing topics
-President’s instructions
-Busing
-Approach
-Education
-Progress
-Solution
	-Possible effect
		-Complexity of issue
-Written statement
	-White House position
-Effect on education in US
-Statement
	-Comparison to other statements
	-President’s recommendations
		-Legislation or constitutional approach
	-Timing
-Ziegler’s talk with John D. Ehrlichman
	-Timing of statement
-Statement
	-Timing

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ITT case
-Press conference
	-Patrick J. Buchanan
	-Timing
	-Mitchell
	-PRC
	-Lead story

Ziegler left at 2:30 pm.

Conversation No. 322-37

Date:  March 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:30 pm  2:39 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 21-37]

Conversation No. 322-38

Date:  March 9, 1972
Time:  2:39 pm - 2:40 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John N. (“Jack”) Irwin, II.

[See Conversation No. 21-38]

Conversation No. 322-39

Date:  March 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:40 pm and 4:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:30 pm.

Conversation No. 322-40

Date:  March 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:40 pm and 4:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum to Henry A. Kissinger and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

Memorandum distribution
-Haldeman
-Talk with Herbert G. Klein, Ronald L. Ziegler or John A. Scali

People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-US position
-Position
	-Compared to US position
		-Kissinger’s backgrounder
		-Communiqué

President’s previous trip to the USSR, July 1959
	-Addressing the people of USSR
		-Radio and television
		-Media coverage
		-State Department speech draft
-Llewellyn E. (“Tommy”) Thompson, Jr.
	-Kitchen Debate
-Speech
	-Tone 
	-1960 election
	-Significance
	-Effect
		-Americans-USSR
			-Reaction
				-St. Louis Dispatch
					-Favorable editorial

	PRC

-Communiqué
	-Tone
		-Leadership
			-Public opinion
-Perception of the President
-Americans
	-Right-wing

Conversation No. 322-41

Date:  March 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:40 pm and 4:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Dictation
-Delivery to Rose Mary Woods

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:30 pm.

Conversation No. 322-42

Date:  March 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:40 pm and 4:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person [Rose Mary Woods]

Taped memorandum to Henry A. Kissinger
-Distribution
	-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
		-Blind copy

Conversation No. 322-43

Date:  March 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:40 pm and 4:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

[See Conversation No. 21-39; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 322-44

Date:  March 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:40 pm and 4:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum for the file.

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Conversation No. 322-45

Date:  March 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:40 pm and 4:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Pandas
-National Zoo
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Chou En-lai
-National Zoo
-Gifts
-Display
-Tourists
-Mrs. Nixon
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Mao Tse-tung
-Chou En-lai
-Display
-Mao Tse-tung
-Pictures
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-West Wing
-Dinner
-Place cards
-Peking
-Hangchow
-Shanghai
-Historical record
-Display
-Portraits
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Jacksonville and Cambridge

-Display
-Tricia Cox
	-Cloisonné vases
		-Mrs. Nixon
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Jacksonville
-Mrs. Nixon
-Atkins
	-Chopsticks
		-Chou En-lai
-Gifts
-Display
-Instructions to Haldeman
-East Wing
-Tricia Cox
-Julie Eisenhower
-Chapin
-Ronald H. Walker
-Press interest
	-Henry A. Kissinger
	-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] announcement
	-Peking announcement
		-Timing
	-John F. Kennedy
		-Nuclear test ban treaty
-Public interest
	-Kissinger broadcast
-Follow-up
-Pocketbook
-Press
	-Forthcoming trip to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Speech
-Public interest
-Media coverage
	-International Telephone and Telephone [ITT]
	-Edward M. Kennedy
	-Kissinger

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Conversation No. 322-46

Date:  March 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:40 pm and 4:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

	Request for a call to Manolo Sanchez

Conversation No. 322-47

Date:  March 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:40 pm and 4:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum for the file.

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[Duration:  6m 51s  ]

[The President talked with an unknown person [Manolo Sanchez] at an unknown time between 2:40 pm and 4:30 pm.]

[Conversation No. 322-47A]

[End of telephone conversation]

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 2:40 pm.

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:30 pm

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Conversation No. 322-48

Date:  March 12, 1972
Time:  8:05 pm - 8:35 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

[See Conversation No. 21-47]

Conversation No. 322-49

Date:  March 12, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:35 pm and 9:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President continued a memorandum for the file.

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Conversation No. 322-50

Date:  March 12, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:35 pm and 9:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President continued a memorandum for the file.

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The President dictated a memorandum.

Gridiron dinner
-Harry S. Truman
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

Conversation No. 322-51

Date:  March 12, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:35 pm and 9:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Memoranda
-Instructions on distribution
-Rose Mary Woods

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:25 pm.

Conversation No. 322-52

Date:  March 12, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:35 pm and 9:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

Busing speech
-Draft
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Status
-William L. Safire
	-First draft
-Instructions on distribution
-Price
-Leonard Garment
-Difference
-Majority
-Distribution
-Elliot L. Richardson
-George P. Shultz
-Changes
-Constitutional amendment
-Moratorium
-Left-right
-George C. Wallace
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson

Conversation No. 322-53

Date:  March 12, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:35 pm and 9:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum for the file.

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[Duration:  3m 2s  ]

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Conversation No. 322-54

Date:  March 12, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:35 pm and 9:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum for the file.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  3m 34s  ]

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Conversation No. 322-55

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:52 pm and 4:18 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 21-67]

Conversation No. 322-56

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  4:18 pm - 4:34 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 21-68; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 322-57

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  4:37 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 21-69]

Conversation No. 322-58

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:37 pm and 4:42 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 21-70]

Conversation No. 322-59

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  4:42 pm - unknown before 5:52 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
	-Press conference
	-Questions
	-Sherman Adams
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Executive privilege
-Ziegler’s response
	-The President
	-Partisan charges
		-White House staff
			-Denials
	-Flanigan factor
	-Political factor
	-Charges made
-Compared to Adams

-Flanigan
-Peter Lisagor
-Skip Isaacs
-St. Louis Post-Dispatch
-Baltimore Sun
-Courtney Sheldon
-The President
	-Contribution
		-Ziegler’s response
		-San Diego
			-Convention
			-President’s knowledge
-John N. Mitchell
-Thomas F. Eagleton

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 4:45 pm.

-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Possible action
-Charles W. Colson
-Talk with the President
-Congress 
-Press
-Washington journalists
-Questions
-Herb [Surname unknown]
-Wire service story

Television
-Busing speech, March 16, 1972
-Educators
-Message
-George C. Wallace
-John B. Connally
-John D. Ehrlichman

[Unintelligible]

ITT case
-Typewriters
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Xerox copies
-Typewriter
-John D. Ehrlichman
	-Analysis

Ziegler left at 4:55 pm.

[Unintelligible]

	Press coverage
		-Drug policy event

Gridiron dinner
-Presidential participation
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Harry S. Truman
-John F. Kennedy
-Johnson
-Truman
-Roosevelt
-Kennedy
-Truman
-Eisenhower
-Democrat speaker
	-Hubert H. Humphrey
-The President’s schedule
-Edgar Allan Poe

Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 5:52 pm.