Conversation No. 323-1

Date:  Unknown between March 12 and March 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:25 pm, March 12 and 6:05 pm, March 13, 1972
Location:  Executive Office Building

An unknown man [Secret Service?] met with an unknown man.

An unknown man [Secret Service?] talked with an unknown person.

[Conversation No. 323-1A]

Sound

[End of telephone conversation]

[Unintelligible]

The unknown men [Secret Service?] left at an unknown time before 6:05 pm, March 13, 1972.

Conversation No. 323-3

Date:  Unknown between March 12 and March 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:25 pm, March 12 and 6:05 pm, March 13, 1972
Location:  Executive Office Building

An unknown man met with an unknown woman.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Non-historical]
[Duration:  20s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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The unknown people left at an unknown time before 6:05 pm, March 13, 1972.

Conversation No. 323-4

Date:  Unknown between March 12 and March 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:25 pm, March 12 and 6:05 pm, March 13, 1972
Location:  Executive Office Building

An unknown man met with an unknown woman.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Non-historical]
[Duration:  59s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

*****************************************************************

The unknown people left at an unknown time before 6:05 pm, March 13, 1972.

Conversation No. 323-35

Date:  Unknown between March 12 and March 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:25 pm, March 12 and 6:05 pm, March 13, 1972
Location:  Executive Office Building

An unknown man [Secret Service?] talked with an unknown man.

Radio check

Conversation No. 323-5

Date:  Unknown between March 12 and March 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:25 pm, March 12 and 6:05 pm, March 13, 1972
Location:  Executive Office Building

An unknown man [Secret Service?] talked with an unknown person.

[Conversation 323-5A]

Sound check

[End of telephone conversation]

Unknown men met.

[Unintelligible]

The unknown men left at an unknown time before 6:05 pm, March 13, 1972.

Conversation No. 323-7

Date:  Unknown between March 12 and March 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:25 pm, March 12 and 6:05 pm, March 13, 1972
Location:  Executive Office Building

Unknown men met.

[Unintelligible]

An unknown man talked with an unknown person.

[Conversation No. 323-7A]

Schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

The unknown men left at an unknown time before 6:05 pm, March 13, 1972.

Conversation No. 323-8

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:05 pm and 6:07 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  7s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:07 pm.

Conversation No. 323-9

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  6:07 pm - 6:08 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 21-57]

Conversation No. 323-10

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  6:12 pm - 6:17 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

[See Conversation No. 21-58]

Conversation No. 323-11

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:17 pm and 6:22 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 21-59]

Conversation No. 323-12

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  6:22 pm - 6:28 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

[See Conversation No. 21-60]

Conversation No. 323-13

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  6:28 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 21-61]

Conversation No. 323-14

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  6:29 pm - 6:34 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 21-62]

Conversation No. 323-15

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:34 pm and 8:09 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown man.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  13s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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The unknown man left at an unknown time before 8:09 pm.

Conversation No. 323-16

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:34 pm and 8:09 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  25s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 8:09 pm.

Conversation No. 323-17

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:34 pm and 8:09 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  28s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 8:09 pm.

Conversation No. 323-18

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:34 pm and 8:09 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  1m 11s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Conversation No. 323-19

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:34 pm and 8:09 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:  4m 8s  ]

[End of dictation]

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 6:34 pm.

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 8:09 pm; the President resumed dictating.

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Conversation No. 323-20

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:34 pm and 8:09 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  45s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 8:09 pm.

Conversation No. 323-21

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:34 pm and 8:09 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  21s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 8:09 pm.

Conversation No. 323-22

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:34 pm and 8:09 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown man.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  17s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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The unknown man left at an unknown time before 8:09 pm.

Conversation No. 323-23

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:34 pm and 8:09 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President practiced an Address to the Nation on Equal Educational Opportunities and School Busing, delivered on March 16, 1972.

[A transcript of the final version of this speech appears in Public Papers of the Presidents, Richard M. Nixon, 1972, pp. 425-429]

Conversation No. 323-24

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:34 pm and 8:09 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  44s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 8:09 pm.

Conversation No. 323-25

Date:  March 16, 1972
Time:  9:14 pm - 9:17 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 21-88]

Conversation No. 323-26

Date:  March 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:17 pm and 9:40 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President practiced an Address to the Nation on Equal Educational Opportunities and School Busing, delivered on March 16, 1972.

[A transcript of the final version of this speech appears in Public Papers of the Presidents, Richard M. Nixon, 1972, pp. 425-429]

Conversation No. 323-27

Date:  March 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:17 pm and 9:40 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President practiced an Address to the Nation on Equal Educational Opportunities and School Busing, delivered on March 16, 1972.

[A transcript of the final version of this speech appears in Public Papers of the Presidents, Richard M. Nixon, 1972, pp. 425-429]

Conversation No. 323-28

Date:  March 16, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:17 pm and 9:40 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  20s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:40 pm.

Conversation No. 323-29

Date:  March 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:45 pm and 2:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  24s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:45 pm.

Conversation No. 323-30

Date:  March 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:45 pm and 2:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  2s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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The unknown person left at an unknown time before 2:45 pm.

Conversation No. 323-31

Date:  March 17, 1972
Time:  2:45 pm - 3:02 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Equal Rights Amendment [ERA]
-Questions
-The President’s support
	-Co-sponsor of legislation in 1951
	-Statement of support in 1968
-Lawyers
-Statement of support
	-The President’s view
	-Proposed letter to Hugh Scott
	-House Resolution 208 [HR 208]
	-Constitutional amendment
	-Changes
	-Wording
	-Amending
	-Congressional role
	-House and Senate
	-Support
-Wording of the proposed amendment
-The President’s support
	-House and Senate
	-Wording
	-Changes
	-The President’s view
	-Co-sponsor of legislation in 1951
	-1960, 1968
			-The President’s role in legislation
	-Final wording of amendment
	-House and Senate
	-Debate
	-Statement
	-Wording
		-HR 208
	-Lawyers

Press briefing
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
	-Question to Edward L. Morgan
		-Busing to achieve racial balance
-The President’s view
 		-Busing
	-The President’s view
		-Liberals
			-Florida primary
			-George C. Wallace
			-John V. Lindsay
			-George S. McGovern
-American citizens support for the President’s previous speech on busing
				-Reactionaries
-Liberals
-Press corps
-Experiences
-Change in position
-Moratorium
	-Congress
	-Michael J. Mansfield
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-McGovern
-Humphrey
	-Blacks
	-Liberals
-Washington Post
			-Briefing team
				-Meeting with Ziegler
					-Ziegler’s view
					-Press questions
					-Tone
					-Television
					-Writing press
-Afternoon briefing strategy
-Press reaction
-Changes
-Radio
-Television
-The President’s view
	-Election year
-Busing
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Issue
-Coverage
-Awareness
	-White House involvement
-Harry S. Truman 
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
	-Sherman Adams example
-Convention
-Strategy
	-White House involvement
-Peter M. Flanigan
	-Involvement
	-Circumstances
		-[First name unknown] Sullivan 
-Press corps

Ziegler left at 3:02 pm.

Conversation No. 323-32

Date:  March 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:02 pm and 3:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person [H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman?].

Haldeman’s schedule
	-Forthcoming meeting with the President

Conversation No. 323-33

Date:  March 17, 1972
Time:  3:05 pm - 4:37 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Ronald L. Ziegler’s meeting with the President
-Strategy
	-White House involvement
	-Charles W. Colson
-Photograph
-Dita D. Beard and Jack N. Anderson’s secretaries
-Party
-Marlow W. Cook
	-Colson
-Newspapers
-White House involvement
-Anderson
-Colson
-Ziegler
-Party
-Waiter’s statement
-Colson
-Doorman’s statement
-Harold S. Geneen
-Sheraton Hotel
-Beard

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Privacy]
[Duration:  9s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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-Investigation
-Colson
-Beard memorandum
-Typewriter
		-Pearl L. Tytell
-Senate hearings
-Lawyers
-Press conference
-Deposition
-Beard’s secretary
-Typing of memorandum
-Typewriter
	-Tytell
-Type of ribbon
-Timing of typing of memorandum
		-Roman L. Hruska [?]
			-Speech in the Senate
				-Charges
-Authenticity of memorandum
-Howard Hughes comparison
-Typewriter
-Beard
-Republicans
	-Confirmation of Richard G. Kleindienst
-Investigation of Anderson
-Spiro T. Agnew’s speech
-Draft
-Timing
-Memorandum
-Ziegler
-Questions
-White House involvement
-Photograph

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  4m 36s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

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	Public relations
	-The President’s previous trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
			-[The President’s recent meeting with Citizens Advisory Council on Status of Women]
	The President’s previous speech on busing
	-Haldeman’s view
		-Public interest in issue
		-Image of President during speech
			-Compared to press conference
		-Time
		-Teleprompter compared to reading
			-Length of speech

Press
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Colson
-Editorial material
-Congressional hearings
-Alger Hiss investigation and Joseph McCarthy era
	-Rules of the court
			-The President’s instructions
				-Double standard by press
-Forthcoming paper
-Period from 1947-1950
-McCarthy era
-Congressional committees
-Attacks by press
					-Forthcoming press briefings
						-Herbert G. Klein
						-Agnew
-The President
-Slander by the press
	-Attorney General
	-White House staff
-Liberals
-Paper or article
-Buchanan

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 14
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  2m 17s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 14

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The President’s schedule
	-Use of Camp David
		-William P. Rogers
		-Melvin R. Laird
		-White House staff
	-Church services
-Forthcoming Soviet trip
-Summer
-Conventions
-Campaign
		-Church services
-Press conferences and briefings

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  3m 20s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4

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	Unknown man
		-Compared to Walter Taylor
		-South American trip
		-The President’s view

George H. W. Bush
-Speeches
-Foreign policy
-Taiwan, Republic of China
	-Partisan requests
	-Fundraisers
		-The President’s view
			-Role as US ambassador to the United Nations [UN]
				-Rogers
			-Private social functions 
-Forthcoming dinner
-Guests
-John B. and Idanell B. (“Nellie”) Connally
-Haldemans
-Russell B. Long
-Betty Beale
-Austrian Ambassador [Karl J. Gruber?]
-Haldeman’s view
	-Theodore L. Elliot, Jr.[?]
		-Composition of dinner guest lists
-Austrian ambassador [Gruber?]
	-Haldeman’s view
	-The President’s view

Connally
-Haldeman’s view
-The President’s view
	-Price draft of unknown speech
-Haldeman’s view
	-Herbert Stein
		-Stein’s view
	-Paul Volcker
		-Past meetings at sub-secretary level
			-Charls E. Walker
				-The President’s view
	-Peter Flanigan
-The President’s view
-Haldeman’s view

Foreign Policy
-Biological weapons
-The President’s possible participation in a treaty signing
-Rogers and Henry A. Kissinger
	-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
		-Aleksei N. Kosygin’s possible attendance at ceremony
			-Moscow
	-British
		-London
	-Dobrynin
	-PRC
-Possible remarks by the President
-Location of ceremony
	-White House
	-State Department
	-Number of guests
	-East Room
		-Proposed meeting with Manea Manescu[?]
			-Rogers and Kissinger
			-Possible message from Nicolae Ceausescu

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with John C. Stennis
-Clark MacGregor’s request
	-War powers legislation

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 3:05 pm and 4:34 pm.

[Conversation No. 323-33A]

Unknown person’s schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Phillip V. Sanchez

Press conference
-Timing
-Preparation
-Television
-ITT answer
-Richard G. Kleindienst confirmation
-National television
-Timing
	-The President’s view
	-The President’s schedule
		-Forthcoming state dinner
	-Florida
-ITT
-Beard’s testimony
-Anderson
-White House involvement
-Busing
-Moratorium
-News coverage
-Preparation
	-Radio
	-Microphones
-Television
-Locations
-California
		-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  14s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 7

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The President’s schedule
-Dinners
-White House photographers’ dinner
-White House Correspondents’ dinner
	-The President’s view
-Gridiron dinner
	-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Ray Bill [?] delegation

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:05 pm.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  3m 30s  ]

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:34 pm.

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8

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The President’s schedule
-Chief Justice dinner
-Mexican delegation
-George R. S. Baring [Earl of Cromer] lunch

Busing issue
-Right wing compared to left wing
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Strom Thurmond
-Legislation
-Constitutional amendment
-Moratorium
	-The President’s view
-Supreme Court
-Southerners
-William J. Brennan, Jr.
-Edward L. Morgan
-The President’s view
-Questions from the press
		-Haldeman’s view
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Haldeman’s view
	-Patrick J. Buchanan
	-Dwight L. Chapin

1972 campaign
-Activity in Dade County, Florida
	-Sign postings
		-Edmund S. Muskie
			-Busing
-Strategy
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Colson

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 11
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  22s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 11

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The President’s schedule
-Press conference

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 12
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  10m 4s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 12

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An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time after 3:05 pm.

Call to Kissinger
-Haldeman

Haldeman talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 3:05 pm and 4:34 pm.

[Conversation No. 323-33B]

Kissinger’s schedule
-Meeting
-Old Executive Office Building Office [EOB]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President’s schedule
-Press conference
-Timing
-In-office
-Television
-ITT answer
-Options
-Comments
-Kleindienst

The President talked with Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 3:05 pm and 4:34 pm.

[Conversation No. 323-33C]

Busing issue
-Statement
-Southerners
-Moratorium
	-Constitutionality
-Congress
-Leaders
-Moratorium
-Legislation
		-Intervention by the Department of Justice [DOJ]
		-Kleindienst confirmation
		-Mitchell
					-Michigan cases

 [End of telephone conversation]

Busing issue
-Legislation
	-South
		-Compared to North
-North
-Travel time for children
-Poor people
-Previous speech
-Constitutional amendment
-Court cases
-Public opinion

The President talked with the White House operator at 4:34 pm.

[Conversation No. 323-33D]

[See Conversation No. 21-101]

[End of telephone conversation]

Busing

The White House operator talked with the President at 4:34 pm.

[Conversation No. 323-33E]

[See Conversation No. 21-102]

[End of telephone conversation]

Richard G. Kleindienst
	-Denver
-Los Angeles
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Forthcoming call from Haldeman

Kissinger entered at 4:35 pm.

Dobrynin
-Telephone call

Kissinger’s schedule
-Trip
-Ride
-Time

The President, Haldeman, and Kissinger left at 4:37 pm.

Conversation No. 323-34

Date:  March 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:37 pm and 5:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

Manolo Sanchez met with an unknown man.

 [Unintelligible]

Sanchez and the unknown man left at an unknown time before 5:25 pm.