Conversation No. 324-1

Date:  March 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:25 pm and 5:29 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 21-103]

Conversation No. 324-2

Date:  March 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 5:25 pm until 5:32 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Signing documents

The President’s call to Stephen B. Bull

The President talked with Bull between 5:29 pm and 5:30 pm.

[Conversation No. 324-2A]

[See Conversation No. 21-104; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming dinner
	-Photographs
	-Interpreter

-Conversation with Ronald S. Berman
-Books on French Revolution
	-Placement in Oval Office

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[Duration:  3s  ]

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Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:30 pm.

The President’s schedule
-Barber
-Chevy Chase, Maryland
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Meeting with the President

Butterfield and Bull left at 5:32 pm.

Conversation No. 324-3

Date:  March 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:32 pm and 5:36 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 21-105]

Conversation No. 324-4

Date:  March 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:32 pm and 5:36 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

The President’s schedule
-Meeting
-Time

Conversation No. 324-5

Date:  March 17, 1972
Time:  5:36 pm - 5:40 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

[See Conversation No. 21-106; two items have been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 324-6

Date:  March 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:40 pm and 5:47 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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[Duration:  24s  ]

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:47 pm.

Conversation No. 324-7

Date:  March 17, 1972
Time:  5:47 pm - 6:13 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

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The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman at an unknown time between 5:47 pm and 6:13 pm.

[Conversation No. 324-7A]

The President’s schedule
-Starting time on Monday
	-Sunday
	-Camp David
-The President’s forthcoming trip to New York
	-Timing

[End of telephone conversation]

The President’s schedule
-New York
-Monday

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[Duration:  6m 10s  ]

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The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Letter from George McKenna[?]
-Llewellyn E. (“Tommy”) Thompson
-Jane Thompson
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Thelma C. (“Pat) Nixon
-Jane Thompson
-The President’s view
	-Mrs. Jacob Beam
-Mrs. Nixon
		-Helene Drown
			-The President’s view
				-Africa
			-The People’s Republic of China [PRC]
		-Wives of Administration officials
			-Woods’s view
-Adele (Langston) Rogers
-The President’s view
	-William P. Rogers
	-Mrs. Nixon
-Kissinger
-Haldeman
-Secret Service agents
-Military aides

Mrs. Nixon
	-The President’s view
	-The Drowns
		-Woods’s view
			-Australia

Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.
-Future role with the Administration
	-Spain
			-Wife
	
	Wiley Buchanan

	Draft

Buchanan
-Future role with the Administration
-Portugal
-Spain

Woods left at 6:13 pm.

Conversation No. 324-8

Date:  March 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:15 pm and 5:21 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

The President’s schedule
		-Request for meeting at the Executive Office Building [EOB] office

Conversation No. 324-9

Date:  March 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:15 pm and 5:21 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Drugs
		-The President’s view
	-Public opinion
	-Marijuana
-Unknown man

Conversation No. 324-10

Date:  March 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:15 pm and 5:21 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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[Duration:  12s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:21 pm.

Conversation No. 324-11

Date:  March 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:15 pm and 5:21 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 21-115]

Conversation No. 324-12

Date:  March 20, 1972
Time:  5:21 pm - 6:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 21-116]

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 5:30 pm.

[End of telephone conversation]

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-John N. Mitchell
-Colson
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Jack Gleason
-Gleason’s employment
-ITT
-Kevin P. Philips
		-Gleason
	-Financing
	-Campaign
	-Milk Fund
	-President
-Maurice H. Stans
-Harry S. Dent
-Kalmbach
	-Fundraising role
-Knowledge of 1970 campaign financing
-Possible danger to administration
-Candidates
-Story
-Kalmbach
	-Ambassadorships
-Haldeman
-Congressional campaigns
	-Fundraising
-Murray M. Chotiner
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Robert H. Finch
-Haldeman’s role in 1970 campaign financing
-List
-Colson
-Money
	-Purposes
-John W. Mulcahy
-Stans
-Mulcahy
	-Amount
-Candidates
-Finances
-Reporting
	-Investigation
-District of Columbia [DC] committees

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[National Security]
[Duration:  36s  ]

	CHILE

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-Colson
-Democrats
-Justice Department
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson, Hubert H. Humphrey

The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming press conference
		-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
		-Television
		-ITT
-Proposed meeting with Marshall Green
	-Timing
		-The President’s forthcoming press conference
-Key Biscayne
-Advertising Council
-Gridiron dinner
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew’s view
	-The President’s attendance
		-Friends
	-Possible statement
	-Women’s liberation
	-Friends
		-Richard (“Dick”) Wilson
		-Terry Green
		-Roscoe Drummond
		-Edgar Allan Poe
-Possible attendance by Agnew or the President
	-Agnew’s view
		-California
-Unknown man
-Wife

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 5:30 pm and 5:50 pm.

[Conversation No. 324-12A]

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Ronald L. Ziegler

[End of telephone conversation]

The President’s schedule
-Gridiron dinner
-Herbert G. Klein
			-Ziegler’s view
				-The President’s possible attendance
	-Agnew’s possible attendance
	-Wilson

ITT case
	-White House strategy
	-Life story on convention
	-White House response
	-Department of Justice
	-San Diego
		-President’s view
-Coverage of ITT antitrust case
-Contribution
	-Amount
-San Diego
-Russell B. Long
-Edward M. Kennedy
-John V. Tunney
-Birch E. Bayh, Jr.
-White House strategy
-Christmas

The President’s schedule
-Gridiron dinner

Ziegler entered at 5:50 pm.

Briefing
-Drugs
-Life story

Gridiron dinner
-Agnew’s possible attendance
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Petition
	-Boycott
	-Women
-William P. Rogers
-Forthcoming call from Haldeman
-The President
-Agnew
	-California
-Public relations judgment

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:50 pm and 5:56 pm.

[Conversation No. 324-12B]

[See Conversation No. 21-117]

[End of telephone conversation]

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 5:56 pm.

Drug abuse
	-Marijuana
-Heroin
-Dr. Jerome H. Jaffee
	-Methadone

Gridiron dinner
-Paul Healy
-Women
	-Ziegler’s view
	-Mrs Nixon
-Ziegler’s view
	-The President’s attendance
	-Agnew’s attendance
	-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-The President’s view
	-White House Correspondents’ Dinner

The White House operator talked with the President at 5:56 pm.

[Conversation No. 324-12C]

[See Conversation No. 21-118]

[End of telephone conversation]

ITT case
-Ziegler’s questions from the press
-Committee
-Dita D. Beard memorandum
-Justice Department
-Anderson

The People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Press coverage
-John A. Scali
-Ziegler
-Haldeman
-Rogers
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Speeches
-Scali
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Rogers
-California
			-Kissinger

Press conference
-Timing
	-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
	-Food prices
		-Economy
-Press corps
	-Morning briefings
		-Afternoon briefings
-Time
	-Forthcoming state dinner

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 5:56 pm and 6:25 pm.

[Conversation No. 324-12D]

State dinner
-Ziegler
-Arrangements
	-East Room

[End of telephone conversation]

			-Dining Room

Press coverage of drug story

Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 5:56 pm.

Gridiron dinner
-Rogers
	-Hawaii
-Adele (Langston) Rogers
-Rogers’s view
	-The President’s attendance
	-Agnew’s possible attendance
	-Connally
	-Rogers
	-Administration boycott
	-Kissinger
	-ITT
	-PRC
	-Rogers’s and Agnew’s attendance at previous Gridiron dinner
	-Connally
	-Warren E. Burger
	-Ranking as Chief Justice
		-Cabinet officers
			-Rogers
		-The President’s view
-Agnew
-The President’s attendance
	-The President’s view
	-Women
	-Rogers
	-Agnew
-Rogers’s view
-Haldeman’s view
-Bohemian Grove
		-Agnew
-Cabinet officers
-Kissinger
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Rogers
-Humphrey’s attendance
-Democrats
-The President’s schedule
	-California
	-Florida
	-Forthcoming meeting with Marshall Green

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:56 pm.

Item for Haldeman

Bull left at an unknown time before 6:25 pm.

The President’s schedule
-Easter
-The President’s attendance at the Gridiron dinner
	-Rogers
-Poe
			-Agnew
			-Burger
			-Democrats
-Florida
-Rogers
-California
-Florida
-Biological Weapons Convention signing ceremony
-Time
-Press conference
-Green meeting
-Duration
-Rogers
-Green
		-Rogers
			-Press corps
				-Kissinger
-Taiwan, Republic of China, as a news topic
-Rogers
-Cabinet officer
-Press conference
-Rogers
-Green

Ziegler left at 6:25 pm.

The President’s schedule
-Signing ceremony for the Drug Abuse Office and Treatment Act of 1972
	-Bull
	-East Room
			-State Dining Room
			-Number of guests
-Drugs
			-Executive Office Building [EOB] compared to the White House
-Indian Treaty Room
-The President’s view
			-Time
				-Forthcoming meeting with Nihat Erim
					-Arrival time
			-Television coverage
				-Oval Office
			-Guests
				-Number
				-Preachers, blacks
-Gridiron dinner
-The President’s attendance
	-Rogers
	-Ziegler
	-Press
			-Burger
-Call from Rogers
-The President’s forthcoming trip to Moscow
-Possible trip to Poland
-Polish Foreign Minister
-Walter J. Stoessel, Jr.
-The President’s forthcoming trip to Iran

The President and Haldeman left at 6:30 pm.

Conversation No. 324-13

Date:  March 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:30 pm and 6:34 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Books

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:34 pm.

Conversation No. 324-14

Date:  March 22, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:05 am and 11:01 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum for the file.

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[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  1m 13s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:05 am.

Briefing book

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:10 am.

The President resumed dictating.

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[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  32s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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The President talked with Alexander P. Butterfield between 10:10 am and 10:11 am.

[Conversation No. 324-14A]

[See Conversation No. 21-129]

[End of telephone conversation]

Manolo Sanchez [?] entered at an unknown time after 10:11 am.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  6m 58s  ]

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:01 am.

The President resumed dictating.

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

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Conversation No. 324-15

Date:  March 22, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:11 am and 11:01 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a letter to George H.W. Bush.

Bush’s performance at US Ambassador to the United Nations [UN]
	-Remarks by Turkish Foreign Minister at state dinner
		-Technical competence
		-Barbara P. Bush
			-Concern for diplomats’ families
		-Regard for George Bush’s performance as Ambassador
			-Compared to career diplomats
	-The President’s regard for George Bush’s work

Conversation No. 324-44

Date:  March 22, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:11 am and 11:01 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd M. Bentsen
-Dedication of Dwight E. Eisenhower bust
				-Texas Society
				-John B. Connally, John G. Tower, and Lloyd Bentsen
-White House scheduling staff
-Invitations to Julie Nixon Eisenhower

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[Duration:  2m 58s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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The President’s schedule
-The President’s possible trip to Poland
	-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
	-German treaty ratification
-Poland
-Politics
-Henry A. Kissinger

-The President’s possible trip to Istanbul, Turkey
	-Convenience
		-Proximity to Moscow
		-Proximity to other North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] members
	-The President’s view
		-Soviet Union

Conversation No. 324-16

Date:  March 22, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:11 am and 11:01 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Briefing book
-Changes
-William L. Safire
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Pages

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 11:01 am.

Conversation No. 324-17

Date:  March 22, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:11 am and 11:01 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Briefing books

The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with unknown person [Haldeman?]

Conversation No. 324-18

Date:  March 22, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:11 am and 11:01 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum.

[End of dictation]

Conversation No. 324-19

Date:  March 22, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:11 am and 11:01 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President replayed the dictation.

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[Duration:  9s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Conversation No. 324-20

Date:  March 22, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:11 am and 11:01 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President replayed the dictation.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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[Duration:  15s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Conversation No. 324-21

Date:  March 22, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:11 am and 11:01 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

Dictation
-Transcription

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:01 am.

Conversation No. 324-22

Date:  March 22, 1972
Time:  11:01 am - 12:47 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

[Unintelligible]

Table tennis team from the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-John A. Scali’s request
	-Secret Service protection
	-State Department

Butterfield left and the President entered at 11:05 am.

Briefing books
-William L. Safire
-Completion of draft
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Political questions

Ronald L. Ziegler
-Talk with Haldeman
-Radio address
-John D. Ehrlichman’s views
-Points to be made
-Television
-Pictures
-Microphone
-Television
	-Haldeman’s view
	-Live coverage
-Questions
-Briefings

-Questions
-PRC
-Soviet Union
-Ireland
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Busing
-ITT case
	-Senate Committee hearings
-News coverage
-Hearings
-Dita D. Beard

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration:  4m 23s  ]

CHILE

Haldeman talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr. at an unknown time between 11:05 am and 12:47 pm.

[Conversation No. 324-22A]

[End of telephone conversation]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Life magazine story
	-San Diego convention
-District Attorney
-Edmund G. (“Pat”) Brown
-Michael J. Mansfield
		-Public opinion

Soviet Union
-Peter M. Flanigan
	-Trade deals
		-Peter G. Peterson
		-State Department
		-Memoranda
		-White House

	Current events
		-Public reaction
			-Flanigan
			-Clifford Irving’s book
				-Howard Hughes
			-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

Life magazine story
-Irving’s book
	-Hughes
-Agnew[?]
-Haldeman’s view
-The President’s view
-Congressmen, Senators

[Unintelligible]

Nelson A. Rockefeller

Candidates
-Nomination
-Ogden R. Reid
-Support for the administration
	-Busing

Unknown man’s speaking engagements
	-Scholastic press corps
	-California
	-National Feed and Grain Association
	-New Orleans
-Electric Cooperative
	-Florida

George Meany
-Situation
-George P. Shultz
-Unknown gathering
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Invitations
-Harry Bridges
-Longshoremen strike
-Busing
-Hubert H. Humphrey
	-Haldeman’s view
-Constitutional amendment
-Shultz
-Talk with Haldeman
	-Democrats

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[Duration:  2m 16s  ]

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Presidential approval polls
-Shifts
	-Men and women
	-Uneducated
	-Union and non-union families
	-Blacks
	-Households within an income level
	-Uneducated
	-Republicans
	-Democrats
	-Independents
	-Liberals
	-Conservatives
	-Liberals
	-Busing
	-The People’s Republic of China [PRC]
	-George C. Wallace voters
	-South
	-East
	-Midwest
	-South
		-Busing
		-Haldeman’s view
	-West
	-East
	-Midwest
	-Wallace voters
	-Conservatives
	-Age group
	-Blacks
	-Upper income
	-Liberals
	-West
		-South
		-Unknown person’s thesis
	-PRC
	-ITT
	-San Diego
	-California
			-Busing
			-ITT
	-Wallace voters
	-Conservatives
-South
	-Nashville Banner
-Busing
	-Moratorium
	-The President’s view
		-Busing
		-Foreign policy
-November 1972
-Trial heats
-Voting procedures
-Haldeman’s view
-Issues
-PRC
-ITT
-William L. Calley, Jr.
-Announcement of trip to PRC
-Announcement of Phase II
-The President’s peace proposal speech, January 25, 1972
-Announcement of wage and price controls
-Television events
-Views of William F. (“Billy”) Graham and Taft Schreiber
-South
-West
-East and Midwest
-Jews
	-Leonard Garment
-Importance
-Media bias
	-PRC
-Busing statement
-South
	-Florida primary
-Blacks’ view of the President
	-Patrick J. Buchanan
	-The President’s view
	-Media bias
		-News magazines
	-Edmund S. Muskie
		-Florida primary
		-Illinois primary
	-Percentages
	-Polls
	-Busing
			-Democratic candidates’ position
				-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
		-The President’s position
		-Humphrey’s position

The President’s schedule
-Raymond P. Shafer
-Meeting
-Moscow
-Ehrlichman
			-Haldeman
			-Buchanan[?]
-Sultan Mohammed Khan
	-Other foreign ministers
-Foreign policy
	-Kissinger
-State Department
	-Signing of Biological Weapons Convention
	-Politics
	-PRC table tennis delegation
-Canada
	-Scheduling of events
		-The President’s view
-Governor General
-Pierre E. Trudeau
-The President’s possible address to a joint session of Parliament
	-John F. Kennedy
	-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Great Lakes agreement
-Schedule
-National Arts Center
	-Possibility of demonstrators
-Dinner
-Entertainment
-Governor General
-Dinners and luncheons
-Ottawa
-Toronto
-Signing ceremony for Great Lakes agreement
-Stopover
-Buffalo, New York
	-Great Lakes governors
		-Great Lakes agreement
-Toronto
-Ottawa
-Return meeting
	-Treaty signing ceremony
-Dinners
-Diplomatic corps
			-Schedule
-Toronto
-Ottawa
-Motorcade
	-Demonstrators
-Signing ceremony
-Events in cities
	-PRC
	-Soviet Union
-Joint Session of Parliament
-Presidential address
-Bonn
-London
	-Trudeau meeting
	-Speech preparation
		-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
		-William L. Safire
	-John K. Andrews, Jr.
		-US relations with Canada
		-”Peace in the world” speech
	-Television
	-Reception
-Diplomatic corps
-Meeting
		-Trudeau
		-Schedule
		-White House
		-State Department
		-Canadian Embassy
-Trudeau meeting
-Luncheon
-Governor General
-Meeting with Trudeau
-Parliament
-Address
-Reception
-Diplomatic corps
	-Timing
-State dinners
	-The President’s view
	-PRC
		-T.N.J. Suharto
		-Staff at dinners
	-Johnson
	-Dinners at the Canadian Embassy
-Diplomatic corps reception
-Dinner
	-Return luncheon
-Governor General
-Trudeau
-Parliament
-Address
-Tree planting
-Johnson
-Tradition
-Schedule
-Parliament
-Governor General Meeting
			-The President’s possible speech before Parliament
	-US relations with Canada
	-Desire for world peace
		-PRC initiative
		-Soviet initiative

Speeches by world leaders at meetings
-Indira Gandhi
-Luis Alvarez Echeverria
-The PRC trip

The President’s forthcoming trip to Canada
-Possible speech
	-Theme
		-The President as parliamentarian
-Timing
-Speech
-Length
-Safire
-Price
-Safire
	-US News and World Report article
-Haig
	-The President’s view
-Press conference
-Deadline
	-Easter
-Haig
	-Haldeman’s view

Foreign policy
-Memorandum
-Poland
-Turkey
-Haig
-Kissinger
-Television coverage of the PRC trip

The President’s schedule
	-Proposed meeting with Khan
-Echeverria
-Hussein ibn Talal [King of Jordan]
-Soviet representative
-United Nations [UN]
-Turkey
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] member
-The President’s possible trip
-Memorandum
	-UN
-Kissinger
-Poland
-The President’s possible trip to Warsaw
	-Reception
	-Radio Free Europe
-West Germany
-Planning
	-Kissinger
-National Security Council [NSC]
-State Department
	-The President’s previous meeting with Gerard C. Smith
			-The President’s previous meeting with the General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament
	-The President’s view
		-Re-election
			-Kissinger
				-Vietnam
		-Haig’s memorandum

An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time after 11:05 am.

American Federation of Labor – Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO]
-Possible walkout from the Pay Board
-Shultz’s opinion
		-United Auto Workers [UAW]
		-International Brotherhood of Teamsters
-Miami
-George Meany
		-Public opinion
-Shultz
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-John B. Connally

The President’s schedule
-Political considerations
-Events
-Risks
-Benefits
-Previous trip to New York
-Signing ceremony for Drug Abuse Office and Treatment Act of 1972
-Television
-Statements by the President
	-Wallace

The President’s public stance
	-Price’s view
-Issues
-Busing
-Drugs
-Haldeman’s view
	-Environmental cleanup
-Bureaucrats

The President’s schedule
-Philadelphia
	-Possible address at the Annual Convention of the National Catholic Educational Association [NCEA]
	-John Cardinal Krol
		-White House church service
-National Governor’s Conference
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Southern Baptists
-Philadelphia
-Campus Crusade
-Public reception
	-Congress
	-Politicians
-Jaycees Convention
	-Atlanta
	-Rotary International Convention
	-Forthcoming meeting with Echeverria
-Appearances
	-Timing
		-Forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
	-Democratic National Convention
	-California primary
-American Legion Convention
-Cartha D. (“Deke”) De Loach
-Donald McI. Kendall
-Donald E. Johnson [?]
-Chicago
-Republican National Convention
	-Acceptance speech
	-Television
	-Compared with Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
		-Haldeman’s view
-Chicago
-Time
-Soviet Union trip
-Ohio
			-Baseball
				-Cincinnati
				-Texas
			-Jaycees Convention
-Rotary International Convention
-President
-Swedish
-Boys’ Club of America
-American Legion
-Speech
	-California
	-Convention
	-Platform Committee
-The President’s instructions to Haldeman
	-Haig
	-Kissinger
	-West Germany
	-Poland
				-The President’s view
					-Politics

Media relations
-News summaries
	-The President’s trip to PRC
-Campaign
-1968
-Bombing halt
-Humphrey
-Making news

Poland
-The President’s previous conversation with Kissinger
		-William P. Rogers
-Jews
		-Kissinger
			-Haldeman’s view
				-Reception
-Reception
-Romania [Poland]
-Reception
-Effect
-Pennsylvania
-Ohio
-Illinois
-Michigan
-New York
	-Buffalo
-Pennsylvania
-Ohio
-Illinois
-Michigan
-Wisconsin
-Illinois
-Edmund S. Muskie

Foreign policy
-Poland and Turkey
-Haig
-Soviet trip
-Iran
-Dinner and reception
-Arrival
	-Timing
-Tehran
	-Istanbul
-Poland
	-Istanbul
-Iran
-Tehran
-Reception
-[Shah of Iran] Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
-Istanbul
-Distance
	-Compared to Israel
	-Tehran

Presidential approval polls
	-South
-West
-Haldeman’s view
-South
-Busing
		-John N. Mitchell

Possible AFL-CIO walkout from the Pay Board
-Shultz
-Connally
-The President’s statements
-Possible press conference
	-Compared to television
		-Radio
-Ziegler
-Ehrlichman
-The President answering questions
		-Television address
		-Timing

Haldeman left at 12:47 pm.

Conversation No. 324-23

Date:  March 22, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:47 pm and 1:12 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Busing issue
-Polls
-Approval
-South

Conversation No. 324-24

Date:  March 22, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:47 pm and 1:12 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 21-130]

Conversation No. 324-25

Date:  March 22, 1972
Time:  1:12 pm - 1:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 21-131; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 324-26

Date:  March 22,1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:30 pm and 2:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Possible American Federation of Labor–Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO] walkout from the Pay Board
		-George P. Shultz

		-John B. Connally
		-Donald H. Rumsfeld
		-The President’s possible action
			-Television

Conversation No. 324-27

Date:  March 22, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:30 pm and 2:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Bangladesh
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Talk with the President
-Instructions to Haig
-US humanitarian aid
	-United Nations [UN]
	-Other countries
		-Soviet Union

Conversation No. 324-28

Date:  March 22, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:30 pm and 2:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown man.

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The unknown man left at an unknown time before 2:55 pm.

Conversation No. 324-29

Date:  March 22, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:30 pm and 2:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

Dinner
-Plans

Conversation No. 324-30

Date:  March 22, 1972
Time:  2:55 pm - 3:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Press briefing
	-Pay Board
		-George Meany
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
	-International Brotherhood of Teamsters
-George P. Shultz
-John B. Connally
-The President’s forthcoming statement
-Connally
-Meany
	-Wage and price controls
	-Labor representation on Board
	-Longshoremen’s settlement
	-Inflation
-Possible wording of statement
-Labor leaders
-Inflation
-Labor
-Management
-Laws
-Interests of the majority of American people
-The White House
-Budget of the US

Ziegler left at 3:15 pm.

Conversation No. 324-31

Date:  March 22, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:15 pm and 3:24 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Pay Board
	-John B. Connally
	-Organized labor’s participation

Conversation No. 324-32

Date:  March 22, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:15 pm and 3:34 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 21-132]

Conversation No. 324-33

Date:  March 22, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:15 pm and 3:24 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:24 pm.

Conversation No. 324-34

Date:  March 22, 1972
Time:  3:24 pm - 3:29 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 21-133]

An unknown person [Manolo Sanchez?] entered and left at an unknown time after 3:24 pm.

Conversation No. 324-35

Date:  March 22, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:29 pm and 4:01 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

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Conversation No. 324-36

Date:  March 22, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:29 pm and 4:01 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

White House position
-Candidate
-Black

Conversation No. 324-37

Date:  March 22, 1972
Time:  4:01 pm - 4:03 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

[See Conversation No. 22-1; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 324-38

Date:  March 22, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:03 pm and 5:00 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 5:00 pm.

Conversation No. 324-39

Date:  March 22, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:03 pm and 5:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person [Alexander M. Haig, Jr.?].

Bangladesh
-Bilateral relief funds
-United Nations [UN]
-India-Pakistan War
-Soviet Union

Conversation No. 324-40

Date:  March 22, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:03 pm and 5:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person [Alexander M. Haig ?].

Vietnam
-Bombing
-Intensity
-Public statements
-North Vietnam
-“Protective reaction”
-Casualties
-Prior week

Conversation No. 324-41

Date:  March 22, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:03 pm and 5:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

Cancellation of a prior telephone call

Conversation No. 324-42

Date:  March 22, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:03 pm and 5:00 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Ehrlichman
	-Phase II

Conversation No. 324-43

Date:  March 22, 1972
Time:  5:00 pm - 6:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.

The President’s forthcoming press conference
	-American Federation of Labor – Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO]
	-George P. Shultz
	-John B. Connally
	-Democrats
	-Longshoremen strike
	-Rising cost of living
	-George Meany
		-Participation on Pay Board
	-Public confidence in organized labor
	-Busing
	-Warren E. Burger
	-Memorandum
	-Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education decision
	-Court decisions
		-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
	-Patrick J. Buchanan
		-Questions
	-Polls
	-Constitutional amendment

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:00 pm.

Meeting
-Shult
z
-Connally

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:07 pm.

The President’s forthcoming press conference
	-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
	-Peter Flanigan
		-Questions
	-Contact with committee members
	-Disclosure
	-White House
		-Ehrlichman
	Abortion
		-The President’s view
	-Buchanan
		-Ehrlichman’s view
	-Legalization
	-Washington, DC City Council
	-Patrick Cardinal O’Boyle
	-Local situation
	-Administration
		-Crime
	-Legislative powers
	-Individual state actions
	Marijuana
	-Ronald L. Ziegler

Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:00 pm.

The President’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:07 pm.

The President’s forthcoming press conference
	-Drugs
	-Marijuana
	-Legalization
	-Administration
	Social Security
	-Buchanan’s recommendation
	-Percentages
		-Cost of living
	-Congress
	-Increase
	-Taxes
	-Employment
	-Budget
	-Percentages
	-Payroll taxes
	-Inflation
	-Congress
	-Administration
	-Abortion
	-Drugs
	-Marijuana
	-Population report
		-Ziegler

ITT
	-J. Edgar Hoover
	-Meeting with Ehrlichman
	-Jack N. Anderson
	-Unknown man and woman

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, Connally, Shultz, Herbert Stein, Donald H. Rumsfeld, and Charles W. Colson entered at 5:07 pm.

Cost of Living Council [COLC]

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:07 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:05 pm.

Labor participation on the Pay Board
-AFL-CIO
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Leonard Woodcock
	-Partisan movement
-George H. Boldt
	-Meany’s allegations
	-Public record

Economics
-Price statistics
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Food
-Raw agricultural products

Pay Board
-Labor
-All public board
	-Fitzsimmons
	-Woodcock
-Five public members
-Fitzsimmons
-Business member
-Labor member
-Fitzsimmons
-James R. (“Jimmy”) Hoffa
-Woodcock
-Decisions
-Announcement
-Timing
-Fitzsimmons and Woodcock
-Announcement
	-Timing
		-The President’s view
		-Connally’s view
		-Woodcock
-CPI
-Announcement
-Pay Board statement
-Connally’s view
	-Food prices
			-Pay Board statement
				-Ziegler
				-Previous AFL-CIO national convention
					-Bal Harbour, Florida
			-AFL-CIO
				-Percentage of wage earners in the US
				-Colson
					-Construction trade groups
					-Meany
				-The President’s views
-Connally
-The President
	-Purpose of the Pay Board
	-American people
	-Prices
-Rumsfeld’s view
-Connally’s view
-Haldeman’s view
	-The President’s forthcoming press conference
	-Dan Rather
	-Statement
	-Connally
					-Possible statement by the President
	-Oval Office
	-Ziegler
	-Colson’s view
		-Television
				-Timing
				-Television
				-Audio
				-Timing
				-Questions

Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 6:05 pm; this conversation is continued as conversation 326-1.