Conversation No. 327-1

Date:  March 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:42 am and 9:21 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Henry A. Kissinger
-Schedule
-Possible actions
-Marshall Green
-Arthur K. Watson
-Green
-Schedule

Vietnam
-Military activities
	-Aircraft
-North Vietnamese

An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time between 8:42 am and 9:21 am.

		-Possible offensive
			-Reports

	Northern Ireland

	Vietnam
		-Negotiations
-Kissinger
-The President’s view

Conversation No. 327-2

Date:  March 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:42 am and 9:21 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Dictabelt memoranda
	-Filing
-Transcription

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:21 am.

Conversation No. 327-3

Date:  March 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:42 am and 9:21 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

Unknown request

Conversation No. 327-4

Date:  March 27, 1972
Time:  9:21 am - 9:22 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

[See Conversation No. 22-23]

Conversation No. 327-5

Date:  March 27, 1972
Time:  9:25 am - unknown before 10:55 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Weather

John B. Connally
-Call from H. Ross Perot
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Desire to meet with the President
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-The President’s view

Perot
-Haldeman’s view
-Bernard M. Baruch
-Schedule
-The President
-Kissinger
-Scheme regarding POWs
-Medical supplies
-Haig’s views
-Previous call to Haldeman
-Possible meeting with the President
-Democratic presidential candidates
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Relationship with Connally
-Schedule
-Possible meeting with The President and Connally
-Haig
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Brent G. Scowcroft

-The President’s view
	-Maj. Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes
	-Haig
	-Walters
		-Secret initiatives
			-The President’s knowledge
-Conversations with the President
	-The President’s view
	-Haldeman’s view
	-Deniability
-Views
	-Bureaucracy
-Schedule
-Haig
-Walters
	-Paris
-Possible conversation with Haldeman
-Secret initiatives
	-Ambassadors
	-White House
	-State Department
	-Walters
		-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
		-Paris
		-The President’s view
			-Scowcroft
-Connally’s possible views
-Walters
-Use of staff for political purposes
-Administration’s role
-Stock market deal
	-Flanigan
	-Wealth
	-Aid to administration
-Haldeman’s view
-Possible meeting with the President
	-Haldeman’s view
-Schedule
-Possible meeting with Walters

Kissinger
-The President’s previous conversation with Haig
-News summary
-William P. Rogers
-Arthur K. Watson
-Marshall Green
-Calls from the President
-Perot
	-The President’s view
	-Job performance

White House gifts
-Paperweights
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Jim Garrity [sp?]
-Possible number
-Inscriptions
-Possible distribution
-Purposes
	-Good luck pieces
-Presidential seal

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-Oval Office

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-Hangers

Walters
-Confirmation
-W[illiam] Stuart Symington
-Possible appointment
-CIA

Mitchell
-Schedule
	-Florida
	-Martha (Beall) Mitchell

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Dita D. Beard
-Edward M. Kennedy’s questions
-Testimony
-Call from the White House to William R. Merriam [?]
-San Diego
-Robert H. Finch, Herbert G. Klein
-Charles W. Colson
-San Diego convention
-Financing
-White House involvement
-Finch, Klein
-William E. Timmons
-Finch
-Jack Gleason
-Colson’s views
-White House contact
-Congressional hearings
-James O. Eastland
-Schedule
-Conversation with Phil Hart
-Harold S. Geneen
-Abe Fortas
-Jacob K. Javits
-Possible administration action
-Appointments in the South
-Possible reconsideration of Richard G. Kleindienst’s confirmation
-Eastland
-Kleindienst’s confirmation
-Eastland
-Confirmation
	-Votes
-John N. Mitchell
-Clark MacGregor

Confirmations
-Walters
-Ambassadors
	-Career Foreign Service officers
	-Political appointees
-Importance
-Possible questions
	-Campaign contributions
-Kleindienst confirmations

Jack N. Anderson
-60 Minutes
-News magazines
-Haldeman’s view
-Clark R. Mollenhoff
		-Possible Administration action
			-Colson [?]

ITT
-Beard
-Alleged call from the White House
-Financing of San Diego convention
-Alleged call from White House
-Congressional hearings
-Merriam [?]
-Geneen
-Gleason

National economy
-Food prices
-Butz
	-Consumers
-Esther Peterson
-Connally’s possible meeting
-Earl L. Butz
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Colson
-Richard Lyng
-The President’s role
	-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Colson
-Herbert Stein
-George P. Shultz

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National issues
	-Busing
	-Tax reform
	-Unemployment
	-Abortion
	-Michigan
		-Ballot of referendum
	-Motives of proponents
		-The President’s view
		-Haldeman’s view

Civil rights march
-Administration response

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	Administration public relations
	-Marshall Green
	-Television appearance
	-Haig’s views
	-Kissinger
	-Taiwan, Republic of China
	-State Department
	-Knowledge of the President’s policies
	-Kissinger’s conduct
		-The President’s view
		-The President’s previous conversation with Green
			-Shanghai Communiqué
					-Green’s television appearance compared with Kissinger’s backgrounder
						-Promoting the President’s policies
-Rogers
	-Chicago
	-Regional television
-Return from the President’s trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
	-Busing
	-The President’s statements on PRC
	-Scali
	-Kissinger
	-Rogers
	-Cabinet
	-John D. Ehrlichman
		-Domestic programs
		-Television
	-Regional television
		-Cabinet
		-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
			-Treatment by national media
			-Speech regarding American accomplishments
			-George S. McGovern
			-Edmund S. Muskie

1972 campaign
-Issues
-National economy
	-Taxes
		-Connally’s view
		-George C. Wallace
			-Wisconsin
				-Florida
				-Busing
				-Taxes
					-Efforts of Democratic Senators
		-Cutting spending
			-Welfare
				-School programs
				-Food stamps
				-Intercontinental ballistic missiles [ICBMs]
				-Submarines
				-The President’s view
					-Shultz
					-Ehrlichman

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Ehrlichman
-Schedule
	-Visit to California
	-Son
		-Stanford University
	-Compared to Kissinger
-Conversation with Haldeman regarding Peter Lisagor
	-Lisagor’s television show
		-The President’s previous press conference

The President’s previous press conference
-Newspaper coverage
-Television coverage
	-The President’s view
-Ehrlichman’s views

1972 campaign
-States

Famine

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 10:55 am.

Conversation No. 327-6

Date:  March 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:55 am and 2:53 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:53 pm.

Conversation No. 327-7

Date:  March 28, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:10 pm and 3:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President’s schedule
-John B. Connally
-Photograph
	-Florida

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:15 pm.

Conversation No. 327-8

Date:  March 28, 1972
Time:  3:15 pm - 5:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with John B. Connally and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

National economy
	-Connally’s schedule
		-Previous television appearance
			-Charts
			-Today show
	-Forthcoming meeting with Food chain executives
		-Giant
		-Wage and price controls
		-Southland Corporation
			-7-11 stores
-Earl L. Butz
-Herbert Stein
-Clifford M. Hardin [?]
-Food prices
-Connally’s charts
	-Trends
		-Meat prices
-Price Commission hearing
-C. Jackson Grayson, Jr.
-Farm organizations
-Connally’s forthcoming meeting with Butz
	-Butz’s statements
		-Connally’s view
-Automobile sales
-Economic indicators
-Balance of trade

	-Trade deficit
	-Competitiveness
	-Currency exchange rates

An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time between 3:15 pm and 5:16 pm.

	-Connally’s view
		-Taxes
		-US dependents in Europe
	-Possible Defense Department activities
		-Banking activities
	-The President’s possible action
	-US banking operations overseas
		-Compared to domestic banking
			-New York
			-California
			-Ohio
			-Texas
		-Currency speculation
			-Deutsche marks
			-Yen
		-Convertibility
			-Suspension
				-The President’s August 15, 1971 statement
			-Stock market
			-Businessmen’s confidence
-George P. Shultz
-Arthur F. Burns
-Peter G. Peterson
-Grayson
-Herbert Stein
-Leaks
	0Burns
-The President’s Democratic opponents
-Issues
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Tax reform
-George C. Wallace
-Tax reform
-Connally’s efforts
	-Democrats’ intentions
	-Raise taxes
	-Close loopholes
		-Mortgage interest
		-Municipal bonds
	-The administration’s possible response
-Government spending
	-Congress’s possible action
		-Family support programs
			-Welfare
		-The President’s view
			-Poor
				-Example
			-Labor leaders
			-Senior citizens
			-Media
-Inflation
-US business competitiveness in the world
-Japan
-Europe
-Trading blocs
-Japan
-Europe
	-Consolidation
-The President’s view
	-Europe
	-Japan
		-US-Soviet relation
-The People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Connally’s view
	-Japan
		-US economic capacity
		-National Defense
-The President’s view
	-Possible trading bloc with South America
	-Japan
	-Europeans
		-Soviets

US foreign policy
-Middle East
-Jewish influence
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Response to Suez crisis in 1956
-Gamal Abdel Nasser
-The President’s view
	-British
	-French
-Lebanon
-Relations with Israel
		-The President’s view
						-Harry S Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson Administrations and current Administration
			-Arab nations
		-United Arab Republic [UAR]
		-Syria
		-Iraq
		-Saudi Arabia
		-Jordan
	-US financial support
		-Bonds
-Soviet Union
-Possible withdrawal from Egypt
	-Israeli territorial concessions
-US-Arab relations
	-Arab views
		-Great Britain
		-Japan
		-France
		-US
		-Soviet Union
-Democrats’ views
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Israel
-Occupation of territory
-Africa
-Northern Africa
-South Africa
-Central Africa
	-The President’s view
-Europeans
-Latin America
-Japan
-Indonesia
-Thailand
-India, Pakistan
-Middle East

National economy
-Federal budget
-Balance
-Possible cuts
-International economy
	-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Tax reform
-Connally’s possible role
-George S. McGovern
-Muskie
-George Meany
-Democratic candidates
-Democratic candidates
-Social security
-Welfare education
-Defense spending
-Tax increases
-Price increases
-Press coverage
	-Tax reform
	-Connally’s review
		-Capital gains
			-Stock market
			-Real estate
		-Administration’s possible actions
		-Congress
		-Capital gains
-Trade balance
-Foreign exchange markets

An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time between 3:15 pm and 5:16 pm.

-Congress
-The President’s role

The President’s schedule
-News
	-ITT case
	-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
	-Press conferences
	-Frequency
	-Television
-Speeches
-Televised press conferences
	-1972 election
	-Democrats

National issues
-Possible Republican response strategy
-Congress
-Republican National Committee
-Cabinet
-Democratic primaries
-Wisconsin
	-Busing

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Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:15 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:16 pm.

ITT case
	-Richard G. Kleindienst confirmation hearing
	Peter M. Flanigan
	-Harry F. Byrd
	-William E. Brock, III
	-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
	-John N. Mitchell
	-Clark MacGregor
	-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
	-Roman L. Hruska’s possible letter
	-John D. Ehrlichman
-Executive Session
	-William P. Rogers, Arthur K. Watson
		-Executive privilege

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:15 pm.

-Flanigan’s possible statement
-Kleindienst’s confirmation
-Kissinger’s conversations with Congressional committees

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:16 pm.

	-Hruska
-Ervin’s opposition
-Executive privilege
-Truman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John .F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson
-Separation of powers
-Congressmen
-Warren E. Burger
-Flanigan’s possible statement
-Witnesses’ affidavits
-James O. Eastland
-Harold S. Geneen’s conversations
	-President
-Haldeman
-Connally, Peter Peterson
-Mitchell, Spiro T. Agnew

The President’s schedule
-Jews
-United Jewish appeal
-B’nai B’rith
-Kissinger
-William L. Safire
-Burns

ITT case
-Kleindienst’s confirmation
-Congressional hearings
	-Strategy
	-Floor vote
-Michael J. Mansfield’s statement, March 28th
-Prospects
-Possible withdrawal
-Erwin N. Griswold
-Kleindienst’s possible statement
-ITT settlement
-Withdrawal
-Strategy
-Congressional hearings
-Administration’s options
-Democrats’ intentions
-Committee’s actions
-Mansfield
-Kleindienst’s possible actions
-Withdrawal
-Reaction
	-Haldeman’s view
-Scenarios
	-Haldeman’s view
		-Continued hearings
		-Vote on the nomination
		-Withdrawal
-The President’s view
-Connally’s view
-Mansfield
	-National economy
		-Tax reform
-The President’s possible actions
-Emoluments for individuals
	-Flanigan, Mitchell, Kleindienst
-San Diego convention
	-Contributions
-San Diego convention
	-Contributions
-Democrats’ motives
-Effect of repetition
-Kleindienst’s possible actions
-ITT settlement
-Philip A. Hart
-Dita D. Beard memorandum
-Involvement of Mitchell and Kleindienst
-Hart’s possible actions
	-Eastland
-Haldeman’s view
	-President’s statement
	-Mitchell’s views
	-Robert J. Dole
	-Kleindienst’s possible actions
	-Senate
	-Mansfield’s possible actions
	-Dole’s possible response
	-Senate
	-Mansfield
	-Jack N. Anderson
		-The Administration actions
	-Committee hearings
		-Eastland, Hart
		-Washington Post, New York Times
	-Alternatives
	-Kleindienst 
	-Alternatives
	-L. Patrick Gray, III
	-Kleindienst’s possible actions
	-Committee hearings
	-Abe Fortas’s nomination
	-Lyndon B. Johnson
	-Fortas 
	-Kleindienst’s possible actions
	-Unknown man during Dwight D. Eisenhower’s administration
	-Committee hearings
	-Effect of continuation
	-Television
	-Richard W. McLaren
	-Joseph McCarthy
	-Television
	-Kleindienst’s possible actions
	-Hugh Scott
		-Statement
	-Connally’s conversation with John Chancellor
	-Joseph C. Kraft
	-Senators
	-Hruska
	-Marlow Cook
	-Membership in the committee
	-Justice Department
-G. Harrold Carswell, [Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr.]
-William H. Rehnquist, Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

Leadership in the US
		-The President’s previous meeting with the General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament
	-John J. McCloy
	-Lauris Norstad
	-William W. Scranton
		-The President’s view
-Middlesex Club
-Governors
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Preston Smith
-Richard B. Ogilvie
-Milton J. Shapp
-John J. Gilligan
-Reubin O. Askew
-James E. (“Jimmy”) Carter
-Republican Governors Conference
-William T. Cahill
-Thomas J. Meskill
-Senate
-House of Representatives
-[Carl B. Albert]
-[[Thomas] Hale Boggs]
-Gerald R. Ford
-Clarence J. Brown
-James T. Broyhill
-Elford A. Cederburg
-Edward J. Derwinski
-William J. (“Jack”) Edwards
-John N. Erlenborn
-Louis Frey, Jr.
-Jack F. Kemp
-John H. Kyl
-Robert H. Michel
-Albert H. Quie
-William A. Steiger
-John B. Anderson
-Barber B. Conable, Jr.
-Richard H. Poff
-John J. Rhodes
-Robert C. (“Bob”) Wilson
-Steiger
-Kemp
-Frey
-Education system
-Media
-Vietnam War
-“Captains of industry”
	-President of General Motors [GM]
	-President of US Steel
-Cabinet
-Kleindienst
-Connally
-Butz
-George W. Romney
-John A. Volpe
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Possible changes
	-Connally’s view
			-Necessity
-The President’s opponents
-Wallace
-John N. Ashbrook, Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.
-Kleindienst

ITT case
-Kleindienst’s confirmation
-Committee hearings
-Mansfield
-Hart, Quentin Burdick, John V. Tunney
-Hart
-Beard
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Administration’s position
-The President’s forthcoming press conference
-ITT settlement

Connally left at 5:16 pm.

The President left at 5:16 pm.

The President returned at an unknown time before 5:30 pm.

Connally
-The President’s view
-Charles W. Colson

ITT case
-Kleindienst’s confirmation
-Administration’s position
-Press
-Committee hearings
	-Mitchell
-Duration
-Washington Post
-Possible allegations of cover-up
-Length
-Strategy

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:16 pm and 5:30 pm.

[Conversation No. 327-8A]

[See Conversation No. 22-37]

[End of telephone conversation]

-Haldeman’s possible conversations with Colson and MacGregor

Haldeman left at 5:30 pm.

Conversation No. 327-9

Date:  March 28, 1972
Time:  5:30 pm - 5:31 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Stephen B. Bull.

[See Conversation No. 22-38]

Conversation No. 327-10

Date:  March 28, 1972
Time:  5:31 pm - 5:32 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

Stephen B. Bull talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 22-39]

Conversation No. 327-11

Date:  March 28, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:32 pm and 5:48 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Briefcase

Folder

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:48 pm.