Conversation No. 461-1

Date:  March 2, 1971
Time:  10:25 am - 10:26 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

[Unintelligible]

President=s schedule
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-William P. Rogers= previous telephone call
-March 1, 1971 dinner
-John N. Mitchell=s press conference

Butterfield left at 10:26 am

Conversation No. 461-2

Date:  March 2, 1971
Time:  10:26 am - 11:00 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

President=s schedule
-Reporters
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon
-Forthcoming Irish event
-Herbert J. (AJackie@) Gleason
-Health
-Irish Castle group
-Irish Rovers
-Lennon Sisters
-Irish Rovers
-Repertoire
-Medal of Honor ceremonies

-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Number
-Major General James D. (ADon@) Hughes

Ziegler entered at 10:27 am

-President=s role
-Press coverage
-Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins
-Photographs
-President=s remarks
-Vice President Agnew=s role
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Dwight D. Eisenhower Administration
-President=s presentation
-Korean War
-Vietnam War
-Number
-Easter Seals
-President=s participation
-Open Hour
-Robert Young
-Cause
-Young
-Previous attendance at White House events
-Health
-Wife

Press briefings
-John N. Mitchell
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Manpower briefing, March 4, 1971
-Urban briefing, March 5, 1971
-President=s upcoming press conference
-Rochester

The President=s schedule
-Press conference
-An announcement
-Timing
-Mark I. Goode
-Length
-Peter Lisagor

-Wire services
-Format and topics
-Foreign policy
-Domestic policy

Ziegler=s briefing
-The President=s forthcoming press conferences
-Topics
-Middle East
-Law Enforcement Assistance Administration [LEAA]
-Textiles
-Middle East
-Henry A. Kissinger

President=s trip to Des Moines
-Upcoming trip to Rochester
-Problems in Des Moines
-Press coverage
-Demonstrators
-Howard K. Smith
-William A. Gill, Jr.
-Coverage
-Ziegler=s forthcoming conversation with Gill
-Gill=s news coverage
-A hardhat
-Laos
-Charles W. Colson
-Building Trades Council
-Peter J. Brennan
-Walt W. Rostow [?]
-Number of hardhats
-News coverage
-National Farm Organization
-Numbers
-Students for a Democratic Society [SDS]
-Drake University
-Organization
-Gerald L. Warren
-Dan Rather
-Rather=s report

President=s schedule
-Rochester
-Plans
-Ronald H. Walker
-Presidential events
-Motorcade
-Press bus
-Dwight L. Chapin=s role

Public relations
-President=s previous speech to Iowa legislature
-Importance
-Coverage
 				-Rather, Columbia Broadcasting Company [CBS] coverage
-New York Times
-Governor Warren E. Hearnes
-Donald Oberdorfer, Jr.
-Gill
-Oberdorfer
-Headlines in Washington Post
-Robert Boyd
-Knight News
-Wire service
 				-Herbert E. Kaplow
-Radio coverage
-Oberdorfer, Washington Post
-Demonstration
-A report
-Missouri, Illinois, Iowa
-Robert D. Ray
-Demonstration
-Press reports

[Unintelligible]

Haldeman left at 10:45 am

Mitchell entered at 10:45 am

Greetings

Mitchell=s forthcoming press conference
-The President=s role
-LEAA
-Manpower
-Revenue sharing
-Urban development
-Crime
-President=s role

Ziegler left at an unknown time after 10:45 am

Wiretapping
-Congress
-Administration plans
-Constitutionality
-Cases
-An internal security case
-Possible appeal to Supreme Court
-Congress
-President=s call for review
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Mitchell=s conversation with Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield, Hugh Scott, and Carl B. Albert

US Capitol security
-Possible reorganization of police force
-Chief [Forename unknown] Buzzie [?]
-Chief [Forename unknown] Kidd
-Compared with White House security
-Albert=s response
-Department of Justice assistance
-1954 attack on House of Representatives by three Puerto Rican nationalists
-Bombing incident
-Injury
-Warning
-Search
-Police
-Congress
-Executive Protective Service [EPS]
-Mansfield, Scott
-Bombing

Mitchell=s forthcoming press conference
-Special revenue sharing
-LEAA
-Funds for Capitol police
-Revenue sharing
-Matching funds
-Importance
-Mitchell=s comments

[The President talked with the White House operator at 10:53 am]

[Conversation No. 461-2A ]

Call to Albert

[End of telephone conversation]

Ziegler entered at 10:53 am

Mitchell=s forthcoming press conference
-Capitol police
-Colson
-Possible questions
-LEAA
-Capitol Police
-Possible reorganization
-Albert, Scott, Mansfield
-William Walker
-Executive Protective Branch, Secret Service
-General Services Administration [GSA]
-Department of Justice
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-LEAA funds
-Mitchell=s comments
-US Capitol police
-Possible headlines
-Revenue sharing
-President=s role

Ziegler left at 10:55 am

John W. McCormack

[The President talked with Albert between 10:55 am and 10:59 am]

[Conversation No. 461-2B ]

Mitchell=s forthcoming press conference
-LEAA
-Matching funds
-Mitchell=s conversation with Albert

US Capitol police
-Funds
-Training
-Gerald R. Ford and Albert=s role
-Compared with White House police reorganization
-EPS
-Congressional appropriation
-Embassy duty
-Funds
-Congressional appropriation
-Importance
-Bombing incident
-President=s speech in Des Moines
-Needs
-EPS
-Compared to US Capitol police
-Possible meetings
-Attorney General=s staff
-McCormack=s position
-Assistance

[End of telephone conversation]

President=s call to Albert

Mitchell=s forthcoming press conference
-LEAA

The President and Mitchell left at 11:00 am

Conversation No. 461-3

Date:  March 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:00 am and 11:04 am
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people met

[Unintelligible]

The unknown people left at an unknown time before 11:04 am

Conversation No. 461-4

Date:  March 2, 1971
Time:  11:06 am - 11:33 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rudolph A. Peterson, Peter G. Peterson, Emil (ABus@) Mosbacher, Jr., Clark MacGregor, and General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. at 11:06 am; press photographers were present at the beginning of the meeting

Greetings

Arrangements for photograph

Task Force on International Development
-Proposals
-President=s position
-Press coverage
-Congress=s expected response
-Previous positions on foreign aid, revenue sharing
-R. A. Peterson
-Role
-Administration support
-MacGregor

Henry A. Kissinger entered at an unknown time after 11:06 am

-MacGregor
-State Department
-Defense Department
-House Armed Services Committee
-Defense Department
-Senate Foreign Relations Committee
-House Foreign Affairs Committee
-Melvin R. Laird and William P. Rogers
-Senate Foreign Relations Committee
-MacGregor=s view
-George D. Aiken
-J. William Fulbright
-Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing
-Need for support

Legislative/executive connection
-Coordination
-Otto E. Passman

Task Force on International Development
-Relations with State Department
-Council on Foreign Assistance
-Accountability to Congress
-State Department
-P. G. Peterson
-White House staff
-Kissinger
-Frank F. Church and Michael J. (AMike@) Mansfield
-Possible testimony
-Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings
-Fulbright
-Accountability

International development
-State Department, Defense Department
-Military assistance
-Current division
-Southeast Asia, Cambodia, Thailand
-New directions
-MacGregor=s role
-Coordination with trade
-Latin America
-Special preference versus general preference

-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Africa

Latin America
-President=s position
-Trade
-Importance
-Ambassadors
-US assistance
-Importance
-Africa, Southeast Asia
-US assistance
-President=s position

International development
-New directions
-R. A. Peterson=s view
-Organization
-Personnel
-Discussions with Passman and [Name unintelligible]
-Agency for International Development [AID]
-Possible continuing resolution
-Prospects for enactment of task force proposals

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:06 am

President=s schedule
-Wire services

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:33 am

Task Force on International Development proposals
-Prospects of legislative enactment
-Dr. Thomas E. (ADoc@) Morgan
-House Foreign Services Committee
-Possible continuing resolution
-Informal meetings
-President=s position
-Morgan
-Position
-Actions
-Possible meeting of President and Congressional leaders

Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:06 am

President=s schedule
-Medal of Honor ceremony

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:33 am

Task Force on International Development proposals
-Prospects of legislative enactment
-MacGregor
-Possible leaders= meeting with President
-Passman
-Morgan
-John T. Myers
-Charles H. Percy
-Robert P. Griffin
-Possible support
-Jacob K. Javits
-Possible meeting with the President
-Congressional leaders
-Timing
-Needs
-Fulbright
-Funding
-Military assistance, foreign aid
-State Department
-Senate parliamentarian
-Mansfield
-Senate Foreign Relations Committee
-Defense Department
-Forthcoming efforts
-President=s position
-Prospects for legislative enactment
-Timetable
-Efforts with Congress
-P. G. Peterson=s role

Foreign aid
-Connection with trade, and economic policy
-Arthur F. Burns
-Banking
-State Department handling
-Foreign Service Officers

-Commerce Department, Treasury Department, Agriculture Department, Labor Department
-Japan
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Oil import quotas, airlines
-Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Environmental concerns
-Balance of payments concerns
-Leadership position

Farewells

The President, et al. left at 11:33 am

Conversation No. 461-6

Date:  March 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:56 am and 11:59 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person [Manolo Sanchez?]

Call to an unnamed man

The unknown person [Sanchez?] left at an unknown time before 11:59 am

Conversation No. 461-7

Date:  March 2, 1971
Time:  11:59 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

Call to William P. Rogers

Conversation No. 461-8

Date:  March 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:59 am and 12:01 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

Call to William P. Rogers
-Return call

Conversation No. 461-9

Date:  March 2, 1971
Time:  12:01 pm - 12:06 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

President=s trip to Iowa
-Press coverage
-Washington Post and networks
-Need for response
-Clark MacGregor
-Charles W. Colson

Press
-Administration policy
-Reports of President=s reception by crowds
-Compared with Lyndon B. Johnson
-Reasons
-White House staff efforts

President=s schedule
-Rochester
-Possible demonstrations
-Alabama
-Paul Miller

Revenue sharing
-President=s statement
-Public relations efforts
-Letters to Ronald W. Reagan, Nelson A. Rockefeller

President=s schedule
-Astronaut dinner, March 1, 1971
-Length
-Receiving line
-Dinner
-Departure times
-Compared with state dinners
-Compared with Edward K. (ADuke@) Ellington dinner

Haldeman left at 12:06 pm

Conversation No. 461-10

Date:  March 2, 1971
Time:  12:07 pm - 12:44 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Targut Menemencioglu, Emil (ABus@) Mosbacher, Jr., Christopher Van Hollen, and General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.; members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting

Greetings

Photograph arrangements

Menemencioglu=s travels
-Pakistan
-Iran

[Unintelligible]

Pakistan
-Situation
-West and East Pakistan

-Military
-Sheik Mujibar Rahman
-Policies
-Nationalization
-East Pakistan
-Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
-Policies
-Nusrat Ispahani Bhutto
-President=s previous visit to Pakistan
-Future
-Socialism
-Menemencioglu=s view
-East Pakistan
-Rahman
-Popular support
-Policies
-East Pakistan compared to West Pakistan
-Compared to Turkey
-Potential conflict
-East Pakistan
-Autonomy
-East Pakistan
-Trade
-India
-Stone, silk, coal
-India
-People=s Republic of China [PRC]
-Forthcoming Pakistani election
-India
-People
-Differences between East and West Pakistan
-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-Menemencioglu=s previous visit to India [?]
-Hijacking, international law
-Forthcoming Pakistani election
-Meeting with an ambassador 
-United States= policy 
-Menemencioglu=s conversations with Pakistanis
-US policies
-Pakistani policies
-Assurances
-Military equipment
-Spare parts

-Military situation
-US position
-Administration efforts
-Congress
-President=s view
-Leaders
-Khan
-Possible US response
-Constitutional problem
-Z. A. Bhutto
-Differences from India and Turkey
-Khan
-Politicians
-Forthcoming Pakistani election
-Leftists
-Students
-Compared with US
-Exchange of state visits

Turkey
-Possible Presidential visit
-President=s 1953 and 1956 visits
-President=s view of Turkey
-People
-Political situation
-Charles W. Colson
-Intellectuals
-Compared with US

Intellectuals
-Theory of revolution
-Genesis
-Marxists
-Methods
-Latin America
-Theory of revolution, change

Central Treaty Organization [CENTO]
-Purpose
-US position
-Importance of cooperation
-Menemencioglu=s view
-Cooperation

-Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
-Menemencioglu=s previous visit
-Great Britain
-Withdrawal from Near East
-Strategic importance
-Turkey
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Turkey, Iran, Pakistan
-Pakistan
-President=s position
-US support
-Purpose
-President=s position
-Expectations in US

India, Pakistan
-US public view
-New York Times
-President=s policy
-Pakistan
-Menemencioglu=s forthcoming conversation with Khan
-US support
-President=s view

President=s schedule
-Warren E. Burger
-Law Day proclamation

Turkey
-People
-Compared to Europeans

Burger entered at 12:30 pm

Introductions

Law Day proclamation

Menemencioglu
-Home town
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon=s visit

Gifts

Farewells

Menemencioglu, Mosbacher, Van Hollen, and Haig left at 12:32 pm; John W. Dean, III entered at 12:32 pm

John N. Mitchell and Edward L. Wright
-Location

Dean left at 12:32 pm

[Forename unknown] Kennedy

Judicial terms

A vacation
-Florida

1967, 1968, and 1969 Judicial Terms
-Federal, state courts

Williamsburg
-President=s schedule
-Mitchell=s schedule

National Courts Center
-Proposal
-Location
-Purpose
-Criminal cases
-State cases compared to federal cases
-A case in California
-Case in Connecticut
-Case length
-Costs
-Compared to Great Britain
-President=s view

Supreme Court
-Burger=s efforts
-Relations among Justices
-Hugo L. Black, John M. Harlan
-Health
-Burger=s conversation with Mitchell and Herbert Brownell

President=s schedule
-Polls

Supreme Court
-Burger=s efforts
-President=s view

Mitchell, Wright, and Dean entered at 12:37 pm

Greetings

President=s schedule
-Meeting with Menemencioglu

Judicial matters
-Television
-Wright=s appearance

Williamsburg
-Wright=s schedule

American Bar Association meeting
-President=s possible appearance
-London
-Dates
-Invitation to President
-New York
-Burger=s State of the Judiciary address
-Possible appearance by the President
-London
-Dates

Photographs for Law Day

Members of the press entered at an unknown time after 12:37 pm

[Unintelligible]

Members of the press left at an unknown time before 12:43 pm

Presidential gifts

An unknown man [Stephen B. Bull?] entered at 12:43 pm

Burger, Mitchell, Wright, and Dean left at 12:43 pm

Ralph E. Ulmer
-Federal job
-Purpose of visit to the President

The unknown man [Bull?] left at an unknown time before 12:44 pm

Conversation No. 461-11
Date:  March 2, 1971
Time:  12:44 pm - unknown before 12:55 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E. Ulmer, Gary Ulmer, Tana Ulmer, Roger E. Johnson, and David N. Parker; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

Greetings

George Fuller

President=s parents

Johnson
-President=s previous meeting

Ulmer children=s ages

President=s family

Ulmer family
-Location of current home
-Former neighborhood
-Christmas lights

Presidential gifts
-Cufflinks
-Golf balls
-President=s golf
-Pins
-Tie clasps

Oval Office
-White House tour
-Carpet
-Seal
-Portrait of George Washington

Farewells

Mrs. Ulmer, G. and T. Ulmer, and Parker left at 12:53 pm

[Unintelligible]

George P. Shultz

Caspar W. (ACap@) Weinberger
-Possible meeting with R. E. Ulmer
-National Association of County Administrators [NACA] and another organization [Name unintelligible]
4		-Possible meeting with R. E. Ulmer

R. E. Ulmer and Johnson left at an unknown time before 12:55 pm

Conversation No. 461-12

Date:  March 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown after 12:53 pm until 1:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler

President=s schedule
-Easter Seal meeting
-Press
-Heltemes family
-Poster child

Peter Heltemes, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Heltemes, David Heltemes, Jack Heltemes, Jr., Holly Heltemes, Robert J. Dole, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Young, David N. Parker, and George Bill entered at 12:55 pm; members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting

[Unintelligible]

Easter Seal Poster Child
-Importance

[Unintelligible]

Presidential gifts
-Apollo viewmaster
-Cufflinks and pins

[General conversation]

Young
-A telethon
-A meeting with the President in 1961
-Christmas
-University of Southern California

Ziegler, the Heltemes, Dole, Parker, and Bill left at an unknown time before 1:07 pm

-Family

San Clemente

Young family

Young
-Golf
-Presidential golf balls

[General conversation]

Leslie T. (ABob@) Hope
-Christmas show
-Talk with President
-Previous meeting with the President
-Delores (Reade) Hope

Movies
-Telegram
-Charlton Heston
-Screen Actors= Guild

-Foreign films
-Costs
-Effect on Hollywood
-AI am Curious Yellow@
-Need for family entertainment
-Trend
-President=s view
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-AAirport@ and ASound of Music@
-AAround the World in Eighty Days@
-Older movies
-Young people=s interest

Farewells

Mr. and Mrs. Young left at 1:07 pm

Conversation No. 461-13

Date:  March 2, 1971
Time:  1:07 pm - 1:08 pm
Location:  Oval Office

An unknown man [Stephen B. Bull?] entered

President=s schedule
-Kenneth R. Lyons meeting

The unknown man [Bull?] left at an unknown time before 1:08 pm

Conversation No. 461-14

Date:  March 2, 1971
Time:  1:08 pm - 1:23 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Kenneth R. Lyons and Charles W. Colson; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

The President=s schedule
-Easter Seal poster child and Robert Young

A photograph

Colson
-White House responsibilities
-Work with unions
-John F. Griner
-Lyons meeting

Government employees
-President=s position
-Unions
-George Meany
-President=s position on government employees= unions
-Public employee strikes
-Importance of leadership
-Lyons= leadership

Lyons
-Background
-Previous acquaintance with Colson
-Work experience

National Association of Government Employees
-Background
-Davis-Bacon Act
-Blue collar / white collar workers
-Pay
-President=s actions
-Lyons= support
-Federal Aviation Administration strike
-President=s blue-collar veto
-President=s position
-George P. Shultz
-Meaning
-Responsibility of union leaders
-Importance of leadership
-Strikes
-President=s position
-Grievances
-Pay

-Loss to private sector
-Current situation
-Need for morale improvement
-Blue collar workers
-Construction industry, truckers
-Difference between private and public sectors
-Miami rates for unskilled workers
-Lyons= talks with members
-Benefits

Police
-Need for support
-Treatment by populace
-President=s meeting with Warren E. Burger
-President=s position
-US Capitol bombing
-Effect on public opinion
-Boston Herald, March 2, 1971
-J. William Fulbright
-A note from the President
-Jimmy [Surname unknown]
-Bombing of Hanoi

Lyons
-Previous work with Colson in Massachusetts Republican politics
-Family
-Ages, genders

Presidential gifts
-Cufflinks
-Keychains, tie clasps, pins

Astronaut dinner on March 1, 1971
-Report on AToday@ television show
-The President
-The Vice President

Colson
-White House responsibilities
-Work with Lyons
-Massachusetts politics

Personnel from Massachusetts
-Paul W. Costello
-Elliot L. Richardson

The President, et al. left at 1:23 pm

Conversation No. 461-15

Date:  March 2, 1971
Time:  1:27 pm - unknown before 1:35 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

[Unintelligible]

President=s schedule
-Astronauts
-National Aquarium
-Butterfield=s telephone call to Ronald L. Ziegler
-President=s press conference briefing material
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Time
-Executive Office Building

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 1:35 pm

Conversation No. 461-16

Date:  March 2, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:27 pm and 1:35 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person

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The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:35 pm

Conversation No. 461-17

Date:  March 2, 1971
Time:  1:35 pm - 1:42 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

The President=s schedule
-Executive Office Building
-Haldeman=s schedule

Rose Mary Woods

The President=s schedule
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Peter G. Peterson
-An assignment
-Henry A. Kissinger=s staff
-Ehrlichman

Marjorie P. Acker entered at an unknown time after 1:35 pm

President=s letter to Edward R. G. Heath

Acker left at an unknown time before 1:42 pm

The President=s schedule
-Meeting on economic policy
-Kissinger, Peterson, and Ehrlichman
-Foreign policy implications
-Domestic policy implications
-Kissinger
-Peterson

Acker entered at an unknown time after 1:35 pm

Item(s) for filing
-Mamie G. D. Eisenhower

President=s letter to Heath
-Spelling and punctuation

Woods entered at an unknown time after 1:35 pm

-Delivery
-Walter H. Annenberg
-Copy
-Annenberg
-State Department

Acker and Woods left at an unknown time before 1:42 pm

-Effect on Annenberg

[Unintelligible]

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 1:35 pm

Greetings

[Unintelligible]

The President, et al. left at 1:42 pm