Conversation No. 473-1

Date:  March 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:30 am and 8:58 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger

President=s schedule
-National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Length
-Signing ceremony
-Executive Branch reorganization
-NSC meeting
-Briefing by General Robert E. Cushman, Jr.

Vietnam report

Conversation No. 473-2

Date:  March 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:58 am and 9:31 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

President=s schedule
-National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Length
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Signing ceremony for government reorganization
-Briefing on the economy
-Staff work
-National Newspaper Association reception
-President=s role
-Number attending
-An interview with Frank van der Linden
-President=s accomplishments
-Length

-President=s accomplishments
-van der Linden
-Interviews with other staff
-Meeting with Congressional Black Caucus
-Length
-Meeting with press
-Length
-Meeting with other press

Unemployment in space and technology fields
-Staff meeting discussion
-Supersonic transport [SST]
-Possible action on President=s trip to California
-Scope
-Type of event to be staged
-Reasoning
-George P. Shultz
-Orange County and San Mateo County, California
-General Electric Company layoffs
-Possible event in California
-Timing
-A meeting concerning aerospace layoffs
-Possible follow-up to Senate vote
-Budget cuts in space program
-Public opinion
-Space program
-Public opinion
-Administration policy
-Senate vote
-Clinton P. Anderson
-Margaret Chase Smith

President=s schedule
-National Newspaper Association reception
-President=s remarks
-Herbert G. Klein
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-Content of briefing remarks
-Length

News coverage
-SST

-Laos operation (Lam Son)
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN] withdrawal
-Future stories
-Public relations efforts

NSC meeting

[Pause]

Young people
-Robert H. Finch=s efforts
-Administration policies
-College students
-President=s position
-Professors
-Compared with church members= activism
-Effect of universities
-Haldeman=s daughter at Stanford University and a friend at University of Southern California [USC]
-Compared with President and Haldeman=s college lives
-Course work
-College life
-Compared with President=s student career
-Pass-fail courses
-An exam

SST
-Staff response to Senate vote
-Effect on President=s schedule
-California
-Florida

President=s schedule
-California, Florida
-Facilities
-President=s meeting with General Nguyen Van Thieu
-Weather
-Symbolism
-Weather
-Purposes
-Movie industry concerns
-Aerospace industry concerns

-Agricultural concerns
-Western White House facility
-Justification
-Effect of SST vote
-Announcement to press
-Public awareness
-Weather
-Public awareness

Congress
-Schedule for recess
-Timing
-Schedule for re-convening
-Senate, House
-President=s forthcoming meeting with editors

Vietnam
-US troop withdrawal
-President=s announcement
-Timing
-House session
-A forthcoming Organization of American States [OAS] event
-House response
-Timing
-Congressional response
-Timing
-Effect
-Public response
-Columnists= response
-Public response
-President=s position
-Columnists
-Public response

John A. Scali
-Possible White House job
-Health

President=s schedule
-California trip
-Previous announcement to press
-Possible Florida trip

-California trip
-Weather
-Effect
-Staff meeting discussion
-SST vote
-Staff
-Previous announcement to press
-President=s view
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Length
-Weather
-Press conference
-Preparation for a speech
-Florida
-Camp David
-California, Florida
-Weather
-California trip
-Press conference
-Length
-Possible event
-Press conference
-Date
-Aerospace event
-Date
-Press conference
-President=s preparation
-March 30, 1971 event
-Aerospace meeting
-Logistics
-Samuel Goldwyn meeting
-Date
-March 27, 1971
-Aerospace meeting
-Goldwyn
-Action
-Decision

The President left at an unknown time before 9:31 am

Conversation No. 473-3

Date:  March 25, 1971
Time:  9:31 am
Location:  Oval Office

H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman talked with the White House operator

President=s location

President=s previous call [to Rose Mary Woods]

President=s location

Conversation No. 473-4

Date:  March 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:31 am and 9:50 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Rose Mary Woods= call

President=s schedule
-California trip

White House staff
-Needs
-California trip
-Public relations
-Compared with House and Senate
-Compared with a campaign

Cabinet
-John B. Connally
-Public relations

White House staff
-Haldeman
-Charles W. Colson
-Colson=s role
-Public relations
-Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Peter H. Dominick=s previous meeting with President
-Republican leaders= meetings

Congressional relations
-Clark MacGregor
-Possible meeting with President or Haldeman
-Dominick meeting
-Charles H. Percy
-Need for support for President=s policies
-Vietnam
-SST vote
-Administration efforts
-Meetings with Senators
-Effect
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Robert H. Finch and Rumsfeld=s trip to Europe
-Possible position
-Trade Representative
-Possible work with MacGregor
-Congress
-Finch
-Work
-Public relations efforts
-MacGregor
-William E. Timmons
-MacGregor
-Meetings with President=s supporters
-Possible meeting with President
-Reasons for meeting
-Public relations efforts
-Motivation
-Needs

President= schedule
-California trip
-Possible alternative

-Troop withdrawal announcement
-Meeting with surrogate speakers

[Name unintelligible]
-White House staff
-National Security Council [NSC] meetings
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Public relations efforts
-Relations with the press
-Stewart J. O. Alsop
-John Kenneth Galbraith
-Public relations efforts
-Galbraith
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Finch
-The President
-Kissinger
-Vietnam briefings
-Kissinger
-Vietnam briefings
-Student groups

President=s schedule
-Cabinet and senior staff
-Information for press
-Public relations efforts
-Haldeman=s US News and World Report interview
-Public relations efforts
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Congressional groups
-Press
-Timmons, Ehrlichman, MacGregor, George P. Shultz, and Finch
-Cabinet officers
-Colson=s role
-Questionnaire

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:31 am

President=s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:58 am

Public relations
-Questionnaire
-Responses
-President=s qualities
-Polling techniques
-President=s qualities
-Compared with Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
-Children

Haldeman left at 9:50 am

Conversation No. 473-5

Date:  March 25, 1971
Time:  9:50 am - 10:12 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Steven Baker, Walter Byrd, Eileen Friars, Stanley Grimm, Jay Sternoff, and Robert H. Finch

Introduction

Seating arrangements

A photographer

Finch=s paper on youth
-President=s meeting with Edwin D. Etherington
-Public relations efforts
-Administration policies

Issues of concern to students
-Military service draft
-Deferments
-Student loans
-Need for communications
-Military service draft, loans, internships
-Administration speakers and counselors

-Summer internship in government
-Number
-Capitol Hill
-One Senator=s experience
-Numbers
-Congress
-White House assignments
-Departmental assignments
-State and local governments
-New York
-California

Student leaders= conference
-Student leaders
-Credibility
-Meeting with Finch
-Student legislation
-Policy position
-Credibility
-Subsidies
-Legislation
-Student views
-Resolutions
-Credibility of student leaders
-Accessibility to government leaders

Issues
-Marijuana
-Eighteen-year-old vote

Students and government
-Communications
-Importance
-A previous conference
-Effect
-Memorandum from the students to the President
-Relationship
-President=s view
-Draft
-Employment
-Fields of study

-White House and Cabinet officers
-Internships
-Congressmen and Senators
-Need for government action
-Volunteers in Service to America [VISTA]
-Peace Corps
-Teachers= Corps reorganization
-Joseph H. Blatchford
-Blatchford=s role
-National Center for Voluntary Action
-Administration policies
-State and local government level
-Revenue sharing policy
-Effect
-President=s position
-Bellevue, Washington
-Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD]
-Urban renewal
-Model Cities programs
-Effect of President=s programs
-Communications
-Student government
-President=s student government career
-Role of student leaders
-Administration speakers
-Revenue sharing
-Vietnam
-Administration speakers
-Appearances at clubs, campuses
-Cabinet and department officers
-Compared to professors
-President=s professors
-Effect
-Possible invitations
-Reception on campus
-Congressional speakers
-1961 to 1970 period
-World and national events
-Importance of communication
-President=s possible appearance
-Secret Service
-Finch=s experiences

-Baker=s perception
-Attitude toward President=s reelection
-Possible meetings with President
-Baker=s attitude toward President
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-President=s support among student in 1972
-Attitude toward administration
-Administration=s view of youth
-Importance of dialogue
-Possible invitation to speakers
-Peter Teague
-Perception of President
-Communications

President=s schedule
-National Security Council [NSC] meeting

Oval Office
-Tour by Finch
-George Washington portrait
-Head of State gifts

The President left at 10:12 am

-A gift from Boy Scouts

Recording was cut off at 10:12 am

Conversation No. 473-6

Date:  March 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:20 am and 11:25 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Dwight A. Ink, Alan Dean, Charles R. Perry, Donald B. Rice, Richard P. Nathan, Samuel M. Cohn, Charles Bingman, Wesley K. Sasaki, Emerson J. Elliott, Harry S. Havens, Earl D. Rhode, Carl W. Tiller, Rodger L. Greene, Raymond L. Walters, Seymour Blum, Russell Chapin, James Finch, Paul H. O=Neill, and John B. Connally
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]

Revenue sharing
-Work of staff
-Legislators
-Mayors, county officials
-State government officials
-Special revenue sharing
-Education
-A task force
-President=s meetings
-Meeting on special revenue sharing

Government reorganization
-Work of staff
-President=s appreciation

Gifts
-Secretaries
-Golf balls

Government reorganization
-Forthcoming press briefing
-President=s role

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:20 am

President=s schedule

President=s location
-Cabinet Room

The President, et al. left at 11:25 am

Conversation No. 473-7

Date:  March 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:25 am and 11:30 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

Forthcoming press briefing

The President and Bull left at an unknown time before 11:30 am

Conversation No. 473-8

Date:  March 25, 1971
Time:  12:16 pm - 1:58 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Frank van der Linden interview
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Henry A. Kissinger
-President=s enemies, supporters
-Forthcoming interview with the President
-Vietnam negotiations
-Possible interview with Kissinger

President=s schedule
-California trip
-Weather
-Press
-Staff advice
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-John D. Ehrlichman
-George P. Shultz
-Length of stay
-Florida trip

Congress
-Support for President
-Robert H. Finch
-Support for President
-Core constituency
-Ehrlichman=s and Finch=s advice
-Clark MacGregor
-Response to President

-Recess
-Executive Branch reorganization plan
-Response
-Haldeman=s view
-Senate Democrats

Supersonic Transport [SST] issue
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Position
-Environmentalists
-Industry
-Power compared with popular opinion

Congress
-Shultz
-MacGregor
-Finch
-Rumsfeld
-John N. Mitchell
-Shultz
-Ehrlichman
-Work
-Shultz
-Ehrlichman
-Cycles

George H. Gallup poll
-Approval of President
-Charles W. Colson
-Meaning and effect
-Possible effect on Congress

President=s schedule
-California trip

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-Events to be set up by staff
-Press conference
-Length
-President=s speech
-Kissinger=s and William L. Safire=s role
-President=s work
-Location
-Florida
-President=s speech
-California compared with Florida
-Weather
-California trip
-Palm Springs
-San Clemente
-Samuel Goldwyn
-Medal of Freedom
-Timing
-Press conference
-Timing
-President=s preparation
-Compared with Howard K. Smith interview
-Timing
-Goldwyn
-Press conference
-John B. Connally
-Quadriad meeting
-Purpose of visit
-Meeting with James D. Hodgson and aerospace officials
-Purpose

Issues
-Economy
-Vietnam War
-Forthcoming coverage
-Domestic programs
-President=s programs

President=s schedule
-California trip
-Weather
-President=s speech
-Kissinger
-Kissinger and Melvin R. Laird
-Congress
-President=s speech and press conference
-Work with Patrick J. Buchanan
-Delivery

Congress
-SST vote
-White House efforts
-Meaning
-President=s possible appearance at Chowder and Marching Society, March 24, 1971
-Mood
-Ehrlichman and Rumsfeld=s advice

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President=s appearances
-Effect
-Smith interview

-Cabinet meeting
-Republican leaders= meeting
-President=s role
-SST
-Effect
-SST vote in House of Representatives
-National Newspapers Association reception
-Effect
-Use of President=s time
-Public appearances
-Television

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Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:16 pm

Forthcoming van der Linden interview
-Possible rescheduling in California
-Meeting with President on plane
-President=s schedule
-National Newspaper Association reception
-March 26, 1971
-Breakfast with Carl B. Albert, Ford, and [Thomas] Hale Boggs
-10:00 Cabinet meeting
-Justinian Society
-California trip
-Departure time
-Meeting with Laird [?]
-Possible interviews en route to California
-President, Kissinger
-Possible interview with President, March 26, 1971

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:42 pm

Connally
-Possible trip to California
-Recent work

Republicans
-Program of administration
-Response
-Theodore (ATeddy@) Roosevelt
-Response
-Farmers
-Roosevelt

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Refreshments

Rose Mary Woods entered at 12:42 pm

President=s schedule

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Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:42 pm

van der Linden interview
-March 26, 1971
-California trip

President=s schedule, March 25, 1971
-Possible interview with van der Linden
-Meeting with Thomas A. Pappas and Mitchell
-Length
-Timing
-Possible van der Linden interview
-Time
-Congressional Black Caucus
-Meeting with Mitchell and Pappas
-Follow-up meeting with Mitchell

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:58 pm

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Woods left at 12:58 pm

President=s schedule
-Congressional Black Caucus
-Briefing for President
-Ehrlichman=s view
-MacGregor and Robert J. Brown
-President=s role
-Charles C. Diggs, Jr.

Youth
-Student body presidents
-Compared with students in President and Haldeman=s eras
-Effect of television
-Haldeman=s children
-President=s previous meeting with youth leaders
-Finch=s role
-One student=s remarks
-White House staff
-Meetings with the President
-Memoranda to the President
-Interests
-Draft deferment
-Finch
-Summer intern program
-View of participants
-President=s view
-Peace Corps
-Joseph H. Blatchford
-Volunteers
-Effect of unemployment
-Reason for joining
-Daniel P. (APat@) Moynihan
-President as a young person
-Trip to Europe
-Student body presidents= previous meeting with President
-President=s possible appearances with students
-Educational television
-College campuses
-Effect
-Compared with William F. (ABilly@) Graham=s appearances
-Graham=s campus appearances
-Effect
-President=s possible appearances with students
-Educational television
-Meeting in Oval Office
-Forthcoming meeting with Finch and Colson
-Student leaders

National spirit
-Administration stands on SST, space program, Vietnam War, defense, US leadership
-Compared with British, French, Germans, and Japanese
-German and Japanese youth

Young people

President=s schedule
-Use of President=s time
-Meetings with students
-Students
-Use of President=s time
-Public appearances

Stock market
-Dow-Jones average
-President=s response

President=s schedule
-A swearing-in
-President=s role
-March 25 or March 26, 1971
-Public appearances
-Effect
-Public relations value
-Cabinet officers
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Connally

Agnew
-Compared with Connally
-President=s position
-Media
-Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak column
-Rumsfeld
-A Cabinet meeting
-Shultz
-Possible appearances on campuses
-Youth
-Shultz=s desegregation group
-Right-wing connections

-Advice
-President
-White House staff
-Gridiron Club Dinner
-Advice
-President

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President=s schedule
-California trip
-William P. Rogers
-Role as Secretary of State
-Kissinger=s role

Vietnam
-President=s forthcoming speech
-Kissinger and Safire
-Tone
-Compared with President=s Cambodia and November 3, 1969 speeches
-1972
-President=s critics
-Laos operation (Lam Son)
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN] 
-Withdrawal
-President=s view
-Coverage by media
-General Nguyen Van Thieu=s instructions
-Alternative actions
-Thieu=s election
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] News

-ARVN withdrawal
-Thieu
-Casualties
-North Vietnamese casualties
-Compared with ARVN casualties
-Bombing
-Effect
-Tonnage dropped
-Air Force

President=s schedule
-Possible call to Boeing employees
-Colson
-Coverage
-President=s statement
-Content
-President=s policies
-President=s support
-Boeing 707s, 727s, 747s
-Washington state
-Public relations effect
-California trip

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-President=s speech
-California trip
-Return time
-April 6 and April 7, 1971 (?)

President=s previous interview with Smith
-Congressional response
-Need for surrogate speakers
-Press coverage
-White House follow-up

Public relations efforts
-Whitney M. Young, Jr.=s funeral
-President=s statements
-Revenue sharing
-Importance

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Agnew

J. Edgar Hoover
-Future
-Haldeman=s forthcoming talk with Mitchell

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President=s schedule
-Meeting with National Newspaper Association
-Meeting with mayors
-Meeting with Congressional Black Caucus
-Length, agenda
-Reception for White House social aides
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon
-Meeting with Congressional Black Caucus
-Agenda

Agnew
-Motives for behavior
-Novak=s column
-Haldeman=s conversations
-Relations with President
-Relations with White House staff
-Phone calls
-Compared with John A. Volpe and George W. Romney

White House secretaries
-Phone calls
-A secretary of Haldeman=s
-Woods

Haldeman=s phone call
-Calls to Senators
-White House switchboard
-Call to Rogers
-Maggie Howell [?]

Vietnam
-Laos operation (Lam Son)
-Coverage
-Monday magazines
-Kissinger

Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:58 pm

Kissinger=s location

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:58 pm

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Mrs. Nixon=s staff
-Constance M. (Cornell) (AConnie@) Stuart and Lucy A. Winchester
-Trip to California
-Stuart

Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:58 pm

Manolo Sanchez=s location

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:58 pm

Congress
-President=s supporters
-Finch and Rumsfeld=s advice
-Colson=s advice
-Freshmen Republican Congressmen
-Vietnam War, Laos operation
-Effect of recess
-Public opinion
-Effect of press
-Haldeman=s view
-Washington Post
-New York Times
-Recess plans
-Bahamas
-Trips
-Work with constituents
-Staff
-Work
-Mail

-Committee meetings
-Re-election work
-Relations with White House

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Hoover
-Haldeman=s forthcoming meeting with Mitchell
-Jerry Greene [?]

Agnew
-Peter H. Dominick
-Relations with Moynihan, Leonard Garment, Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Relations with Buchanan
-Memorandum
-President=s conversation with Barry M. Goldwater
-Work
-Revenue sharing
-A cities meeting
-Public relations
-Staff [?]
-A speech at Republican fundraiser
-A briefing
-A group
-Possible campus speeches
-March 24, 1971 speech

President=s schedule
-Dinner for businessmen
-[Name unintelligible]
-Roger Milliken

-Charles S. Mitchell
-John A. (AJack@) Mulcahy
-Charles S. Payson
-J[ohn] Howard Pew
-H. Ross Perot
-[Name unintelligible]

Haldeman left at 1:58 pm

Conversation No. 473-9

Date:  March 25, 1971
Time:  3:03 pm - 3:55 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with George P. Shultz, John D. Ehrlichman, and James D. Hodgson

Executive Branch reorganization
-President=s meeting with staff

Construction industry
-Boards of control
-Strikes
-Wages
-Appeals
-Wage adjustments
-Factors
-Equity
-Limits
-Role of federal government
-Executive Order
-Effect
-Hodgson=s view
-Wage and price controls
-Drawbacks
-Political considerations
-Democrats
-Philosophical basis
-Complaints, appeals

-Alternatives
-Wage increases
-Effects
-Davis-Bacon Act
-Effects on building trades
-Building and Trade Unions
-Forthcoming meeting
-Demonstrations
-Collective bargaining
-Unions
-Administration policies
-A commission
-Recommendations of public members
-Recommendations of labor
-Public members
-Presidential appointees
-John T. Dunlop
-Recommendations
-Executive Order
-Wage stabilization boards
-Strikes
-Wage increases
-ASuper board@ as monitor and appeal board
-Enforcement
-Davis-Bacon Act
-Wages
-Settlements
-Government construction
-Enforcement power
-Steel strike possibility
-Wages
-Union leadership
-Union members= views
-Steel compared with copper and aluminum
-Possible stabilization boards
-Jurisdiction
-Plasterers, electrician, bricklayers
-Union jurisdiction
-MDA and Associated General Contractors of America [AGCA]
-Time to be established
-ASuper board@

-Possible effects on wages
-Hodgson=s view
-Possible effects on relations with labor
-George Meany
-Building trades
-Possible response to wage controls as opposed to Davis-Bacon Act
-Hodgson=s report to the President
-Administration policy
-Unions
-Management
-Housing industry
-Unions
-Contractors
-AGCA resolution
-Housing industry
-Union=s views
-Meany
-Meeting with President
-President=s meeting, March 24, 1971
-Housing industry
-Democrats= legislation
-President=s position
-Ehrlichman=s previous meeting with leaders
-Leaders= view of Administration policy
-Industry
-Response of George W. Romney and group
-Wage-price stabilization boards
-Effects
-Union response
-Unemployment
-Wages
-Applicability to other industries
-President=s concern
-Aluminum
-Future trends
-Possible response
-Shultz=s view
-Steel, longshoremen
-Industry
-Members of boards
-Appeals board

-Need for wage control
-Shultz=s view
-Compared with Hodgson=s view
-View of other segments of organized labor
-Support for President
-Leonard Woodcock
-Maurice A. Hutcheson
-Carpenters= union
-Position
-A Florida situation
-Position
-Support for the Administration
-Davis-Bacon Act
-Business= position
-Effects of possible action by President
-AEhrlichman group@
-Position of Romney, John A. Volpe, Winton M. (ARed@) Blount, and Arthur F. Burns
-Volpe=s knowledge of industry
-Volpe=s view
-Ehrlichman=s meeting
-Other industries
-Paul W. McCracken=s paper
-Alternatives
-Possible wage increases and controls
-Hodgson=s assumptions
-Management=s position
-Reasons
-Fortune magazine group
-Meeting with President
-Possible government action
-Davis-Bacon
-Contractual considerations
-Effect
-Attorney General
-Possible injunctions
-Ehrlichman=s view
-Executive Order language
-Enforcement
-Boards= authority
-Davis-Bacon

-Emergency situation
-Legal limitations
-Possible meeting with President and Hodgson
-Volpe
-Purpose
-Effect on President=s policy choices
-Public opinion
-Management, unions
-AEhrlichman group@
-Political considerations
-Ehrlichman=s view
-Possible speeches by Volpe, Romney, Maurice H. Stans, and Blount
-Position
-Support for Administration policies
-Possible meeting with President, March 26, 1971
-Possible meeting of President and Meany, March 26, 1971
-Cabinet meeting time
-Possible administration action
-President=s view
-Hodgson=s view
-Romney, Volpe, Stans, and McCracken positions
-Herbert Stein=s possible response
-A paper on controls
-Shultz=s position
-Hodgson=s work
-Florida
-Meany
-Possible statement
-Support for Administration
-Relations with Shultz
-Possible meeting with Hodgson or Shultz
-Timing
-Meany=s health
-President=s position
-Business community=s response
-Stock market
-Compared with future response
-Shultz=s assessment
-Profits
-Davis-Bacon Act
-12% wage increase
-Administration efforts

-Compared with other industries
-Hodgson=s work
-Compared with steel and aluminum
-Publicity
-Union leaders
-Davis-Bacon Act repeal
-Possible time limit
-Injunction
-Effect on construction industry
-President=s action
-Effect on state laws
-Meetings
-Purpose
-Labor unions
-Meany
-Davis-Bacon Act
-Cabinet
-Purpose
-President=s remarks
-President=s announcement
-Timing
-Ehrlichman=s view
-Meetings
-Forthcoming Cabinet meeting
-Effect of previous actions

Shultz and Hodgson left at 3:53 pm

Domestic Intelligence Advisory Board
-John N. Mitchell
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.=s hearings on domestic surveillance
-Mitchell=s staff=s discussion with Ervin
-Executive Order
-Message for Mitchell
-President and Ehrlichman=s discussion

Ehrlichman=s meeting with Wilbur D. Mills, March 25, 1971

Ehrlichman left at 3:55 pm

Conversation No. 473-10

Date:  March 25, 1971
Time:  3:55 pm - 4:23 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John N. Mitchell and Thomas A. Pappas

President=s schedule
-Previous meeting with James D. Hodgson

Pappas= schedule

Domestic Intelligence Advisory Board
-Paperwork

Pappas
-Work

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[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  4m 23s  ]

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Hugh Scott
-Pappas= previous conversation

A gift
-George A. Murphy

Scott
-Pappas= previous conversation
-Support for President
-Supersonic Transport [SST]

John A. Volpe
-Health
SST
-Volpe=s work

SST
-Administration work

National mood
-SST
-Space program
-Defense programs
-Poverty
-President=s upcoming meeting with Congressional Black Caucus
-Program priorities
-Source of revenue

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:55 pm

Refreshments

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  41s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:23 pm

Support for President
-Pappas= experiences
-Pappas
-1960 election
-John C. Folger

World leadership
-President=s role
-Era of change
-General Charles A. J. M. de Gaulle
-Konrad Adenauer
-Winston S. Churchill
-Alcide de Gasperi
-King Paul of Greece [Paul I]
-The Vatican
-Pope Pius XII [Eugenio Pacelli]
-Compared with Popes John XXIII [Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli] and Paul VI [Giovanni Battista Motini]
-Catholic Church
-United States
-American Eastern Establishment
-Harvard University
-Vietnam War
-President=s role
-President=s policy
-Importance to US
-Charles H. Percy
-R. Sargent Shriver
-Edward W. Brooke
-Enemies of US
-Europe
-Public opinion
-President=s forthcoming announcement
-Effect
-US troops
-Withdrawal
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-South Vietnam
-Peace talks in Paris
-Henry Cabot Lodge, Dr. David K. E. Bruce
-Effect
-US strategy
-Timing of negotiations
-POWs
-Geneva

National mood
-Effect of World War II
-Compared with French, Germans, and Japanese
-Effect of Korean and Vietnam Wars
-Intellectuals
-Media
-Attitudes toward US role in world
-Aviation
-Space exploration
-Domestic orientation
-Blacks
-Communists
-Britain, France, Japan, US
-Intellectuals
-View of America
-John Kenneth Galbraith
-McGeorge Bundy

Henry E. Ford, II
-Attendance at President=s March 23, 1971 dinner
-Wife
-Work in volunteer efforts
-Relations with Pappas
-Support for John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
-First wife
-Support for President
-Max M. Fisher
-Contribution

Pappas
-Support for the President
-Meeting with the President
-Italy
-Pappas= business

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[National Security]
[Duration:  1m 30s  ]

ITALY AND THE VATICAN

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Italy
-Henry J. Tasca
-Possible appointment
-Pappas= view
-Wife
-Greece
-Comments on State Department
-Relations with Pappas [?]

Communists
-Spain, Turkey, Italy
-Pappas= view
-Greece
-President=s position
-Support for Greece
-Mitchell
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Pappas previous conversation with George Papadopoulos
-Support of Greece
-Tasca
-Pappas= previous conversation with Constantinos Karamanlis
-Tasca=s role
-Political developments
-Pappas= assessment
-Martial law
-Tasca
-Status

-King Constantine [Constantine II]
-Health 

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 9
[National Security]
[Duration:  19s  ]

GREECE

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-Yugoslavia
-Josip Broz Tito
-Accomplishments
-President=s visit in October, 1970
-Status
-Pappas= view
-Tito=s planned visit to US
-Timing
-Pappas= possible attendance at State dinner

Pappas= work for Mitchell
-Schedule

Yugoslavia
-Monetary situation
-Pappas= business connections
-Imports and exports
-Steel plant
-Japan, England, Germany, France

Middle East
-A Prime Minister
-Friendship with Pappas

-Tom Pluskey [?]
-Brother
-Soviet Union role
-Israel
-US role
-Soviet Union role
-Pappas= view

Turkey
-Drug traffic
-Pappas= role
-President=s position
-New leader
-Program
-Pappas= view
-Advisors
-Pappas= view
-Previous conversations with the President

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8
[National Security]
[Duration:  18s  ]

CYPRUS

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8

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Possible Meeting of President and Giuseppe Saragat
-Italy
-California
-Previous state visit
-Private visit
-Timing
-California

-Florida
-Alaska
-Circumstances
-Lieutenant General Vernon A. Walters
-Dwight D. Eisenhower Administration role

Folger
-Pappas= meeting
-Contribution to Common Cause
-John W. Gardner
-Common Cause

Ripon Society
-Shriver
-A party for Charles E. Goodell
-Mitchell=s view

Pappas= forthcoming work
-President=s appreciation

Gifts
-Cufflinks
-Paperweight

Stephen B. Bull entered at 4:23 pm

The President=s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Congressional Black Caucus

[Forename unknown] Wells [?]

President=s support

Mitchell, Pappas, and Bull left at 4:23 pm

Conversation No. 473-11

Date:  March 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:23 pm and 4:40 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger

Vietnam
-Negotiations
-Status
-Dr. David K. E. Bruce
-Delay by North Vietnamese
-US strategy
-Delays
-Bruce
-The President=s instructions
-Melvin R. Laird
-Press briefing
-Military option
-South Vietnamese
-Bombing
-President=s view
-Laird=s comments to Stewart J. O. Alsop
-South Vietnamese military
-US military supplies
-President=s talk with Alsop
-President=s position
-Material and equipment
-Possible meeting with Laird, Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, and David Packard
-Scheduling
-H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman
-An unnamed man
-Laird
-An unnamed man=s advice
-Moorer
-General Nguyen Van Thieu
-Laos operation (Lam Son)
-Importance compared with Cambodia
-President=s policies

Conversation No. 473-12

Date:  March 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:23 pm and 4:40 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

President=s telephone call to Boeing Corporation
-Technical arrangements

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:40 pm

Conversation No. 473-13

Date:  March 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:23 pm and 4:40 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person [Henry A. Kissinger?]

Soviet Union - US relations
-President=s instruction
-Public statements on arms control

People=s Republic of China
-United Nations admission
-ATwo China@ policy
-US strategy
-John B. Connally

Conversation No. 473-14

Date:  March 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:23 pm and 4:40 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man [Stephen B. Bull?]

Arrangements for President=s call to Boeing Corporation

The unknown man [Bull?] left at an unknown time before 4:40 pm

Conversation No. 473-15

Date:  March 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:23 pm and 4:56 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler

Seating arrangements

The President=s schedule
-Robert H. Finch and Clark MacGregor

President=s call to Boeing [?]
-Publicity

A wire story on Japanese technology

Finch and MacGregor entered at 4:40 pm

President=s meeting with Congressional Black Caucus [?]
-A briefing paper
-Changes
-Charles C. Diggs, Jr.
-Appreciation for President=s actions

A report

President=s schedule

[The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 4:40 pm and 4:52 pm]

[Conversation No. 473-15A]

President=s call to William M. Allen
-Line to use

[End of telephone conversation]

An unknown person [Stephen B. Bull?] entered at an unknown time after 4:40 pm

President=s forthcoming call to Allen
-Line

The unknown man [Bull?] left at an unknown time before 4:50 pm

President=s forthcoming meeting with Black Caucus
-Number of attendees
-Agenda
-Diggs
-H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman, Donald H. Rumsfeld
-MacGregor=s place
-Agenda
-Charles B. Rangel
-Photographs
-President=s possible role
-Length of meeting
-President=s next meeting

President=s call to Boeing
-Signal Corps

Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:40 pm

-Feedback problems at Boeing

President=s meeting with Congressional Black Caucus
-Possible photograph
-Location

-Publicity
-Time
-Publicity
-Possible newspaper story
-The President=s view
-Oliver F. (AOllie@) Atkins
-Publicity
-Diggs= request
-Press response
-Time
-President=s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:50 pm

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:40 pm and 4:50 pm]

[Conversation No. 473-15B]

Call to Boeing
-Line to use

[End of telephone conversation]

President=s meeting with Congressional Black Caucus
-President=s role
-Cabinet attendees
-Length
-Administration response to issues raised
-Cabinet attendees
-George W. Romney, James D. Hodgson
-Seating arrangements
-Diggs
-Augustus F. Hawkins
-Ronald V. Dellums
-Hawkins [?]

Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:40 pm

President=s call to Boeing
-Line at Boeing plant
-A speaker problem

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:50 pm

President=s meeting with Congressional Black Caucus
-Finch and MacGregor=s presence
-President=s call to Boeing
-President=s schedule

Finch and MacGregor left at 4:50 pm

-Responses
-Publicity
-Photograph
-Diggs= possible statement to press

Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:50 pm

President=s call to Boeing
-Allen

Bull left at 4:52 pm

[The President talked with Allen between 4:52 pm and 4:56 pm]

[Conversation No. 473-15C]

Broadcast of call to Boeing plant

Supersonic Transport [SST]
-President=s position on Senate vote
-Effect on Boeing employees
-President=s position
-President=s appreciation for Boeing=s work
-Future use of Boeing=s work

Boeing
-Air Force One
-President=s trip to West Coast, March 26, 1971
-Contribution to US
-707, 727, 737, 747
-Future contributions

SST
-President=s position
-US leadership
-Congressional action

US role in world
-President=s policies
-Boeing workers
-Future

Boeing
-President=s use of planes

[End of telephone conversation]

Ziegler left at 4:56 pm

Conversation No. 473-16

Date:  March 25, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:56 pm and 5:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Reverend Walter E. and Dorothy (Simms) Fauntroy, Marvin K. Fauntroy, Clark MacGregor, and Robert J. Brown

Greetings

Photo session
-Arrangements

President=s daughters

W. E. Fauntroy=s electoral victory

President=s autograph for M. K. Fauntroy

Gifts
-Cufflinks
-Golf balls

President=s schedule

W. E. Fauntroy
-Doctorate

Presidential golf balls

The President, et al. left at 5:00 pm

Conversation No. 473-17

Date:  Unknown between March 25 and March 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:00 pm, March 25 and 9:40 am, March 26, 1971
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]

President=s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:40 am, March 26, 1971

Conversation No. 473-18

Date:  Unknown between March 25 and March 26, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:00 pm, March 25 and 9:40 am, March 26, 1971
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men met

A group
-Tour of the Oval Office
-Tour of the Cabinet Room

Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 9:40 am, March 26, 1971