Conversation No. 677-1

Date:  March 6, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:30 am and 8:38 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Woods left at an unknown time before 8:38 am.

Conversation No. 677-2

Date:  March 6, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:30 am and 8:38 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 8:38 am.

Conversation No. 677-3

Date:  March 6, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:30 am and 8:38 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person.

The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Henry A. Kissinger

Conversation No. 677-4

Date:  March 6, 1972
Time:  8:38 am - 9:08 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

The People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Nelson A. Rockefeller’s view
-News summary
	-Vietnam
		-[Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union [TASS]]
		-Pravda
-Vietnam
-Hanoi

An unknown man [Manolo Sanchez?] entered and left at an unknown time between 8:38 am and 9:08 am.

-Weekend news summary
	-Hugh S. Sidey
	-Patrick J. Buchanan
	-Peter Lisagor
		-Chou En-lai
-Concessions
-Shanghai communiqué
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-Trade and exchanges
-Diplomatic contacts
-Lisagor
-Sidey
-Public reaction
-Lisagor
-Sidey
-News summary
-Buchanan
-New York Times

-Nguyen Van Thieu
-The President’s view
	-Chiang Kai-shek
-US statement of commitment to South Vietnam
	-Compared to statement for South Korea
-Treaty
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Vietnam
-Chinese statements
-Hanoi
-Thieu
-Right wing
	-Rockefeller
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with William F. (“Billy”) Graham
	-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
	-Evangelicals
		-Taiwan

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

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration:  25s  ]

	TAIWAN

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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

-Taiwan
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-The President’s view
-Washington Post
-[Forename unknown] Gratinov [?] article
-Robert S. McNamara
-Stewart J.O. Alsop
	-Vietnam
	-Kissinger’s view
		-Stewart Alsop compared to Joseph W. Alsop
-Soviet Union
-Chinese communists
-Report
-Communiqué
-Mutual trade

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

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[National Security]
[Duration:  13s  ]

	TAIWAN

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6

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

-Political enemies
-Shanghai communiqué
-The President’s image
-Stewart Alsop
-Previous talk with Kissinger
	-Hanoi
	-PRC
	-Taiwan
-Joseph Alsop
	-Forthcoming meeting with Kissinger
-The President’s report to Congress
-Taiwan
-Peking
-Press
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Positive articles
-Martin Z. Agronsky show
-News summaries
	-Negative stories
		-Kissinger’s view
			-Intellectuals
-The President’s forthcoming report to Congress
	-William P. Rogers
	-Kissinger
		-Backgrounders
		-Press conference in Shanghai
		-Communiqué
-The President’s possible report to the nation
	-Barry M. Goldwater
	-Michael J. Mansfield
-Chou En-lai
	-Domestic situation compared to the President’s domestic situation
-Radio Moscow
	-Peking
-Ferdinand E. Marcos
	-Possible Asian summit
		-Possible PRC participation
-Communiqué
-Press
	-The President’s image
-The President’s possible report to Congress
-Rogers, Melvin R. Laird and Kissinger
-National Security Council [NSC]
	-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

Cambodia
-Marshall Green
-Rogers
-North Vietnam
	-Sihanoukville
	-Northeast section of Cambodia
-Emory C. Swank
	-Kissinger’s view
		-Lon Nol
	-The President’s view
		-Charles S. Whitehouse
-Unknown Man

Political opposition
-Lisagor
-Sidey
-Press
-Agronsky
-Lisagor
-Sidey 
-News summary
-Buchanan

The PRC trip
-American public reaction
-Kissinger’s view
	-Key Biscayne
	-New York
-Rockefeller
-Humphrey
-Lisagor
-John F. Kennedy’s 1962 European trip comparison
-Press coverage
		-Chinese 
		-Shanghai communiqué
-Press
	-Lisagor
	-Sidey
-American public reaction
-Today show
-Henry Brandon
-Muffie Brandon
-Democratic candidates’ debate
-Campaign contributions
-John N. Mitchell
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]

Vietnam
-Le Duc Tho
-Paris
-Possible negotiations with Kissinger
	-Politics
-W[illiam] Averell Harriman
-New York Times
-Edmund S. Muskie

The PRC trip
-Lisagor
-Compared to the moon landing
-Chinese
	-Trade
-Report to the nation
-Busing
-Criticism
-Right wing
-Peking
-Allegations of secret deals
-Communiqué
-Trade
-Diplomatic relations
	-Taiwan

Kissinger’s schedule
-Florida

NSC staff
	-Possible memoranda
		-Members of NSC
			-John B. Connally

Richard G. Kleindienst
-Mitchell

	Possible memoranda
		-Timing

Kissinger left at 9:08 am.

Conversation No. 677-5

Date:  March 6, 1972
Time:  9:12 am - 10:30 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Busing
-John D. Ehrlichman

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 10:24 am.

The President left and re-entered at an unknown time between 9:12 am and 10:24 am.

William P. Rogers

The People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Substance
-The President’s report
	-Shanghai Communiqué
-Rogers
-Henry A. Kissinger’s backgrounder in Shanghai

	The President’s schedule
		-Forthcoming meeting with Council of Black Appointees [?]

Haldeman’s schedule
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Responsibility
-Possible resignation
	-Timing

An unknown person [Manolo Sanchez?] entered at an unknown time after 9:12 am.

-Possible position
	-Committee to Re-elect the President [CRP]

		-Answer desk
		-John N. Mitchell
			-Press relations
				-Harry S. Flemming
-Charles W. Colson
-[Unknown person]

The unknown person [Sanchez?] left at an unknown time before 10:24 am.

-White House staff
	-The President’s view
		-Personal views of staff members
		-Buchanan 
	-Productivity
-Haldeman’s talk with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Possible resignation
-Buchanan’s talk with conservatives
-Public relations
-Supreme Court justices
-Day care
-Busing
-Cambodia
-Anti-ballistic missile [ABM] defense
-James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.
-Ability
	-Compared to Lee W. Huebner
-Shelley A. (Scarney) Buchanan
-Resignation
-Timing
	-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
	-PRC

The PRC trip
-News summary
	-Los Angeles Times editorial
	-Martin Z. Agronsky
	-Peter Lisagor
		-Kissinger
		-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Colson
-Louis P. Harris
-The President’s image
-Baltimore Sun
-Lisagor
-Significance
	-The President’s image
-“Kitchen debate”
-Effect on 1960 election
-Press coverage
-Kissinger
-Talk with the President
		-Media coverage
		-News summary

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC] report
-The President’s schedule
	-Sheraton Hotel
		-Press release
			-Origin
	-Republican convention
		-C. Arnholt Smith
-Public relations
-Peter M. Flanigan
	-Statement
-Clark MacGregor
-Ziegler’s statement
-Circumstances
-Flanigan
-Richard McLaren
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Michael J. Ramsden
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Background
-Study done for the White House
-Sheraton decision
	-ITT reaction to decision
	-Flanigan
	-Ramsden
-White House appearance to public
-Jack Gleason
-Testimony
-Fundraising role
-Dita D. Beard memorandum
-Mitchell
-Colson 
-William L. Safire
-Richard A. Moore
-Safire
	-Flanigan
-Washington Post
-NBC
-New York Times
-Washington Star
-Kleindienst
-Colson
-Mitchell
-Reopening hearings
-Haldeman
-Justice Department
-Domestic Council study on anti-trust policies
-Possible release
-Effect on ITT case
-Effect on anti-trust
-Effect on Kleindienst
-Jack N. Anderson papers
-White House
-Mitchell
-Gleason
-Baltimore Sun
-Republican National Convention
-Hotels
-Robert H. Finch
-Herbert G. Klein
-Robert C. Wilson
-William E. Timmons
-Sheraton
-San Diego Host Committee
-White House response
-Brad Hayes
-Unknown man
-San Diego offer
-Sheraton contribution
	-Amount
		-Circumstances
-Klein, Finch
-Edwin Reinecke
-Flanigan
-Kleindienst
-Justice Department
-Flanigan
-White House statement
-Ramsden
	-Bakcground
-Sherman Adams case
-Gleason
-Role as fundraiser
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Public relations job
-Kevin P. Phillips
-Newsletter
-ITT possible witnesses
-Beard’s doctor
-Mitchell
-Gleason
-James O. Eastland calls witnesses
-Beard interview with Anderson
-Beard
	-Involvement
	-Rose Mary Woods
Beard memorandum
-People mentioned in memorandum
-Louie B. Nunn
-Haldeman
-Mitchell
-Arrangements made
	-Contribution
-Republican National Convention
	-Haldeman
-Contribution
-San Diego
-Anderson
	-Ramsden
	-Rumsfeld
-Beard memorandum
-Leaking of memorandum
-William R. Merriam
-Colson
	-Role in hearings
	-Mitchell
-John D. Ehrlichman
	-Views
		-Kleindienst
			-William P. Rogers
-George P. Shultz
-Colson, Safire, Ehrlichman, MacGregor, Klein
	-Reactions
		-Strategy
-Wallace H. Johnson
-Job history
	-Justice Department
		-Johnson compared to William H. Rehnquist
	-Assignment
	-Moore
-Other White House involvement
	-Shultz, Kissinger
	-Rumsfeld and Herbert Stein
-Public relations for White House
-Harold S. Geneen
-Canteen Corporation
-Statements
	-Justice Department
	-Ziegler
	-Justice Department
		-McLaren
			-[Forename unknown] Engsberg [?]

Bureaucracy
	-The President’s view
	-The President’s previous conversation with Haldeman
		-Replacement of Schedule C employees

Public relations
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Key Biscayne
	-Admiration from the public
-New York
	-Meeting with Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Haldeman
	-Admiration from the public
		-Dinner in Miami Beach
			-[Forename unknown] Weis [sp?]
			-Reservation
				-Lawrence M. Higby
-Lisagor
-Charles Corddry
-Haldeman’s view
		-Edmund S. Muskie
		-Public relations problems
			-New Hampshire
			-Democratic candidates debate
				-Tricia Nixon Cox
					-Vance Hartke
-Craig Williams’s report
-Election problems

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

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  7m 33s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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

Busing
-Buchanan
-Senate vote
-Ehrlichman
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.’s speech draft
-Constitutional amendment
-Chance for ratification
	-Senate vote
-Effect on Americans

ITT
-Kleindienst
-Comparison to Dwight D. Eisenhower
-White House statement
-$100,000
-Mitchell’s testimony
-Gleason and Birch E. Bayh, Jr.
	-Questioning
		-Contribution

John B. Connally’s schedule

The President’s schedule
	-National Advisory Committee on Child Nutrition
	-Report
	-Earl L. Butz
	-Photographs
		-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
	-Size of committee
	-Timing of possible meeting
	-Ziegler
-Possible meeting with Robert Strausz-Hupe
	Strausz-Hupe’s forthcoming trip to Belgium
-Forthcoming meeting in the Roosevelt Room
	-Summer Youth Program
		-Five unidentified mayors
	-Elliot L. Richardson, James D. Hodgson, and Rogers C.B. Morton
	-Colson
-Possible meeting with senior citizens
-Forthcoming special message to the Congress on Older Americans
-Henry Cabot Lodge meeting
	-Rome
-Possible meeting with Iakovos
	-Greek Orthodox group
		-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Possible meeting with Robert S. Ingersoll
	-Ingersoll’s forthcoming trip to Japan
	-The President’s view
-Possible sound clip for the National Health Forum
-Possible meeting with officials from the National Alliance of Business [NAB]
		-Possible meeting with the General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament
	-John J. McCloy
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Kissinger
-Robert F. Ellsworth
-David Packard
-Possible meeting with Advertising Council
-Colson
-The President’s view
	-Jews
-Economy
-Reception
-Possible meeting with the Inter-American Defense Board
-John F. Kennedy

Bull entered at 10:24 am.

The President’s schedule
	-Forthcoming meeting on busing
		-Ehrlichman

Bull left at 10:25 am.

The President’s schedule
-Various possible meetings
-Signing ceremony on the Biological Weapons Convention
-Geneva
-State Department
-The President
	-British
	-Soviets
-Rogers
-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
-Princeton University
-Question and answer [Q&A] session
	-PRC
		-Youth
	-The President’s view
		-Congress
		-Press conferences
-George H. Mahon and Grover E. Murray, President of Texas Tech University
	-American Association of Engineers
-Catholic University graduation
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-The President’s view
	-Possible demonstrators
-Colson
-White House Conference on Youth

Ehrlichman and Edward L. Morgan entered at 10:25 am.

Busing
-Congressional leadership meeting
-Ehrlichman memorandum
-MacGregor
-De-segregated housing
-[Forename unknown] Jackson
-Morgan’s work

The President left at an unknown time after 10:25 am.

-Moratorium on busing
	-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
	-Left wing

The President entered at an unknown time before 10:30 am.

-Upcoming meeting with President’s Commission on School Finance

	The President’s schedule
		-Forthcoming meeting with Council of Black Appointees

The President, Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Morgan left at 10:30 am.

Conversation No. 677-6

Date:  March 6, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:30 am and 12:28 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man.

	Forthcoming Congressional leadership meeting
	Welfare reform and revenue sharing
	-William E. Timmons
	-Clark MacGregor

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 12:28 pm.

Conversation No. 677-7

Date:  March 6, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:30 am and 12:28 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person.

Unknown person’s schedule

Conversation No. 677-8

Date:  March 6, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 10:30 am and 12:28 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person.

Unknown man’s schedule

Conversation No. 677-9

Date:  March 6, 1972
Time:  12:28 pm - 12:31 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Meeting with John D. Ehrlichman

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:31 pm.

Conversation No. 677-10

Date:  March 6, 1972
Time:  12:31 pm - 1:28 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman and Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President’s schedule

Butterfield left at 12:31 pm.

Education
-Blacks
	-Ehrlichman’s view
-Paper presented by an unknown person
-Constitutional amendment
-Press
-Congress
-Hugh Scott
-The President’s forthcoming meeting with the Cabinet Committee on Education
	-Final paper
		-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
		-Justice Department
		-Office of Legal Counsel
		-Civil Rights Division
-White House role

Speech on busing
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
	-Amendments
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Haldeman’s view
-First draft
	-Price
	-“Soft” moratorium
-Editing
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Constitutional amendment
-Blacks
-The President’s forthcoming meeting with George W. Romney
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Projecting press headlines
-Moratorium
-Constitutional amendment
-Price’s draft

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

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

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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

Buchanan
-The President’s view
-Buchanan’s efforts
-Supreme Court problems
-Day care centers
-Cambodia
-Anti-ballistic missiles [ABM]
-Staff conservatives
-Leonard Garment
	-Public relations efforts
-Possible resignation
	-Ehrlichmans’s view
		-Trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
	-Talk with Haldeman
-Buchanan’s support for the President’s position
	-As staff member
	-As private citizen
	-Role in campaign
	-Role in White House
-Buchanan’s view of the Shanghai Communiqué
	-Henry A. Kissinger
	-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
	-William P. Rogers
-The President’s re-election
-Shanghai Communiqué
	-Haldeman’s view
-Journalism
-Role as policy maker
	-Shelly A. (Scarney) Buchanan
	-1972 election
		-The President’s trip to the PRC
-Buchanan’s criticism of the wording of the Communiqué
-Japan
-PRC compared to China
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-US treaty commitments
-Japan
-Taiwan
-PRC treaty commitments
	-North Vietnam
-Rogers
-Buchanan in foreign policy field
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-Soviet Union
-Talk with Haig
	-Soviet Union
-The President’s view
	-Triangular diplomacy
	-Kissinger
	-Taiwan
	-Japan
	-India
	-Philippines
	-Thailand
	-Cambodia
-Work with conservatives
	-House Resolution [HR] 1
	-Day care
	-Liberals
	-John N. Ashbrook candidacy
	-News summary

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

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  2m 58s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

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

Press conference
-Ehrlichman
-PRC
-Busing
-Camp David
			-The President’s forthcoming meeting with the Cabinet Committee on Education

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-John N. Mitchell’s statement
	-President’s statement
		-Peter M. Flanigan
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Talk with Ehrlichman
-Dita D. Beard’s doctor
-Jack N. Anderson
-Beard
-Knowledge of memorandum contents
-Conversation with Mitchell
-Meeting at Louie B. Nunn’s house
-Beard’s social life
-Doctor’s testimony
-Mitchell’s statement
-Possible public statement
	-President
-Investigation
-The President’s relationship with Mitchell
-Kleindienst’s nomination
-Settlement procedure
-Flanigan and Kleindienst
-Harold S. Geneen
-Canteen Corporation
-Geneen meeting with Ehrlichman
-Justice Department negotiations
-Talk with Mitchell
-Mitchell’s talk with Richard W. McLaren
-Mitchell’s self-disqualification
-Kleindienst role
-Flanigan role
-Hiring of economic consultant
-Job description
-Determination of consultant
-San Diego contribution
-Republican party
-Financial status
-Anti-trust
-Ehrlichman’s memorandum to Mitchell
-Prosecution’s actions
-McLaren’s actions
-Anderson
-View of situation
-Quid pro quo

Elmer H. Bobst
-Cancer information
-Appointment as special consultant to the President’s Cancer Panel
-[Forename unkown] Baker

White House staff
	-Buchanan
	-Political extremists

ITT case
-Knowledge of situation
-Charles W. Colson
-Flanigan
-William L. Safire
-Contributions
-Richard A. Moore
-Justice Department
-Kleindienst
-Anderson papers
-Book

Book published
-PRC trip
-Ehrlichman’s view of book
-Timing of publication

	Housing policy
		-Edward L. Morgan
		-The President’s forthcoming meeting with George W. Romney

	White House news summaries
		-Emphasis on negative stories
			-The President’s view
				-Kissinger

Ashbrook
	-California

William F. Buckley, Jr.
-US Information Agency [USIA] advisory committee
-PRC trip

James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.
-William S. White
-Lunch with Ehrlichman

Busing
-Blue ribbon committee
-Blacks
-Liberals
-Scott and Michael J. Mansfield

	Construction project
		-Memorandum

	Haldeman’s recent talk with Buchanan

Haldeman and Ehrlichman left at 1:28 pm.

Conversation No. 677-11

Date:  March 6, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:28 pm and 1:38 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man.

[Unintelligible]

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 1:38 pm.

Conversation No. 677-12

Date:  March 6, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:28 pm and 1:38 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with [James C.H. Shen]

-Time
-Taiwan, Republic of China 
-Henry A. Kissinger

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 1:38 pm.

Conversation No. 677-13

Date:  March 6, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:28 pm and 1:38 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Memorandum for Kissinger
-Modifications
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
	-Time
-William P. Rogers
-Committee appearance
-Press conference

[James C.H. Shen]
-Meeting
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Shen
-Memorandum of conversation
-Meeting
-Time
-The President’s forthcoming meeting with George W. Romney
-Press
-Private meeting

Conversation No. 677-14

Date:  March 6, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:28 pm and 1:38 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Work

Poll

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 1;38 pm.

Conversation No. 677-15

Date:  March 6, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:28 pm and 1:38 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

The President’s schedule

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:38 pm.

Conversation No. 677-16

Date:  March 6, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:28 pm and 1:38 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a memorandum to the Secretary of State et al.

	The People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Domestic and foreign reactions
	-Concern
	-Approval

-Need for leadership
-Relationship with PRC
	-Public statements
-Bureaucracy
-White House
-State Department
-Defense Department
-Comments on substantive talks
-Communiqué
-The President’s remarks at Andrews Air Force Base, February 28, 1972
			-Administration position
-Directions to typist

Conversation No. 677-17

Date:  March 6, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:28 pm and 1:38 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.

Draft memorandum
	-The President’s remarks at Andrews Air Force Base, February 28, 1972
-William P. Rogers
	-Testimony
-Kissinger’s previous backgrounder
	-Shanghai

Conversation No. 677-18

Date:  March 6, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:28 pm and 1:38 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a memorandum to the Secretary of State, et al.

	The People’s Republic of China [PRC trip
		-Public statements
	-The President’s remarks at Andrews Air Force Base, February 28, 1972
	-Directions for comments

Conversation No. 677-19

Date:  March 6, 1972
Time:  1:38 pm - 1:40 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

	Greetings

Memorandum
-Directions to Woods

The President’s schedule
-Florida trip
	-Weather during trip
	-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Delivery of an item
	-Gifts

Placement of an item

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

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  41s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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

Woods left at 1:40 pm.

Conversation No. 677-20

Date:  March 6, 1972
Time:  1:40 pm - 2:13 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Patrick J. Buchanan
-William F. Buckley, Jr.
-The President’s view
	-Reading of history
-Meeting with Haldeman
-Possible resignation

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-John N. Mitchell
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Campaign

1972 Campaign and the People’s Republic of China
-Polls
-Interviews
-Number
-Time
-Approval percentages
-George H. Gallup
-Percentages
-Louis P. Harris
-Percentages
-Questions
-Vietnam
	-Percentages

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

BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  1m 56s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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

-The PRC trip
-Overall reaction
	-Percentages
-Accomplishments
-Percentages
-Prospects for peace
	-Percentages
		-Compared to July 1971
-The President’s conduct
-Percentages
-The President’s leadership
-Percentages
	-Compared to July 1971
					-Importance of PRC compared to importance of Taiwan, Republic of China
-Percentages
	-Compared to July 1971
-Vietnam War negotiations
-Percentages
	-Compared to July 1971
-Negotiations with the PRC
-Percentages
	-Compared to July 1971
-The President
-J. William Fulbright
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Edmund S. Muskie
-William P. Rogers
-Results
-Reactions to positive and negative statements
	-Percentages
		-Republican primary

Rose Mary Woods entered at 1:54 pm.

Memorandum
-Page two
-Corrections
-Changes in wording
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Kissinger

Woods left at 2:01 pm.

The PRC trip
-Polls
-Questions
-Allegation of “sellout”
-Percentages
-Relations with the PRC
-Percentages
-Allies
	-Japan
	-South Korea
-Percentages
-US and the PRC
-Leadership compared
-Percentages
-Peace
-Percentages
-Allies’ confidence in the US
	-Percentages
-Publicity for 1972 election
-Percentages
	-Democrats
-Vietnam negotiations
-Percentages
-Secret agreements
-Percentages
-Wording of questions
-Concessions
-Percentages
-Trade increase
-Percentages
-Haldeman’s view
-Peter Lisagor
-Harris and Gallup polls compared to White House polls
	-Timing of polls
	-Telephone polls
	-Personal interviews
	-Percentages
	-Timing
	-January 1971
		-Laos
	-State of the Union
-Lisagor
-Hugh S. Sidey
-Baltimore Sun
-James J. Kilpatrick. Jr.
-Buchanan
-Charles W. Colson
-Percentages
-Effects of PRC trip
	-Questions
	-Vietnam
-Lisagor, Charles Corddry, Baltimore Sun
-Television
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union

Buchanan
-Rhetoric
-The President’s view
-Desired role as consultant
	-Kissinger
	-John A. Scali
-Scali
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Scali
-Rogers [?]
-Washington press
-Taiwan
-Martin Z. Agronsky
-Editorials
	-Conservative press
-Scali
-Influence

Haldeman left at 2:13 pm.