Conversation No. 678-1

Date:  March 6, 1972
Time:  3:00 pm - 3:58 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with George W. Romney.

Greetings

	Florida
		-Romney’s previous trip
			-Engineers
		-Morale
		-Presidents previous trip
			-Weather

The People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Time zones

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:00 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:58 pm.

Revenue sharing
-Senate
-Urban needs
-Housing
	-House vote
-John J. Sparkman
-The Presidents view
	-Compared to Allen J. Ellender

League of Cities and Conference of Mayors
-Meeting with Romney
-Housing problems in central cities

-Compared with suburban housing problems
-The Articles of Confederation
-Metropolitan areas
	-Independence of suburban communities
-Sam Massell
	-Theme for next meeting
	-The “Real City”
-Romney’s previous meeting in Philadelphia
-Conference of mayors
		-Material for the President
		-Romney’s appreciation for the President’s support

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:00pm.

	Departments within the Administration
		-Housing and Urban Development [HUD]
			-Romney
		-Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
			-Elliot L. Richardson
			-The President’s view
		-HUD
			-The President’s view
				-Great Society programs

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:58pm.

			-Romney’s view
			Cities, race and housing
				-Housing
			-Race issues
			-Schools
			-Busing issues
		-Housing
				-Social issue
				-Value of housing
			-Romney’s job
				-Goals
			-Comparison
				-Terms as Governor of Michigan
			-American Motors Corporation [AMC]

	The ‘Real City”

American political system
-Abraham Lincoln’s view
-Failure to resolve problems
-Resolution of problems through crisis
-Walter Lippman’s view
	-Elective process
-Winston Churchill
	Germany
-Lincoln
-“House divided” speech
-Emancipation Proclamation
-Henry C. Simon
-Quote
-Compared to Detroit school situation
-Romney’s undelivered speech of December 1968
-Quote by Lippman
-Political campaigns
	-Discussions of issues

Busing
-Possible constitutional amendment
-Detroit school system
-Citizen group
-Resolution of problem
-Agreements

	Resolutions of problems
-Citizens for Michigan
-Identify problems
-Constitutional reform
-Tax reform
-League of Women Voters
-Church
-Junior Chamber of Commerce
-Media
-Citizens for America
	-Romney’s decision to run for re-election in Michigan
	-Constitutional convention
	-Tax reform
-Question of importance
-Romney’s talk with the President in New York
-1960
-Steel settlement
-Citizens for Michigan
-Governorship

Fundamental issues in US
-Lack of confidence in government
-Revenue sharing
-State governments
-Local governments
-Race
-Suburban areas
-Fears
-The “Real City” approach
-Crimes
-Drugs
-Venereal disease
-Blight
-Abuse of excessive private power
-Competition
-Strengthen market values
-Restraint of trade principle
-Sherman Anti-Trust Act
-Prohibition
-Justice Department
-Labor and industry
	-Wage and price actions
-Economic court
-Paul W. McCracken
-Richard W. McLaren
-Reluctance of elected officials
-Confined contagious central cities situation
-Structure of suburban governments around central cities
-Militant minority citizens
-Example of Washington, DC
-Metropolitan areas of US
-Zoning ordinances, tax structure, and building code procedures
-Limitation
-Blacks and poor
-Central cities
	-Capital area
		-Prince George’s County, Maryland
-Detroit, St. Louis, Chicago, New York, etc.
-Critical masses of poor and minorities
		-Public housing projects
			-Romney’s use of a phrase
										-Churchill’s speech in Fulton, Missouri
			-“Iron Curtain”
-Unemployment
-Crimes
-Demands for quality
	-Timing
-Working with or destroying the present system
-Abuse of private power
-Cities
-Lack of confidence in government
-Revenue sharing

Romney’s accomplishments
-Auto industry
-Michigan
	-Labor
		-Walter P. Reuther
		-Voluntary cooperation
		-Results
-AMC
	-Compact car concept
-Michigan
-Romney’s views 
-Citizens for America
-John W. Gardner
-Performance
	-Failure to identify key issues
		-Contributions
-Republicans
-New York
-Arthur Krock editorial
	-Washington Post
	-Unions
	-Unions
-Busing and race issues
-Feasibility
-The President’s reelection
-Issues
-Second term
	-Romney’s view
		-Need for public understanding and support
	-Michigan
	-Romney’s election
	-Income tax reform

Congress
-Acceptability of issues
-Polls
-Media
-Reflection of American public views
-Labor
-Robert A. Taft, Sr.-Fred A. Hartley, Jr. Act of 1946
-The President’s experience as a Congressman
	-Hartley
-Taft
-Harry S. Truman’s possible veto
-Transportation bill
-Responsiveness
	-Public opinion
	-Attitude of American citizens

Citizens for America
-Need for leadership
-Financial backing
-Gardner’s efforts
-Ford Foundation
-Rockefeller Foundation
-Carnegie Foundation
-Liberals
-Urban Coalition
-Gardner
-Vietnam
-Public support
-Understanding of race
-The “New City”
-Feasibility
-Finances
-Citizens for Michigan
	-Henry E. Ford, II
-Staff
-Travel expenses
-Timing
-Election year
	-Fundraising
-Results
-Economic aspects
-Competition
-Soviet Union
-Politics
-PRC
-The President’s view
-Competition between the US and PRC
-Soviet Union
-US-Soviet trade agreement
-Grain sales
-Society
-Leaders
-Fears
-Business power
-Labor power
-Cities
-Timing
	-1972 election
-Support from the President
-Democrats
-Republican platform
	-The “Real City”
-Plan
-Finance
-Gardner’s list
-Labor
	-Reuther
	-Leonard Woodcock
		-Citizens for Michigan
-Urban Coalition
-Common Cause
-Individual support
	-Idealists
-Timing
-New administration
-Women representation
-Race representation
-Youth representation
-Control
-Staff
-Quality
-Voluntarism
-Gardner
	-Campaign contributions
		-Congress
	-Common Cause
-Participation of many groups
-Leadership
-Preparation
	-Need for strong administrator
-Romney
-Duties at HUD compared to possible duties
-Cabinet members
-The President’s view
-Organization
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Gardner
-Common Cause
-Michigan
-Previous talk with Romney
	-Citizens for Michigan
	-Need for key issues
-Election
-Romney’s undelivered speech

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Unknown man
-Unknown woman
	-Chicago

Romney left at 3:58 pm.

Conversation No. 678-2

Date:  March 6, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:58 pm and 4:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President’s schedule
-Rose Mary Woods
-Signing papers
-Letter

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 4:00 pm.

Conversation No. 678-3

Date:  March 6, 1972
Time:  4:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 21-1]

Conversation No. 678-4

Date:  March 6, 1972
Time:  4:00 pm - 5:04 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-John N. Mitchell’s statement
-John E. Ehrlichman’s forthcoming meeting with Mitchell

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:00 pm and 4:11 pm.

[Conversation No. 678-4A]

The President’s schedule
	-George W. Romney’s schedule
	-Ehrlichman’s schedule
		-Mitchell

[End of telephone conversation]

ITT case

-Wallace H. Johnson
	-Mitchell
-Charles W. Colson
-Mitchell
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Johnson
	-Coordinator
	-Strategy
-Ehrlichman
-Johnson
	-Colson
	-William H. Rehnquist
-Richard A. Moore
-William L. Safire
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-Colson
-Mitchell statement
	-Testimony
-Jack N. Anderson
-Kleindienst
-Dita D. Beard memorandum
-Doctor
-Drew Pearson meeting
-Party
-Mitchell
-Louie B. Nunn
-Jack Gleason
-William E. Timmons and Harry S. Dent
-San Diego

Rose Mary Woods entered at 4:11 pm.

ITT case
-Beard
-1969
-Republican dinner
-Nunn
-John C. Whitaker
	-New York
	-Ted Rodgers’s secretary
	-Doctor
	-Memorandum
		-Mitchell
		-Johnson
		-Circumstances
		-Nunn
		-Mitchell
-Lee R. Nunn
-James E. Bassett
-White House
-Mitchell
-Kleindienst
-Colson
-William R. Merriam
	-Role
-Beard

Woods left at 4:12 pm.

The President talked with Mrs. Jayne Brumley between 4:12 pm and 4:13 pm.

[Conversation No. 678-4B]

[See Conversation No. 21-2]

[End of telephone conversation]

ITT case
-Beard
	-Woods
-Rodgers
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Mitchell’s statement
	-Johnson
-The President’s schedule
-Mitchell’s testimony
-Mitchell’s statement
-Doctor
-Kleindienst
-Nomination
	-Withdrawal
-Johnson
-Ehrlichman

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 4:13 pm.

-Johnson
-Mitchell

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 4:26 pm.

-Public relations
	-Problems
		-Contribution
			-Circumstances
		-Confirmation
	-Flanigan
		-Involvement
	-Kleindienst

1972 campaign
-Polls
-White House
-Undecided
	-Approval
	-Disapproval
-The People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-The President’s view
	-Confidence in government
-Approval
	-Peace speech, 1970
		-George H. Gallup
			-January 1971
				-Laos

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:13 pm.

Request for Ronald L. Ziegler to come to the Oval Office

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:26 pm.

Polls
-Gallup

Patrick J. Buchanan

	John B. Connally
		-Meeting with the President
	-Testimony
	-Herbert Stein
	-George P. Shultz
-PRC trip briefing
	-Haldeman
	-Ehrlichman
-Meeting with Henry A. Kissinger
-Ehrlichman
-Treasury Department

Ziegler entered at 4:26 pm.

Press briefings
-Gerald L. Warren
	-Morning announcements
-Ziegler’s forthcoming afternoon briefings
-Schedule
-Timing
	-Wire service story
-Neil H. McElroy
-Media
	-Sans Souci
-The President’s forthcoming press conference
	-Radio
-ITT
-Mitchell’s statement
-Questions
-The President’s forthcoming press conference
-The PRC trip
-Busing
	-Florida primary
-Moratorium
	-United Press International [UPI] story
	-Constitutional amendment
-Leaks
-Ehrlichman
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Justice Department
-Questions
-Blacks
	-Florida primary	
		-Ehrlichman
	-George C. Wallace
	-Busing announcement
	-Influence
	-Timing
		-Television
		-Newspapers
	-Camp David

Kissinger entered at 4:35 pm.

	James C.H. Shen

Busing announcement
-Timing
-Florida primary

Haldeman and Ziegler left at 4:36 pm.

PRC
-Message to the President
-Delivery by ambassador

North Vietnam
-Message to the US
-Linkage of Taiwan, Republic of China to Vietnam
	-State Department
	-Hugh Scott statement
	-Kissinger’s view

	PRC
		-Vietnam
-The President’s message
-Paris contacts
-Schedule of messages to PRC and North Vietnam
-Shen
-Linkage of Taiwan to Vietnam
	-State Department
	-Scott’s statement
	-Peace talks
	-Possible PRC message
	-Public statement
	-Message
	-William P. Rogers
		-Forthcoming press conference

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Shen
-Photographs

Shen entered at 4:44 pm.

	Greetings

Shen’s schedule
-The President’s possible message to Chiang Kai-shek
	-Taiwan
		-Chou En-lai

Taiwan
-Chiang Kai-shek
-Meeting with Marshall Green
	-Kissinger
-Kissinger’s meeting with Shen
-Shen’s meeting with Chiang Kai-shek
-The President’s view
	-Kissinger’s talks with PRC officials
-Green
	-Rogers’s talk with PRC officials
-Kissinger
	-The President’s talks with PRC officials
		-Chou En-lai
-Allegations of secret deals
-Chou En-lai
	-Renunciation of force
-Shanghai Communiqué
-Kissinger’s backgrounder in Shanghai
-Chiang Kai-shek
-Chou En-lai
-Shanghai Communiqué
-Desire for peaceful settlement
	-Timing
-US commitment to Taiwan
-Kissinger’s view
				-Message to the Congress transmitting third annual report on US foreign policy, February 9, 1972 [World Report]
	-Democrats in the US
	-Vietnam comparison
-Quemoy and Matsu
		-Mao Tse-tung
		-Chou En-lai
			-The President’s view
		-Isolationism in the US
-Vietnam
-Japan
-Philippines
-Thailand
-Korea
-Taiwan
	-Statement by Taiwanese Foreign minister
	-US role in a possible PRC-Taiwan settlement
		-Comparison to Israeli-Arab situation
-Shanghai Communiqué
-Unilateral declarations
	-Taiwan
	-Korea
	-Japan
	-South Vietnam
-Taiwan
-Wording
-“Province” compared to “part”
-The President’s message to Chiang Kai-shek
-(Madame) Chiang Mayling Soong
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-PRC-Taiwan settlement
-Vietnam
-Peace and friendship

Shen’s schedule
	-Hawaii
	-Forthcoming meeting with Kissinger
		-The President’s schedule

The President’s regards
	-Taiwanese defense minister

Kissinger and Shen left at 5:04 pm.

Conversation No. 678-5

Date:  March 6, 1972
Time:  5:05 pm - 5:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Signing documents

Reunions
	-World War II
		-SEAT and Quonset
			-New York
				-Paul Williams
			-Captain Peter Boyle
			-Ottumwa
	-Duke Law School
-Carl Fleps

Butterfield left at 5:10 pm.

Conversation No. 678-6

Date:  March 6, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:10 pm and 5:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

Request for Ehrlichman to come to the Oval Office

Conversation No. 678-7

Date:  March 6, 1972
Time:  5:15 pm - 6:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming breakfast with George Meany
-George P.Shultz and Henry A. Kissinger
-Forthcoming breakfast with leaders and Speaker of the House [Carl B. Albert]
-Clark MacGregor
-William E. Timmons
-Meeting with George W. Romney
-The President’s recent rip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Citizens for Michigan
-Great causes
-Cities
-Racial division
-Concentration of power

-Lack of confidence in government
-Common Cause
	-John W. Gardner

John D. Ehrlichman entered at 5:20 pm.

-1972 election
-Undelivered speech
-William C. Simon quote
-The Real City
-Citizens for America
-The President’s recommendations
	-Financial support
	-Staffing
		-Kissinger
-Romney 
-Staff at Housing and Urban Development [HUD]
	-Ehrlichman’s view
-Compared to John W. Gardner

John N. Mitchell
-New law office
-Meeting with Ehrlichman
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Mitchell’s statement
-Testimony
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Confirmation
-Dita D. Beard
	-Rose Mary Woods
	-James E. Bassett
		-Ted Rodgers’s secretary
			-1960 campaign
-Washington lobbyist
-Robert C. Mardian
-Wallace H. Johnson
-San Diego
	-Convention
-Robert H. Finch and Herbert G. Klein
-Other sites
-Robert C. Wilson
	-Testimony
-Finch
-Chicago
	-Robert J. Dole
-Finch
	-Contribution
-Wilson
-Miami and Chicago
-Dole
-Chicago
	-Mitchell
-Finch
-James O. Eastland
-Hearings
	-Edward M. Kennedy, Philip A. Hart, Birch E. Bayh, Jr.
-Kleindienst
	-Hearings
-The President’s statement
	-Peter M. Flanigan
		-Testimony
			-Justice Department
				-Executive privilege
	-Patrick J. Buchanan

Busing
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Leaks
-Announcement
	-Timing
	-Statement
	-Florida primary
	-George C. Wallace
-Moratorium
-Press briefing
-Leaks
-Wire story
	-United Press International [UPI]
-Justice Department
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Edward L. Morgan
	-Justice Department
		-Civil Rights Division

Government employees
-Staff changes
	-Schedule C employees
	-Civil service
-Bryce N. Harlow
	-Public information personnel
	-Lawyers
	-Congressional liaison personnel
	-Lawyers
		-The President’s view
		-Mitchell
		-Morgan
	-Hiring and firing
	-Schedule C employees
	-Resignations
	-Timing
	-Election
-Buchanan

Busing
-Moratorium
-Leak
	-Reported on radio
		-The President’s view
			-Tricia Nixon Cox
			-News summary
			-Lyndon B. Johnson

Presidential Libraries
-Lyndon Johnson Presidential Library and Museum
-Model of the Oval Office
-Ehrlichman’s view
	-Scale
-The President’s visit to the library, May 1971
	-Popularity of cabinet
	Nixon Library
	-“China Room”
	-“Soviet Room”
	-“China Room”
	-Personal papers
	-Lyndon Johnson Library
		-Ehrlichman’s view
			-Editorial cartoons
			-Campaign material
		-Daughters weddings
		-Foreign affairs exhibits
		-Vietnam
		-Glassboro Summit
			-Ehrlichman’s tour
		-Education exhibit
		-Size
			-The President’s view
		-Harry Middleton
		-Motion picture exhibit
	-Site location
		-Pendleton, California
		-Congressional role
	-“China Room”
	-Gift from Chou En-lai
		-History of China
			-State Department
			-Placement of second set
				-Harvard University
				-University of California, Berkeley
				-Nixon Library
	-Presidential documents
-Whittier College
	-Endowed chair
	-School of Asian studies
-Lyndon Johnson Library as a model
-Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
-School of International Affairs
-Johnson School of Public Affairs
	-John A. Gronouski
		-Winton M. (“Red”) Blount
	-Luncheon
						-Gronouski, Walter W. Rostow, Tom Johnson, Middleton, and Betty Tilson [?]

Lyndon Johnson
-The President’s view
	-The President’s talk with Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
		-Plans
-Democratic candidates
-Republican candidates
-Former Presidents
	-Law practices
	-Boards
		-Boys Club of America
		-Young Men’s Christian Association [YMCA]
-Mexico
	-Ranch
	-Acapulco
-Use of planes
-James D. (“Don”) Hughes
-Travel on government planes
	-Florida
		-Jetstar
	-Secret Service
	-The President’s future travel as a former President
		-The President’s view

Former vice presidents
-The President’s view
	-Car
	-Secret Service protection
	-Pension
	-Staff
-The President as Vice President
-Republican National Committee
	-Funding for correspondence staff
		-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-The President’s (as former Vice President) staff budget
	-John Clifford Folger
	-1962 election

William P. Rogers
-Finances

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Former vice presidents
-Government support
	-Transition funding
	-Secret Service protection
	-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Former Vice Presidents compared to former Presidents
	-Politics

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	Presidential debates
-Legislation
	-The President’s possible veto
	-John O. Pastore’s Bill
-Lyndon Johnson and Barry M. Goldwater
-John F. Kennedy
	-Robert F. Kennedy
-Klein
	-Newspapers
		-Associated Press [AP]
		-United Press International [UPI]
		-The President’s previous speeches

1972 campaign
-Ziegler
-White House Press Office

ITT case
-Mitchell testimony
-Wallace Johnson
-Kleindienst confirmation
-Beard testimony
-Memorandum
	-Harlow
-Flanigan
-Henry E. Petersen

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Forest Hills Housing Project
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming meeting with Nelson A. Rockefeller
	-Department of Labor
-Jewish vote
-James L. Buckley
-Possible administration actions
	-Rockefeller
	-John V. Lindsay
	-Florida primary

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	The President’s forthcoming press conference
		-Reporting of campaign contributions
-Maurice H. Stans
-Reporting forms
-Elmer Staats
-Record keeping
-Stans
-Mitchell
-Response to political questions

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Press
-News summaries
-Briefing books
-Buchanan
-The President’s response to political questions
	-Hugh S. Sidey
-The President’s previous press conference
	-Legal aid question
	-Press corps reaction
-Answering questions
	-Office press conferences
	-Televised press conference
	-Refusal to comment
		-Harry Truman and Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Ziegler
-Jack N. Anderson
-[F. Donald Nixon]
-Gossip columns
	-Anderson
-Relationship with the President
-Sidey’s previous talk with Kissinger
-Compared to Lyndon Johnson’s relationship with the press
-Ehrlichman’s meeting with Rowland Evans
-Evans’s book
-Evans and Robert D. Novak newsletter

	Books

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:20 pm.

Meeting with Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 6:32 pm.

Books
-Jeffrey Hart
-James Keogh
-Victor Lasky
-William L. Safire
-Keogh
-Herbert E. Kaplow
-Robert Pierpoint
-Sales
-Bantam book on China
-Initial number printed
-Haldeman’s view

Kissinger entered at 6:32 pm.

Mitchell
	-Wallace Johnson

Ehrlichman’s schedule
-Busing announcement
-Timing
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming talk with Ziegler

Haldeman and Ehrlichman left at 6:33 pm.

Vietnam negotiations
-North Vietnamese postponement of meeting
-Chinese
-North Vietnamese
-Kissinger’s talk with Winston Lord
	-Linkage of Vietnam to Taiwan
	-Hugh Scott
-State Department
-Charles W. Bray, III
	-Troop withdrawal announcement
		-Kissinger’s backgrounder in Shanghai
-Leadership meeting
-US forces in Taiwan
-Scott

Haldeman entered at 6:38 pm.

Stock market
-Dow Jones
-Strength
	-Compared to April 1971
-Blind trusts

Haldeman left at 6:45 pm.

Vietnam negotiations
-Meeting with North Vietnamese
-Forthcoming US-Soviet Summit
-Chinese
-Cancellation
-Reason
-Alleged aerial action
-Pentagon
-Chinese allegations of aerial activity
-Chinese
-Shanghai Communiqué
-Link to Vietnam
-Scott’s statement
-State Department
-Kissinger’s talk with Rogers
-Timing
	-Kissinger’s view
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Michael J. Mansfield
-University of Montana
-Forthcoming US-Soviet Summit
-Le Duc Tho
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Possible Chinese influence on North Vietnamese
	-Chinese criticism of US policy in Vietnam
-Possible message from the Chinese
-Rogers
-Taiwan
-Vietnam
	-Statements
	-Kissinger’s previous backgrounder
		-Possible settlement on Vietnam
			-Paris
	-Taiwan
-Kissinger’s talk with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
	-Statement of support for North Vietnam
-Timing of North Vietnamese request for meeting
-The President’s trip
-Kissinger’s view
-Jonathan T. Howe
-PRC Ambassador

Buchanan
-Decision not to resign
-Taiwan
-Toast
-Chou En-lai
-Mao Tse-tung
-Shows
-Chinese ballet
-Spartacus
-Soviets

Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-Kissinger’s speech before the VFW Board of Directors
-The President’s forthcoming appearance
	-Award
-Thomas E. (“Doc”) Morgan

PRC
-Soviet Union
-Forthcoming US-Soviet Summit
-North Vietnamese position
-Korea
-Japan
-Buchanan’s criticism
	-Haldeman
	-Material
	-Toasts
	-Shanghai Communiqué
	-Wording
	-Buchanan’s talk with Kissinger
	-Japan
-Use of “People’s Republic of China” compared to use of “China”
-Japan
	-Buchanan
		-The President’s view
		-Rogers
		-Defense treaty
			-Taiwan
-Buchanan
	-The President’s view
	-Right Wing
		-Cambodia
		-Anti-ballistic missile [ABM]
-Memorandum for Rogers
-Rogers’s press conference
-Kissinger’s view
-The President’s view
-State Department
-Shanghai Communiqué
-Kissinger’s backgrounder
-Response to PRC message
	-Congress
		-[Scott]
-Kissinger’s talk with Haldeman
-Haig’s talk with Kissinger
-Taiwan
-Defense treaty
-World publicity
-Soviets
-Linkage of Taiwan to Vietnam
-Scott’s statement
-State Department
-Scott’s Statement

	Cambodia
-Marshall Green
-Separate peace deal
-William H. Sullivan
-State Department
-Norodom Sihanouk
-Memorandum
-Instruction

	Chinese message to the US
-Vietnam

The President and Kissinger left at 6:59 pm.

Conversation No. 678-8

Date:  Unknown between March 6, 1972 and March 7, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:59 pm, March 6 and 7:54 am, March 7
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men [Secret Service agents] met.

George [Surname unknown]

The President’s location

Unknown object

Schedule

Request for a call

The unknown men left at an unknown time before 7:54 am, March 7, 1972.