Conversation No. 681-1

Date:  March 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:00 am and 9:28 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Henry A. Kissinger’s schedule

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 9:28 am.

Conversation No. 681-2

Date:  March 9, 1972
Time:  9:28 am - 12:50 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. Haldeman.

	Haldeman’s schedule
		-Door

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] investigation
		-Clark MacGregor
			-Roman L. Hruska
		-Hearings
		-Meeting with leadership committee
			-Peter M. Flanigan and Henry A. Kissinger
		-Jack N. Anderson’s prepared statement
-Copy needed
-Hruska
-Contributions to campaign
-Advertising
-John W. Byrnes
-Richard W. McLaren
-Television appearance
-Haldeman
-Compared to Griswold v. Connecticut Supreme Court case
	-Public opinion
-Lobbyists
	-Problems
-John N. Mitchell
-Dita D. Beard memorandum
-John B. Connally
-Hilton
-Federal Communications Commission [FCC] investigation
-Congressional knowledge
-Hruska
-Edward M. Kennedy
-General Motors [GM]
-Pennsylvania Central Transportation Company
-Maurice H. Stans, the President, Mitchell, David M. Kennedy
-Arthur F. Burns
-Hearings
	-Democrats

News stories
	-Aircraft bombing
	-New Hampshire primary
	-Aircraft bombing
		-Possibility of additional bombs
	-Checking passengers
	-Deputies
	-Placement of bomb
	-Los Angeles
	-Lack of injuries
-New Hampshire primary

ITT case
-Anderson
-Leaks to press
-Amount of information
		-Story in Washington Post
			-Contribution
				-Haldeman
		-Public relations efforts
			-Strategy
	-Charles W. Colson
	-Robert J. Dole
-Hotels
	-Contributions
-Link with ITT
	-Strategy
		-Corporate contributions
-Court decision
	-Contribution

Tricia Nixon Cox
-Schedule
-Young Republicans
-National Portrait Gallery
-Dinner
	-Read statement from the President

Dinner
	-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Speech
		-MacGregor
			-Politics
				-The President’s position
					-New Hampshire

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	Editorials

	Guns
		-William Loeb on the Today show
			-Connally
				-Texas
			-Los Angeles

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			-Watts riot

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	Guns
		-Haldeman’s view
		-The President’s experience
		-Haldeman’s experience

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ITT case
-Press conference
	-Schedule
-Testimony
	-Mitchell
-Administration side
-Mitchell
-Health
	-Dr. W. Kenneth Riland
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-Possible vacation
	-Timing
		-Hearings
	-Florida
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo

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The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:28 am and 9:59 am.

[Conversation No. 681-2A]

[See Conversation No. 21-26]

[End of telephone conversation]

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The President talked with Richard (“Red”) Skelton between 9:59 am and 10:00 a.m.

[Conversation No. 681-2B]

[See Conversation No. 21-27]

[End of telephone conversation]

Skelton
-1968

Washington Post story
	-Poll

Cabinet Room
-Heat
-Fireplace
-Portable heaters

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An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 10:00 am.

Rose Mary Woods
	-Schedule
		-Forthcoming meeting with the President

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 10:09 am.

Woods
-Work habits
-White House staff
-Speeches
-Drafts

The President’s schedule
-Gridiron dinner
	-Agnew
-California
-Republicans
-Agnew
-The President
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Mitchell
-Henry A. Kissinger

Kissinger entered at 10:09 am.

Kissinger’s schedule
-California
-Roast

News summary
-The People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Hugh S. Sidey
-Time-Life
-Stewart J.O. Alsop
-John F. Osborne
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Joseph W. Alsop
-Composition of news summary
	-Right-wing
	-Sidey, Stewart Alsop, Life, Osborne
	-Balance of stories
-Stewart Alsop
-Kissinger
-State Department
-Television
	-Spectrum [?]
-Rogers
-Mao Tse-tung
-Alsop’s talk with Kissinger
-State Department
-Life
	-Shanghai Communique
-Sidey
-Thomas Griffith
-Balance
	-Impact on White House staff
	-Woods
		-Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin
			-William F. Buckley, Jr.
-United Press International [UPI] wire
	-New York Times
-Stewart Alsop
-Balance

Kissinger’s schedule
-Previous meeting with Melvin R. Laird
-Public opinion
-The President
-Second term
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Cooperation
	-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer

US – Soviet Union relations
	-SALT
	-James L. Buckley and John G. Tower
-Submarines
-Land based missiles
-Agreements
	-Submarines
	-Land based missiles
-Rogers
-Development of submarines
	-Undersea Long-range Missile Systems [ULMS]
	-Congress
-Communique
	-PRC trip
		-Compared to forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Gerard C. Smith

Rogers
-Stewart Alsop
-Possible change of Secretary of State
	-Connally
-Mitchell
-The President’s view
	-Administration opponents
	-Elliot L. Richardson
	-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Kissinger’s view
	-Rush
		-Press stories
		-State Department relations with the White House
			-The President’s view
				-Cabinet relations
					-British parliamentary system
			-Kissinger’s view
-Democratic convention
-Soviet summit
-Rogers

	Forthcoming US-Soviet Union summit
		-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
			-The President’s presence
				-Kissinger
				-Rogers
		-Rogers’s forthcoming meeting with Dobrynin
		-The President’s role
		-Rogers
			-The President’s previous meeting with Rogers
				-Rogers’s role during summit
					-Trade and grain discussions
					-Cabinet members’ desire to participate in summit
					-Earl L. Butz’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
					-Trade and grain discussions
-Peter G. Peterson
-Middle East
		-The President’s role
			-SALT
			-Middle East
				-European Security Conference
		-Middle East
			-Rogers
		-European Security Conference
			-Rogers’s submission of paper
			-Rogers’s possible talks with Andrei A. Gromyko
		-State Department
		-SALT
			-Rogers
				-JCS
				-Laird
				-The President’s view
					-Soviet goals
					-Southeast Asia
					-PRC
						-Gromyko
					-South Asia
		-Rogers
			-Grain
			-Environment
			-Space
			-Science cooperation
			-European Security Conference
			-Dobrynin
				-Location
					-Rogers

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SOVIET UNION

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			-Advance for summit
				-Ronald H. Walker

	Reelection of the President
		-Personal papers
		-New government
		-The President’s talk with Kissinger, March 8, 1972
		-Edward M. Kennedy
			-Chou En-lai
		-Edmund S. Muskie
		-Hubert H. Humphrey
			-Taiwan
			-Asia
			-Arms control
			-Chou En-lai
			-Soviets
			-India
		-The President’s view
			-Need for Soviet perspective
				-Rogers

	Foreign policy
		-Need to understand motives of opposition
			-Whittaker Chambers
				-Talk with the President at Pipe Creek Farm
			-Alger Hiss
			-Robert A. Taft, Sr.
				-Korea
					-The President’s view as a Congressman
					-The President’s talk with Chambers
						-Communists
							-Japan
							-Korea
							-Dean G. Acheson
	-Vietnam War
		-Strait of Malacca
			-National Security Council [NSC] meetings
				-Gen. George A. Lincoln
				-Agnew
					-Compared to Patrick J. Buchanan
				-Laird
				-Richard M. Helms
	-PRC
		-Rogers’s view
			-Andre Malraux
				-Trade
	-US presence in Asia
		-The President’s position
		-Rogers
		-The President’s meeting with Chou En-lai
		-Rogers
			-Kissinger’s view
	-SALT
	-Soviet goals
		-Rogers’s view
		-Negotiations
	-India-Pakistan situation
		-PRC
	-Cuban submarine base [Cienfuegos]

	State Department
-Foreign Service
-The President’s possible meeting with U. Alexis Johnson
-Appropriations
			-Advisory role
	-Jurisdiction question
-Harry S. Truman
	-The President’s view
	-Acheson
		-Bureaucracy
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Comments on using opponent’s perspective
		-NSC meetings
			-Robert (“Bobby”) Cutler
		-John Foster Dulles
			-The President’s previous defense
		-Advisors’ role
-Bureaucracy compared with the President
-Secretary of State
-Possible change
	-Bureaucracy
-Example of Attorney General
-Mitchell
	-Appointments
-Civil Rights Division
-Legal aid
				-Kissinger’s view
					-Josef V. Stalin
						-Purges
				-Timing
					-Election
					-Inauguration
				-Kissinger’s view
				-Eisenhower administration
		-Deputy Assistant Secretary Richard T. Davies
			-Testimony before the House
				-Greece
				-Yugoslavia
				-Romania
			-New Secretary of State
				-Chad
-Rogers
	-The President’s view
		-Press
		-The President
		-Herbert Block [Herblock] cartoons
	-Loyalty
	-Press
		-Steward Alsop
	-Washington Star article
	-John N. Irwin, II
-PRC trip
-Mao Tse-tung meeting with the President
	-Life
-Chou En-lai
	-Influence
-Kissinger’s view
	-Chinese television
-Newsweek
					-Visits by heads of state
						-Location of host head of state
-News summary
				-Unknown Chinese professor [Liu?]
					-Article in Newsweek
						-Pham Van Dong
						-Reception at airport
							-Red Guard
							-Politburo
				-Reception
					-Nicolae Ceausescu

	The PRC trip
		-News summary
			-Osborne article
		-Ronald L. Ziegler
			-William F. Buckley, Jr., Osborne, Sidey
				-Kissinger’s view
				-Forthcoming Soviet trip
		-Television coverage
			-Kissinger’s view
				-Haldeman
			-Specials
			-Chinese
			-The President’s image
			-Editorials
				-Newspapers
				-Life
					-Tone
					-Shanghai Communique
		-Public opinion of the President
			-Haldeman at Ford’s Theatre
				-Talk with Father Gilbert V. Hartke
					-Message from Giovanni Battista Motini [Pope Paul VI]
					-Catholic Church
					-Call to Woods
					-The PRC trip
						-Hartke’s view
			-Letters to Kissinger
			-John K. Fairbanks’s comments
				-Knowledge of the PRC
			-Buckley
				-Forthcoming Soviet trip
					-National Review
				-Communism
					-Peking against Moscow
-The PRC trip
			-Sidey

Foreign policy
-Rogers’s possible trips
-Poland
-Yugoslavia
-Romania
-Poland
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Soviets
-Poland
-The President’s meeting with Dobrynin
-Soviet summit
-Rogers
	-Communique
		-Drafting
			-Chou En-lai
-Trade
-Space
-Environment
-European Security Conference
-Trade
-The President’s memorandum
				-Position papers
-Trade
-The NSC system
-Meeting
	-Agnew
-The President
-Rogers’s negotiations
-Forthcoming paper from NSC working group
-Kissinger’s comparison paper
-The President’s approval
-Peterson
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Treasury Department
-State Department
-Middle East comparison to trade issue
-Trade
-Peterson and Flanigan
-Dobrynin
-State Department negotiations
-Flanigan
-Basic preparation
-The President’s view
-Rogers’s negotiations
				-NSC position papers
					-Middle East
	-SALT negotiations
	-European Security Conference
	-Middle East
-Dobrynin meeting
-Rogers compared with the President
		-Chinese
			-Mao Tse-tung conversation with the President
				-Kissinger’s view
					-The President
					-Mao Tse-tung
-The President’s reelection
					-Chinese compared to the Soviets
		-Soviet summit
			-Rogers
				-European Security Conference
-Middle East
	-Golda Meir
-SALT
-European Security Conference
-Rogers’s role compared with Kissinger’s role
-PRC
-Haldeman’s view
	-Gromyko, Aleksei N. Kosygin, Leonid I. Brezhnev
				-European Security Conference
				-Middle East
-SALT
-European Security Conference
-Dobrynin’s meeting with Rogers
-NSC
-Rogers’s reports
-Memoranda of conversation
					-SALT
					-Middle East
-Position of the US
-Rogers
	-Kissinger’s view
-Richardson
-Rogers’s possible position
	-Dulles and Eisenhower example
	-PRC trip
		-Rogers’s report to Congressional leaders
	-Dobrynin
	-Rogers’s work during the PRC trip
		-The PRC trip
			-State Department
				-Shanghai Communique
				-Washington Star article
			-Leaks
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Under Secretary
				-Washington Star
					-George Sherman’s article
						-Colson
						-Irwin
						-Bureaucracy
						-Joseph C. Kraft
						-Stanley Karnow
						-Washington Star
						-Sherman’s possible meeting with Kissinger
						-Washington Post
						-Kraft
						-Sherman
			-Columns
			-Marvin L. Kalb interview of Kissinger
				-Ziegler
				-The President’s view
				-Questions to expect
					-Shanghai Communique
					-State Department
				-Prime time coverage
				-Networks
					-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
					-Columbia Broadcasting System[CBS]
				-Subjects
				-News summary
				-Ziegler
				-Haldeman’s view
					-Positives
					-Negatives
						-Senate Foreign Relations Committee
							-J. William Fulbright
								-Call to Kissinger
									-Blair House
						-State Department
				-Shanghai Communique
				-The President’s meeting with Chou En-lai
				-The President’s image
				-Plans for trip
					-State Department
						-Warsaw
				-Prime time audience
					-Press conference comparison
				-Shanghai Communique
				-Questions
					-PRC, Soviet Union, US
					-Plans for trip
						-Herbert G. Klein
					-Ziegler
						-Timing of interview
				-Shanghai Communique
					-The President
					-Rogers
						-Kissinger’s view
				-Prime time
					-Reasons for interview
				-Kalb
					-The President’s view
					-Compared to Howard K. Smith
					-Compared to Dan Rather
					-Smith
				-Foreign policy
					-The President
				-Timing
				-Foreign policy discussion
					-PRC
					-Soviets
					-Kissinger’s story
						-JCS
					-Questions
						-Decisions
						-Preparations for meetings
				-Rogers
					-Leaders meeting
				-Kissinger’s comments
					-The President’s guidance
					-Dobrynin
					-Forthcoming Soviet trip
						-Memoranda
						-Preparations
				-The President’s view
					-Election
					-Ziegler
				-Questions
					-Sherman story
					-Decisions by the President
						-Rogers and Irwin
				-National television
					-Kissinger and Foreign Service officers
				-Marshall Green
				-Networks
					-CBS
						-The President’s view
						-PRC trip
							-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
							-NBC
								-John W. Chancellor
						-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
						-Rather
				-News summary
					-The PRC trip
					-Cambodia
					-The New Republic
					-Ziegler
					-Sidey
		-State Department
		-ITT
-Shanghai Communique
-Rogers
-Berlin Agreement
-Announcement, March 10, 1972
-PRC
-Michael J. Mansfield
-House leaders
		-Change in public viewpoint
	-Art Buchwald
		-Agnew
-The President’s accomplishments
-Soviet summit
-PRC
-Another trip
-Rogers’s possible foreign trips
	-Yugoslavia
	-Romania
	-Poland
	-Press
	-Yugoslavia 
	-Romania
	-Poland
		-Political impact of visit
	-Iran
	-Soviet summit
	-Eastern European countries
	-Czechoslovakia
-Poland
	-Iran
-Pope Paul VI
	-Iran
		-Rogers’s possible participation
			-NATO
			-Pope Paul VI
				-Italy

Ambassadorships

The President left at an unknown time after 10:09 am.

	Rogers
		-Possible replacement
			-Mitchell
			-Connally
			-Kissinger’s view
	-Soviet summit

The President returned at an unknown time before 11:50 am.

Ambassadorships
	-West Germany
	-Martin J. Hillenbrand
-Australia
	-Adm. Horacio Rivero, Jr.
		-Background

Woods entered at 11:50 am.

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Woods left at 12:02 pm.

Ambassadorships
-Rivero
-Puerto Rico

Appointments
	-Possible replacement as Secretary of Defense
-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Laird
-The President’s view
-Chief of Staff of the Army
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Vice Chief of Staff
				-Kissinger’s view
	-Laos
-[First name unknown] Davidson [?]
	-Europe
-Andrew J. Goodpaster
	-Supreme Allied Commander, Europe [NATO] [SACEUR]
-US forces in Europe
	-Seventh Army
-Haig

Ambassadorships
-Rivero
	-Australia
	-Spain
		-Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.
			-Possible conflict of interest
-Mosbacher
	-Portugal
		-Flanigan’s view
			-Chief of Protocol
			-Guatemala
			-Caribbean
			-Jamaican Prime Minister [Michael Manley]
				-Nationalization of bauxite industry
					-Vincent W. de Roulet
-Australia
	-Rivero
		-Portugal
			-George W. Anderson, Jr.
			-Sixth Fleet

Appointments
-Army
-[First name unknown] Davidson
-United Nations [UN]
-Jerome H. Holland

Ambassadorships
	-Sweden
	-Lloyd Miller
		-Australia
-Australia [?]
	-Wiley Buchanan
	-Andrew F. Brimmer
		-Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
	-Unknown person
		-Florida
	-Brimmer compared to Buchanan
-Portugal
	-Buchanan
	-Rivero
	-Buchanan
		-The President’s view
	-Rivero
		-Finland
		-Ability to speak Spanish and Portuguese
	-Buchanan
-Emory C. Swank
	-Cambodia
	-Ceylon [Sri Lanka]
	-Kissinger’s view
-Cambodia
	-Charles S. Whitehouse
-Nicaragua
-Iran
	-Joseph S. Farland
-Rogers
	-Flanigan
	-The President’s view
-Farland
	-Kissinger’s view
	-The President’s view

The President’s schedule
-Unknown man
-Meeting
	-Anti-ballistic missiles [ABM]
	-The President’s view
		-Jack N. Anderson papers
	-Kissinger’s view
-Rogers
-Meeting with Pope Paul VI
-Example of Romanian foreign minister
			-Reasons for not meeting
				-Foreign policy
				-Domestic policy
-Busing
-Social Security
-Welfare reform
-Pensions
-Kissinger’s schedule
-California
-Rogers
-Kissinger’s schedule
	-Forthcoming dinner for Nihat Erim
	-Forthcoming interview with Kalb
-Dobrynin meeting
-Senate Foreign Relations Committee
-House Foreign Affairs Committee
-Forthcoming trip to Japan
-California
-Gridiron dinner
-Kissinger
-The President’s forthcoming trip to Canada
	-Organization of American States [OAS] meeting
		-Timing
		-Ontario
		-Ottawa

	Kissinger’s schedule
		-Japan
-Paris
-Japan
	-Eisaku Sato
-Paris talks compared to Japan
-Paris talks
	-European Conference
	-Brussels
	-Vietnam
	-Troop announcement
	-Timing
		-Canada
	-Laird
-Brussels
	-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
	-Rogers
	-Joseph M. Luns
	-European relations
	-Kissinger’s talk with Luns
	-NATO
	-David M. Kennedy
	-Connally
			-Soviet Union
			-PRC

Kissinger left at 12:27 pm.

Kissinger’s schedule
-NATO
-Rogers
-Relations with Kissinger
-Luns

Connally
	-George P. Shultz’s view
	-Politics
-Issues
	-Polls
-Unemployment benefits
-Administration programs
-Elderly
-Spending
-Inflation
			-Connally
				-Domestic issues
				-Haldeman’s view
					-Connally’s background
						-John F. Kennedy
						-Texas
						-Lyndon B. Johnson
						-Democrat
							-Press
-Compared to the President

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 12:27 pm and 12:31 pm.

[Conversation No. 681-2C]

[See Conversation No. 21-28]

[End of telephone conversation]

Connally
-Politician as an advisor
	-Haldeman

The President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox between 12:31 pm and 12:34 pm.

[Conversation No. 681-2D]

[See Conversation No. 21-29; two items have been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

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	Agnew’s schedule
		-California Republicans
			-Ronald W. Reagan

	The President’s schedule
		-Gridiron dinner
			-Edgar Allen Poe
				-Erim dinner
			-Klein
			-Kissinger
			-Rogers
				-The President’s forthcoming trip to California
				-Haldeman’s view
-Agnew
-Toast
			-Democratic candidates presence
				-“Women’s Lib”
					-Invitations to women
			-Mrs. Nixon’s presence
				-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
				-Tricia Nixon Cox
				-The President’s view
			-Agnew

Rogers
-Kissinger
-Trade
-SALT
-Dobrynin meeting
-Forthcoming US-Soviet summit
	-Rogers’s role
			-Kissinger
			-PRC

	Kissinger
		-Press appearances
	-Scali
			-Ziegler
-Talk with Haldeman
-Backgrounder
	-Foreign policy
		-Characteristics of leaders
			-The President
		-Mao Tse-tung
		-Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle
		-Winston S. Churchill
		-Franklin D. Roosevelt

Buchanan
-Something for him
-Meeting with the President

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Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:34 pm.

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The President, Haldeman, and Sanchez left at 12:50 pm.

Conversation No. 681-3

Date:  March 9, 1972
Time:  4:31 pm - 4:33 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President’s schedule
-Documents to be signed

Butterfield left at 4:33 pm.

Conversation No. 681-4

Date:  March 9, 1972
Time:  4:36 pm - 4:41 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President’s schedule
	-Staff
-Meeting
-[Signing documents]
-[Unintelligible]

Butterfield left at 4:41 pm.

Conversation No. 681-5

Date:  March 9, 1972
Time:  4:41 pm - 5:35 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

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The President’s schedule
	-Telephone call from John B. Connally
		-Possible meeting
			-Economic policy

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:41 pm.

The President’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:15 pm.

The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming breakfast
	-George Meany
		-Henry A. Kissinger

Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:41 pm.

		-Meany
-George P. Shultz

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:15 pm.

-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-National wreath laying ceremony
-Congressional resolution
-Participants
	-Carol Hanson
-Evelyn Grubb
-Janice Ray
-William E. Brock, III
-Robert J. Dole
-John H. Rousselot
-Harrison A. Williams
-Jack Edwards [?]
				-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
				-Press
-John D. Ehrlichman, Elliot L. Richardson, Arthur S. Flemming, Shultz
-Meeting
-Social Security
	-Prescription drugs
	-Richardson
		-Domestic issues
			-Ehrlichman
				-Water bill
-Forthcoming meeting with Connally
	-Shultz
	-The President’s view
-Busing meeting
-Shultz
-Forthcoming meeting
-Ehrlichman
-Connally
-Shultz
-Timing

Approval polls
-White House
-November 1971, January 1972, and March 1972 polls
-Comparison of percentages
	-Men and women
	-Elderly and youth
		-Vietnam War
		-The People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Blacks
-John F. Becker poll
-State polls
	-Vietnam War

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			-Vietnam War
-Economics
-The President
	-Characteristics
-Percentages
-George H. Gallup

	Kissinger
		-Kalb interview

Television special
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-“World Ambassador”
		-United States Information Agency [USIA]
-Documentary
-Local stations
-Networks
-“The Nixon Years”
-Tribute to Mrs. Nixon
-Democratic Convention
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Unknown man
-Madison Square Garden

Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:41 pm.

The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting
-Ehrlichman and Shultz

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:15 pm.

Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1970 [?]
-Signing
-Ehrlichman
-Robert H. Finch
-Leonard Garment
-Charles W. Colson [?]
-Connally
-18 year olds

Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:41 pm.

The President’s schedule
	-Executive Office Building [EOB]

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:15 pm.

Connally

The President’s schedule
-Social Security meeting
-Busing meeting
-Bill signing

Transportation use
-The President’s use of helicopters
-Compared to Dwight D. Eisenhower

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Jack N. Anderson
-Marlow W. Cook
-Roman L. Hruska
-Cook
-James O. Eastland
-Unknown man
-Interview
-Testimony
-Dita D. Beard
-John N. Mitchell
-Call from the President

Kissinger entered at 5:15 pm.

The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Kissinger’s meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Announcement of agreements
-Agreements
-Grain and trade
-Maritime
-Incidents at sea
-Health
-Science
-Space
-Environment
-Earl Butz
	-Grain deal
-Soviet Commerce Minister
-Peter G. Peterson
				-David W. Kendall’s view
		-Public relations
	-Robert J. McCloskey
		-State Department
	-William P. Rogers
	-Dobrynin
-White House staff
	-Soviet secret police
		-Communication with Secret Service
		-Dobrynin
		-Public relations
	-Rogers
	-Ronald L. Ziegler
	-Dobrynin
	-Dwight L. Chapin
-Ziegler
		-Dobrynin
		-McCloskey
			-The President’s view
			-Rogers
				-NATO
			-The President’s previous trip around the world
		-Dobrynin
	-Advance arrangements
	-Press
	-Ziegler
	-Secret Service
	-McCloskey

ITT case
	-Haldeman’s forthcoming telephone call to Mitchell
	-Peter M. Flanigan [?]
	-Haldeman’s view
		-Anti-trust activity
	-Ehrlichman

Busing
	-Announcement

PRC
	-Instructions for cadres
	-Imperialists
	-Use of word
-US-PRC relations
		-Trade
		-Technical personnel
-Kissinger’s view
-Dobrynin
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Chinese sources
-Kissinger’s October trip to the PRC
-Soviet forces in Asia
	-Missiles
				-Kissinger’s response
					-PRC relations with the US, Soviet Union, Japan,and India
				-Kissinger’s view
-Kissinger’s view
	-September upheaval in PRC
		-The President’s meeting with Mao Tse-tung
			-PRC opponents
				-Soviet Union
				-Mongolia

The President’s forthcoming Soviet trip
-State Department
-McCloskey
-Rogers
	-Compared to the PRC trip
		-Agreements between the US and Soviet Union
-Rogers
-Memorandum
-Taiwan, Republic of China and PRC
	-Names of each country

Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:15 pm.

The President’s schedule
-Ehrlichman
-Location
-Busing meeting

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:18 pm.

The President’s forthcoming Soviet trip
-Kissinger’s meeting with Dobrynin
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Submarines
-Conversion of missiles
				-Gerard C. Smith

Haldeman left at 5:18 pm.

-Grain deal
-Preliminary negotiations
-Butz
-Clarence D. Palmby
-Butz
-Dobrynin
		-The President’s schedule
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Warsaw
-NATO
-Iran
-Japan
-Leningrad
-Moscow
-Tiblisi, Georgia
-Iran
-Tiblisi
	-Frank J. Shakespeare
-SALT
-Middle East

The President and Kissinger left at 5:35 pm.

Conversation No. 681-8

Date:  March 9, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:35 pm and 6:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men [Secret Service agents] met.

	The President’s location
		-Barber shop

The unknown agents left at an unknown time before 6:07 pm.

Conversation No. 681-6

Date:  March 9, 1972
Time:  6:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

The President’s schedule
-Meeting
-Ronald L. Ziegler

The unknown person left at 6:07 pm.

Conversation No. 681-7

Date:  March 9, 1972
Time:  6:07 pm - 6:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez and Ronald L. Ziegler.

The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
	-Public relations
		-Robert J. McCloskey

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:09 pm.

	-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
	-William P. Rogers
	-Ziegler’s view

Press briefing
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Foreign scope
-Henry Ford, II
-Jack N. Anderson
-Brit Hume
-Dita D. Beard
-The President’s call to John N. Mitchell
					-White House response
						-Charles W. Colson
-Marlow W. Cook
	-Statement
-Mitchell’s statement
	-Content

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 6:09 pm.

The President’s forthcoming Soviet trip
-McCloskey
-Dobrynin
-McCloskey’s telephone call to Dobrynin
	-Ziegler’s view
	-Dobrynin’s reaction
-Kissinger’s view
-Rogers
-The President compared to the Secretary of State

Ziegler left at 6:13 pm.

-Kissinger’s meeting with Dobrynin
-Forthcoming summit
	-Premature publicity for agreements
		-Leonid I. Brezhnev
		-Rogers
	-Agriculture
		-Butz
	-Health
		-Elliot L. Richardson
	-Science
		-Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.
	-Environment
		-Russell E. Train
	-Lend-Lease
		-State Department
	-Commerce
	-Peter G. Peterson
	-Rogers
	-Dobrynin briefing
	-State Department
	-National Security Council [NSC]
	-Agriculture
	-Publicity for agreements
	-Dobrynin
-Plenary session
	-Rogers

	Kissinger’s schedule
		-Forthcoming meeting with businessmen
			-Colson
			-The President’s view
-The People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Negotiations
-Forthcoming US-Soviet Union summit
	-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Dobrynin
-Stewart J.O. Alsop article
-Rogers

The President and Kissinger left at 6:20 pm.