Conversation No. 682-1

Date:  March 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:57 am and 10:06 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:06 am.

Conversation No. 682-2

Date:  March 10, 1972
Time:  10:06 am - 10:36 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John B. Connally.

	Greetings

George Meany
-Health
-Pay Board
-Longshoremen
-Productivity
-George P. Shultz

US economy
-Money markets
-Connally’s suggestions
	-Exchange of US currency
			-International monetary problem
			-Tax evasion
			-Organized crime
		-Drugs

	-Amnesty considerations
	-Bureau of Engraving and Printing
		-New currency
			-Electronic means of authentication
				-Counterfeiting
	-Gangsters
	-Drug dealers
	-Mafioso
		-John A. Volpe
	-Tax evaders
	-Banks
		-Holders of foreign currency
			-Exchanges
	-Exchanges
-Clifford and Edith Irving case
-$600,000
			-US corporations
				-Currency holdings overseas

Foreign Economies
-France
-Georges J.R. Pompidou, Valery Giscard D’estaing
-Relations with the US
-Previous money crises
-Devaluation
			-US and French differences
-Controls
-Fixed parity
-Philosophy and ideas in the European community
-Pompidou
-American dollar
	-Convertibility
-European common currency
-Relations with Great Britain
-Common Market
-Relations with Belgium, Holland, Italy and West Germany
-Relations with the US
	-Connally’s view
-Money markets
-Common European currency
-Criticism of the US
	-World confidence in the dollar
	-Arthur F. Burns
	-Paul A. Volcker
-Possible controls
-European community
-Exclusion of US dollar
-Germany
-Great Britain
-Italy
-Belgium, Holland, Switzerland
	-Financial structure
	-Connally’s view
-Possible European Community regulations and financial controls
-Role of dollar
-Possible exclusion
-Effect on US economy
				-Compared to several years ago
	-Canada
-Interest rates
-Accumulation of dollars
-Future role
-Possibility of US controls
-Flow of capital
-Short and long term
-European role
-Example given by Connally
	-Outflow of capital 
		-Reduce outflow through controls
			-Investment
				-Jobs
-Controls
-Prices and wages
-Dollar outflow
-Connally’s forthcoming talks to Shultz, Burns, Herbert Stein
	-The Presidents view
		-Ramifications of possible leak
		-Study groups
-International monetary problems
-Europe
-Political and diplomatic aspects
	-US position in world
-Treasury, State and Defense departments
	-Monetary maneuvers
	-Reluctance of agencies
	-British
	-Political situation
-Move towards common market
		-People’s Republic of China [PRC], Soviet Union
-Europe
-France
-Relations with the US
	-Connally’s view	
			-Danes
			-Belgians
			-Dutch
			-Danes
			-British
			-Germans
			-East-West
		Italians
			-Role in European Community
			-Dealings with the US
-Connally’s work on economics
				-Shultz
				-Burns
					-Convertibility
					-Bonn[?]
					-Paris
				-Henry A. Kissinger
			-Canada
				-The Presidents forthcoming trip
					-Connally’s view
						-Trade
						-Special Drawings Rights [SDRs]
							-State and Defense Departments
					-Cabinet participation
						-Rogers
						-Compared to previous meeting with French
							-Connally
						-David M. Kennedy
						-Protocol visit
						-Timing
US economy
	-Exchange of all US currency
-People’s concerns
-Staff consideration
	-Las Vegas
	-Drugs, crime, tax evasion
	-American people
-Possible evidence for prosecution
	-Internal Revenue Service [IRS] role
-The President’s view
	-Politicians
		-Example of William E. Borah [?]

Connally’s schedule
-Forthcoming busing meeting

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
	-President’s anti-trust policy
-Press coverage
-Richard Kleindienst
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-John N. Mitchell
-Witnesses
-The President’s experience as an investigator
-House Un-American Activities Committee
-Hearsay
-Alleged phone call from the President
-Mitchell
		-Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC] file
			-Connally involvement
		-Mitchell testimony
-Agnew

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:06 am.

The President’s schedule
	-Meeting with John D. Ehrlichman

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:36 am.

ITT case
	-Connally’s advice
-Democrats role
-Convention
-Money
-Kleindienst
-Settling the case
-Unknown man
-John F. Kennedy
-Money involved
-Supreme Court
-Kennedy
-Kleindienst
-Jack N. Anderson
-Richard W. McLaren
-Connally’s advice
-Television
-Kleindienst, McLaren
-Response
	-Strategy
-White House
-Agnew
-Possible spokesman
						-Brit Hume
							-Dita D. Beard
						-Agnew
-Divested companies
-Food service
-Sheraton Hotel
-Avis
-Role in convention
-Democrats role
-Contributions

Connally left and Ehrlichman entered at 10:36 am.

Aging issue meeting
-Social Security issue
-Prescription drugs issue
	-Medicare
-Document for the President to read
-Cabinet Committee recommendations
-Shultz
-Cost concerns
-Ehrlichman’s talk with Connally
-20% Social Security increase
	-Troika
-Elliot L. Richardson and Arthur S. Flemming
-Budget
-Political implications
-Flemming
		-Recommendations to the President
			-20% Social Security increase
				-Possible veto
		-Budget
		-Conservatives and moderates
		-View of deficit
		-Political expense
		-Aged persons problems

Busing meeting
-Cabinet Committee and lawyers
-Length
-Report to be delivered
-Lawyers present
-[Robert H. Bork]
	-Yale University

The President and Ehrlichman left at 10:40 am.

Conversation No. 682-3

Date:  March 10, 1972
Time:  11:13 am - unknown before 11:17 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Photograph sessions
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Busing meeting
-Lawyers
-Statement
-Ziegler

Ziegler left at 11:17 pm.

Conversation No. 682-10

Date:  March 10, 1972
Time: 11:17 am
Location; Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

	Forthcoming meeting
		John B. Connally

The President and Bull left at 11:17 am.

Conversation No. 682-4

Date:  March 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:33 pm and 12:38 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

Signing ceremony
	-Presidential Proclamation
	-Senate Joint [SJ] Resolution 189
-Prisoners of war [POW] wives
-Number
		-Gifts
			-Pens
				-[William E. Brock, III]

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:38 pm.

Conversation No. 682-5

Date:  March 10, 1972
Time:  12:38 pm - unknown before 12:45 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull, William E. Brock, III, Carol Hanson, Evelyn Grubb, Janice Ray, Olive Hunt, Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft, Frank A. Sieverts, Roger E. Shields, and John E. Nidecker; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

Introductions

Photograph session

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:40 pm.

Gifts
		-Pens

Photographs
	-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins

Proclamation and Senate Joint [SJ] Resolution 189
-Signing
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Effort for return
-Wives
-Effort

Brock, et al. left and Bull entered at 12:40 pm.

Cabinet Room
	-Forthcoming signing ceremony

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:45 pm.

Conversation No. 682-6

Date:  March 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:40 pm and 12:45 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man.

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The unknown man left at an unknown time before 12:45 pm.

Conversation No. 682-7

Date:  March 10, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:40 pm and 12:45 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Signing ceremony
-Cabinet Room
-Three bills
-Congressional representatives
	-George D. Aiken
	-Wright Patman
	-William B. Widnall

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:45 pm.

Conversation No. 682-11

Date: March 10,1972
Time: Unknown between 12:40pm and 12:45pm
Location: Oval Office

Unknown man [Secret Service agents] met.

[Unintelligible]

An unknown agent talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 12:40pm and 12:45pm.

[Conversation No.682-114]

[Unintelligible]

[End of telephone conversation]

An unknown agent talked with and unknown person at an unknown time between 12:40pm and 12:45pm.

[Conversation No. 682-11B]

	The President’s location
		-Cabinet Room

[End of telephone conversation]

The agents left at an unknown time before 12;45pm.

Conversation No. 682-8

Date:  March 10, 1972
Time:  12:50 pm - 1:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]

Contact with the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
	-William P. Rogers
		-Unknown assistant secretary
	-Backchannel
	-Arthur K. Watson

Kissinger’s schedule
-J. William Fulbright

	The President’s schedule
	-Meeting with Watson
		-Meeting with Dianne C. Matthews

Matthews entered at 12:52 pm.

Matthews’s departure
-Reasons
	-Engagement 
		-Fiancé
			-National Security Council [NSC]
			-Foreign Service
		-Wedding 
			-Timing
			-Virginia Beach
			-Note from the President

Matthews left at 12:53 pm.

The President’s forthcoming meeting with Watson
-Topics of discussion
	-Channel to PRC
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins

Kissinger’s schedule
-Previous meeting with Businessmen
	-The President’s view
		-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
			-Kissinger’s workload
				-Forthcoming meeting with Fulbright
-Forthcoming meeting with businessmen
-George Meany
-Joseph Irwin Miller
			-Peter M. Flanigan

Kissinger met with an unknown man [Secret Service agent].

	Meeting with Watson

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:53 pm.

Meeting with Watson

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:55 pm.

	PRC trip
		-George R.S. Baring [Earl of Cromer]
	-Congratulations of Edward R.G. Health
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.

Kissinger’s schedule

Watson entered at 12:55 pm.

Congratulations on speech

Backchannels to the PRC
-Gerald R. Ford and [Thomas]Hale Boggs
	-Visit to PRC
-The President
	-State Department
	-Leaks
	-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
	-Watson’s experience
		-Algeria
	-Watson’s message to the State Department
	-Cable
		-[First name unknown] deBeaumarchais[sp?]

Watson’s new house
		-The President’s schedule
		-Watson’s previous house

Kissinger’s schedule
	-Forthcoming meeting with Fulbright

Watson left at 12:59 pm.

News summary
	-News story on possible joint US-Soviet manned space mission
-Frank Borman
	-Trip to the Soviet Union
	-The President’s approval
		Trip to greet returning astronauts
-State Department
-Leaks

Kissinger’s schedule
	-Forthcoming meeting with Fulbright

The President talked with the White House operator at 12:59 pm.

[Conversation No. 682-8A]

[See Conversation No. 21-41]

[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger’s schedule
		-Forthcoming meeting with Fulbright

New York Times article
-Chou En-lai
-Norodom Sihanouk
	-Meeting with North Vietnamese
-Chou En-Lai
-Meeting

The President talked with Fulbright between 1:00 pm and 1:02 pm; one item has been withdrawn from this conversation.

[Conversation No. 682-8B]

[See Conversation No. 21-42]

[End of telephone conversation]

The PRC trip
		-Fulbright’s view
		-Rogers
-Mathias
-Talk with Kissinger
-Kissinger’s schedule
	-Forthcoming conference
		-David Rockefeller
-Comments
-Earl of Cromer
-British reaction to trip
	-Shanghai communiqué
-State Department
-Memorandum on Taiwan, Republic of China
-Committee leadership
-Letters from the President
-Heath
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Willy Brandt
-Eisaku Sato
-Heath
-Pompidou
-Winston Lord
-Earl of Cromer
-Kissinger
-Briefing
			-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Japanese
	-Kissinger’s forthcoming trip
-British
-Cromer
-Brandt
-Heath
		-State Department leaks
-Watson
-John N. Irwin, II
-Kissinger’s view

State Department
	-Robert J. McCloskey
	-Haldeman
			-Talk with Rogers
	-Rogers’s role in forthcoming Soviet trip
		-The President’s view
-Secretaries of State
-Foreign Service
-Cordell Hull
-Kissinger’s forthcoming talk with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Richard M. Helms
-State Department
-The President’s possible meeting with Dobrynin
-Forthcoming US-Soviet summit
-Meetings
-The President and Leonid I. Brezhnev
		-Brezhnev, Aleksei N. Kosygin and Nikolai V. Podgorny
-Andrei A. Gromyko
-Rogers’s forthcoming meetings
	-Kosygin
	-Podgorny

Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Fulbright

Kissinger left at 1:10 pm.

Conversation No. 682-9

Date:  March 10, 1972
Time:  1:11 pm - 3:53 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez and H. R. (Bob) Haldeman.

Instruction

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
	-The President’s recent meeting with John B. Connally

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:15 pm.

ITT
	-John B. Connally
-Peter M. Flanigan
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Richard G. Kleindienst
	-Call from the President
-Talk with John Mitchell
	-Talk with the President
-Call from the President
-Flanigan
	-Ehrlichman
-Richard W. McLaren
	-Mitchell
-Robert J. Dole
-Press conference
-Democrats
-American Telephone and Telegraph [AT&T]
-1968 convention
-San Diego
-Wires
-Mitchell’s testimony
-Jack N. Anderson’s testimony
-President’s call to Kleindienst
	-Reasons
	-Anti-trust
	-Flanigan
		-Ehrlichman
-Harold S. Geneen
-Flanigan
		-Ehrlichman
			-Reasons for having President call Kleindienst
-Brit Hume’s testimony
-Dita D. Beard
-Notes
	-President’s call to Kleindienst
		-Marlow W. Cook’s questioning 
				-Joe Glotz [sp?]
-Edward M. Kennedy’s staff
		-Cook
	-Hearings
	-Executive session
-John B. Connally
	-Strategy
-Barry M. Goldwater and Dole
-Kennedy and Anderson
-Notes
-Beard memorandum
-Circumstances
-Typewriter
-William R. Merriam
	-Beard testimony
		-Testimony
		-Beard memorandum
-Anderson
			-Beards job
-Beard deposition
	-Committee
		-Mitchell
-Talk with Beard
	-Call to the President
-Circumstances
	-Connally
	-Maurice H. Stans
		-Kleindienst
		-The President’s talk with Connally
-Spiro T. Agnew
		-Charles W. Colson
		-Beard testimony
		-Beard memorandum
-Typewriter
-Mitchell
	-Kentucky Derby
	-Louie B. Nunn
	-Unknown man
		-Kennedy
		-Cook
-Efforts
		-Goldwater
		-Connally
		-Commentators
-[Arnold] Eric Sevareid
-Dole
		-Money
-Return to ITT
		-Beard
-Anderson’s secretary
	-Subpoena from the Committee
		-Proposed questions
			-Witness
				-Hearsay
		-Public relations
			-Beard’s testimony
		-ITT’s efforts
			-Lawyers
			-Geneen
		-Connally
		-Settlement of anti-trust case

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Gridiron dinner
	-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Henry A. Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
	-The President’s view
-Agnew
-The President’s possible attendance
-Rogers
-Richard (“Dick”) Wilson’s view
-Agnew
-Left wing 
	-Reporters
	-Women’s liberation movement
		-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Agnew
	-Dwight D. Eisenhower administration
		-The President’s attendance
		-Eisenhower’s attendance
-Wilson
	-The President’s attendance
-Agnew’s attendance
-Press
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Connally
-The President’s view

Kissinger
	-Briefing of business leaders
	-Blair House
-J. Irwin Miller
		-Briefing of religious leaders
-George Meany
-Senate Foreign Relations Committee
	-J. William Fulbright
-Blair House briefings
	-Labor leaders
	-Academics
-Rogers’s possible briefings
-Kissinger
	-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston

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	ITT
-Investigation committees
-Cook
-Questions
-Beard memorandum
-Kennedy
-Executive session

Polls
-Louis P. Harris
-Colson
-The President
-Popularity
			-Compared to White House poll
	-George H. Gallup
	-The People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip

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	-Busing
	-Time frame of survey
		-White House
		-Gallup
	-ITT
	-PRC trip
	-White House compared to Gallup and Harris
	-Colson
	-Trial heats
	-PRC trip
	-Colson

	ITT case
		-Kennedy
			-Kleindienst confirmation
				-Mitchell
				-Hearings
					-John V. Tunney
					-Birch E. Bayh, Jr.
				-Anderson column
				-Compared to G. Harrold Carswell confirmation
				-Committee
				-Public relations
				-Press
				-Executive committee
		-Anderson
		-Kennedy
			-Kleindienst
				-Political maneuver

The President’s schedule
-Wage and price meeting
-Connally, George P. Shultz, Herbert Stein, Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Cabinet meeting
-National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Marina von N. Whitman’s swearing-in ceremony
-Stein
-Women’s organization
-Private ceremony
	-Timing
	-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Connally and Shultz
-Otto E. Passman meeting
-Foreign assistance bill
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Ronald S. Berman
-Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities
-Haldeman’s view
-Grover E. Murray
-George H. Mahon
-Texas Tech. University
-Meeting with Mitchell
-Briefing of Jewish editors
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Cabinet meeting
-Council on International Economic Policy [CIEP]
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Trade negotiations
-Kissinger
					-Rogers
	-Robert J. McCloskey
	-Press and public relations
	-Dwight L. Chapin
	-Ronald L. Ziegler
	-John M. Thomas
-Economic council
-Press conference
-Kissinger
	-NSC meeting
-Mrs. Nixon’s birthday
-St. Patrick’s Day
-Irish ambassador [William Warnock]
-Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick
-Situation in Northern Ireland
-Agnew
	-The President’s view
-John W. Mulcahy
-W. Clement Stone

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President’s possible press conference
-Office
-Television

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The President’s possible press conference
-Schedule
-Media choices
	-Television
-Kleindienst
-Subjects for discussion
-ITT
-Announcement
	-Ziegler
-Television coverage
-Kleindienst
-Effectiveness
	-Writing press
					-Impact compared to television
-Risks involved
-Example of the PRC trip

The President’s schedule
	-NSC meeting
-Federal women’s award
-Mrs. Nixon’s schedule
-Milton R. Young
-Farm program
	-Feed grain legislation
		-Earl L. Butz and John C. Whitaker
		-Young, James B. Pearson, Carl T. Curtis
		-Meeting with the President
	-Jack R. Miller
	-Ranking member on Senate Agriculture and Forestry Committee
		-Joe Dealy
-Herbert G. Klein
			-Texas, Dallas News
				-Participation in coverage of PRC trip
		-Gridiron dinner
			-Agnew’s participation
			-The President’s participation
-Breakfast meeting with congressmen
-Citizens Advisory Council on the Status of Women
-1971 conference report
-Labor Department
-Haldeman’s view
-National Council of Catholic Women
-Federation of Professional Business Women
-State legislator
-Presidents of companies
-Hoover Institute
-Timing
	-The President’s forthcoming press conference
-President of Lebanon [Suleiman Franjieh]
-Possible visit to Washington
-Rogers
-Topics of discussion
	-Soviet Union
	-Israel
	-US-Lebanese relations
-Kissinger
	The President’s schedule
-Secretary General of Central Treaty Organization [CENTO]
-Kissinger
-The President’s view
-Rogers
-Topics of discussion
	-The PRC trip
	-Soviet Union
-Iran
		-Kissinger
-Latin America
	-Guatemala
-State visits
	-Turkey 
	-Mexico
	-Hussein ibn Talal [Hussein, King of Jordan]
-St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
-John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
-Church service

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		-California 
		-Key Biscayne
-Press conference
-Gridiron dinner
	-California
-Canada
-Gridiron dinner
-Agnew

Sanchez [?] entered at an unknown time after 1:11 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez [?] left at an unknown time before 2:15 pm.

Meeting with Colson

The President left at an unknown time before 2:15 pm.

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:11 pm.

	-Meeting with Colson

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:15 pm.

[No conversation]

The President entered at an unknown time after 1:11 pm.

Chicago
-Richard J. Daley
-John H. (“Jack”) Riley
-Ronald H.  Walker
-Invitation to visit
	-PRC trip
-Haldeman’s view

Butterfield entered at 2:15 pm.

Press conference
-Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.
	-Campaign

Butterfield left at 2:17 pm.

	-Paul McCloskey
		-Helene (Colesie) and Jack Drown

Colson entered at 2:17 pm.

ITT case
	-Hearings
-Mornings events
	-Executive session
-Colson’s meeting with Ehrlichman
-Kennedy and Anderson
	-Publicity
-Dole
	-Press conference
-Connally
-Kleindienst
-Press corps
-Compared to Alger Hiss case
-Karl E. Mundt
-Press conference
-The President’s work
-Typewriters
-Committee hearings
-Hiss case
-Connally
-Compared to the President
-Kleindienst
-Dole
-Goldwater
-Edward J. Gurney, Jr. and Cook
-Statements
-Campaign contributions
-Democrats
-Miami
-Dole
-Public hearings
-Press
-AT&T and ITT

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 2:17 pm.

Old Executive Office Building  [EOB] office

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 2:47 pm.

ITT
-Contributions
	-Amount
-Dole
-Call to Colson
-Kennedy
-Divorce
-Press
	-News coverage
-Legal opinion
-Lawrence F. O’Brien
	-Response
-Testimony
-AT&T
-Democrats
	-Changes
		-Cook’s statement
-Kennedy
-Executive session

Colson left and re-entered at an unknown time before 2:47 pm.

-Mitchell
-Eastland
-Anderson
-Cook’s questioning
	-Notes
-[Unintelligible name]
-Kennedy
	-Possession of notes
-Cook
	-Strategy
-Beard
	-Anderson’s secretary
		-Sumner Welles
		-Opal Ginnis
		-Eastland
		-Strategy
			-Press
			-Kleindienst statement
				-Erwin N. Griswold
				-McLaren
					-Testimony
				-Condemnation of the Press
				-Testimony
				-New York Times
-Mitchell
				-Brit Hume’s charges
		-Kennedy
		-Griswold and McLaren
		-Mitchell
-Hume
-Beard
-Mitchell
-Public impression of story
-Kennedy
-Ehrlichman
	-Kleindienst
-Press coverage
-Kennedy
-Story for New York Times
	-Dole’s story
-Anderson and Beard
-Kleindienst’s statement
	-Content
-Haldeman’s wife’s [Jo Anne (Horton) Haldeman] impression
	-News accounts
		-Washington Post
		-Innuendo
		-Contributions

Attorney General confirmation hearings
-Kleindienst
-Ehrlichman
-Wallace H. Johnson
	-Assessment
-Anderson
-Committee action
-Beard
-Evidence
-Cook

An unknown man [Stephen B. Bull?] entered at an unknown time after 2:17 pm.

Meeting with Ehrlichman

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 2:47 pm.

ITT
-Cook
-Testimony
-Kennedy and Anderson
-Eastland
	-Executive session
-Dole
	-Wire news
	-Editors’ reactions
-Television coverage
-AT&T
-Democratic National Convention
-Anderson
	-Statement
-Phone service
	-Dole‘s charges
	-Credits and contributions
	-Charles McWhorter
-Anderson
-Cook
	-Press coverage
-Kennedy
-Reporter’s papers
-Notes
	-Cook’s request
	-Content
-Beard
-Mitchell
-Circumstances of the memorandum
-Job history
-Harold S. Geneen
-William R. Merriam
-Edward J. Gerrity, Jr.
-Memorandum
	-Content
-Geneen
-Avis
-Flanigan
-Contributions
-Griswold role
-Beard
-Geneen
-Job
-Colson’s plan
-Kennedy
-Memorandum as hoax

Ziegler entered at 2:47 pm.

	Forthcoming press conference
		-US-PRC communication channel
		-Arthur K. Watson
		-Rogers
	-Busing
		-The President’s consideration of issue
	-Announcements
		-The President’s forthcoming statement

ITT case
-New York Times story
	-Content
				-Compared to editorials against House Un-American Activities Committee [HUAC]
						-Fred Graham
-Mitchell
-Kleindienst
-Editorials
-Double standards

Ziegler left at 2:50 pm.

Smoking

ITT case
-Kleindienst
-AT&T
-Kennedy
-Beard memorandum
	-Colson’s work with ITT officials
		-Gerrity
		-Lawyers
-Beard’s secretary
	-Recollections
-Names
	-Content
-Mitchell, the President, Haldeman and Colson
-Contribution
	-Knowledge
-Timing of memorandum
-Secretary
	Statements to investigators
-ITT lawyers
	-Beard’s recollections
-Anderson
	-Original
-Merriam
	-Talk with Colson
-Cook
-Gurney
-Ronald L. Hruska
-Kleindienst
-Beard’s testimony
-Health
-Mitchell
-White House strategy
	-Robert C. Mardian
	-Richard A. Moore
	-Mardian
	-Mitchell
	-Kleindienst
		-Talk with Ehrlichman
		-Agnew
		-Connally
-Committee
-Joseph McCarthy hearings
	-Joseph N. Welch
	-Comparison to present hearings
-Haldeman
-Colson
-Griswold
-McLaren
-Democratic witnesses
	-Flanigan
	-ITT employees
-Kennedy and Philip A. Hart
-Beard
-Health
-Possible testimony
	Benefits to the administration
-Counsel
-Health
-Son and daughter
-1960 campaign
	-Ted Rodgers
-Robert C. Wilson
	-Testimony
-Mardian
	-Testimony
-Fundraising
	-Jack Gleason
		-1970 contributions
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Maurice H. Stans
-Gleason
-Geneen
	-Previous contributions
				-Colson’s knowledge
				-Gleason’s testimony
				-Health

The White House operator talked with Haldeman at 3:07 pm.

[Conversation No. 682-9A]

[See Conversation No. 21-43]

[End of telephone conversation]

Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked with the President between 3:07 pm and 3:08 pm.

[Conversation No. 682-9B]

[See Conversation No. 21-43; one item has been withdrawn from this conversation.]

[End of telephone conversation]

ITT case
-Kennedy
-Anderson
-Perjury
-Files
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Questions
-Perjury
-Testimony
	-John W. Dean, III’s view
		-Perjury
-Goldwater
-As a campaign issue
-Drew Pearson
-Predictions
-Compared to Anderson
	-Beard testimony
		-Hruska
			-Anti-trust suits
-Kleindienst
-Beard

Busing
-Ehrlichman

Polls
-Harris
-Trial heats
-PRC trip approval
-Selectivity
-Call to Colson
-Gallup
-Approval and disapproval
-Harris
	-PRC trip
-ITT
	-New Hampshire

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 11
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration:  6m 20s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 11

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Ehrlichman entered at 3:23 pm.

ITT case
-Media
	-Mitchell
-Dole
-Kennedy and Anderson
-Washington Star
-Cook’s statement
	-Television

Haldeman and Colson left at 3:24 pm.

Busing
-Statement

Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:24 pm.

Helicopter
-Delay

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:30 pm.

Ehrlichman’s schedule

Busing
-Draft statement
-Previous meeting
	-Lawyers at meeting
-Draft statement
	-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Hammond Chaffetz
-Chaffez [?]
	-Chicago
	-Alexander M. Bickle
			-Unknown person
				-Connally
-Option paper
-Legislation
-Elementary school children

	-House Resolution [HR] 1
		-Wallace F. Bennett

An unknown man [Bull?] entered at an unknown time after 3:24 pm.

	Helicopter
		-Delay

The unknown man [Bull?] left at an unknown time before 3:30 pm.

Ehrlichman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 3:24 pm and 3:30 pm.

[Conversation No. 682-9C]

[See Conversation No. 21-44]

[End of telephone conversation]

Ehrlichman talked with Edward L. Morgan at an unknown time between 3:24 pm and 3:30 pm.

[Conversation No. 682-9D]

[See Conversation No. 21-44]

[End of telephone conversation]

			-Letter
				-Senate
					-Finance Committee
						-Russell B. Long
						-Bennett
						-Abraham A. Ribicoff
						-Labor
						-League of Women Voters

Butterfield entered at 3:30 pm.

The President’s schedule

Reading material
	-Thank you note
	-Jeanne Ehrlichman

Butterfield left at 3:35 pm.

Busing
-Senate
-Pressure
-Newspapers
-Citizens groups

Social Security bill
-Long
-Welfare reform
-20% increase
-Senate Finance Committee
-Welfare reform bill
-Presidential veto
-Press
-Ribicoff
-Meeting
	-John G. Veneman
-Unions
-Left wing
-League of Women Voters
-Other public interest groups
-HR 1
-Long
-Bennett
-HR 1
-Elderly
	-Ehrlichman’s view
-Shultz, Herbert Stein, Connally
-Arthur S. Flemming
-Butz
-Money
-Percentages
-Long
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Funding for prescription medication
-Administration for the Aged
-Connally
-Politics
-Gilbert Carmichael

ITT
-Press conference
	-Mitchell
-Ehrlichman and Ziegler
-Investigations
	-Compared to HUAC
	-New York Times
	-Washington Post
-Cook-
-Kennedy
-Executive session
-Documents
-Hruska
-Gurney

Social Security
-Aged
-Call from Connally
-Connally’s position
	-The President

	George E. Allen
	-Stadium seating
		-Government offer

Agnew
-Public comments
-The President’s decisions
-Effect
-Suggestions
	-White House guidance
		-1972
-Busing
-Constitutional amendment
			-Legal services

Flanigan
-Memorandum to the President
-Energy
-Natural gas shortage

US Congress
	-Revenue sharing
-Democrats
-Anderson column
	-[Thomas]Hale Boggs
	-Carl B. Albert
	-Boggs
	-Wilbur D. Mills

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 12
[Privacy]
[Duration:  8s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 12

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			-The President
			-Agnew

Busing
-Constitutional questions
	-1972 election
-Moratorium
	-Congress
-George C. Wallace
-The President’s schedule
	-Forthcoming meeting with Ehrlichman, Shultz and Morgan
	-The President’s view
		-Connally
		-Constitutional amendment
		-The President’s schedule
-Statement
-Questions
-Press conference

ITT
	-Beard
-Kennedy
-Evidence
-Cook
	-Statement

Busing
	-Moratorium
-Paper preparation
-Morgan
-First draft
	-Price

ITT
-Kleindienst
-Statement
-Networks
-Newspapers
-Griswold’s testimony

Butterfield entered and he, the President, and Ehrlichman left at 3:53 pm.