Conversation No. 683-1

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:54 am and 9:41 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person [John D. Ehrlichman?].

Busing
-Black caucus comments
-The President’s forthcoming statement
-Paragraph removal

Conversation No. 683-2

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:54 am and 9:41 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

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

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:41 am.

Conversation No. 683-3

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  9:41 am - 10:15 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Press stories
-Florida primary
-Bangladesh recognition
	-India
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Hearings
-Marlow W. Cook
-Executive session
-Population Commission
-Cambodia
	-Lon Nol
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-British diplomatic recognition
-Charge d’affaires

Upcoming press briefing
-Questions
-Busing
-The President’s forthcoming statement
-Timing
	-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Decision
-Preparation
	-Drafting
-Message to Congress
-Timing
-Message to Congress
	-Constitutional amendment
	-Legislation
					-The President’s meeting with John D. Ehrlichman, George P. Shultz and lawyers
-Drafting
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Leonard Garment
-Shultz
-Ehrlichman

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Busing
-Black caucus comments
-Ehrlichman

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Press stories
-The PRC trip
-News summary
-Clayton Fritchey
-Effect of ITT stories
-ITT
-Paris contact between US and PRC
-Overshadow the PRC trip
-Fritchey
-The PRC trip
-Polls
-Key Biscayne 
-Tribune article
-Compared to Lyndon B. Johnson
	-Johnson City, Texas
-Compared to Dwight D. Eisenhower
	-Augusta, Georgia
-Press briefings
	-Gerald L. Warren
	-Florida
	-California
-Camp David
-Columns
-Joseph C. Kraft article
-News summary
-Press corps during the PRC trip
-Ziegler
-The President’s relationship with the press
-Press during PRC trip
	-Visit to Great Wall of China
		-Marvin L. Kalb
	-Visit to Forbidden City
-Kraft’s article
-Ziegler’s view
	-Press corps
	-The PRC trip
			-Visit to the Great Wall

The President’s forthcoming press conference
-Timing
	-ITT
		-Hearings
		-Dita D. Beard
-Televised press conference

Press corps
-The President’s exposure to the press
	-Wire services
	-Woodcutters of America
	-Example
	-United Press International [UPI]
	-Marina von N. Whitman swearing-in ceremony
	-Photographs
	-First woman on a cabinet committee
-James Keogh’s book [President Nixon and the Press]
-Presidents and the press
-George Washington
-Warren G. Harding
-The President’s relationship with the press
-The PRC trip
-The President’s forthcoming trip to Soviet Union
-Hawaii
	-Kraft article
		-Great Wall
	-The PRC trip
		-Peter Lisagor
		-Hugh Sidey
		-Magazines
		-Television coverage of the PRC trip
		-Compared to printed press
		-Shanghai Communiqué
		-Soviet trip
		-Britain’s recognition of the PRC
		-Lisagor, Sidey, Fritchey and Kraft
		-Kraft
			-Ziegler’s view
		-Fritchey
		-WTOP
		-Martin Z. Agronsky
		-George Putnam
		-Washington, DC
	-Ziegler’s view

Stephen B. Bull entered at 10:06 am.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Call to the President

Bull left at 10:06 am.

Press
-Ziegler’s schedule
-Neal Ball
-Warren

Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked with the President between 10:06 am and 10:07 am.

[Conversation No. 683-3A]

[See Conversation No. 21-48; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

Ziegler’s previous press briefing
-Paris contact between the US and PRC
-Ball

Press corps
-Herbert G. Klein
-Stories
-ITT
-Bombing of aircraft
-US-PRC contact in Paris
-New Hampshire primary
-Florida primary
-ITT
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Contributions
-Anti-trust settlement
-Objective
-Congress
-The Administration
-Alger Hiss case
-Five percenter case

The President’s schedule
-Gridiron dinner
-Women’s movement
-Richard (“Dick”) Wilson
			-Ziegler’s talk with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Helen A. Thomas
-Shirley Chisholm
-Bella S. Abzug

Busing
-The President’s forthcoming statement
-Timing
	-Typing

Whitman swearing-in ceremony
-Photograph session

Ziegler left at 10:15 am.

Conversation No. 683-4

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  10:15 am - 12:01 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

	Swearing-in ceremony
	-Marina von N. Whitman
	-Religion
		-Bible
	-Father’s name

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 10:22 am.

Whitman

Busing
	-Draft
		-Timing

William P. Rogers
-Henry A. Kissinger

-William S. White column
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Clark MacGregor
	-Kissinger’s meeting with the House Foreign Affairs Committee
-MacGregor’s dinner with Rogers
-State Department
-Clement J. Zablocki
-William S. Mailliard
-Wayne L. Hays
-Comments
-Rogers’s forthcoming testimony before the committee
-Rogers’s call to Haldeman
	-Peter M. Flanigan
	-House of Representatives
	-Senate
	-Kissinger
	-MacGregor
-Stewart J.O. Alsop
-Newsweek article
-Rogers’s possible resignation
-Mao Tse-tung meeting with the President
-Chou En-lai meeting with Rogers
-Kissinger
-Secretary of State
-Kissinger
-Previous conversation with Alsop
-Meeting with Rowland Evans
-Joseph C. Kraft
-Walter W. Rostow
-The President’s view
-Evans’s talk with Kissinger
-Richard G. Kleindienst’s confirmation as Attorney General
-Possible Democratic attacks on Kissinger
	-Secret diplomacy
	-Kissinger’s talks with members of the Senate
-Possible resignation
-Timing

Butterfield entered at 10:22 am.

Whitman
	-Bible to use in swearing-in ceremony
-Background
-Caspar W. Weinberger
-Ezra Solomon
-Arnold R. Weber
-Weinberger
-Herbert Stein
-Jewish identity
		-Solomon
		-Stein

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 11:10 am.

Kissinger
-Possible resignation
-Effect
-Evans
-Rogers’s call to Haldeman
	-MacGregor
	-Soviet trip
-The President’s view
	-Secretary of State
	-Management skills
		-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Rogers 
-Robert J. McCloskey’s call to Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Protocol

Rogers
-The President’s view
	-White story
-Soviet trip
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Possible trip to the US
-Aleksei N. Kosygin
-United Nations [UN] visit
	-Possible meeting with the President in Glassboro, New Jersey
-Brezhnev

John N. Mitchell
-Schedule
-Possible trip to Florida
-Daughter

The President’s schedule
-Florida
	-Easter

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-Camp David
-Timing
	-The President’s forthcoming press conference
-John B. Connally
-Trip to Texas
-Timing

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-Texas
	-Timing
		-White House correspondents dinner
		-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
		-Soviet trip
		-White House photographers dinner
		-American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE] dinner
-Camp David
-Gridiron dinner
-Connally
-Unknown person
-Walter H. Annenberg
	-Palm Springs
	-Weather
-Florida
-Connally
-Mitchell’s schedule
-School
-Timing
-Camp David
-Easter
-Gridiron dinner
-Press conference
-California

Rogers
-Kissinger
	Meetings with senators and congressmen
	-Zablocki
	-Hays
	-MacGregor
	-Dinner
	-Blair House
	-Armed services representation
		-Thomas E. (“Doc”) Morgan
-J. William Fulbright
	-John Sherman Cooper
-Testimony
-Kissinger
-The President’s press conference
	-Nguyen Van Thieu’s possible resignation
		-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with Fulbright’s committee [Senate Foreign Relations Committee]
-Blair House
-Testimony
-Kissinger’s meeting with Senate Foreign Relations Committee
-Timing
-Kissinger’s “secret activity”
-Kissinger’s possible resignation
	-The President’s view
-Alsop article
-White
-News summary
-The President’s previous conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler
	-Martin Z. Agronsky’s show
	-Joseph C. Kraft column
	-George Putnam’s show
	-Compared to Agronsky’s show

State Department
-Leaks
-Kissinger’s report
	-Cambodia
		-State Department cables
			-Lon Nol
			-[Emory C. Swank]

Press
-News summaries
-Effect on the President’s approval rating
-Television
-Columns
-Ziegler
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-The People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
	-Clayton Fritchey
-News stories
	-New Hampshire primary
-Bombing of an airplane
-Announcement of US-PRC communication channel
-ITT
-Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr. and Harrold G. Carswell
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Kissinger
-Alsop column
-The President’s view
	-Rogers
	-Joseph W. Alsop 
		-Stewart Alsop
	-Kissinger
	-State Department

The President’s schedule
-Gridiron dinner
-Herbert G. Klein
-Ziegler
-Seating list
-Women
	-Liberation movement
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
	-Constance M. Stuart
-Nancy Hanks
-Helen Bentley
-Unknown woman
-Mrs. Nixon
-Elinor I. (Judefind) Agnew
-Bentley
-PRC trip

The President left at an unknown time after 10:22 am.

[No conversation]

The President entered at an unknown time before 11:10 am.

The President’s schedule
-Gridiron dinner
-Administration staff
-Virginia H. Knauer
-Gridiron Club
-Mixed reactions
-Examples of Hillcrest
	-The President’s attendance
-Public reaction

Press relations
-Left and right wingers divided
-Evans
	-Kissinger
	-Foreign policy
-Kissinger
	-Kraft
-Ziegler
	-The President’s trip to the PRC
		-Hugh S. Sidey
			-The President’s visit to the Great Wall of China
		-Kraft
		-William F. Buckley, Jr.
		-Dallas News
		-Peter Lisagor

	Rogers
		-Kissinger
			-Foreign affairs meeting
				-Postponement
					-Morgan
-Schedule
-Senate and House
-Congress
-Anti-ballistic missiles [ABM]
-Cambodia
-Michael J. Mansfield’s resolutions
	-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
	-[Vietnam]
-Kissinger
-The President 
-Soviet trip
	-Rogers’s meeting with Haldeman
-House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee
-Morgan
-Kissinger
-MacGregor
-Leaders
-Armed Services Committee
-Leaders of the Senate
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Gerald R. Ford
-Speaker of the House [Carl B. Albert]
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-Kissinger’s backgrounder
	-Rogers’s reading of transcript
-Briefing papers
-Foreign policy
-The President’s speech on Soviet television
-Kissinger’s background
-Shanghai Communiqué
-Chinese audience
-The President’s appearance on Soviet television
-Soviet audience
-The President’s memorandum
-Haldeman
-Kissinger’s backgrounders
	-Qualities of the President
-Rogers
-MacGregor’s view
-Soviet Trip
	-Sightseeing by the President
		-Tbilisi
-Mrs. Nixon
-Rogers
-Kraft

Press
-Kissinger’s view
	-Kraft
	-Evans and Robert D. Novak
-Ziegler
-Report on a Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] special
-Dan Rather
-[Arnold] Eric Sevareid
	-Ziegler
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-Shanghai Communiqué
-John F. Kennedy’s administration
	-Rhetoric
-Relationship with the present administration
-New York Times
		-PRC trip
			-Significance

PRC
-Mrs. Nixon’s talk with Chou En-lai
-Pandas
-Washington National Zoo
-Environment
-Previous animals given as state gifts
-Musk oxen
-Director [Theodore H. Reed]

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:22 am.

The President’s schedule
-Ziegler
-Meeting with the President

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:10 am.

Pandas
-Washington National Zoo
-Smithsonian Institution
-National Park Service
-San Diego
-St. Louis
-Bronx

Ziegler entered at 11:10 am.

Current press briefing
	-Gerald L. Warren
-News story
-Washington National Zoo announcement
-Pandas
-Mrs. Nixon
-Selection process
-Other zoos
-Gift to the nation
-Environment of Washington, DC
-Timing of announcement
-Washington Star editorial
-Musk oxen
	-Reed

Ziegler left at 11:12 am.

		-Morning press briefing
			-Haldeman’s view
				-Panda story
	-Washington Star
	-Washington Post
	-Crosby S. Noyes
	-Newbold Noyes

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 11:12 am and 11:16 am.

[Conversation No. 683-4A]

[See Conversation No. 21-49]

[End of telephone conversation]

The Washington Star
-Crosby Noyes
-Columnist
-Newbold Noyes
-Editor
-Crosby Noyes and Smith Hempstone, Jr.
-Compared to Los Angeles Time

Kissinger
-Schedule
	-Forthcoming trip to Acapulco
		-New York

Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 11:12 am

Pandas
-Washington National Zoo

Ziegler left at an unknown time before 11:16 am.

Pandas
-Chinese host explanation
	-Mating habits
	-Food
	-Bamboo and sugar cane

Rogers
-Kissinger

The President talked with Crosby Noyes between 11:16 am and 11:21 am.

[Conversation No. 683-4B]

[See Conversation No. 21-50]

[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Troop withdrawal

Pandas
-Crosby Noyes
-Washington Star
-Mating habits
-Chicago
-Quantity outside China
	-London
-Life span
-Compared to bears, dogs, cats and horses
-Mrs. Nixon’s role
	-Haldeman’s forthcoming call to Stuart

Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 11:21 am and 11:25 am.

[Conversation No. 683-4C]

[See Conversation No. 21-51]

[End of telephone conversation]

Pandas
-Mrs. Nixon’s role

Rogers and Kissinger
-MacGregor

Bull [?] entered and left at an unknown time before 11:21 am.

	Request for MacGregor to some to the Oval Office
		-Dinner
			-Leaders

Haldeman talked with Stuart between 11:21 am and 11:25 am.

[Conversation No. 683-4D]

[See Conversation No. 21-52]

Bull [?] entered at and left at an unknown time before 11:25 am.

	MacGregor’s schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

	MacGregor’s schedule

Kissinger and Rogers
-MacGregor
-Dinner

Kissinger entered at 11:25 am.

PRC
-Arthur K. Watson
-Meeting with the Chinese
-Press
-Two forthcoming ambassadorial meetings
-British recognition
-Peter G. Peterson and Flanigan
-Meeting with Kissinger

Cambodia
-Lon Nol
-Llewellyn E. (“Tommy”) Thompson, Jr.
-News summary
-US embassy cables
-Leaks
-State Department
-Emory C. Swank
-Jack N. Anderson
-Norodom Sihanouk [?]
-Thompson
-State Department
-Separate negotiations
-Sihanoukville
-Lon Nol
-Marshall Green
-Lon Nol
-Leaks
-Evans

PRC
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-Washington Daily News
	-Taiwanese independence movement
		-Chiang Kai-Shek
		-Chinese
		-Japanese
		-Kissinger’s view
		-New York Times editorial
		-State Department papers
		-Rogers
		-Shanghai Communiqué
		-US Support

Soviet trip
-Flanigan and Peterson
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Haldeman
-Trade
-Commerce Department
-Rogers
-Connally
-Flanigan

Kissinger’s schedule
	-Acapulco

Busing
-Statement
-Leonard Garment
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Domestic policy statements compared to foreign policy statements
-Chicago
-Blacks
-David Rockefeller
-Call to Kissinger

Press
-PRC trip coverage
-Kissinger’s schedule
	-New York
-News summary
	-ITT
-Announcements
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Soviet summit
-PRC summit
-Berlin
-Biological weapons
-The PRC trip
-Television
-Rockefeller
-Kissinger’s dinner at Cote Basque Restaurant
	-Unknown woman
						-Head of programming, American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
	-Comments
	-Wife 
-People in restaurant
-Rockefeller
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
						-Vice President of National Broadcasting Company [NBC], [Herbert S. Schlosser]
-News summary
-Columns
-Agronsky’s show
-The PRC trip
-Sidey
-The President
	-Notes
-Chou En-lai
	-Kissinger
-Stewart Alsop column
-Rogers
-Kissinger’s previous telephone conversation with Alsop
-Secretary of State
-Ziegler
-Kraft
-Stewart Alsop
	-Impact of columns

Kissinger
-Testimony
-Meetings with members of the House of Representatives and the Senate
-MacGregor
-Morgan
-State Department
-Senate
-Hugh Scott and Mansfield
	-Senate Foreign Relations Committee
-John C. Stennis
-Fulbright
-Ford
-Albert
-Boggs
-Rogers’s testimony
-Motive
-Senate Foreign Relations Committee
-Number of meetings
-Armed Services Committee
-Dean Rusk
-Senate
	-Rogers
		-Previous briefing
-Fulbright
-Rogers’s testimony
-MacGregor

Kissinger left at 11:44 am.

Kissinger
-The President’s view
-Rogers 

State Department
-Soviet trip
-Planning
-Haldeman’s call to Rogers
	-McCloskey’s call

ITT case
-Columnists
	-Richard G. Kleindienst
	-Newsweek and Time
-Dita D. Beard
-Cleared to testify
-Ehrlichman
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Finance issue
-Maurice H. Stans
-Talk with Mitchell
-Contributions
-Reporting
-Mailing
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Private committee for the reelection of the President
-According to the law

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Campaign contributions
-Mitchell
-Stans
-Reporting
-Timing
-Public relations people
-Stans
-Ziegler
-Muskie’s reporting schedule
-Stans
-Reporting
-Statement
-William L. Safire
-Stans
-Consistency
-Mitchell

ITT case
-Marlow W. Cook
-Executive session
-James O. Eastland
-Beard testimony

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Campaign contributions
-Reporting

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Kissinger
-Schedule
-MacGregor
-Relationship with the State Department
-Rogers
-Meeting
-Morgan
-Rogers’s testimony
-Hays
-Rogers
-MacGregor’s dinner

	MacGregor
		-Dinners
			-Democrats
-Press
-Social occasions
-Compared to Gridiron dinner

Campaign contributions
-Mitchell
-Favors
-Reporting
-Democrats

The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Ronald S. Berman
-National Endowment for the Humanities [NEH]
-Haldeman’s view

	White House staff
		-Efforts
		-News summary
		-Balance needed
	-Kissinger

Haldeman left at 12:01 pm.

Conversation No. 683-5

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:02 pm and 12:05pm
Location:  Oval Office

Stephen B. Bull met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President’s schedule
-Press

Bull talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 12:01 pm and 12:05 pm

[Conversation No. 683-5A]

[End of telephone conversation]

	Press Room

Bull and Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:05 pm.

Conversation No. 683-6

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 12:02 pm until 12:17 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Stephen B. Bull met with unknown people.

Preparations for swearing-in ceremony

Marina von N. Whitman, Dr. Robert Whitman, Malcolm Whitman, Laura Whitman, Josephine Pierce, Herbert Stein, Ezra Solomon, George P. Shultz, William L. Safire, Barbara H. Franklin and Judge Paul McArdle entered at an unknown time after 12:02 pm; the White House photographer and members of the press were present.

Swearing-in ceremony
-Positions
-Marina Whitman
-Robert Whitman
-McArdle

-Shultz
-Solomon

[General conversation]

The President entered at 12:05 pm.

Swearing-in ceremony
-McArdle
-Oath of office
-Whitman

Malcolm and Laura Whitman

Photographs
-Copies
-Family
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]

Economy
-Prices
-Unemployment

Photographs
-Shultz

Gifts
-Cufflinks

CEA
-Reports
-Wording
-Stein

Whitman’s mother
-Elephants

Washington, DC
-Weather
-Trees
	-Magnolias
-Crab apples
-Tulips

Gift [“Star of the President”]
-Walter H. Annenberg
-Ambassador
-France
-Steuben glass

CEZ
-Whitman
-First woman
-Chairman

Oval Office
-Paintings
-George Washington
-Rembrandt Peale
-Father
-Charles Wilson Peale
-Crewelwork
	-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Paintings
-White House
-Wings
-Theodore Roosevelt
-Tree
-Peking

Pandas
-Washington National Zoo
-Outside the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-London
-Another European city
-Pair
-Soviet Union

	Bean birds
		-Gift

Whitman, et al. left at 12:17 pm.

The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Ronald S. Berman

Steuben glass [“Star of the President”]

Bull left at 12:17 pm.

Conversation No. 683-7

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  12:18 pm - 1:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald S. Berman and Leonard Garment; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Photographs
-The President and Berman

Garment
-Public relations

National Endowment for the Humanities [NEH]
-Berman
-Conservative publications
-Subsidized art
-Peking
-Government control
-Constituency
-Status conscious compared to moderate individuals
	-Example of House of Representatives
	-Middle class attachments
	-Midwest

	-Respect for education
	-Art compared to humanities
-Programs
-Professionals
-Public
-Television
-Good cinema art
-Example of Laurence Olivier
	-Henry V
	-Hamlet
-The President’s view
	-Biographical
	-Historical
	-Midnight Cowboy
-Olivier
-William Shakespeare
-Elizabethan England
	-Example of Elizabeth Regina
		-British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC]
-Movies in the White House
-Definition of humanities
-Movies
-Radio
	-History
	-Literature
	-Biography
-Comedies
-Shakespeare
-Drama in the US
	-Ideological bias
-Biographies
-Documentaries
-Orville and Wilbur Wright
-Portrayal of US spirit
		-Lorraine Hansberry
		-A Raisin in the Sun
		-The Young, the Gifted, and the Black
-Sports
-Brian’s Song
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-Brian Piccolo
-Gale Sayers
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Race relations
-Audiences
	-Novels
	-Biographies
-Education
-H.G. Wells
-Writings on the French Revolution
-Thomas Carlyle
-Jean Paul Marat
-Georges Danton
-Maximilien Robespierre
-Marat
	-Benjamin Franklin
	-Charlotte Corday
-Characteristics of revolutionary leaders
-American-British history
-Russian Revolution
-French Revolution
-Napoleon Bonaparte
-Waterloo
-Motion pictures
-Patton
-George S. Patton
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Bernard L. Montgomery
-Omar N. Bradley
-French Revolution
-Edmund Burke
-Carlyle
-Marat, Danton, Robespierre
-American Revolution compared to French Revolution
-Danton
-Robespierre
-Present revolutionary practices
-Wells
-Musicals
-Government sponsored
-Freedom and diversity
-Commercial
-Intellectuals
-Movies
	-French Revolution
-Writers
-Burke
-Carlyle
-Wells
-French Revolution compared to World War I
-Battle of the Somme, 1916
-World War I compared to World War II
-Deaths
-Bastille
-Revisionist historians
-French Revolution
-Intellectuals
-The President’s talk with Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Indira Gandhi’s previous trip to France
	-Golda Meir compared to Gandhi
-Intellectuals
-Plato’s Republic
	-Shoemakers compared to professors
-Universities
-Academic freedom

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:18 pm.

Books
-Residence
-Wells
-Library
	-Russell A. Kirk

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:07 pm.

Intellectuals
-Berman’s book
-Berkeley revolution
-Vietnam War
-Takeover of universities
-Unrest on campuses
-Cambodia
-Kent State
-Separate dorms
-Tear down traditional institutions
-Family
-Community
-Corporation
-The President’s view
	-Marxists compared to radicals
-Education
-Chinese compared to Americans
-Parents dedication
-US
-Desire for education
	-Blacks
	-Busing
	-Inferior education
	-Trade groups
	-Virtue

Sanchez entered and left at an unknown time between 12:18 pm and 1:07 pm.

	-American attitude compared to British and Soviet attitudes
		-Winston S. Churchill
-Middle class
	-American ideal

	Writers
		-The President reading from a book
			-Carlyle on Marat
-Painting
-Books
-List of ten best suggested by Berman
-History
-British
-Revolution
-Men
-Writers
-Carlyle
-The President reading from a book
-French Revolution
-French Revolution
-Robespierre
-The President reading from a book
-Burke

	NEH
-Berman
-Recommendations to the President
-Books
-Movies
-Intellectuals
	-Sidney Hook
-Vietnam War
-Individuals requesting employment
-The administration
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Daniel P. Moynihan
-Berman
-San Diego
-University of California
-Herbert Marcuse
-Production of intellectuals
-Education
	-Vietnam
-West Germany
-Garment’s recent visit
-University system
	-Berlin
	-Professors and students
-Japanese system
-Chinese
-Foreign policy ramifications
-US domestic stability
-Germany
-Japanese studies
-Possible efforts by NEH

Gifts
-Cufflinks

	Garment

Lawyers

Berman and Garment left at 1:07 pm.

Conversation No. 683-8

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:07 pm and 1:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

The President’s schedule [?]

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:10 pm.

Conversation No. 683-9

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  1:10 pm - 2:02 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Ronald S. Berman
-Leonard Garment
-The President’s view
	-Intellectuals

James Keogh’s book [President Nixon and the Press]
-Autographed copy for the President
-Possible sales
-The President
	-Speech writing
-Historical material

	-Thomas Jefferson quote
-White House staff
-The press
	-Edith Efron’s book [The News Twisters]
-Jefferson
	-Letter to James Monroe
-James K. Polk
	-Emissary to Mexico
		-Press
-Abraham Lincoln
-The President’s relationship with the press
	-The President as Vice President
		-Alger Hiss case
	-John Adams
	-Television
-Cambodia
-Campus unrest
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
	-Drew Pearson
-John N. Mitchell
-Herbert G. Klein
-Breakfast in the Jungle chapter
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-The President’s November 3, 1969 speech
	-Network commentary
-Agnew’s previous speech in Des Moines

The President’s schedule
-Gridiron dinner
-White House correspondents dinner
-Haldeman’s previous conversation with John B. Connally
-The President’s possible trip to Texas
-California
-Texas
	-Rotary
	-Possible event in San Angelo
		-The President’s forthcoming trip to Canada

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

Campaign finances
-Law requirements
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Maurice H. Stans
-List of contributors
-Edmund S. Muskie

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International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Clark MacGregor’s meeting with the President

Polls
-Muskie

An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 1:10 pm.

MacGregor’s location

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 1:26 pm.

Henry A. Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-Jack N. Anderson papers
-Kissinger’s threatened resignation
-India-Pakistan situation
-State Department
-Rogers 

The President’s schedule
-Gridiron dinner
-Cabinet officers
-Rogers’s attendance
-California
-Agnew

MacGregor entered at 1:26 pm.

	MacGregor’s health
-Robert H. Finch’s health
-The President

Rogers and Kissinger
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meeting with congressmen
-Thomas E. (“Doc”) Morgan
-Richard K. Cook
-MacGregor’s forthcoming talk with Morgan
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs and Gerald R. Ford
-State Department representative
-Dinner
-Kissinger and the Foreign Relations Committee members
-Blair House
-Prior occasions
-J. William Fulbright
-John Sherman Cooper
-David M. Abshire
-MacGregor’s talk with Rogers
-Rogers’s role as Secretary of State
-Kissinger’s previous conversation with MacGregor
	-Key Biscayne
-Rogers’s comments
-Rogers 
-Stewart J.O. Alsop’s article in Newsweek
-The possibility of Kissinger as Secretary of State
-MacGregor’s proposed meeting with Kissinger and Rogers
-Timing
	-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Scheduling
-Rogers’s comments
-State Department representative
-Congressmen
	-Senators
	-War powers issue
-MacGregor’s dinner
-Clement J. Zablocki
-Wayne L. Hays
-Cooper
	-W[illiam] Stuart Symington
	-Blair House
-Rogers’s comments
-Seating
-Zablocki comments
-Barbara MacGregor
-Rescheduling
-Abshire
-Rogers 
-Press coverage of Kissinger
-India-Pakistan war
	-State Department
-MacGregor’s dinner
-Rogers’s comments
-Barbara MacGregor
-Experience in Washington, DC
-Political gossip
-Conflict
	-Public interest
-Washington, DC
-Minneapolis
-Whittier, California
-Alsop column
-Social circles
	-Alsop column
	-Diplomats
-MacGregor’s dinner
-George D. and Lola Aiken
-John and Lorraine Cooper
-William Meyer
-Meeting with congressmen
-Rescheduling
-Morgan
-MacGregor’s forthcoming statement
	-Boggs, Carl B. Albert, Ford
-Partisans
-Republican attendance
-Foreign Affairs Committee
-War powers issue

ITT case
-Stock decrease
-Announcement date
-Harold S. Geneen
-Richard W. McLaren
-Erwin N. Griswold
-Contributions
-Justice Department
-Settlement
-Hearings
-MacGregor’s role
-James O. Eastland
-Meeting with MacGregor
-Mitchell
-Witnesses

	MacGregor’s health

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MacGregor’s health

MacGregor left at 1:49 pm.

MacGregor

ITT case
-Status
-Mitchell
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Confirmation
-Attorney General
-Withdrawal
-Effect on hearings

Rogers
-Previous dinner with MacGregor
-Conversation with Zablocki 
-Interviews
-Foreign policy

	Keogh’s book [President Nixon and the Press]
		-Request for copies
-[Dwight] David and Julie Eisenhower
-Edward R.F. and Tricia Nixon Cox
-Commentary
-The President’s speech
-Agnew’s speech

	The President’s schedule
-Public television programs
-Press conference
-Speech
-Question and answer sessions
	-Coverage
		-Detroit
-The President’s use of television

Rogers
-MacGregor 
-Rescheduling meeting
-State Department

	Marina von N. Whitman [?]
-Robert Whitman

Haldeman left and Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 1:49 pm.

	Instructions
		-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

The President’s schedule
-Charles W. Colson
-Kenneth W. Clawson

Sanchez left at 2:02 pm.

Conversation No. 683-10

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  2:50 pm - 2:54 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Possible efficient at next White House church service
-Fred B. Rhodes, Jr.
	-Southern Baptist Convention
-Harry S. Dent
-Charles W. Colson
-Rose Mary Woods
-Richard G. Kleindienst

[No conversation]

Letter
-Unknown man [George H. Mahon?]
-The President’s reading

Butterfield left at 2:54 pm.

Conversation No. 683-21

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:54 pm and 3:02 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time between 2:54 pm and 3:02 pm.

	The President’s schedule
		-Meeting with Ronald L. Ziegler
			-Ziegler’s forthcoming press briefing

Bull left at an unknown time between 2:54 pm and 3:02 pm.

Conversation No. 683-11

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  2:54 pm - 3:02 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Press briefing
-Busing statement
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Possible message to Congress
-George P. Shultz
-Wording to press
-Timing of decision
-Message to Congress
-Pandas
-Crosby S. Noyes
-Call from the President
-Gerald L. Warren

-Possible questions
-William P. Rogers
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Response to Rogers-Kissinger situation
-Quality of story
-Election
-Press opinions
-Composition of the Administration
-The President’s decisions
-Secretary of State
-Kissinger
-Quality of story
-Secretary of State
-Foreign policy team
-Stewart J.O. Alsop’s column
-The President’s view
	-Kissinger 
		-Possibility as Secretary of State
	-Rogers 

Ziegler left at 3:02 pm.

Conversation No. 683-12

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:02 pm and 3:05 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President’s schedule
-Upcoming meeting with George H. Mahon
-Otto E. Passman
-Henry A. Kissinger
-John D. Ehrlichman and Edward L. Morgan
-Request for a meeting with the President
-Busing

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:05 pm.

Conversation No. 683-13

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  3:05 pm - 3:12 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull, George H. Mahon, Grover E. Murray, John R. Bradford, Richard K. Cook and John E. Nidecker; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Introductions
-Mahon

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:12 pm.

Introductions
-Murray
-Bradford

The President’s schedule
-American Society for Engineering Education Conference
-Invitation to the President to speak
-Annapolis
-Importance of conference
-Decision

Photographs

Portraits
	-Note

Maid of Cotton
-Visit to Washington, DC
-Request to visit the President

	Cotton Bowl
		-Texas Tech University
		-University of Arkansas

Odessa College
	-Presidential display
		-The People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
			-Chinese box
-Photograph 
	-1969 University of Arkansas-University of Texas football game
-Air Force One
-Gift
-Chinese scroll
-Mahon

Gifts
-Cufflinks
-Scroll
-PRC
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Odessa College
-Mahon

Mahon’s work as a Congressman

	Portrait
	-F. Edward Hebert

Mahon, et al. left at 3:12 pm.

Conversation No. 683-14

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:12 pm and 3:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person.

Affirmation

Conversation No. 683-15

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  3:15 pm - 3:41 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Otto E. Passman, Henry A. Kissinger and Richard K. Cook; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

Photographs

	The President’s telephone remarks to a drug education seminar in Monroe, Louisiana, October 4, 1971
	-Size of the audience

	Congress
-George H. Mahon
-Republicans compared to Democrats
-J. William Fulbright
-Allen J. Ellender
-William Proxmire
-Security assistance
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Talk with Passman
-Masons
-Passman’s political affiliation
-Voting record

Passman’s support for the President

1973 foreign assistance bill
-Support
-Military assistance
-John A. Hannah
-Henry Kearns
-Export-Import  [Ex-Im] Bank

-Multilateral foreign aid
-Congress
-Bilateral aid
-John B. Connally
-Talk with Passman
-Congress
-Finances of other countries
-Development loans
-Diplomatic relations
-International loan provisions
-Amounts requested
-Repayment
-Interest
-US treasury
-Inter-American development bank
-Passman compared to the president
-Military assistance programs
-Vietnam War
-The President’s efforts to end the war
	-Reductions in outlays
-Fulbright
-Proxmire
-Multilateral aid
-Peace corps
-Finances
-Reasons for being removed from countries
-Bilateral technical aid employees compared to Peace Corps employees
-Finances
-Laws and statutes violated by lobbying efforts
	-General Accounting Office [GAO] audit
-Hannah
-Talk with Passman
-Finances
-Multilateral assistance
-Paper
-Connally
-Secretary of State
-Kissinger’s possible call to Passman
	-National security
		-Cook
		-Cambodia
			-Finances
-Peace Corps
-Passman’s support for the President
-Connally
-Treasury Department
-Effect on US
	-Mahon
	-Karl E. Mundt

	The President’s schedule
		-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Invitation to Louisiana Press Association
-Kissinger

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	Passman’s experience
		-Reports

Schedule
-Sunday service at the White House
-Baptist preacher
	-Southern Baptist Convention

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Foreign assistance bill
-Security

Gifts
-Cufflinks

Passman’s secretaries
-Number
-Salaries

Forthcoming busing meeting

Clocks
-Passman’s hobby
-The President
-Antique clock
-Possible gift from Passman
-Antique hunting case watch

Kissinger’s schedule

Gift
-Peking
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

Gold watch

Secret Service

Passman, et al. left at 3:41 pm.

Conversation No. 683-16

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:41 pm and 3:48 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

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

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:48 pm.

Conversation No. 683-17

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:41 pm and 3:48 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Ehrlichman
-The President’s forthcoming busing statement
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Draft
-Wording
-Meeting with Ehrlichman
-Time
	-Forthcoming meeting with [Nassir Assar]
		-Central Treaty Organization [CENTO]

Conversation No. 683-18

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:41 pm and 3:48 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President’s schedule
-Possible meeting with an unknown man
	-Bull’s possible conversation with the unknown man
-Forthcoming meeting with Charles W. Colson and Kenneth W. Clawson

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:48 pm.

Conversation No. 683-19

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:41 pm and 3:48 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 21-53]

Conversation No. 683-20/684-1

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  3:48 pm - 4:58 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Charles W. Colson and Kenneth W. Clawson.

Greetings
-Clawson

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Press
-Katharine L. Graham
-Clawson’s move from the Washington Post
-The President’s request for a call to James Keogh
	-[President Nixon and the Press]
		-Copies
-Thomas Wolfe
-You Can’t Go Home Again
-Criticism
-Errors

The President talked with James Keogh between 3:50 pm and 3:52 pm.

[Conversation No. 683-20/684-1A]

[See Conversation No. 21-54]

[End of telephone conversation]

Photograph

Clawson
-Background
-Harvard University
-Benjamin C. Bradlee
-Washington Post
-Paul Black, Jr.
-Toledo, Pittsburgh, Monterey papers
-Monterey 
-Unknown man
	-Agency for International Development [AID]
-Philadelphia Bulletin
-Newspapers
-Small town
-Detroit
-George Meany
-James R. (“Jimmy”) Hoffa
-The President’s view
	-Dave Beck
	-Seattle
-Issues and Answers appearance
	-Endorsement in 1972
	-The President

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:52 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:37 pm.

	Hoffa
		-Issues and Answers appearance

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Clawson
-Background
-Administration job
-Clark R. Mollenhoff
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-The President
-Colson
-Relationship with Clawson
-Background
-Washington Post
-California trips
-Clawson’s wife
-Political affiliation
-Frederic C. Malek
-Administration

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Senate
-Stock Market
-Harold S. Geneen
-Settlement
-Erwin N. Griswold
-Pentagon Papers case
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Sheraton Hotel
-San Diego convention committee
-Chicago, Miami
-Marlow W. Cook
-New York Times
-Washington Post
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Clawson
-Leaks
-Dita D. Beard memorandum
-Kleindienst
-Withdrawal
-Beard memorandum
-Jack N. Anderson
-Secretary
-Opal Ginnis
-James O. Eastland
-Kleindienst
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Donald F. Turner
-Richard W. McLaren
-Flanigan
-Law school professors and American Bar Association [ABA]
-Testimony
-ITT acquisition of other companies
-Administration strategy
-Beard memorandum
-Authenticity
-Beard
-Lawyers
-Testimony
-Memorandum
-Contents
-Four sentences
-Edward J. Gerrity
-William R. Merriam
-Robert C. Wilson
-Cash
-Louie B. Nunn
-John N. Mitchell
-The President
-McLaren
-Gerrity and Wilson
-Attorney General
-Negotiations
-Geneen
-The President
-Mitchell
-Cash
-Settlement
	-President’s policy on anti-trust
-Memorandum
-Authenticity
-Deposition
	-Health
	-Committee investigators
-Interview
-Executive session
-Anderson’s testimony
-Impeachment
-Cook
-Public relations
-Anderson
-Kennedy
-Staff
-General news media
-Reporter
-Talk with administration staff
-Kennedy staff member
-Press
-Working with Anderson and Kennedy
-Cook letter
-Anderson and Kennedy
-Release
-Mike Epstein
-Justice Department
-Kennedy
-Memorandum authenticity
-Anderson’s secretary
-Beard’s secretary
-Testimony
-Location
-Depositions from ITT employees
-Anderson
-Possession of the original
-Beard’s testimony
-Anderson’s secretary
-Beard’s involvement
-Ginnis
-Suggestions
-Convention
-Geneen
	-Wilson’s involvement
	-Justice Department

Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 4:37 pm.  This conversation continues on Oval 684.