Conversation No. 683-20/684-1

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown after 3:48 pm until 6:03 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Charles W. Colson and Kenneth W. Clawson; the conversation was in progress when the recording began.  This conversation continues from Oval 683.

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Robert C. Griffin
-Talk with Colson
-Vice PresidentSpiro T. Agnew
-Contributions
-Richard W. McLaren
	-Settlement
		-Possible television appearance
-Need for cohesive response
-Robert C. Wilson
-John N. Mitchell
-Meeting with Colson
-People involved
-Anti-trust policy study
-John B. Connally
-Richard G. Kleindienst confirmation
-Wallace H. Johnson
-Kleindienst confirmation
-Louie B. Nunn
-Relationship with Dita D. Beard
-Party
	-Beard's meeting with Mitchell
-Kleindienst
-Confirmation hearings
-Testimony
-The President's schedule
-Press coverage
-Beard's secretary

-Memorandum
-Jack N. Anderson's secretary
-Possible testimony
-Anderson
-Relationship with Beard
-Beard's habits
-Beard memorandum
-Conflicting stories
	-William R. Merriam
	-Beard’s secretary
-Typewriter
-Testimony
-Typing
-Compared to Alger Hiss case
-Different people's typing style
-Investigation
-Secretary
-Beard
-Howard Hughes fraud
-Clifford Irving
-Typewriters
-Letters
-Priscilla Hiss
-Son
-Misspellings
-Merriam
-Staff of ITT
-Offices
-Beard
-Press coverage
			-Hearings
-Kleindienst
-Robert J. Dole
-Democrats
-Campaign funds
-Kleindienst
-Hearings
-Reactions
-Sherman Adams comparison
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-President’s views

Clawson left at 4:37 pm.

ITT
-Anderson
-Typewriters
-Investigation
-Beard memorandum
-Kleindienst
-The President
-Press coverage
	-Anderson
		-Brit Hume
-Clawson
-Mitchell
-Role
-Knowledge of contribution
-Kleindienst
-Peter M. Flanigan
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Harold S. Geneen
	-Mitchell’s testimony
-Anti-trust case
-Discussion
-McLaren
-Policy issue
-Geneen
-Edwin Reinecke
-Conversation with Mitchell
-Contribution
-Administration
-Geneen
-Conversations with Flanigan, Mitchell, Ehrlichman and Colson
	-Ehrlichman’s conversation with the President
-Jack Brooks
-Vance Hartke
-Philip A. Hart
-Emmanuel Celler
-Peter W. Rodino, Jr.
-Democrats
-Files
-Flanigan, Colson, Ehrlichman
-Justice Department relations
-Policy
-Connally
	-Dates
-Edward J. Gerrity, Jr. meeting with Agnew
-Meeting with Geneen
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Federal Communications Commission [FCC]
-Contribution
-Wilson
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Memorandum to Mitchell
-Herbert G. Klein and Robert H. Finch
-San Diego
-Hearings
-Advice
-Beard
-Anderson's secretaries
-Administration
-Kleindienst
-Possible resignation
-Congressional reaction
-Press
-Greg Yearning
-Gerald R. Ford
-Mitchell
-Memoranda
-Flanigan
-Business dinners
-Blair House
-National Association of Manufacturers [NAM]
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Dishonesty within administration

1972 campaign
-Finances
-Edmund S. Muskie
-President
-New campaign finance law
-Muskie
-Reporting contributions
-Press
-Unknown man's reports to Colson

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	Press stories
-New Hampshire primary
-Bombings
-Paris negotiations between the US and the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-ITT
	-Sherman Adams case comparison
-The President’s role
	-Eisenhower
-Adams 
-Styles Bridges
-Adams
-Role in government
-Bernard Goldfine
-Norris Cotton [?]
-Bridges
		-Compared to Kleindienst

ITT hearings
-Kleindienst
	-Strategy
-Joseph McCarthy
-Hiss case
-Harry S. Truman
-Washington Post
-New York Times
-Typewriter
-Whitaker Chambers
-Views on communism
-The press
	-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
	-Marquis W. Childs
-Jewish people
-Silberberg [Nathan G. Silvermaster]
	-Elizabeth T. Bentley
-Lee Pressman
-Chambers
-Experiences in World War II
	-Soviet Union
		-Adolf Hitler
			-Communism
-Schedule

The PRC trip
-Effect of ITT case
	-Clayton Fritchey
-Compared to ITT case
-Public confidence in the President
-Louis P. Harris
	-Polls
		-Minnesota
-Robert P. Griffin
-Harris
	-Muskie

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ITT
-Kennedy, Birch E. Bayh, Jr. and Anderson
-Beard memorandum
-Typewriter

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:37 pm and 5:11 pm.

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

[See Conversation No. 21-55]

[End of telephone conversation]

Clawson
-The President’s view
	-Washington Post
	-Clark R. Mollenhoff

Colson left and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 5:11 pm.

The President talked with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon between 5:11 pm and 5:12 pm.

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

[See Conversation No. 21-56]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Key Biscayne
	-John B. Connally’s possible trip
	-Idanell B. (“Nellie”) Connally
-Mitchell’s possible trip

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:12 pm.

Washington Star
-Copy for the President

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:27 pm.

Washington Star
-Panda story
-Mating of pandas

Mitchell's schedule
-Key Biscayne
-Connally’s schedule
	-Haldeman's schedule

The President's schedule
	-Forthcoming event in Texas

ITT case
-The President's talk with Colson
-Mitchell
-Geneen
-Justice Department

PRC
-Exhibits
-The President’s memorandum
-Tourist interest
-Rex W. Scouten
-Pictures
	-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Menus
-Chopsticks
-Place cards
-Pandas
-The President's call to Crosby S. Noyes

ITT case
-Memoranda
-Ehrlichman
-Flanigan
-Files
-Geneen
-The President's talk with Colson
-Kleindienst confirmation
-Ehrlichman
-White House strategy
	-Beard
	-Beard's and Anderson's secretaries
-Typewriters
-Investigators
-Misspelled words
-Hiss case
-Beard
-Testimony
-Anderson's secretary
-E. Kennedy's involvement
-Mitchell's testimony
-Press conference
-The President's schedule
-Beard's testimony
-Denver
-ITT offices
	-Jack Gleason

The President's schedule
-Church service
-Rose Mary Woods
-Type of guests
	-Sub-Cabinet level appointees
	-Congressmen
-Handshaking
-Haldeman's talk with Henry A. Kissinger
-Kissinger's forthcoming vacation
-Haldeman's talk with William P. Rogers

Woods entered at 5:27 pm.

Woods's schedule
-Helene (Colesie) Drown

The President's schedule
-Church service
-Guest lists
-White House staff
-Secret Service
-Assistant secretaries
-Shaking hands
-Choir
	-Photographs
-Shaking hands
-Closing speech by the President
-Personal friends
		-Forthcoming dinner for Nihat Erim
		-Forthcoming dinner for Hussein Ibn Talal [Hussein, King of Jordan]
-Forthcoming Organization of American States [OAS] dinner
-Possible for 12th Mexico-US Interparliamentary Conference
-Unknown dinner
-Maurice H. Stans
-Gridiron dinner
-Terry Thompson's [?] visit
-Church service
-Thompson's wife
-Trans World Airlines [TWA]
	-Timing
-Church services
	-1972 election
	-Forthcoming dinner for Erim
	-After dinner entertainment
-Dinners
-Plans for after dinner events
-Black tie compared to white tie
	-Dinner for Erim
	-Dinner for Hussein
-Acapulco
-Puerto Vallarta
		-Former president of Mexico
		-Lunches
		-Amistad Dam
-Entertainment
	-Dorothy Kirsten
	-Gordon MacRae
	-Kirsten
		-Kirsten Flagstad
-Kirsten and John D. French
-Lainie Kazan
	-Choirs for White House church services
	-Compared to singers
-Novel read by Haldeman
-Fictional First Lady
	-Party at the White House
		-London rock group
-Church service	
-Guest list
-Arthur F. Burns
-Cabinet members
-Tricia Nixon Cox's attendance at a dinner
-Compared to White House social events
	-Rich people in attendance
	-Young people
	-Robert C. (“Bob”) Wilson
-Hugh Scott
	-Robert J. Dole
	-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
	-Woods’s attendance
		-Stans
	-John N. Mitchell
	-Paul Garvey
	-Martha (Beall) Mitchell

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The President’s previous conversation with Nixon
	-Busing issue
		-Ehrlichman

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Church service

News stories
	-British officer
		-Soviet Union
	-Pandas
	-Mating

Woods left at 5:53 pm.

ITT
	-Flanigan
		-Analyst [Richard J. Ramsden]
			-Investment firm
			-Background
-Democrats
-Beard
-Testimony
-Witnesses
-Beard memorandum

Kissinger
-Possible resignation
-Talk with Haldeman
-Rogers
	-The President’s view
-Forthcoming US-Soviet Union Summit

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Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:53 pm.

The President's schedule
	-Executive Office Building [EOB]
	-California

Refreshment

Haldeman and Sanchez left at 6:03 pm.

Conversation No. 684-2

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:03 pm and 6:05 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President dictated a memorandum to H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

Haldeman

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 6:03 pm.

Signing documents

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 6:05 pm.

The President continued dictating.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with William F. (“Billy”) Graham and religious leaders
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Schedule
-Meetings with political groups
-Meetings with columnists
-White House church service
-Army Chorus

-Half hour church service
	-Army Chorus
-Speakers for service
	-Army chorus
		-Religious songs

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Growth
-John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson administrations
-Stop growth
-Present administration
-Haldeman's talk with Charles W. Colson
-Lawyer for ITT or Department of Justice
-Prosecution during Johnson administration
-Harold S. Geneen testimony
-Testimony against the President
-Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin's office
-Editorials or columns
-Criticism
-Files of the House Un-american Activities Committee [HUAC]
-Alger Hiss case
-Editorials
-New York Times and the Washington Post
-Condemnation of the committee
-Hearsay evidence

Graham
-Talks with Haldeman
-Political situation

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Talk with Haldeman
	-Press

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William P. Rogers situation
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Herbert G. Klein

-Press questions
-Ziegler's statement
-Klein

The President completed the dictation.

Conversation No. 684-3

Date:  March 13, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:03 pm and 6:05 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

Memorandum to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Transcription
	-Rose Mary Woods
	-Marjorie P. Acker

The unknown person left.