Conversation No. 685-21

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:24 am and 9:03 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

	The President’s schedule
		-Proposed meeting with Henry A. Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:03 am.

Conversation No. 685-1

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 8:24 am and 9:03 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman [?].

Busing speech
-Draft
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Editing
-Black schools
-Inferiority

An unknown person [Stephen B. Bull?] entered at an unknown time between 8:24 am and 9:03 am.

	The President’s schedule
		-Forthcoming meeting with Henry A. Kissinger [?]

The unknown person [Bull?] left at an unknown time between 8:24 am and 9:03 am.

-Examples
	-Elliot L. Richardson
		-Supplemental paper

Conversation No. 685-2

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  9:03 am - 9:51 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger..

Kissinger's schedule
-New York
-People's Republic of China [PRC] ambassador
-Wall Street Journal
-Lunch

Busing

Foreign policy
-PRC
-Arthur K. Watson
-Relations with the US
	-Publicity
	-US critics
		-Kissinger’s note
-Kissinger’s meetings
	-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
	-Barry M. Goldwater
	-Backgrounder
	-Press

	-Ronald W. Reagan and Goldwater
	-James L. Buckley
-Bangladesh
-India
-Possible recognition by the US
-PRC
-Timing
-California
-Indian troops
-Recognition
-State Department
-PRC initiative
	-Japanese
	-Indians
	-Soviets
	-Statement
-Marshall Green
-Schedule
-Performance
-Cambodia
-Emory C. Swank
-PRC
	-Press
-Kissinger’s forthcoming meetings
	-New York Times
	-Wall Street Journal
	-New York Tiimes
		-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Cambodia
-Group from Harvard University
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Unknown man
-Vietnam
	-As campus issue
	-Volunteer force
-Vietnam
	-Democratic National Convention
	-Nguyen Van Thieu
	-Melvin R. Laird
-Announcement
	-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Thieu
-Continued US presence
	-World
	-Duration
		-Air power
-Continued announcement
	-Withdrawal of US forces
	-Timing of additional statement
		-Forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
		-Democratic National Convention
			-Troops
			-Bombings
-Volunteer army
	-Deadline
-Combat forces
	-News summary
	-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Negotiations
	-Forthcoming presidential election
		-Volunteer army
		-Thieu
-Kissinger's possible trip to South Vietnam
	-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Thieu
	-Announcement
		-Democrats
-Negotiations
		-Forthcoming US-Soviet Summit
		-PRC
		-Political Issue
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] comparison
-Campaign
-PRC
-Image of the President 
-Shanghai Communiqué
-Winston Lord
-Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin
-International comments
	-William P. Rogers
	-Cabinet Meeting
	-[George R.S. Baring] Earl of Cromer
	-West German Ambassador to the US
	-World image
	-Change
-Forthcoming US-Soviet Summit
-Image of the President 
	-Vietnam
-Vietnam
-Thieu
-Reserve force
-POWs
	-George S. McGovern
	-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Survival of the Thieu Government
-POWs
-Withdrawal
-Exchange for bombing halt
-Retainment of volunteer force
-Thieu
-1972 election
	-Bombings
	-Offensive
		-Kissinger’s view
		-[Forename unknown] Thompson 
	-The President's image
	-Leadership
	-North Vietnamese leaders
		-The President’s view
			-North Koreans
-Domestic opposition to Administration
-Casualties
-Percentages compared to previous years
-Memorandum from the President
	-Haig
	-Laird
	-Forthcoming Soviet trip
-Announcement
-Withdrawal rate
	-Timing
-Thieu
	-Timing
-Haig’s possible trip to South Vietnam
-Democratic National Convention

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	Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Possibility as Secretary of State
	-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
	-Relationship with Kissinger
	-[David] Kenneth Rush as Secretary of State
		-Bonn
		-Frederic V. Malek
			-Under Secretary
-Secretary of Defense

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	Agnew
-Finances
-Rockefeller
	-Compared to the President
-Financial arrangement
-Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
-Francis A. (“Frank”) Sinatra
-Secretary of Defense
-Chances as President
	-Kissinger’s view
-Secretary of Defense
-Movement from Vice President to Secretary of Defense
	-Compared to the President as Vice President
		-John Foster Dulles
-Nomination for Vice President
-Decision

Foreign policy
-Kissinger's schedule
-Visit with PRC Ambassador
-Watson
-Soviets
	-Briefing
-Bangladesh
				-Gerald R. Ford’s and Michael J. Mansfield’s forthcoming trips to the PRC 
-Vietnam
-Mao Tse-tung
-North Vietnamese
-Shanghai Communiqué
	-US bombing
	-Fixed withdrawal date
	-Thieu
-Television coverage of the President
-North Koreans
		-Chou En-Lai
		-Nicolae Ceausescu
-Paris meetings between the US and North Vietnam
	-Le Duc Tho
	-Timing
-Vacation
-Acapulco
-Mexican Foreign Minister
-Accommodations
-Announcements of trips
-Luis Echeverria Alvarez’s forthcoming visit to the US
-The President’s forthcoming trip to Canada

Rockefeller
-Talk with Kissinger

Ronald W. Reagan
-Defense Department
-Administrative experience
	-Compared to Agnew

Agnew

Kissinger left at 9:51 am.

	Conversation No. 685-3

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  9:52 am - 11:49 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

Weather
-Spring
-Cherry blossoms

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Developments
-Senate

	-Executive session
		-John N. Mitchell testimony
-Harold S. Geneen

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 9:52 am.

Refreshments

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

ITT case
-Investigation
-Miami
-Typewriters
-Dita D. Beard
-Committee schedule

Arthur K. Watson
-Jack N. Anderson's article
-William P. Rogers
-Paris
-Watson's behavior aboard airplane
-Rogers
	-Carl B. Albert
	-[Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Edward M. Kennedy
	-Chappaquiddick

The President talked with an unknown person [Henry A. Kissinger?] at an unknown time between 9:52 am and 10:06 am.

[Conversation No. 685-3A]

Watson story
-The President’s view
-Anderson
-Boggs
-Albert
-John N. Mitchell
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-State Department
	-The President’s view

[End of telephone conversation]

Watson story
-Kissinger 

Martha Mitchell
-The President’s view
-Public appearances
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Woman’s Club
-Martha Mitchell
-Adele (Langston) Rogers
-Elinor I. (Judefind) Agnew
-Davenport, Iowa
-Request for speakers
-Martha Mitchell
-Elinor Agnew
-Adele Rogers
-Barbara (Masters) Laird
-Helen D. Bentley
-Marina von N. Whitman
-Martha Mitchell
-Whitman

	Arthur F. Burns
		-The President’s schedule
		-John B. Connally

Watson story
-Anderson
	-Readership
	-F. Donald Nixon

Kissinger
-Marvin L. Kalb

People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Memorandum
-Press coverage
	-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] special
-Announcement of US-PRC channel
	-Watson
-Memorandum to Haldeman
-John A. Scali
-Talk with Haldeman
-Press coverage
-Hugh S. Sidey
	-News summary
-Kissinger’s possible television appearance
	-Kalb
-Stewart J.O. Alsop
-Sidey
-Television
-Kalb
-Lyndon B. Johnson

Kissinger entered at 10:06 am.

Kissinger’s possible television appearance
	-Kalb
		-Timing
			-The President’s forthcoming press conference

Watson story
-News coverage
	-Donald Nixon
-Pan American Airlines
-Najeeb E. Halaby
-Passenger 
-Position
-Watson

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-The President’s view
	-Stewardesses 
	-Stewards
	-Eastern Airlines

Japan
-American Assembly meeting
-Kissinger
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Rogers
-Schedule
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
	-Richardson
-Kissinger's schedule

	The President's schedule
		-California
			-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
				-Gridiron dinner
					-Dwight D. Eisenhower
						-The President as Vice President

John D. Ehrlichman
-Work on economic projects
-Connally

Panda story
-Network coverage
	-Watson and the PRC
		-New York Times
		-Kissinger's call to Watson

	PRC contact with Watson
		-North Vietnamese

Wall Street Journal
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Suggestions by the President
	-Sidey

Kissinger left at 10:12 am.

The President's schedule
-Kissinger’s schedule
	-Kalb
-Press conference
-Timing
-Congressional recess
-Kissinger's schedule
-California
-Gridiron dinner
		-The PRC trip
		-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Kissinger's schedule
	-Meetings with Power groups
-Dwight Chapin
-Chicago
-Key States
-Cleveland
-Philadelphia
-Economic clubs
-California
-New York
-Chicago
-Philadelphia
-Texas
	-Houston
-Dallas-Ft. Worth
-Connally
	-Talk with Haldeman
	-Kissinger
			-Dinner
				-Kissinger's schedule
				-Scali
				-Kalb

Anderson story
-Watson
-White House staff
-Reactions
-Charles W. Colson

Connally
	-Contact with Haldeman

Radio talks
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-PRC
-Preparation
-Trilogy of talks
-Forthcoming Soviet trip

1972 campaign
-Contributions
-Statement
-William L. Safire
-Primaries
-The President
-General elections

Pentagon Papers story
-John F. Kennedy
-McGeorge Bundy
-1950’s
	-Vietnam
-Declassification
-Campaign
-Counter attacks
	-Robert J. Dole
	-American Telephone and Telegraph [AT&T]

Pandas
-Network coverage
-PRC
-Crosby S. Noyes
-Washington Star
-Washington Post
-National Zoo
-Mating
-London Zoo
-Peking Zoo
-Baby panda
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Cage facilities
-Climate control
-National Zoo
-Tourists
-Names
-Chinese words for peace and friendship
-San Diego Zoo
-National Zoo
-News item

The President's schedule
-Camp Hoover
-Distance
	-Helicopter
-Camp David
-Visit
-Timing
-Dinner
-Testimony
-Announcements
-Forthcoming Soviet trip
-Busing
-Press conference
-Questions
	-ITT

Busing issue
-Early morning staff meeting
-Richard K. Cook
-The President
-Television
-Exposure to the public
-ITT issue
-Congressional support
-John D. Ehrlichman and George P. Shultz
-Safire
-Democrats
-Request for equal time
-Speech
-Draft
-Price
	-Leonard Garment
-Congress
	-Timing
-Legislation
-Speech draft
-Wording of conclusion
	-Blacks in government
	-The President’s view
-Liberals
-Garment
-Daniel P. Moynihan
-Ehrlichman
-Shultz
-Richardson
-Civil rights lawyers
-Blacks
-Jewish liberals

The President's schedule
-Business Council
-Cabinet members
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Herbert Stein
-[Peter G. Peterson]
-Haldeman’s view
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Connally
-Peterson
-ITT comparison
-White House
-Peterson 
-Possible domestic trips
	-Chicago trip
	-Soviet trip
	-California trip
	-Timing
-Themes
-Environment
-Law enforcement
-Black convention
-Concern
-Drugs
-Suburbs
-Possible Administration initiative
		-Central cities
		-Drugs
-Environment
-Timing
-Reaction by the public
	-New York
	-Pennsylvania
	-Ohio
	-Pittsburgh
	-New York City
-Televised press conferences
	-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Trip throughout the US
-Purpose
	-Press
		-Washington, DC
	-Congress
	-Need for subjects
		-Political rally
			-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Event in Birmingham, Alabama, May 25, 1971
-Official photographs
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Howard A. Cohen [?]
-Photography 
-Single portrait
-Atkins
-Arnold Newman
-Hollywood photographers
-Painting or sculpture
-Possibility
-American Medical Association [AMA] meeting
-Chairman of the Board
-Meeting with the President
-The President's attendance
	-Colson
-Meeting with four outstanding young farmers
-Earl L. Butz
-South Dakota
-Time
-Directors of Honor America Day
-Meeting
-J. Willard Marriot, Jr.
-Meeting with Republican leaders
	-Senate
	-House of Representatives
	-Meeting with Democratic leaders

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 10:49 am.

The President’s forthcoming trip to Canada
-Announcement
	-Gerald L. Warren
-Mrs. Nixon
-Attendance
-Confirmation with office

Ziegler left at 10:50 am.

The President’s forthcoming trip to Canada
-Ziegler
-Question
-Mrs. Nixon
-Constance M. Stuart

The President's schedule
-Interstate Commerce Commission [ICC]
-Donald L. Jackson
-Resignation
-Meeting with the President
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Country wide tour
-California
-Organization of American States [OAS]
-Canada
-Philadelphia
-Dinner
-Sons of Italy
-John Cardinal Krol
-Frank Rizzo
[Forename unknown] Balteiri [sp?]
-Comparison to Knights of Columbus
-Time
-The President's attendance
-John A. Volpe's attendance
-Presidential speech
	-John J. McLaughlin
-Jewish editors
-Southern Baptists
-Philadelphia
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham crusade
	-Dallas
-Southern Baptists
-Sons of Italy

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:50 am.

The President's schedule
-Ehrlichman and Edward L. Morgan
-Meeting with the President

Bull left at 10:57 am.

Sons of Italy dinner

Agnew
-Votes
	-Network coverage

An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time before 10:57 am.

Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.

John N. Ashbrook

Ehrlichman and Morgan entered at 10:57 am.

	Busing speech
-Television address
	-Price's draft
		-The President's work

Haldeman left at 10:58 pm.

	-Safire
	-Length of address
	-Wording
	-Time
-Briefing on legislation, March 17, 1972
-Draft
	-Safire
		-Third draft
	-Length of address
-Cook
	-Equal time
		-Democrats
-Price's draft
	-Wording
		-Rights

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Nassir Assar
	-Central Treaty Organization [CENTO]
-Jack R. Miller

Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:58 am.

Miller meeting
-Kiwanis International
-Time 
-Press photograph
	-Atkins

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:49 am.

Busing issue
-Statutes
	-Equal educational opportunity rights
-Tulsa, Oklahoma
-Phoenix, Arizona
-De facto
-De jure
-Courts
-Garment
-Mitchell
-Robert H. Bork
-Law professor
-Constitutional issue
	-Moratorium
-Parents
-Children
-Transfers from majority-status to minority-status schools

The President talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 10:58 am and 11:49 am.

[Conversation No. 685-3B]

The President’s forthcoming meeting with Assar
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Kissinger's schedule

The President talked with Haig at an unknown time between 10:58 am and 11:49 am.

[Conversation No. 685-3C]

The President's schedule
-Upcoming meeting
-Time
-Assar
-Nazmi Akiman

[End of telephone conversation]

Busing
-Children's age
-Grades
-Civil rights
-Constitutional issue
-Sixth grade and below
-Price
-Mitchell
-Garment
-Price and Garment
-Civil rights people
-Liberal press reaction
	-The President’s view
		-1972 election
-Price and Garment
-Sixth grade and below
	-Parents
	-Percentage of children bused
	-Percentage from previous year
		-Liberals
		-Speech
		-Safire
		-Wording
			-“Racial balance”
				-Bork
-James Coleman
-Moynihan
-Multi-racial experiences
-Virginia's governor [Linwood Holton]
-Holton’s previous conversation with Ehrlichman
-Black compared to white
	-The President’s view
		-Moynihan
		-Intelligence quotients
		-Japanese and Chinese
		-Blacks
		-British and Irish
		-Edmund Burke
-Price
-Racial equality
-French Revolution
-Garment
	-Liberals
-Speech draft
-Wording
-Changes by the President
-Brown vs. Board of Education
-Price
	-Quality of black schools
		-Money
-Legislation
	-Sixth grade and below
-Moratorium
	-Justice Department
	-Tupelo, Mississippi
	-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP]
	-Desegregation
-Constitutional argument
-Supreme Court
	-Congress
		-Revenue sharing
		-Welfare reform
	-Desegregation
	-No increase in busing
	-Court cases
	-Attorney General
	-Tupelo, Mississippi
	-Exeptions
	-Attorney General of the US
		-De jure segregation
	-Additional busing
		-Clark MacGregor
		-Constitutional amendment
		-House of Representatives
-Speech, March 16, 1972
-Safire
-Length
-Briefing
-Congressional leaders
-March 17, 1972
-Speech
-Date
-Briefing for key Senators and Congressmen
-Press
-Message to Congress
-The President's talk with Haldeman
-Lawyers
-Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-List of all Schedule C lawyers in government
-Pipeline Case comparison
-Lands Division of the Department of Justice
-Finances
-Title I
-Congress
-Districts
-Allocation
	-Desegregation needs
		-Poor districts
-Moratorium
-Use of word in speech draft
-Safire
-Soft version
-Liberals in the Administration
-Majority-minority transfer
-School construction
-Majority/Minority transfer
-Hearings
	-Richardson
-Freedom of choices
-Jewish parents
	-John V. Lindsay
	-Forest Hills
		-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Black appointees
-Meeting with Ehrlichman
	-Samuel C. Jackson
	-Samuel J. Simmons
	-Robert J. Brown
-Democrats
-Resolution
	-Roy E.A. Innis
-Harlem
-Watts
-South Chicago

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 10:58 am.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:49 am.

Busing
-Effect on black children
-Black universities
-Washington Post
-New York Times
-Dallas Morning News
	-Constitutional amendments
-Ehrlichman's and Morgan's work in the regions
	-Editorials boards
	-Michigan
		-Poll
			-PRC trip
		-Black Caucus
			-William G. Miliken [?]
		-Poll
			-Black caucus
-Ehrlichman in California
-Chicago
-Pasadena, California
-Pennsylvania
-Ohio
-Illinois
-Richard J. Daley
-The President’s forthcoming meeting with Assar
	-CENTO
-Speech draft
-Safire and Price
-Changes
-Primary
-Domestic issue
-Regional efforts by the Administration
	-Tennessee
-Kentucky
-Virginia
-Texas
	-Dallas
	-Ehrlichman's previous trip
		-Editorial boards
		-Television stations
		-Luncheon
	-Houston
	-Black population
-San Antonio
	-Mexicans
-California
	-Orange County
-Ohio
-Denver, Colorado
-Illinois
-Indiana
	-Indianapolis
-Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia
-Indiana
-Ohio
-California
-Texas
-Illinois
-Wisconsin
-New York
-Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Charles H. Percy
	-Roman C. Pucinski
	-Conservative Republicans
				-Loraine (Guyer) Percy’s forthcoming trip to the PRC
-Ehrlichman and Morgan
-Meeting with Colson and MacGregor
-Public relations
-Columnists
-Example of Kissinger
	-Alsop
-Television
	-Show in Dallas
	-Questions and answers
-Herbert G. Klein
-Speech
-Ziegler
-Time
-Length
-Briefing of congressmen
-Briefing of press
-Location
-Message to Congress
-Speech
-Price and Garment
-Richardson
-Shultz

Social Security
-Shultz [?]
-Memorandum to the President
-Twenty per cent
-Connally
-Letter to Wallace F. Bennett
-Ehrlichman
-House Resolution [H.R.] 1
-Arthur S. Flemming
-Benefits
-Percentages
-Administration
-Congress
-Cost of living increase
-Shultz
-Connally
-William E. Timmons
-Veto
-Connally
-Meeting with the President
	-Taxes

Ehrlichman’s schedule

The President, Ehrlichman and Morgan left at 11:49 am.

	Conversation No. 685-4

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  11:49 am - 12:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull..

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with an unknown person
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Jack R. Miller meeting
	-William E. Timmons
-Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.

The President left at an unknown time before 11:51 am.

Mosbacher

Mosbacher entered at 11:51 am.

[General conversation]

	Oval Office furnishings

The President entered at an unknown time after 11:51 am.

Greetings

Mosbacher’s possible appointment as ambassador
	-Spain
		-Mosbacher’s financial interests
			-Example of Arthur K. Watson
				-International Business Machines [IBM]
			-Election year
	-Portugal [Ridgeway B. Knight]
	-Patricia R. Mosbacher

Nassir Assar, Nazmi Akiman and Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr. entered and Bull left at 11:54 am; members of the press and the White House photographer were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Seating arrangements

[Photograph session]

The President’s recent trip to the People's Republic of China [PRC]

Secretary General of Central Treaty Organization [CENTO]
-Members of CENTO

PRC trip

The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi [Shah of Iran]

World peace

CENTO
-Purpose
-Unity of non-Communist nations
-Balance
-Alliances
	-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
	-CENTO
-Pakistan
-Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
-Soviet Union
	-India
-PRC
-Role of CENTO
	-Communication with the non-communist world
-Relations with the US
	-Iran, Pakistan, Turkey
-Change in world situation
-Purpose
	-Iran
	-Pakistan
	-Turkey
-Soviet Union
-Indian Ocean
-East Mediterranean
-Jordan
	-Middle East
	-Soviets
		-[Hussein, King of Jordan] Hussein ibn Talal
			-Forthcoming visit
-Indian Ocean
-Iraq
-Sri Lanka
-Iraq
-Syria
-Iran
-Regional instability
	-Communism
-Purpose
-Military consultations
-Possible US financial assistance
	-Congress
-Pakistan
-NATO
-Soviets
-US policy
-Congress
-Military
-Economics
-Symbolism
-Forthcoming Soviet trip
-The President’s trip to Iran
-Announcement of trip
-Shah
-Announcement of trip
-Assar’s schedule
-Iran
-The President's previous visit in 1953
	-Mohammed Mossadegh
-Shah
-Father
-The President’s view
-Symbolism
	-Pakistan

Mosbacher, Assar, Akiman and Haig left at 12:15 pm.

Conversation No. 685-5

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:15 pm and 12:18 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Meeting
-Jack R. Miller
-Daughter
-Gifts for participants

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:18 pm.

	Conversation No. 685-6

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  12:18 pm - 12:32 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Wes H. Bartlett, Darrell Coover, Jack R. Miller, Jaynie K. Miller, William E. Timmons and Henry C. Cashen II; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of  the meeting.

Greetings

[Photograph session]

Kiwanis International
-The President
	-Rotary Club
-Copies of photographs

Jaynie Miller
-Anecdote
-Age	
-School

Kiwanis
-Fund
-Drugs
-Meeting of black leaders
-Busing
-Major concern
-Living conditions
	-Compared to suburbs
	-Sammy Davis, Jr.
	-Meeting with the President
-Importance of issue
-Gift for the President
	-Comic book
-Comic books
-Booklets
-Nebraska
-Iowa
-School bus tours
-Convention
-Drug mobile
-New York
-Chicago
-Cleveland
-Los Angeles
-Service clubs
-Kiwanis
-Rotary Club
-Drug mobile
-Jack Miller
-Cities
-Waterloo, Iowa
	-Meatpacking
	-John Deere tractors
	-Whites
-Chicago
-Miami
-Projects
-Environment
-Service clubs
-Bicentennial planning
	-David J. Mahoney, Jr.
	-Talk with secretary
	-Philadelphia
	-Des Moines
-Service clubs
	-Rotary Club
	-Kiwanis
-Lions Club
-Support
-Algona, Iowa
-Fort Dodge
	-The President’s experience in 1952
-Algona [?]
-Manufacturing
-Size
-Whittier, California
-Schools
-Small towns
-Television
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Jaynie Miller

The President’s previous work as a newspaper reporter

Presentation of gifts
	-Secret Service

Washington, D.C.
-Spring
-Rose Garden
-Tricia Nixon Cox’s wedding
-Flowers and trees
-Description

Support for the President
	-Hugo [Unknown Surname]
		-Conference on aging
		-Age
		-Gift

Busing

Bartlett, et. al. left at 12:32 pm.

	Conversation No. 685-7

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:32 pm and 12:36 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with George H. Mahon
	-Timing

Bull left.

	Conversation No. 685-8

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  12:36 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 21-63]

	Conversation No. 685-9

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  12:36 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 21-64]

	Conversation No. 685-10

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  12:36 - 1:57 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Placement of something in the Oval Office
-Clock

Central Treaty Organization [CENTO] meeting

The President's schedule
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham meeting

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:36 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:57 pm.

Tea
-Qualities
-Coffee
-Different kinds
-Hangchow

CENTO meeting
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Nassir Assar
-Talk with the President
-Prime Minister's assistant

-View of the President
-The President's accomplishments
-The People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-International recognition
-White House staff
	-Patrick J. Buchanan

	The PRC trip
		-White House staff
		-Television staff
			-George P. Shultz
		-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
		-Busing
			-John D. Ehrlichman’s view
		-ITT and busing compared
			-Press coverage

The President's schedule
-Busing speech
-Timing
-California
-News time
-South

Central Treaty Organization [CENTO] meeting
-Anecdote use
	-Henry A. Kissinger
		-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
		-Possible talk with Haldeman
		-Haldeman's possible talk with Haig
	-Campaign

ITT
-White House staff involvement
-Charles W. Colson
-Ehrlichman
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Memoranda
-John N. Mitchell
-Testimony
-Executive session
-Open session
-Mitchell

The President's memorandum
-PRC trip
-Publicity
	-The President’s memorandum
		-Unknown book
		-James Keogh’s book [President Nixon and the Press]
	-Colson
-Unknown woman

ITT
-White House strategy
-Colson
-Dita D. Beard
-Statements
	-Press
-Wallace F. Bennett
-Son
-Robert Bennett
-Colson
-Public relations
-Anti-trust suit
	-Lyndon B. Johnson administration
	-John F. Kennedy administration
-Media coverage
-Republican campaign
-Sheraton Hotel
-San Diego
	-Contribution
		-Reasons
-Hearsay evidence
-The President's memorandum
-Jack N. Anderson
-Editorials
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Magazines
-New York Times
	-Letters to the editor
-Washington Post
-Media
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal returnable]
[Duration:  12m 34s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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The President's schedule
-National Catholic Education Conference
-Philadelphia
-Parochial education
-Drugs
	-International drug control group
	-Cabinet Room
-Customs
	-John F. Kennedy Airport
-Aircraft arrival inspection procedure
-Federal strike force
-Press
-Undercover police officers
-Narcotic court judges
-Midwest
-Chicago
-Methadone drug treatment program
-Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe
-Legislation
-Texas
-Operation Cooperation
-New York
-Philadelphia
-Environment
	-Ehrlichman
-Drugs
-Busing
-Press conference
-The President’s forthcoming busing statement
-New York
-Timing
		-Key Biscayne
		-Press conference
		-Key Biscayne
	-March for Welfare, Washington, D.C.
-Press conference
-Timing
-Television opportunity
-New York
-Environment
-Key Biscayne
-The President’s possible trip to Kennedy Airport
-Environment
	-Ohio
	-South
-Texas
-Forthcoming dinner hosted by John B. Connally
-Timing
-Press
-Dinner
-Handshaking
-Dinner
-Press
		-San Antonio
	-The President's accommodations
	-Timing
-The President’s forthcoming trip to Canada
-Arrival ceremony
	-Timing
-Length of visit
-Arrival ceremony
-Timing
	-West Germany
	-Italy
-[Pierre E. Trudeau]
-Dinner
-Organization of American States [OAS] dinner
-Timing
-William P. Rogers

	Rogers
		-Press conference
			-Ronald L. Ziegler
-State Department
-National Security Council [NSC]

	The President’s schedule
		-Forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Timing
-Ireland
-John A. (“Jack”) Mulcahy
-Dinner
-The President's accommodations
-Iceland
-Ireland
	-Northern Ireland
-Azores
	-Helicopter
	-Portugal
-Ireland Arrival
-John M. Lynch
	-Airport
-Northern Ireland
-Irish vote
-Mulcahy
-Issue
-Azores
-Time
-Switzerland
-Austria
	-Vienna
-Geneva
-Privacy
-Lucerne
-Zurich
-Austria
	Salzburg
-Ireland
-Mulcahy
-Austria
-Salzburg
-Switzerland
-Innsbruck
-Lucerne
-Housing facilities
-Tourism
-Weather
-Austria
-Mulcahy
-Switzerland
-Meeting with officials
-Plans
-Lucerne
-Vienna
-Accommodations
-Azores
	-US military base
-Lucerne
-Drugs
-Press conference
-Questions
-Public relations
	-Keogh’s book [President Nixon and the Press]

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal returnable]
[Duration:  14m 26s  ]

MANOLO SANCHEZ ENTERED AT AN UNKNOWN TIME AFTER 12:36 PM.

SANCHEZ LEFT AT AN UNKNOWN TIME BEFORE 1:57 PM.

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4

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-Agnew
-Career opportunities
	-Supreme Court 
	-Media
		-Haldeman’s view
		-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]

The press 
-CBS
-ITT
	-Dita Beard
	-Danile L. Schorr
-Treatment of liberals
	-Compared to treatment of Arthur K. Watson
-Wall Street Journal
-New York Times
	-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union

The President's schedule
-Meeting with American Society for Newspaper Editors [ASNE]
-White House reception
-Easter service
-Gridiron church service
-Plans
		-Army chorus
	-Songs
	-Scriptures
-Television
-Publishers
-Herbert G. Klein
		-Editors
-Possible meeting with ASNE
-Questions and answers [Q&A]
-Reception
-Speeches
-Unknown publishers’ group
	-New York
	-California
	-Gridiron church service
-Editors
-Reception

	Speech
		-William L. Safire

Haldeman left at 1:57 pm.

	Conversation No. 685-11

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 1:57 pm and 2:55 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator..

[See Conversation No. 21-65]

	Conversation No. 685-12

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  2:55 pm - 3:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with William L. Safire.

[See Conversation No. 21-66]

	Conversation No. 685-13

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  3:16pm - 3:24 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Press briefing
-Time
-Questions
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-John D. Ehrlichman
	-Thomas F. Eagleton
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Political factor
-Flanigan
-Ziegler’s comments
	-Eagleton
-White House staff
-Staff duties
-Business

-Senators
	-Flanigan
-Political factor
-John N. Mitchell's testimony
-James O. Eastland
	-Press statement
-Press stories
-Content
	-Hartford
	-Grinnell
-Flanigan
-Grinnell
	-Article in Washington Star
-Mitchell's testimony
-Congress
-White House staff
-Group
-Flanigan 
	-Compared to other White House staffers
		-Duties

Ziegler left at 3:24 pm.

	Conversation No. 685-14

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  3:24 pm - 3:25 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Luci (Johnson) Nugent
	-Tricia Nixon Cox
	-Patrick L. Nugent
-Daughter of Lyndon B. Johnson

-Forthcoming meeting with George H. Mahon
	-Helen (Stevenson) Mahon
-Maid of Cotton, Debbie Wright

Bull left.

	Conversation No. 685-15

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  3:25pm - 3:31 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Debbie Wright, Mr. and Mrs. George H. Mahon, Raymond L. Schafer, Macon T. Edwards, James T. (“Terry”) Hazelwood and John E. Nidecker; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

Places visited by Wright

Hazelwood

Schafer

[Photograph session]
-Positions

California

[General conversation]

[Photograph session]
	-Positions

School
-Wright
-Studies
	-Texas Tech University

Presentation of gifts
	-Mahon
		-Previous gift from the People’s Republic of China [PRC]

Pandas
-Washington National Zoo
-Others outside of Peking
-Moscow
-London

White House tour

Wright’s forthcoming travel
	-Tokyo
	-Europe

Wright, et. al. left at 3:31 pm.

	Conversation No. 685-16

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:31 pm and 3:37 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Luci (Johnson) Nugent
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Tennis courts
-Patrick L. Nugent
-Footprints

Bull left.

	Conversation No. 685-17

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:31 pm and 3:37 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Meeting with Luci (Johnson) Nugent
-Gifts
-Patrick L. Nugent
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
	-Jewelry box
	-Scroll
	-Koala print

Bull left.

	Conversation No. 685-18

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  3:37 pm - 3:49 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull, Tricia Nixon Cox, Luci (Johnson) Nugent and Patrick L. Nugent; the White House photographers were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:49 pm.

Patrick L. Nugent
-Age
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Captain Kangaroo

	Oval Office rug
[Photograph session]
-Positions

The People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Tree
-Pandas

Johnson
-President of the Senate

Patrick Nugent
	-George Washington
	-Abraham Lincoln
	-Tricia Nixon Cox
	-Franklin D. Roosevelt
	-Thomas Jefferson
	-Childrens garden
	-Footprints

Thank yous

Photographers
-Chair
-Patrick Nugent
-Press briefing
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Johnson
-Patrick Nugent
-Gavel

Press photographers entered and left at an unknown time after 3:37 pm.

Thank yous

Gifts
-Telescope
-Astronauts

White House

Johnson
	-Television station

Patrick Nugent
-Political career

Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:37 pm.

Photographs
-Copies
-Families
-Johnson

Tricia Nixon Cox, et al. left at 3:49 pm.

	Conversation No. 685-19

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  3:49 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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

Sanchez left.

	Conversation No. 685-20
Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  3:49 pm - 3:52 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Call to the President
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Note
-Haldeman

The President and Butterfield left.

Conversation No. 685-22

Date:  March 14, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:52 pm and 11:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Alexander P. Butterfield met with unknown men [Secret Service agents].

An unknown agent talked with an unknown person at an unknown time after 3:52 pm.

[Conversation No. 685-22A]

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

[End of telephone conversation]

	The President’s location
		-EOB

The agents left at an unknown time before 11:59 pm.