Conversation No. 686-1

Date:  March 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:51 and 7:58 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

Private file [?]

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 7:58 am.

Conversation No. 686-2

Date:  March 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:51 and 7:58 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Bull left, at an unknown time before 7:58 am.

Conversation No. 686-3

Date:  March 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:51 and 7:58 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with William Warnock
	-Ireland
	-Henry A. Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 7:58 am.

Conversation No. 686-4

Date:  March 17, 1972
Time:  7:58 - 8:04 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Ziegler's conversations
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-John D. Ehrlichman

Forthcoming bipartisan leaders meeting
	-Robert P. Griffin
-Message to Congress
-The President’s return from the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Television
-Congress
-Michael J. Mansfield
-George H. Mahon

Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 7:58 am.

News story
	-Unknown place
		-Washington Post
		-Ziegler’s schedule

Busing
	-Ehrlichman
-Constitutional amendment
-Griffin amendment
	-Press briefing
		-East room
	-Reporters
	-Timing
	-Busing speech
-Constitutional amendment
	-Ehrlichman [?]
	-Talk with Haldeman
-Leonard Garment
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Elliot L. Richardson
-George P. Shultz
-Support
-William E. Brock, III
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-John G. Tower
-Washington Post
-George S. McGovern
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Edward M. Kennedy
-McGovern
-George C. Wallace
-John N. Ashbrook
-Henry M. ("Scoop") Jackson
-Brock
-Hugh Scott
-Newspapers
-McGovern
-John V. Lindsay
-Roy Wilkins
	-News
-Congress of Racial Equality [CORE]
-Thomas G.  Wicker
-Sander Vanocur
-Percentage of people supporting the President’s policy
	-Comparison to New Hampshire primary
	-Professors
	-Telephone calls
		-Computer
	-Overall reactions
	-Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak
		-Florida primary
	-Wallace
		-Archie Bunker
			-All in the Family

Ziegler and Haldeman left at 8:04 am.

Conversation No. 686-5

Date:  March 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:54 and 9:56 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

[The conversation began in progress.]

The President's schedule
-Upcoming meeting
	-Photograph session

Bull leftat an unknown time before 9:56 am.

Conversation No. 686-6

Date:  March 17, 1972
Time:  9:56 - 10:08 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Barbara H. Franklin, Judy Kaufman, Jacqueline G. Gutwillig, Virginia R. Allan, Dr. Margaret Long Arnold, Mrs. Paul Bethel, Lorraine L. Blair, Julie Casterman Connor, Sarah Jane Cunningham, Mrs. Robert A. Griffin, Maxine R. Hacke, Mrs. Charles M. Hamel, Margaret J. Mealey, Hazel Palmer, Mrs. Chapman Revercomb, Mrs. Daniel H. Wasserman, Irene Wischer, Elizabeth D. Koontz, Catherine East and Bertha Whittaker; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

[General conversation and greetings]

Group photograph

Role of women in America
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Homemakers
-Education
-Equal rights
	-Constitutional amendment
-Appointments
	-Race
	-Jews
	-Supreme Court
		-Lower courts
	-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
	-Marina von N. Whitman
			-John von Neuman
		-Herbert Stein
	-Atomic Energy Commission [AEC]

1971 Report of the Citizen’s Advisory Council on the Status of Women

St. Patrick’s Day

The People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Gifts
	-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
	-New York
	-San Francisco
	-Hang Chow

White House Rose Garden

[General conversation]
	-Education
		-Aid

Franklin, et. al. left at 10:08 am.

Conversation No. 686-7

Date:  March 17, 1972
Time:  10:09 - 10:13 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

The President's forthcoming meeting with the National Security Council [NSC]
-William P. Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Defense Department
-Gerard C. Smith
	-Anti-ballistic missiles [ABMs]
	-Submarine-launched ballistic missiles [SLBMs]
		-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
	-Soviet Union

	-Possible leak
-Laird

The President and Kissinger left at 10:13 am.

Conversation No. 686-8

Date:  March 17, 1972
Time:  11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Camp David
-William P. Rogers
	-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
		-Butterfield’s forthcoming call to Haldeman
	-Family
	-Staff members
-Melvin Laird

Butterfield left.

Conversation No. 686-9

Date:  March 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:00 and 12:05 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with William Warnock
	-Henry A. Kissinger
	-Photograph
	-Gift from Warnock
	-Reciprocal gift from Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
		-East Wing

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

Conversation No. 686-10

Date:  March 17, 1972
Time:  12:05 - unknown before 12:11 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Mr. and Mrs. William Warnock, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., and Marion H. Smoak; members of the press and the White House photographer were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Location
-Tricia Nixon Cox

	Germany

	[Photograph session]

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 12:11 pm.

Conversation No. 686-11

Date:  March 17, 1972
Time:  12:16 - unknown before 12:19 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Tina Diver, Neil Diver, and Margita E. White; The conversation was in progress.
[This conversation is continued as conversation no. 687-2.]

Photograph

Indiana
-Fort Wayne
	-The President’s previous trips
	-Newspaper
-Neil Diver

Gifts

Cartoons
	-Herbert G. Klein

Appointment

Schedule

Walter H. Annenberg
-Gift (“Start of the President”)
	-Steuben Crystal

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 12:19 pm.

Conversation No. 686-12

Date:  March 17, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 12:36 pm and 12:42 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H.R.(“Bob”) Haldeman and Henry A. Kissinger.

[The conversation began in progress; this is part of Conversation No. 687-3]

	The President’s schedule

National interest of the US
	-Arms control
	-Possible freeze on new submarines
		-Effects of freeze on the Soviet Union
		-Conversion
		-Modernization
		-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
		-US Program
		-Congress
		-Gerard C. Smith
		-Time
		-Progress
			-Kissinger’s view

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 12:42 pm.

The President's schedule

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

Kissinger's schedule
-Forthcoming Anatoliy F. Dobrynin meeting
-The President's attendance

Soviets
	-Kissinger’s view
		-Chinese
-Announcement of the President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union

The forthcoming Soviet trip
		-Administration
	-Discipline
-Kissinger
-Role of the Secretary of State
				-Memorandum to William P. Rogers
	-Melvin R. Laird
	-Peter G. Peterson
	-Rogers
	-White House
	-Department of State
		-Trade

Cabinet officers
-John B. Connally

	David M. Kennedy
	-Previous National Security Council [NSC] meeting
		-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
	-Use of aircraft
-Secret Service

Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Arthur K. Watson story

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 12:55 pm.