Conversation No. 687-1

Date:  March 16, 1972
Time:  9:42 pm - unknown before 10:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Mark I. Goode and unknown television technicians.

	The President’s forthcoming speech
	-Adjustments of something
		-Volume level
		-Length of speech
	-Director
		-Signals to the President
	-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]

	Al Mitchell
		-Introduction

The President left at an unknown time after 9:42 pm.

[General conversation]

The President re-entered at an unknown time before 10:20 pm.

Air time
-Countdown

The President delivered an "Address to the Nation on Equal Educational
Opportunities and School Busing at 10:00 pm.  See the Public Papers of
the Presidents, Richard Nixon, 1972, pages 425-429.

Timing

American Broadcasting Company [ABC]

Thank yous

Photographs

Gifts
-Crew
-Cufflinks
-Golf balls

[General conversation]

The President, Goode and the unknown television technicians left at an unknown time before 10:20 pm.

Conversation No. 687-2

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

The President met with Tina Diver, Neil Diver and Margita E. White.

[The conversation was in progress when the recording began. This is a continuation of Conversation No. 686-11]

	[General conversation]

Thank you

Goodbye

Diver, et. al. left.

Conversation No. 687-3

Date:  March 17, 1972
Time:  12:19 - 1:14 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Stephen B. Bull.

[Discontinuities appear on the original tape. See Conversation No. 686-12.]

The President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time after 12:19 pm.

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Henry A. Kissinger entered at 12:36 pm.

Arthur K. Watson
	-Recent episode on airline flight
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
	-Unknown Woman
		-Money
		-Shoes
-State Department
-The President’s view
-Secret Service
-Health

	-Rockefeller
-Visits by Kissinger
-The President's trips to France

Foreign policy
	-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
	-Cambodia
-Vietnam
-Offensive
-Timing
		-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Melvin R. Laird
-Peter G. Peterson
-Earl L. Butz

John D. Ehrlichman entered at 12:42 pm.

	-State Department
		-Rogers's memorandum
	-Monetary affairs
	-John B. Connally
-Azores
	-Rogers

Kissinger's schedule
-Acapulco
 -Timing
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Carl W. Renstrom 
-Property

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Domestic issues

Foreign policy
-The President’s forthcoming Soviet trip
-Reading files

Kissinger's schedule

-Forthcoming meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
	-Map Room

Kissinger left at 12:55 pm.

Kissinger
-Schedule
	-The President’s view

Briefings
-Ehrlichman’s role
	-George P. Shultz
	-Elliot L. Richardson
	-Richard G. Kleindienst
	-Congressmen
-Busing
			-Left
			-Right
	-Length
	-Attendance

	Ehrlichman's schedule
		-California
			-San Francisco

Busing
-Michael J. Mansfield proposal
-Press coverage
-Congress
-Courts
-Robert P. Griffin statements
	-Possible bill
	-Justice Department
-Constitutional amendment
	-Leaders
		-William M. McCulloch
	-Jacob K. Javits
-The President's statement
-James O. Eastland
-Courts
-Constitutional amendment
-The President
-Congress
-Leaders meeting
-Ehrlichman's conversation with Javits and Albert H. Quie
-Moratorium
-Press conference
-The President's statement
-Griffin
-George C. Wallace
-Lawyers
-Constitutional amendment
			-Legislative approach
-Shultz
-Press
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Work on the message to Congress
-Moratorium
-Busing orders
-Significance
-Public opinion
	-Television coverage
			-The President’s previous meeting with the Citizen’s Advisory Council on the Status of Women
-Discussion of the PRC trip
	-Haldeman’s previous meeting with White House Fellows
-Busing compared to the PRC trip
-Ehrlichman’s meeting with group

Social Security and welfare reform
-Domestic issue
-Connally
-Talk with Ehrlichman
-Cabinet meeting
-Forthcoming meeting with Ehrlichman

Busing
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew’s statements
	-Constitutional amendment
	-Federal aid
-Moratorium
-Blacks
-Speech 
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Edward L. Morgan
-Shultz
-Agnew
-The President’s view
	-National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Talk with Haldeman
-Domestic issues
-Compensatory education
-Daniel P (“Pat”) Moynihan
-Rockefeller
-Caspar W. (“Cap”)Weinberger
-Conversation with Ronald W. Reagan
-Linwood Holton
	-Israel
-Drafts of speech
-William L. Safire
-Buchanan
-Speech
-Charles W. ("Chuck") Bailey
-Delivery
-Wallace
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-John V. Lindsay
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Television
				-Chance for American citizens to compare the President with the Democratic candidates
-Racism
-Neighborhood schools
-Social planners
-Buchanan
		-Press briefing
	-Judges
	-Rulings
-Racial balance
	-Examples
						-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
						-Morgan

	The President’s schedule
		-Forthcoming meeting with Dobrynin

Briefings
-Ehrlichman
	-Tone
-Senate
-Leaders meeting
	-The President's note
	-Chairman of the Cabinet Committee

	The President’s forthcoming meeting with Dobrynin
	-Haldeman

The President, Haldeman and Ehrlichman left at 1:14 pm.

Conversation No. 687-4

Date:  March 17, 1972
Time:  1:14 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Stephen B. Bull met with unknown people [Secret Service agents and custodial staff ?]

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

	[Unintelligible]

The unknown people left.