Conversation No. 689-1

Date:  March 20, 1972
Time:  8:50 am - 8:56 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

Letters and memoranda for the file

Letter
-Child at White House church service
-Classmates signatures
-The President's response

An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time before 8:56 am.

Forthcoming White House dinner

[No conversation]

		-Alice Roosevelt Longworth
-Date
-Participants
-Henry A. Kissinger
		-Acapulco
-Mr. and Mrs. John B. Connally
-Mr. and Mrs. Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Mr. and Mrs. Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Alsop
-Mr. and Mrs. J. Willard Marriott
-Date and time
-The President’s schedule
-Other individuals' schedule
-Change

Woods left.

Conversation No. 689-2

Date:  March 20, 1972
Time:  9:18 am - 9:51 am
Location:  Oval Office

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

The President's schedule
		-House guests
	-Jack and Helene (Colesie) Drown
-Meeting with Gerard C. Smith
-Henry A. Kissinger

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 9:18 and 9:42 am.

[Conversation No. 689-2A]

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Smith
	-Timing

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Smith
-Time of meeting
-Meeting with the Cabinet Committee on International Narcotics Control
-Follow up to forthcoming New York City trip
-Treaty signing
-Biological weapons convention
-Soviets
-Date
-Meeting with Smith
	-Arrival ceremony for Nihat Erim

-"Honor America" individuals
-Timing

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
		-Life magazine article
-Justice Department
-Leaks
	-Reporter
	-Facts
-C. Arnholt Smith
	-Innuendo
		-Unknown man
		-Mayor [Unknown name and city]
-Democrat
-Associated Press [AP] story
		-National Republican Convention
-San Diego
-The President
	-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Talk with James W. Gallagher
	-Robert J. Dole
		-Chicago
	-Herbert G. Klein and Robert H. Finch
		-San Diego
		-Involvement
-Life, Time 
-Clifford Irving

Campaign financing
		-Time magazine
	-Herbert W. Kalmback story
		-Frank DeMarco
-Contributions
-Tax deductible
-Legal rulings
-News summary

Pentagon papers
-John D. Ehrlichman's role
-Staff
-Talk with Haldeman

Arthur K. Watson
-Frank F. Church
-State Department files
-Congressmen and Senators
-Behavior abroad
-Airplane
-Investigation
-Haldeman's role
-Victor Lasky's possible role

Weather

[No conversation]

ITT case
-Contributions
-Taxes
-White House
-Jack N. Anderson
-Justice Department
-Dita D. Beard's testimony
-Beard's health
-Committee
-Charles W. Colson
-Compared to Alger Hiss case
-Reporters
-Typewriter analysis
-Pearl L. Tytell
-Secretary
-Beard's testimony
-McGraw-Hill
-Irving
-Anderson
-Richard W. McLaren
-Work on case
-Harold S. Geneen
-[Forename unknown] Grinell
-The Hartford settlement
-White House investigation
-John D. Ehrlichman
	-Strategy
-Patrick J. Buchanan

[No conversation]

Busing
-Status
-Public opinion
-Liberals
-Ehrlichman
-Southerners
-Strom Thurmond
-George C. Wallace
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Intervention
-Roll-back
-Constitutional issue
-Staff meeting
		-Ehrlichman
-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP]
-Clarence Mitchell
-News summary
-The President's role
-Courts
-Ehrlichman
-Emmanuel Celler
-Television
-Speech
-Media coverage
-Black lawyers
	-Ehrlichman
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Constitution
-South
-Northern protection bill
-Senate
-Democrats
-Equal time
		-Possible column
-View of speech
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Thomas G. Wicker
		-Segregation

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Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 9:42 am.

The President's schedule
-Helicopter

Butterfield left at 9:45 am.

White House staff
		-Media problem

The President's schedule
-Press conference
-Office
-Television

Domestic issues
		-John B. Connally
	-George P. Shultz
	-Ehrlichman

The People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
		-Pubic reaction
	-Richard G. Kleindienst
-William P. Rogers

Media
-Treatment of administration
-ITT
-Busing
-White House staff
-Poll
-ITT
-Beard
-Pentagon papers
-Confidence in administration
-PRC
-Foreign policy question
-Drugs

	Haldeman’s previous dinner with Connally

Russell B. Long
-Ehrlichman
-Conversation concerning House Resolution [HR] 1
-Statement
-Reelection of the President

The President and Haldeman left at 9:52 am.

Conversation No. 689-3

Date:  March 20, 1972
Time:  2:36 pm - 2:47 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

Dinner

-Invitations
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Alice Roosevelt Longworth
-Mr. and Mrs. John B. Connally
-Mr. and Mrs. Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Alsop
-Mr. and Mrs. J. Willard Marriott
-Number of participants
	-Lewis
	-Alsop
	-Kissinger
	-Longworth
		-Unknown person
		-Note
			-The President’s trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
			-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:36 pm.

Instruction

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:47 pm.

Unknown sculptor
-Bust
	-Changes
		-Article
			-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
		-Pictures
-Ceremony
-Pictures
		-Mrs. Nixon
-Changes
-Permission

Nihat Erim
-Conversation with Donald McI. Kendall
-Dinner
-Pepsi Cola
-Possible Business
-California
-Florida
-Fruits and vegetables
-Europeans
-Agency for International Development [AID]
-Farmers
-Robert Digiorgio
-Roy Brock [?]
-Transportation problems
		-Pan-American airlines
-Turkish language

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Forthcoming dinner
-Jordan
-Invitations
-The President’s activities
	-Forthcoming Longworth dinner
-Young men

New York City trip
		-Weather

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-Story

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-The President’s view
-John V. Lindsay
-Waldorf Hotel
-The President
-Walks
-Campaign office
		-Woods
			-Walks

-Unknown woman's conversation with Woods
-Bush story

Woods left at 2:47 pm.

Conversation No. 689-4

Date:  March 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:47 pm and 2:50 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:50 pm.

Conversation No. 689-5

Date:  March 20, 1972
Time:  2:50 pm - 3:38 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

New York City trip

-Staff
-Praise
-The President
-Wire service
-Future trips
-Illinois
-Ohio
-Pennsylvania
-Public response
	-Government employees
	-Blacks
	-Television

The People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-New coverage
-Anchorage
-American public opinion
-News coverage
-Pandas
	-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
		-News coverage
	-The President’s possible participation
	-New York Times
-PRC Ping pong team
	-Reception
-The President
-Chou En-lai
-White House tennis court
	-Possible picture

New York City trip
-Staff
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Advance men
-Public response
	-Blacks
		-Busing

	Foreign affairs

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming Soviet Union trip
-Television press conferences
-Timing
		-Easter

Baseball season
-Opening game
-Cincinnati Reds-Houston Astros
-Time
-Regular season
-Time
-Opening game
-The President's attendance
-Bowie Kuhn
-California Angels-Texas Rangers
-Invitation to the President
-Time
-The President’s forthcoming Canada trip
-National League opening game
-New York Mets-Pittsburgh Pirates
-Houston Astros-Atlanta Braves
-San Diego Padres-San Francisco Giants
-American League
-California Angels-Minnesota Twins
-Kansas City Royals-Texas Rangers
-First ball of the season
-Cincinnati
		-The President’s previous attendance at an All-Star game
-Date
-Press conference
-Texas Rangers
-Arlington, Texas
-Kansas City Royals

The President's schedule
-Press conference
-Timing
		-Busing
		-Wisconsin primary
-Gridiron dinner
-Florida
-Gridiron dinner
	-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-John N. Mitchell
-Agnew
-Timing

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 3:02 pm.

The President's schedule
-Gridiron dinner
-The President's attendance
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-List of attendees
-Liberals
-Jerald F. (“Jerry”) terHorst
-Agnew
-Schedule
	-California Republican Assembly [CRA]
-The President's attendance
-Richard (“Dick”) Wilson
-Agnew
-Schedule
-CRA
-William P. Rogers
-Women
		-List of people opposed to the President’s attendance
-Agnew
-Haldeman's role
-Florida
-Gridiron dinner
-The President's attendance
-Agnew
		-Interest of the administration
-CRA
			-Mitchell
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Timing
-Agnew
-Schedule

Ziegler's press briefing
-The President’s previous trip to New York City
	-Wire services
-Drugs
-Penalties for distributors
-State laws
-Congress
-State and federal courts
-Marijuana
-Death penalty
-Drugs
-Severe penalties
-Prosecutors
-Judges
-Omnibus crime bill
-Gridiron church service

Ziegler left at 3:15 pm.

The President's schedule
-Gridiron dinner
-Gridiron church service
-Ziegler
-Agnew
-Women
-Haldeman's forthcoming talk with Agnew
-Radicals
-Press
-The administration
-California
-CRA
-Reagan
-1962 campaign

1972 campaign
-Political operations
-Charles W. Colson
-White House
-Mitchell's office
-Private investigators
-Mitchell
-Robert J. Dole
-Republican National Committee [RNC]
-Committee to Re-elect the President [CRP]
-White House
-Colson
-CRP
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Justice Department
-White House
-Ziegler
		-Press
-Movement
-CRP
-Funding
-Government compared to private

Leaks
		-Herbert W. Kalmbach
			-Telephone
		-Walter H. Annenberg
-Arthur K. Watson story
-Anti-leak measures
-Leaks

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International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Credibility of witnesses
-Public reaction
-Awareness
-Settlement
-Public reaction to government

Drugs
-Iran
-Penalties for distributors
-Japan
-PRC
	-Opium
		-Addicts
-Young people
-High Schools
-Marijuana
-Haldeman's son’s voew
-Sidwell Friends

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-The President's meeting with Raymond P. Shafer, March 21, 1972
-Legalization of marijuana
-Youth
-Parents
-Scientists
	-Alcohol
-Law
-Prohibition
-Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr.

John D. Ehrlichman entered at 3:30 pm.

Drugs
-The President’s New York City trip
-The work of the staff
-Wire services
-Television
-Customs
-Jewish couple
-English couple
-Priest
		-Forthcoming meeting with the Cabinet Committee on International Narcotics Control
-Customs agents
-Hiring
-Ehrlichman's talk with Connally
		-Social security
-Penalties for distributors
	-Ziegler
	-Omnibus crime bill
		-Penalties for terrorists

The President's schedule
-Stephen B. Bull

Drugs
-Penalties
	-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
	-Jerome H. Jaffe
-Countries
-Japan
-PRC
-Iran
-Treatment for addicts
-Archie Bunker
-Press
-Left
-Death penalty
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-State and federal courts
-Death penalty
		-Interstate distributors
			-Compared to Charles A. Lindbergh law
-Kidnappers
-Bombers
-Dangerous drugs
		-Quantity

Busing

Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:30 pm.

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming Cabinet Committee meeting

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:38 pm.

Drugs
-Forthcoming Cabinet Committee meeting
	-Heroin examples
-New York City trip
-Press
-Customs shed

Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 3:30 pm.

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming Cabinet Committee meeting
-Photographs

The President, Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Ziegler left at 3:38 pm.

Conversation No. 689-8

Date:  March 20, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:38pm and 4:48pm
Location:  Oval Office

An unknown man [Secret Service agent] talked with an unknown person.

	The President’s location
		-Cabinet Room

Conversation No. 689-6

Date:  March 20, 1972
Time:  4:48 pm - 5:14 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Richard M. Helms.

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	International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]

Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Edward M. Kennedy's attack
-Laos
		-John F. Kennedy
			-Speech
-General Accounting Office [GAO] report

Helms left and John D. Connally entered at 4:53 pm

Social Security
-The President’s talk with John D. Ehrlichman
	-Connally
	-George P. Shultz
	-Herbert Stein
	-Elliot L. Richardson
	-Arthur S. Flemming
	-Special interest groups
		-1972 election
		-Elderly
-Richardson 
-Flemming
-Percentages

Economy
-Social Security
-Budget
-Wage and price situation
	-Pay Board
		-Longshoreman
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
	-Retail prices
	-Food prices
		-Leaks
-Connally’s possible public statements
	-The President’s forthcoming press conference
-Longshoremen
-Food
-Social Security
		-Testimony
			-Shultz
-Food prices
-CPI increase
-Price Commission
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Department of Agriculture
-Procucers
-Retailers
-Farmers
-Cattlemen
-CPI
-Longshoremen
-George Meany
		-CPI
-Shultz
-Leading indicators
-Housing
-Retail sales
-Gross National Product [GNP]
	-Department of Commerce
-Personal savings
-Food prices
-CPI
-Cattle prices
-Decrease
-Food prices
-Grocery stores
-Economic indicators

	Helms

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	ITT
-Life magazine story
-C. Arnholt Smith
-Mayor of San Diego
-Democrat
-Contributor
-John Alessio
-Edmund G. (“Pat”) Brown
-Saturday Evening Post
-Life
-Howard Hughes story
-Dita D. Beard memorandum
-Typewriter
	-Evidence
-Files
-Harold S. Geneen
	-Meetings
		-Connally
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Peter M. Flanigan
-The President
-Settlement
-W. Ramsey Clark
-The President's administration
	-ITT divestment

Social security
-The President's talk with Ehrlichman
-Politics
-Connally

Environmental issues
-Water bill
-Connally
-Importance
	-The President’s view
		-1972 election
-Interest
-Public reaction
	-Clean air
	-Pure water
-Connally's idea
-Water bill
-Shutting down plants
-Potential unemployment
-Effects
-Economy

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Connally left at 5:14 pm.

Conversation No. 689-7

Date:  March 20, 1972
Time:  5:14 pm - 5:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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

The President and Sanchez left at 5:15 pm.