Conversation No. 691-1

Date:  March 21, 1972
Time:  4:07 pm - 4:08 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

The President's schedule
		-Forthcoming meeting with the White House News Photographers Association [WHNPA]
-Timing
-Pictures
	-Handshaking
	-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Questions
-Dinner

Ziegler left.

Conversation No. 691-2

Date:  March 21, 1972
Time:  4:08 pm - 4:09 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
		-Forthcoming meeting with White House News Photographers Association [WHNPA]
-Cabinet Room

Bull left.

Conversation No. 691-3

Date:  March 21, 1972
Time:  4:21 pm - 4:56 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull, Manea Manescu, Corneliu Bogdan, Herbert Stein, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Charles W. Schaller and Mircea Mitran; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:56 pm.

Seating

[Photograph session]

Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Greetings from Nicolae Ceausescu

The Ceausescu’s previous meeting with the President and Mrs. Nixon
	-Bucharest
	-White House

The President's previous meetings with Ceausescu
	-Reception
-The President’s previous meetings with Manescu

Manescu's present visit
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Stein

Romania
-Relations with the US
	-The President's visit, 1969
-Political, economic, cultural and technical relations
	-Personnel exchanges
	-Delegation
-Economy
-Development
	-Export-Import [Ex-Im] Bank
-Overseas Private Investment Corporation [OPIC]
-Most Favored Nation [MFN] status for Romania
	-Romanian public opinion
-Manescu's visits
	-Factories
	-Villages
-International Relations
	-Trade
	-Balance with western and socialist countries
-Détente
-Romanian principles
	-Independence
	-Equality
	-Freedom
	-Non-interference
		-International process
		-Romania relations with the US
		-Romania economy
		-Romania society
-Ceausescu’s visit to Africa
-Message of friendship
-Developing countries
-Contribution to détente
	-The President's trip to the People's Republic of China [PRC]
	-Ceausescu’s view
	-Romanian public opinion
		-Communique
	-Benefit to international relations
	-Talks, Meetings
	-Communique
	-Principles
	-Non-interference, equal rights, renunciation of force
	-Concurrence with Romanian principles
	-International relations
	-Importance
-Appreciation of Romanian people
	-The President's trip to the Soviet Union
	-Importance
	-Principles of international relations
	-Soviet-US relations
-Romanian contributions
	-Negotiations
		-Indochina
		-Middle East
	-European Security Conference

Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:21 pm.

The President's schedule
-Arrival of Gerard C. Smith [?]

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:56 pm.

Romania
-European Security Conference
-Desire for peace

The President
-Greetings to Ceausescu
	-Previous meetings
		-The President’s previous trip to Romania
			-Visit to a socialist country
-US-Soviet Union relations
-US-PRC relations
-Socialist leaders’ opposition to the President’s PRC trip
	-Soviet Union
-Ceausescu's acceptance

Romania
-The President's foreign trips to the PRC and the Soviet Union
-US-Romanian relations
-The President's assurance
-MFN status
	-Vietnam
-Relations with the US
-Economy
-Ceausescu's talks with the President
-Romanian people
	-Reception for the President 
-Large compared to small nations
-Independence of smaller nations
-US
-Comparison with Romania

The President's response to Ceausescu’s letter

Romanian tennis players

Farewells

Manescu, et. al. left at 4:56 pm.

Conversation No. 691-4

Date:  March 21, 1972
Time:  4:57pm - 5:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

	The President’s schedule
		-Meeting with Manea Manescu
		-Background materials
			-Length
				-Dwight D. Eisenhower
				-Meeting with [Nihat Erim]
					-Meeting with George P. Shultz
				-Preparation time

The President’s possible trip to Poland
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-German Treaty
-Soviet Union
-William P. Rogers
-Turkey

-Refueling
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Visit by the President
-Iran
-Istanbul
-Ankara
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Talk with Haldeman

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:57 pm.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Gerard C. Smith

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:07 pm.

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Typewriters
-Charles W. Colson
-Hearings
-Progress

Pandas
-Arrival in the US
-Tour of the US
-Washington National Zoo
-Tour
-Children
-Danger
-Television
-National Zoo

Busing
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Hubert H. Humphrey's view
-Changes
-The President’s March 16, 1972 speech
-The President’s March 16, 1972 speech
	-Press
	-Editorial writers
	-Blacks
-William L. Safire
-Balance
-Leonard Garment
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Children
-Equal opportunity
-Racial tension

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Raymond P. Shafer
-Shafer 

Haldeman left at 5:07 pm.

Conversation No. 691-5

Date:  March 21, 1972
Time:  5:10 pm - 5:47 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull, Gerard C. Smith and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

The President's schedule
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Meeting with Raymond P. Shafer
-Forthcoming state dinner fort Nihat Erim

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:47 pm.

General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament [ACDA]

The President’s forthcoming Soviet trip
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Decisions
-Agreement
-Pro-arms control group
-Anti-arms control troup
-The People's Republic of China [PRC] trip

-Communique
-Arms Control Agreement
-US position
-Defense Department
-Political reaction
-Example of Taiwan, Republic of China issue
-National security
-Right wing
	-Human Events
	-National Review
-Melvin R. Laird
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-John C. Stennis
-SALT delegation
-Smith’s efforts
-Arms control agreement
-Democrats
-Political opportunity
-Other nations
-Reelection year
-Reactions
	-Critics
-Haig
	-John G. Tower
-Congressional reaction
-Smith’s appearances before committees
-Tower
-Robert C. Byrd [?]
-Jackson
-Stennis
	-Submarine-launched Ballistic Missile [SLBM]
-SLBMs
-Defense Department
-State Department
-Haig's view
-Defense Department
-Submarines
-Land based missiles
-Anti-ballistic missiles
-Navy
	-William P. Rogers’s forthcoming memorandum to the President 
		-Aleksei N. Kosygin
		-Leonid I. Brezhnev
			-Soviets
				-May 20, 1971 agreement
			-The President’s view
		-Smith's talks with the Soviets
		-Vienna
		-Vladimir S. Semenov
		-National Security Council [NSC]
		-French submarines
		-British submarines
		-Soviets
	-Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles [ICBM], SLBM, ABM
	-Programs
	-Poseidon, Minuteman
	-Multiple Independently-Targeted Reentry Vehicle [MIRV]
	-Jackson
	-Proposal for an interim freeze
		-SLBMs
		-Congressional Record
		-Minuteman III
		-Soviets
		-ICBM
		-Hardsite defense
		-SLBMs
	-Congress
		-Taiwan
		-Dwight D. Eisenhower
		-Quemoy, Matsu
		-John Foster Dulles
		-China lobby
	-Warheads
	-Production

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	-MIRV
		-Power
			-Minuteman MIRV
		-SLBMs

Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:10 pm.

The President's schedule
	-Forthcoming meeting with Shafer

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:47 pm.

SALT
	-Hardsites
-Defense Department
-ACDA
-Reaction of Congress
	-Allies
		-Weapons production
		-Interceptors
-Need to keep issue open
-Lasers
-Soviets
-Treaty
	-Research and Development
	-Laird
	-Components
	-Sites
	-Short range radar
	-Sprint missiles
	-ABM
	-Future
	-Interceptor
	-Radar
	-Verification of hardsites
	-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
	-Soviets
-Possible divisions in the Soviet government
	-Domestic compared to military expenditures
-Soviet estimate of US domestic politics
	-Soviet military
-Politics
-Democratic platform
-Jackson
-Budget cut request
-US bargaining power
-NSC
	-Military budget
-Soviet desire for agreement
-Semenov
	-Timing for agreement
	-Haig
		-US desire for deal
			-Forthcoming US-Soviet summit
-Soviet domestic politics
	-Hardsites
	-Further negotiations in Vienna
-Helsinki
-Smith's trip
-Llewellyn E. (“Tommy”) Thompson, Jr.
	-SLBMs
	-ABMs
	-Finances
-ABMs
-Interceptors
-ICBM program
-Left wing reaction
	-Non-proliferation
	-Test Ban Treaty
-SALT compared to Non-Proliferation Treaty and Test Ban Treaty
-Arms control agreement
-Announcement
-Timing
	-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
		-Congress
	-The Administration
	-Smith
-Moscow summit
-Duration of agreement
-Possible participation of entire arms control delegation
-Smith
-Haig
-Smith’s view
-Haig's view
-Paul H. Nitze
-Comparison of Soviets to Chinese
-Soviets 
	-Drinking
-SLBM
-John J. Mccloy
-May 20, 1971 understanding
	-ABMs
	-Land based defensive missiles
-Semenov’s talks with Smith in Vienna
	-ICBMs
	-SLBMs
-Forward bases

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-Moorer
-Verification panel
-NSC
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-The President's instructions to Smith

Smith and Haig left at 5:47 pm.

Conversation No. 691-6

Date:  March 21, 1972
Time:  5:47 pm - 5:48 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez [?].

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Sanchez left at 5:48 pm.

Conversation No. 691-7

Date:  March 21, 1972
Time:  5:48 pm - 7:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Raymond P. Shafer, John D. Ehrlichman and Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.

Greetings

The President’s schedule
	-Arms control
	-[Nihat Erim, Manea Manescu]

Shafer’s report
	-Vietnam
	-Copies
	-Marijuana

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 5:48 pm.

Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 6:21 pm.

Marijuana
-Schools of thought
	-Users and non-users of marijuana
		-Objectivity
-President’s Commission on Marijuana report
-Research
-Harold E. Hughes
-Jacob K. Javits
-Tim Lee Carter
-Paul G. Rogers
-Mitchell Ware

The White House photographer entered and left at an unknown time after 5:48 pm.

-Legalization
-Discouragement policy
	-Youth
-Differences from other drugs
	-Heroin
	-Cocaine
	-Amphetamines
	-Barbituates
	-Hallucinogens
	-Volatile solvents
-Symbolism
-User
-Education and discouragement
-Responsibility
-Family
-Church
-Medical profession
-Police
-Efforts to arrest drug dealers
-Commission news conference
	-Commission's report presented to the President
	-The President’s approval
	-Ehrlichman
	-Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe
-Members of the Commission
-Dr. Dana L. Farnsworth
-Maurice H. Seevers
	-Southern Methodist University [SMU]
-Charles O. Galvin
-John A. Howard
	-Rockford College
-Congressional members
-Javits
-Hughes
-Legalization
-Alcohol model
-Shafer’s public statements
	-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Penalties
-Decriminalization of possession
-Supply
-Children
-Arrest and prosecution
-Penalties
-Spain and Greece
-Family and Church
-India
-Morocco
	-Hashish
-Press
-Legalization
	-Shafer’s previous appearance on CBS
		-Comparison to Prohibition
			-Decriminalization of possession
-Commission report
-Javits
-Ware
-Howard
-John F. Cooney
-Legalization
-Proposals
	-Review
-Scientific studies
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-American Bar Association [ABA]
-American Medical Association [AMA]
-Potential harm
-Penalties for drug dealers
-Heroin
-Physical addiction
-Compared to marijuana
-1937 statute
	-Myths
-Youth
-Jerry Rubin
	-Crime
	-Myth
-Shafer’s view
-Private personal possession
-Public
-Criminal act
-Influence of marijuana
-Compared to alcohol
-Effect on nation
-Youth
-Experience
-Compared to hashish
-India and Malaysia
-Cooking
-Marijuana
-Forthcoming press conference
-Shafer
	-Opposition to legalization of marijuana
	-Commission report
	-The President

Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:48 pm.

The President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 6:21 pm.

Marijuana
-Press conference
-Commission report
-Legalization of marijuana
-Recommendations
-The President’s position
-Submission of report
-Democratic presidential candidates
-George S. McGovern
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-George C. Wallace
-John V. Lindsay
-McGovern
-Humphrey
-Busing issue
-Change in position
-Muskie
-Segregation
-Elderly

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Presidential gifts
	-Paperweight

Soviet trip

Shafer's
	-Forthcoming talk with Ehrlichman
-Future meeting with the President

Marijuana Commission
-Report
-The President's endorsement

Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:48 pm.

	Shafer’s schedule
		-Secretary

Shafer, Krogh and Bull left at 6:21 pm.

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Document
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Examination
-ITT experts
-The President's forthcoming talk with Hoover
-Ehrlichman's forthcoming call to Hoover
-Cooperation
-Ehrlichman's possible meeting with Hoover
-Examination of ITT document
	-ITT experts
-Possession of the FBI
-L. Patrick Gray, III
	-The President's note to Hoover
-Use of telephone
-Jack N. Anderson

Shafer [?]

The President’s schedule
	-[Erim]

[No conversation]

Dorothy Kirsten
-State Dinners
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

[No conversation]

The President's schedule
-Church services [?]

	State dinner
		-Guest lists

[No conversation]

	World War I
	-Turkey
		-Gallippoli
		-Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
		-Winston S. Churchill
		-Allies
			-Erim's statement

Shafer Commission
-Report
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Carter
-Howard
-Legalization of the use of marijuana
-Public compared to private use
-Ehrlichman and Krogh
-Shafer
-The President's forthcoming press conference
-Legalization issue
-Youth
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

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	-Ehrlichman's children
-Use of marijuana
-Ehrlichman's speech before the Harvard Club
-Question from youth
-Legalization
-The President
-Drug users compared to non users
-Applause
-Compared to alcohol
-The President
-The People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Happy compared to unhappy people
-Addiction
	-Cure
-Legalization issue
-Jaffe
-Krogh
-Jaffe
-ABA
-Edward Bennett Williams
	-Heroin maintenance
-Krogh
-Talk with Ehrlichman
-The President
-The report
-Evidence
-Scientific

	Ehrlichman’s schedule

Busing
-Humphrey's view
-Change
-The President's television address, March 16, 1972

Humphrey
-Change in positions
	-Press reaction
-Vietnam
-War
-Crime
-Civil rights
-Welfare
	-Florida
-Plan for elderly Jews

The President's busing speech
-Edward M. Kennedy's view
-Staff
-Equal educational opportunity
-Blacks
	-Liberals
		-Compassion
-The President's previous statement, March 24, 1970
-Blacks
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Minority businesses
-Television
-Children
-Liberals
-The President’s previous trip to New York City
	-Interaction with black government employees
-James E. Cheek
-President of Howard University
-Letter to the President
-As issue
-Constitutionality
-Congress
-Remedy compared to right
-Desegregation
-Legislation
-Administration blacks
-Efforts with editorial boards and television
	-Harry S. Dent
	-Edward L. Morgan
	-Kenneth W. Clawson
	-South
	-Texas
-News summary
	-Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin
-South
-Opposition
-Denver
-Indianapolis
-Intervention by the Justice Department
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Talk with Ehrlichman
-Michigan
-Nashville
-Texas
-Morgan
-Justice Department position
-Legislation
	-Moratorium
		-Conference committee
	-Constitutional amendment
	-Strom Thurmond
	-Possibility of passage

ITT
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Talk with Ehrlichman
	-Anderson
-Document (Dita D. Beard memorandum)
-Gray
-James O. Eastland
-Tests conducted in New York
	-Questioning
-Colson
-Decision 
-Public statement
-FBI experts
-White House strategy
-Hearings
-Beard testimony
-Denver
-Eastland
-Edward .M. Kennedy's witnesses
-Mike J. Mansfield
-Beard memorandum
-Authenticity
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew comments
-Life magazine story
	-Press coverage
-Kleindienst comments
-Justice Department
	-Clifford Irving
	-Look magazine
-Life magazine
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-Postal subsidy
	-Life magazine
	-Peter M. Flanigan's views
	-Esquire

Pay Board
-George Meany
-George P. Shultz
-Meany
	-Democrat
-Public members
-Meany's resignation
-Effect on Phase II
-Food prices
-Longshoremen strike
-Labor representatives
-Wage and price controls
	-The President’s August 15, 1971 statement
-Economy
-Food prices
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Dock strike
-Duration
-Effect on economy
-Congress
-Legislation
-Herbert Stein

	The President’s forthcoming state dinner for Erim

Ehrlichman left at 7:00 pm.

Conversation No. 691-8

Date:  March 21, 1972
Time:  7:00 pm - 7:04 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

The President’s forthcoming state dinner for Nihat Erim
-Marjorie P. Acker [?]
-Henry E. Ford II
-Contribution
	-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Max M. Fisher
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Gale E. Sayers
-Lowell C. Wadmond
-Del E. Webb
-Charles W. Colson
-Max von Schrader
-Webb
-Contributions
-O[renthal] J[ames] Simpson
	-Delivery of invitation

Woods left at 7:04 pm.

Conversation No. 691-9

Date:  March 21, 1972
Time:  7:09 pm - 7:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

The President's forthcoming state dinner for Nihat Erim
-Gale E. Sayers’s schedule

Woods left.

Conversation No. 691-10

Date:  March 21, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 7:10 pm and 7:28 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 7:28 pm.