Conversation No. 692-1

Date:  March 23, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:56 pm and 4:03 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President practiced a speech entitled "Remarks About the Resignation of George Meany From the Pay Board."  See the Public Papers of the Presidents, Richard Nixon, 1972, pages 485-486.

Conversation No. 692-2

Date:  March 23, 1972
Time:  4:03 pm - 4:04 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming Pay Board speech
-Ziegler's briefing
-Questions
-George P. Shultz

Ziegler left.

Conversation No. 692-3

Date:  March 23, 1972
Time:  4:08 pm - 5:02 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Marshall Green, John H. Holdridge, Alexander M. Haig, Jr.; members of the press and the White House photographer were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Photograph session

Pay Board

Green's trip to Asia
-Reports
-Forthcoming appearance on Meet the Press

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 4:08 pm.

Press photographs
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Pay Board

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 5:02 pm.

Green's forthcoming Meet the Press appearance
-The President's trip to the People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Green's meetings with Asian leaders
-Taiwan, Republic of China
	-Secret deals
		-Absence
	-US treaty commitments
-The President's Asian policies
-Green’s background and experience
	-Peace in Asia
		-US allies
-State Department's views
	-Forthcoming US-Soviet Union summit
	-Support for President’s policies
-Historical significance
-International concern
	-Change
-Eisaku Sato
-Ferdinand E. Marcos
-Public attention

White House and press photographers entered and left at an unknown time after 4:08 pm.

	Camp David

Green's schedule
-Previous appearance before the House Foreign Affairs Committee
		The President's trip to the People's Republic of China
		-Importance
		-Foreign aid program
		-Youth
-Nixon Doctrine
-Opening for peace

Green's previous conversations with Asian leaders
-The President's foreign policy
	-The President's trip to the PRC
	-Laos, Cambodia, South Vietnam, Thailand
-Vietnam
	-US support
-Green’s conversations in Shanghai
	-Support for the President’s policies
		-Congress
		-Public support
-Indonesia
-Chinese
-Soviet Union
-North Vietnam
-PRC

The president's foreign policy
-Views of the US Foreign Service
	-Support for the President’s policy
		-Isolationism

Japan
-Internal politics
-Views regarding the PRC
-Relations with the US
-Relations with the PRC
	-Chinese view of US
	-Chinese view of Japan
	-Chinese view of Soviet Union

Green's conversation with Lee Kuan Yew
-The President's trip to the PRC

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	MALAYSIA

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Green's forthcoming Meet the Press appearance
-Taiwan
-US policy
-John G. Tower

Green's conversation with Lee Kuan Yew

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	MALAYSIA

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Thailand
-Insurgency
	-Chinese
-Thanat-Khoman’s schedule
	-Religious obligations
-Green’s schedule
-Thanom Kittikachorn
-Phrapat [?]
-Dawee Chulasapya
-Pote Sarasin
-Statements by government
-Green’s conversations
-The President's PRC policy

	PRC
-Importance in US foreign policy
-Vietnam

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	US FOREIGN POLICY

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PRC
-Relations with the US
-Congress
-Improved cooperation
	-Return of hijacked plane
	-Apology for oil spill
	-Return of yacht
-Mao Tse-tung
-Chou En-lai
-Timing
-Deaths of Ho Chi Minh, Josef V. Stalin
-Downfall of Nikita S. Khrushchev
-Compared to Hong Kong and Singapore
-Leaders
	-Military
-Relations with the US
-Timing
-Age of leaders
	-Mao Tse-tung
	-Chou En-lai
-Relations with the Soviet Union

US foreign policy
-Authority of the President
-Congress
-Foreign aid
	-Turkey
-Democratic candidates' views
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Edward M. Kennedy
-George S. McGovern
-John V. Lindsay
-Military
-Timing
-Authority of the President
	-US position in international relations
-Taiwan

Japan
	-Green’s view
	-Eisaku Sato
	-Takeo Fukudo
	-Policies
		-Diet
			-Taiwan
			-Japan-PRC relations
-Green's conversations
-The President's conversations with Chou En-Lai
-Policies
	-The President’s view
		-PRC views
			-Taiwan
			-Korea
-The President's conversations with Chou En-lai
	-US-Japan relations
		-Japan’s economic strength
			-Japan’s neutrality
		-US influence
	-PRC reaction
		-View of Chou En-lai
		-View of Mao Tse-tung

PRC
-Position in Asia
-Soviet Union
-Japan
-India
-Pakistan
-US
-Japan
-Soviet Union
-India
-Views regarding US policy
-Korean War
	-Yalu River
-Vietnam
-The President's conversations with Chou En-lai
-Africa
-Middle East
	-United Arab Republic [UAR]
-Chou En-lai
-Mao Tse-tung
-Revolution
	-Power
-Status as Communist nation
	-United Nations [UN]
-Leaders
	-Press
	-Struggle
	-Revolution

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	PRC

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-Motives
-Mao Tse-tung
-Response to the President's visit

Arthur K. Watson
-Green
-William P. Rogers
-Jack N. Anderson
-Frank F. Church's comment

PRC
-Chou En-lai's comment regarding temperance
-Responsibility for US-PRC diplomatic channel
-Green’s testimony
-Rogers's comments to J. William Fulbright, March 22, 1972
	-Leak
-Washington Post story, March 23, 1972
-Instructions to Watson from Washington
-Green's possible comment

Temperance
-Ambassadors
-Congressmen and Senators
-Hiram L. Fong's statement, March 22, 1972
	-Air travel

Watson
-Air travel

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	-Voltaire's comment regarding women's virtue

Green's schedule
-Previous visit to Asia
-Possible trip to Florida with the President
	-Wage-price issue
		-George Meany
-Previous visit to Asia
-Holdridge's role
-Rogers

Philippines
-Green’s experience
	-The President’s previous arrival in Jakarta from the Philippines
-Imelda Marcos's forthcoming trip to the PRC
-Green's conversations
	-Congress

Stephen B. Bull entered and left at an unknown time before 5:02 pm.

	The President’s schedule [?]

	Philippines
		-Green’s conversations
			-Ferdinand E. Marcos, Carlos P. Romulo, [Forename unknown] Belcourt, [Forename unknown] Corrado
	-Leaders of opposition
	-Leaders in Senate
-Green’s backgrounders with the press
	-[Forename unknown] Grenada
	-[Forename unknown] Valencia
-The President’s view
	-Influences
		-Asia
		-Spain
		-US
		-Romulo's comments

South Korea
-US aid
-Possible invitation to Gen. Chung Hee Park
	-Haig
	-The President’s schedule
		-Forthcoming trip to Canada

Presentation of gifts by the President
	-Foreign Service
	-National Security Council [NSC]

The President's forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Green
-Martin J. Hillenbrand
-Rogers
-Staff

Cambodia
-Views regarding Michael J. Mansfield's possible trip to the PRC
			-The President’s and Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon memorandum to Henry A. Kissinger
		-Norodom Sihanouk
	-Mansfield’s possible meeting with Sihanouk
	-Lon Nol
	-Sihanouk
		-North Vietnam

Walter H. Annenberg's gift to the President [“Star of the President”]
-Steuben glass

Green, et al. left at 5:02 pm.

Conversation No. 692-4

Date:  March 23. 1972
Time:  5:03 pm - 5:17 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

National economy
-Pay Board
-Press coverage of George Meany's resignation
	-United Press International [UPI]
	-Associated Press [AP]
-Leonard Woodcock's resignation
-Labor representation
-Meany's resignation
-The President's statement
-Cost of Living Council [COLC] meeting
-George P. Shultz’s statement
-Press coverage
	-Length of statement

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming press conference
-Length of press conference
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Ziegler’s talk with Patrick J. Buchanan

-George C. Wallace
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Arthur K. Watson
-J. William Fulbright's statement
-William P. Rogers's testimony regarding role

ITT case
-Press conference, March 24, 1972
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Ronald L. Ziegler's statement
-Thomas F. Eagleton
-Flanigan’s possible statement
-Richard W. McLaren
-Executive privilege
-John N. Mitchell
-Justice Department

White House press relations
	-The President’s forthcoming press conference
		-Timing

National economy
-Meany's resignation from the Pay Board
-The President's statement
	-Tone
		-Ziegler’s view
-Public views
-The President's statement
-Compard to draft
	-Shultz
-Meany’s previous meetings with the President and Shultz
-John B. Connally's forthcoming statement on Today
	-Wire services

Forthcoming press statement
	-The President's previous meeting with Marshall Green
	-Green's previous trip to Asia
	-The President's People's Republic of China [PRC] policy
	-Green’s forthcoming appearance on Meet the Press 

Watson
-Attacks by Congressmen
-Actions on airplane
-Ziegler's conversation with Rogers

The President's schedule
-Press conferences
-Timing
	-East Room
	-Forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Camp David
-Radio speech
-Ziegler's possible statement to the press
-Pay Board
-Domestic issues
-Forthcoming trip to Canada
-Hussein ibn Talal [Hussein, King of Jordan]
-Domestic issues
-Revenue sharing
-Welfare reform
-Environment
-Congressional action
	-Democratic National Convention

Ziegler left at 5:17 pm.

Conversation No. 692-5

Date:  March 23, 1972
Time:  5:17 pm - 5:22 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President’s letter to Luci Johnson Nugent

[No conversation-signing documents]

Attorney General

[No conversation-signing document]

The President’s schedule
	-Republican leadership meeting
		-Agenda
	-Pay Board
	-George P. Shultz

Butterfield left.

Conversation No. 692-6

Date:  March 23, 1972
Time:  5:22 pm - 5:23 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Delivery of an item [?]

Butterfield left.

Conversation No. 692-7

Date:  March 23, 1972
Time:  5:23 pm - 6:24 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

National economy
-George Meany’s resignation from the Pay Board
-The President's statement
-Ronald L. Ziegler's views

-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-John B. Connally's forthcoming statement
-Content and phraseology
-Length of statement
-Possible press coverage
-Views of Hugh Scott, John W. Byrnes, Gerald R. Ford

The President's role in government
-Use of television
	-Leadership
		-Connally
	-Haldeman’s view
	-Press conferences

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-Arthur F. Burns
-Appointment to Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
-George P. Shultz
-Frederic V. Malek
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Connally
-Conversation with Haldeman
	-Shultz

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 5:23 and 5:33 pm.

[Conversation No. 692-7A]

Charles W. Colson's schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

National economy
-Pay Board
-The President's statement regarding Meany's resignation
-William L. Safire's draft
	-The President’s August 15, 1971 statement
-Content and phraseology
-Special interests
	-Franklin D. Roosevelt
						-The President's opponents' attack on International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]

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ITT

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The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:23 and 5:33 pm.

[Conversation No. 692-7B]

[See Conversation No. 22-5]

[End of telephone conversation]

	-Press conference
		-Ziegler
		-John N. Mitchell
			-President’s response

The President talked with Ziegler between 5:33 and 5:34 pm.

[Conversation No. 692-7C]

[See Conversation No. 22-6]

[End of telephone conversation]

Colson entered at 5:34 pm.

National economy
-Pay Board
-The President's statement on Meany's resignation
	-Meany’s representation of American labor force
-Meany's resignation
-Louis P. Harris's views
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
	-Food prices
-Pay Board
-Meany's resignation
-Connally
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Colson's conversation with Connally
-Special interests
-Harris's views

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National economy
-Pay Board
-Leonard Woodcock's resignation
-Possible political effect
	-Meany
	-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
	-Democratic candidates
-Public's views

ITT case
-Dita D. Beard memorandum
-Efforts of the Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
	-Independent experts
	-[Forename unknown] Conrad's report
-Withdrawal
	-John D. Ehrlichman's efforts
	-Possible report
	-Tests by Pearl L. Tytell
	-Tests by an unknown man in Chicago [Walter McCrone?]
	-W. Clement Stone
	-Tests by the Treasury Department
	-J. Edgar Hoover's cooperation
-Forthcoming letter to Senate committee
	-Conrad
	-Ehrlichman's efforts
	-Tytell's role
	-Alger Hiss case
	-Husband
	-FBI’s view
	-Beard
	-Forthcoming testimony
-Edward M. Kennedy
	-Health
-Ziegler
	-Unknown woman in Canada
-Clifford Irving case
	-Efforts of Marlow Cook, Roman L. Hruska, Hugh Scott
	-Memorandum
-Tests by experts
-Public relations benefits
	-White House strategy
-Tytell
-McCrone
-Methodologies

Voltaire's comment regarding women and virtue

Beard
-Kennedy's efforts
	-Views of other senators
	-Scott
	-Kennedy's conversation with James O. Eastland
	-Harold S. Geneen
	-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
	-Philip A. Hart
	-Clifford Irving, Howard Hughes
	-Ehrlichman's conversations with J. Edgar Hoover
	-Memorandum
-Testimony by experts
-Tytell

National economy
-Pay Board
-The President's statement regarding Meany's resignation
-Content and phraseology
-Meany's resignation
-Jay Lovestone
-Colson's conversation with Victor Riesel
-Motives and expectations
-Partisanship
					-The President’s address to the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO] in Bal Harbour, Florida, November 19, 1971
-Shultz
	-Mamie G.D. Eisenhower
-The President's statement
-Effect on building trades unions
-Calls by George T. Bell and James D. Hodgson
-Colson's forthcoming call to Peter J. Brennan
-AFL-CIO
-Meany’s representation of American labor force
	-International Brotherhood of Teamsters
	-Autoworkers
	-Longshoremen’s strike
-The President's response
-Possible television speech
-Birch E. Bayh, Jr.
	-Busing
-Equal time
	-ITT

Television networks
-Equal time
-Balance on news broadcasts
-Busing
-Vietnam
-Views regarding busing

National economy
-Pay Board
-Meany's resignation
-The President's response
-Harry S. Truman
-Public response
-Stock market
-Stock market
-Gross National Product [GNP]
-Views of Connally and Herbert Stein
-Retail sales
-Statistics
-Efforts of government agencies
-The President's memorandum to Shultz and Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
	-Department of Defense
-Weinberger
-Ehrlichman
-Decline in government purchases
	-News summary
	-Shultz
			-Haldeman's forthcoming meeting with Melvin R. Laird and [David] Kenneth Rush
-Twice weekly reports to the President
-Government purchases
-Vietnam
-Shultz
-Weinberger
-Robert C. Moot
-Reports to the President

Haldeman's conversation with Harry Cohen of Hornblower and Weeks
-Stock market
-The President's previous trip to the People's Republic of China [PRC]

The President's previous trip to the PRC
-Exhibit
-Haldeman’s view
-Circulation
	-John Scali's schedule
-PRC ping pong team
-Television
-Under Secretaries
-Congressional groups
-Sub-cabinet
-White House staff
-Briefing on the President's PRC trip
	-Compared to Henry A. Kissinger's briefings
	-Effectiveness
		-Scali’s status as a Democrat
			-Associated Press [AP]
		-Daniel Patrick Moynihan
-Newsworthiness
-Compared to ITT and busing
-The President's forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union

State Department files on Congressional trips
-Scali
-Requests by William A. Gill, Jr. and Stewart M. Hensley
-Arthur K. Watson
-Hiram L. Fong’s comment in a committee hearing
	-Marshall Green
-Congressmen's activities in foreign countries
-Counterpart funds
-Immunity
-Colson's previous conversation with William B. Macomber, Jr.

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-Contrasted with the President's foreign travel
-The President’s travels as a private citizen
	-Businessmen
-Counterpart funds
-Allen J. Ellender
-Colson's conversation with Macomber
-William P. Rogers
-John E. Hunt
-Statement
	-Watson
-Kennedy
-Paris
	-Funeral of Charles A.J.M. de Gaulle
-Mexico
-Alaska
-Watson

1972 campaign
-Possible threats by administration

ITT
-American Telephone and Telegraph [AT&T]
-Robert J. Dole
-Democrats' debt
-Possible threats by administration
-Investigation
-FBI
	-Typewriter
-Jack N. Anderson
-Possible leaks by the administration
-Possible break-in
-Possible leaks by the administration
-Carl B. Albert, [Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Efforts of Herbert G. Klein and Colson
-Brit Hume
-White House investigation
-Relationship with Drew Pearson
-Media coverage
	-Time and Newsweek
-Stories regarding ITT
-Veracity
-Salvador Allende Gossens
	-Time, Newsweek
	-Influence
		-Readership

The President's forthcoming speech to the Canadian Parliament
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-The President's possible efforts

The President's forthcoming radio speech on the Supreme Court
-Price

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	Unknown man
		-Wife
-Colson’s view
-CPI

The President's activities

Administration public relations
	-Polls
	-Drug issue
	-Meany
		-Harris
	-Problems
		-Congress
		-Media

Haldeman and Colson left at 6:24 pm.

Conversation No. 692-8

Date:  March 23, 1972
Time:  6:24 pm - 6:27 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Briefcase
-Executive Office Building [EOB]

Rose Mary Woods entered at 6:24 pm.

	Woods’s schedule

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		-Dinner

Sanchez and Woods left at 6:27 pm.

Conversation No. 692-9

Date:  March 23, 1972
Time:  6:27 pm - 6:28 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

Time, Newsweek
-Allen S. Drury
-Actions
	-Networks

Conversation No. 692-10

Date:  March 23, 1972
Time:  6:27 pm - 6:28 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man and Rose Mary Woods.

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The President, the unknown man and Woods left at 6:28 pm.