Conversation No. 694‑1

Date:  March 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 3:14 pm and 3:16 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Charles W. Colson
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:16 pm.

Conversation No. 694-2

Date:  March 27, 1972
Time:  3:16 pm - 4:08 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull [?] and Charles W. Colson.

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Reminder to an unknown person

Bull [?] left at an unknown time before 3:23 pm.

ITT
-Press conference
-Hugh Scott and Roman L. Hruska

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:16 pm.

Refreshments

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:23 pm.

ITT
-Press conference

Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:16 pm.

The President's schedule
-Meeting
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:23 pm.

ITT case
-Press conference
-Scott and Hruska
	-End hearings
	-Richard Kleindienst confirmation
		-Evidence
-James O. Eastland
-Democrats
-Press coverage
-Denver
	-Robert C. Mardian
		-Edward M. Kennedy question
-Press account
-Possible statement
	-Marlow Cook
	-Scott
	-Hruska
	-Robert J. Dole
-Dita D. Beard testimony
	-Eastland’s view
-Affidavit
-Schedule
-Senate
-Congress
-Clark MacGregor's role
	-Welfare reform
-Revenue sharing
-William R. Merriam’s testimony
-White House role
-Location
-Talk with William E. Timmons

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:16 pm.

-Edward J. Gerrity, Jr.
-Ronald L. Ziegler, Gerald L. Warren
-Republican Convention
-Timmons
-Merriam

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:23 pm.

-Veracity of White House spokesmen
-Press coverage
-Merriam
-Talks with White House staff members
		-Timmons
			-Content
-Timmons
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Public relations activities
-Harold S. Geneen
-Beard memorandum
-Test results
	-Possible testimony by experts
-Committee
-Republicans
-Eastland
-Kleindienst confirmation
-Wallace Johnson
-John N. Mitchell
-Party line vote
-Jacob K. Javits
-Republicans
-Vote
	-Statement
	-Strategy
-Committee
-Other responsibilities
	-Busing moratorium
		-Legislation

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 3:23 pm.

Signing documents
-House Resolution [HR] 1

Haldeman entered at 3:24 pm.

		-Connally

Ziegler
-Press briefing
-Time
-James D. Hodgson
-Elliot L. Richardson

Butterfield left at 3:25 pm.

ITT case
-Committee
-Other responsibilities
	-Busing issue
		-Robert P. Griffin
		-Eastland
-Press conference
-Hruska and Scott
-Cook
-Dole
-Senate
-Eastland
-Edward J. Gurney
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
-Votes
-Merriam
-Talk with Timmons
-Sheraton Hotel
	-Convention
-Gerrity's conversation with Colson
-Problems
	-Options
-Flanigan
-Geneen
-Headquarters
-Ziegler
-San Clemente
	-The President
-Sheraton Hotel
-Convention
-Geneen
-Beard testimony
-Robert C. Wilson
-Press coverage
-C. Arnholt Smith
-Other hotels
-Sheraton Hotel
-Money
-Amount
	-Disposition
-Press coverage
-White House strategy
-Committee
-Witnesses
-Kleindienst confirmation
-Press conference
-Hruska
-Eastland
-Talk with Mardian
-Merriam
-Testimony
	-ITT statement
-Beard memorandum
-White House telephone call
-Contents
-Timmons
-Jack Gleason
-Garrity
-Merriam
	-Timmons
-Money
-Beard
-Testimony
	-Contribution
		-Amounts
		-Circumstances
-Money exchange
-Pledge
-Geneen
-Business investment
	-Sheraton Hotel
		-Headquarters
			-Other hotels
				-Smith
-Robert Wilson
-Schedule
-Attempt to testify
-White House strategy
-Boycott
-Geneen
-Testimony
-Executive session
-Boycott
-Hruska
-Congress
-Hruska
-Hearing notes
	-Percentage of questions
		-Kennedy
-Democrats compared to Republicans
-Ten minute rule
-Kennedy
-Committee
-Kleindienst confirmation
	-Floor battle
-Filibuster
-Withdrawal
-Abe Fortas
-Party line vote
-Mitchell
-Filibuster
-Kennedy
-John V. Tunney
-Offensive-defensive positions
-Eastland 
-Other obligations
-Busing
	-Griffin
-Scott
-Leadership meeting
-Gerald R. Ford
-Griffin
-MacGregor
-Scott
	-Geneen
-Sheraton Hotel
-ITT's file
	-Timmons's files
	-White House files
	-Timmons's schedule
	-Congress
-Timing
	-Kleindienst withdrawal
	-Hearings 
	-Beard's health
	-Kleindienst confirmation
-Demand a vote
	-Justice Department
-Busing
	-Withdrawal
-Ultimatum
-Recommendations
	-Beard's health
	-Justice Department
	-L. Patrick Gray, III
	-Eastland
	-Change in position
	-Further nominations
	-Filibuster
	-Convention

Colson left at 3:58 pm.

	-Flanigan
	-Murray [Chotiner?]
	-William Eberle
	-Flanigan
-White House role
-John C. Whitaker
	-Before and after the election
	-Attorney General
-MacGregor
-Qualifications 
	-Kleindienst
-Colson

Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:58 pm.

The President's schedule
-Meeting
-Rogers C.B. Morton

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:08 pm.

ITT case
-Attorney General
-Appointment
-Typewriter
-Proof
-White House integrity
-Compared to Lyndon B. Johnson administration
-Staff
-Convention
-San Diego
	-Herbert G. Klein
-Wilson

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming reception
-White House Conference for the Advertising Council
-Handshaking
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Call from Rose Mary Woods
-The President's appearance

Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:58 pm.

Placement of something in the office

Haldeman and Bull left at 4:08 pm.

Conversation No. 694-3

Date:  March 27, 1972
Time:  4:08 pm - 4:57 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rogers C.B. Morton, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., George P. Shultz, Peter M. Flanigan and John C. Whitaker.

Greetings

Map

Alaskan pipeline
-Size
-Court requirement
-Lead time
-Report
-Election
-Release
-Environmental impact
-Court
-Advance notice
-Hearings
-Canada
Pierre E. Trudeau
-Political significance
-Jobs
-Environmentalists
-Alaska
-Possible pipeline route
-Compared to Canada
-Jobs
-Wildlife
-Existing routes
-Maine to Montreal
-Edmonton to the Midwest
-Edmonton to Montana
-Edmonton to Seattle

-Canadians
-Press
-Environmentalists
-Canada
-International corporation
-Canadian government
-Oil companies
-US government
-Price
-Advantages
	-Oil market places
		-Midwest
		-West Coast
			-Southern California
	-Maritime considerations
	-Strikes
-Political considerations
-Ted Stevens
-Public communications
-Alaska
	-Jobs
-Stevens’s election
-Unemployment
-International corporation
-North American oil policy
-Oil shortage
-Canada
-Natural gas pipeline
-Natural gas reserves
-Supreme court
-International corporation
-Canadian government
-Congressional approval
-Canadian finances
-Donald S. Macdonald's statement
-Press coverage of Alaskan pipeline
-Possible pipeline through Canada
	-The President
-Alaska
-Politics
-Three electoral votes
-Land board
-Jack Horton
-Government control of land
-Homesteading
-Mineral development
-Native claims legislation
	-Morton’s view
-Oil company investment losses
-Pipe
-Purchase by the Department of the Interior
	-Fairbanks
	-Valdez
	-Prudhoe Bay
-Quality
	-Permafrost
-Environmentalist voting pattern
-Election issues
	-Environment
	-Vietnam
	-Jobs
	-Shultz
		-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Canada
-Initiative for pipeline
-Park land
-US land parcel
-International park
-Natural gas pipeline right of way
-Arctic wildlife range
-Locations
-Midwest
-California
-Oregon
-Maritime situations
-Strikes
-Merchant marine activities
-Canadians
-Discussions during the President’s trip to Canada
-Flanigan’s conversation with unnamed Canadian official
-Court involvement
-Election
-Political situation in Alaska
-Natural gas line proposal
-Wall Street Journal
-Election
-Alaska
-Court involvement in pipeline planning
		-Environmentalists
	-The President
	-North American oil policy
	-Robert O. Anderson
	-The People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
		-Canada
		-National feeling
		-Forthcoming Soviet Union trip
		-Sale of oil leases in Gulf of Mexico
		-Courts
			-National Environment Policy Act [NEPA]
		-Money
-Morton’s forthcoming meeting with a Canadian official [MacDonald?]
-Whittier
-Flanigan
-Canadian oil flow
-Morton
-The President's forthcoming trip to Canada
-Public image
-Financing for possible US-Canadian pipeline
-MacDonald
-Forthcoming meeting with Secretary of the Interior
-Minister of energy
-Minister of defense
-Assistant
	-Jack Lawson [?]
-Meeting with Morton
	-White House involvement
-Maritime considerations for Alaskan pipeline
-Possible US-Canada pipeline
	-Canadians
	-Finances
	-Product
	-American market place
	-McDonald
	-Meeting with Morton
	-White House involvement
	-Leaks
	-Environmental impact statement
	-Morton’s forthcoming meeting with MacDonald
	-The President's Canada trip
		-Forthcoming meeting with Trudeau
			-MacDonald
			-Morton
			-Environmentalists
	-MacKenzie Valley
	-Prior meetings with Canadians
	-Oil security
	-Trudeau
		-John B. Connally
	-Canadian position
	-Oil productivity
-Alaska
-Size of oil field
-Transportation of oil from Alaska
-Boom or bust
-Highway comparison
-Politics
-Stevens
-Delay of decision
-Courts
-Canadians
-Politics
	-Michael Gravel
			-White House involvement
-Decision
-Shultz
-US negotiations with the Canadians
-Flanigan
-Morton and McDonald
-Trudeau
-Meetings
-Possible Canadian pipeline
	-Route to the Midwest, Far West
-Environmentalists
-US
-Need for oil
-Alaska
-Circuit Court of Appeals and Supreme Court
-Supreme Court justices
	-Views on the environment
		-Busing
-Environmentalists
-Delay
-One year
-Morton-McDonald meeting
-Shultz
-Haig’s role
	-Henry A. Kissinger
-International corporation
	-Structure
	-Flanigan
-National security aspects of oil arrangements with Canada
-Gen. George A. Lincoln
-Flanigan
-State Department
-Oil supply
-Existing pipelines
	-Capacity
-Shultz’s role
	-Participation in Flanigan’s meeting with Canadians
	-Participation in Morton’s meeting with Canadians
-Report
-Possible Canadian pipeline
	-Morton’s view
		-Political aspects
-Public acknowledgement of US-Canadian negotiations
	-Alternate to Alaskan pipeline
	-MacDonald’s possible press conference
-Gravel, Stevens
-Court battles
-Alaska
-Fairbanks, Anchorage
-News conferences by Morton
	-MacDonald’s forthcoming meeting with Flanigan and Morton
		-Discussion of energy needs
		-Options
		-Problems
		-Environmentalists
-Environmental statement
	-Morton
	-Whitaker
	-Shultz
			-Court cases
				-McDonald-Morton meetings
					-NEPA requirements
					-Whitaker’s view
-Oil companies
	-Investments
	-Delay
	-Oil company lawyers	
	-Anderson
-Atlantic Richfield
	-Options
-Compensation
-Total investment
	-Pipes
-Amount
-Tankers
-Capital investment
-Amount
-Canada
-MacDonald
	-Forthcoming meetings with Administration officials
-Investment
-US
-Need for oil

The President's schedule
-Advertising Council

Map

Wildlife

Morton, et. al. left at 4:57 pm.

Conversation No. 694-4

Date:  March 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:57 pm and 5:01 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Meeting
-Advertising Council
-Delay
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's appearance
-State Dining Room
-East Room
-State Dining Room
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Delay

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:01 pm.

Conversation No. 694-5

Date:  March 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:57 pm and 5:01 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Unknown meeting [forthcoming Republican Congressional leadership meeting]
-George P. Shultz
-Pay Board

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 5:01 pm.

Conversation No. 694-6

Date:  March 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 4:57 pm and 5:01 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
	-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Meeting with Republican Congressional leadership, March 28, 1972
	-Legislation
		-Welfare reform
		-Revenue sharing
		-Busing
			-Elliot L. Richardson
		-Economy
		-Pay Board
		-Herbert Stein's presentation
		-Tone
-Length of meeting
-Clark MacGregor

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 5:01 pm.

Conversation No. 694-7

Date:  March 27, 1972
Time:  5:01 pm - 5:14 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Clark MacGregor and Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's press conference

-Food prices
-George P. Shultz
	-Herbert Stein
-Members of Congress

	Advertising Council

Economy
-Stein presentation
-Paul W. McCracken’s previous presentations
-Stein
	-John B. Connally
	-McCracken
	-Forthcoming Republican Congressional leadership meeting
		-Members of Congress
		-Recess
		-Message from the White House
			-Price stabilization program
			-George P. Shultz
			-Stein
-Connally
-Stein
-Inflation
-Orders for durable goods
-Congress
-Lack of action
-White House proposals
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Record
-MacGregor
	-Detroit
-Stein
-Republican leaders
-Speeches
-Filibuster

	International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-James O. Eastland
-Meeting with MacGregor
-Vote
-The President's talk with Haldeman
-Republican Convention
-Richard G. Kleindienst confirmation
	-Vote
-MacGregor's conversation with Michael J. Mansfield
	-Eastland's talk with Mansfield
	-Eastland's request of MacGregor
		-Judiciary Committee
			-Schedule a hearing
-Executive session
-Marlow Cook
	-Filibuster
-Hugh Scott, Roman L. Hruska
-Charles W. Colson
-Robert Mardian
-Eastland
-Edward M. Kennedy
	-Television appearances
		-Dita Beard's testimony
			-White House involvement
	-Statement

Alexander M. Haig entered at 5:04 pm.

-Beard testimony
-Cook
-
-White House involvement

Economy
-Stein
-Positive messages
-MacGregor

MacGregor and Butterfield left at 5:06 pm.

The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
	-Possible step in Poland
-Soviet Union
-US domestic situation
-US interests
-Soviets
-Compared to trip to Romania
	-Henry A. Kissinger
	-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
	-US reaction
	-Public reception in Tehran
	-Possible reception
		-The President’s experience as Vice President
	-Relations with the Soviet Union
	-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
	-William P. Rogers
	-Kissinger
	-Soviet Union
	-Reception
	-Haig's talk with Kissinger

The President and Haig left at 5:14 pm.

Conversation No. 694-8

Date:  March 27, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:14 pm and 5:34 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown women met with unknown people.

Oval Office tour
	-Cabinet Room
	-Desk

The conversation was cutoff at an unknown time before 5:34 pm.