Conversation No. 698-1

Date:  March 30, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 2:32 pm and 3:13 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting
-Location of participants

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:13 pm.

Conversation No. 698-2

Date:  March 30, 1972
Time:  3:13 pm - 4:40 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Press briefing
-Railroad strike
-Sheet metal workers
-Railroad Emergency Act
-George P. Shultz
	-Memorandum
-Documents
-Emergency Board
	-[James D. Hodgson]
	-The President's signature
-Work stoppage
-Carl B. Albert
-Wage and price freeze
-Ziegler's unsuccessful attempt to telephone John B. Connally
-Ziegler's talk with Herbert Stein
-Administration's response
-Connally
-Arthur F. Burns
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-Stein
-Inflation
-Program
-Goal

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:13 pm.

The President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:17 pm.

Weather
-Spring
-Flowers

Press briefing
-The President's schedule
-Meeting with Frank E. Fitzsimmons
	-The President’s previous breakfast with George Meany
-Photograph
-Purpose
-Labor situation
-West Coast dock strike

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 3:17 pm.

Press briefing
-William J. Porter
-Vietnam negotiations

Ziegler left at 3:19 pm.

Foreign policy
-Kissinger's meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Soviet trip
-Polish stopover
-Cable from Warsaw
					-Leonid I. Brezhnev
					-Compared to the President’s trip to Romania
		-Soviet response
		-Domestic considerations
		-US-Soviet Summit
-Vietnam
	-The President’s previous telephone conversation with Kissinger
-Withdrawal deadline
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Military aid
	-North Vietnam
	-South Vietnam
-Timing
-Offensive

Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:19 pm.

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Fitzsimmons

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:24 pm.

Foreign relations
-Kissinger's meeting with Dobrynin
-Vietnam
-Withdrawal deadline
-Soviet and US military aid
						-Economic aid

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Fitzsimmons
-Kissinger's meeting with Harold J. Gibbons
-Gibbons
	-International Brotherhood of Teamsters 

Bull, Fitzsimmons, Charles W. Colson and Shultz entered at 3:24 pm.

Greetings

Introductions
-Kissinger

International situation
-Kissinger’s possible briefings of Fitzsimmons
-Soviet summit
-National defense
-Meany
-The People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Gibbons’s previous trip to North Vietnam
	-Soviet summit

Kissinger's meeting with Gibbons
		-Possible comments by North Vietnamese
		-Gibbons’s comments on Today show
			-POWs

Kissinger's briefing of Fitzsimmons
		-Timing
			-Soviet summit
				-Arms control
	Golf
		
Kissinger left at 3:27 pm.

The President's forthcoming meeting with Brezhnev

	Photograph

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:40 pm.

Labor situation
-Fitzsimmons
-Pay Board membership
-Cost of living

Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins entered at an unknown time after 3:27 pm.

Photographs
-Atkins

Atkins left at an unknown time before 4:40 pm.

Labor situation
-Meany's resignation from the Pay Board
-Effect on the President's labor relations
-Unions
-Construction workers
-Teamsters
-American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO]
-White House role
-Meany
-Fitzsimmons's advice
-Peter J. Brennan
-AFL-CIO
-Meany
-Resignation from the Pay Board
-Unions
	-Rank and file
		-I[lorwith] W[ilbur] Abel
		-Fitzsimmons
-Henry M. ("Scoop") Jackson
-Candidacy for presidency
-Leonard Woodcock
-Establishment of the Pay Board
-Woodcock
-Walter P. Reuther

An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time before 4:40.

	Refreshments

	Labor situation
		-Meany
			-Woodcock
				-Loan of money
					-AFL-CIO
					-Rubber workers
					-Steel workers
					-Teamsters
					-Peter Bommarito
					-Abel
					-Fitzsimmons
		-United Auto Workers [UAW]
	-Collateral
		-Property
			-Manchester Union Leader
				-AFL-CIO
				-Endorsement of Edmund S. Muskie
					-New Hampshire primary
					-Florida primary
					-Illinois primary
					-Nomination
-Abel
-Floyd E. (“Red”) Smith
-Woodcock
-Nathaniel Goldfinger
-Pay Board
-Meany resignation
-Woodcock resignation
-Fitzsimmons
	-UAW
-Meany resignation
-Colson's talk with Fitzsimmons
-Food prices
-Meany's relationship with the President
	-National security
-Fitzsimmons's remaining on the Pay Board
	-Reactions
		-Polls
	-Letters of congratulation
	-Examples
	-Albert E. Sindlinger
	-Call to Fitzsimmons
	-Public opinion
-Industry
-Connally
-Reduction of food prices
-Retailers
-Connally's meeting with food chain executives
-C. Jackson Grayson, Jr.’s forthcoming meeting with middlemen
-Meany
-Control of profits
-Economic Stabilization Act
-Fitzsimmons's statement
-Andrew Biemiller
-Compromise
-Wages and prices
-Controls
-Democratic controlled Congress
-Legislation
	-Inflation
-John F. Kennedy administration
-Lyndon B. Johnson administration
-End of Vietnam War
-Economic implications
-Economy
-Fitzsimmons
-Experience in organized labor
-Length
-Purpose
-Representing workers
-Negotiation compared to confrontation
-Strikes
	-Reasoning for remaining on the Pay Board
-Teamsters
-Membership
	-Morale
-James R. (“Jimmy”) Hoffa
-Colson
-John N. Mitchell
-Understanding of Hoffa’s role
	-Fitzsimmons's request to smoke
-Fitzsimmons's talks with Mitchell and Colson
-Talk with Fitzsimmons regarding future
	-Schedule
		-St. Louis
		-Florida
-Josephine Hoffa
-President's previous contact
-Talk with Fitzsimmons
-Wage Board
-[William Loeb]
	-New Hampshire
-The President
-John English
-Gibbons
-Fitzsimmons's election as President of the Teamsters
-Hoffa
-Tom Flynn, Secretary of the Treasury of the Teamsters
-Death
-Gibbons
	-Possible election as Secretary of the Treasury of the Teamsters
-St. Louis
-Relationship with Hoffa
-Morris Shanker’s meeting with Fitzsimmons
-Hoffa's attorney
	-Lewisburg Penitentiary
-Ray Sheskin [sp?] from Chicago
-Flynn
-Gibbons
-Activity in the Teamsters Union
-Violation of clemency agreement
-Murray W. ("Dusty") Miller
-Activity in union
-1973
-End of restrictions
-Commitment from Fitzsimmons
-Josephine Hoffa
-Visit
-Hoffa's union involvement
-Hoffa's son
-Health
-Hoffa's union activities
-Joseph Diviney
-Einar Mohn
				-Fitzsimmons's schedule
					-Florida
-San Francisco
-Hoffa's union involvement
-Gibbons
-Miller
-Brother's death
-Allen Dorfman
-Fitzsimmons's meeting with Hoffa
-Health
-Meeting with Fitzsimmons in San Francisco
-Teamsters
-Election
-Growth
-Reputation
-Teamsters
	-Hoffa’s resignation from presidency
-Fitzsimmons as president
-Change in constitution of the union
-Succession to presidency
-Hoffa
-Clemency restrictions
-Union involvement
-Central states conference
-Eastern conference
-Message to Hoffa
-Western conference
-Fitzsimmons
-Southern conference
-Miller
-Presidency
-Fitzsimmons's authority
-Tucson, Arizona
-Meeting
	-Western conference
-Fitzsimmons's speech
-Administration policies
-The President
-Success
-Fitzsimmons's speech
-Seattle, Washington
-Fitzsimmons's endorsement of a candidate for the presidency
-Lee Kearney [sp?]
		-New York
		-John V. Lindsay
		-Unknown name [Mayo?]
		-Unknown person
		-Nelson A. Rockefeller
		-Loeb
			-New Hampshire
		-Mitchell
			-The President

The President's schedule
-Philip V. Sanchez
			-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]

Economy
-Dock strike
-Harry Bridges
-Meany
-Thomas W. (“Teddy”) Gleason
-Fitzsimmons's speech in New York
-Theodore Kheel
-Bridges
-Gleason's support
-John M. Bowers
-Gleason’s support of Bridges
-William M. Chester, Jr.
-Bridges
-Agreements discussed
-Job disputes
-Longshoremen
	-Teamsters
-Pay Board
-Thomas E. Flynn
			-Pay
	-Fitzsimmons's advice
	-James J. Reynolds [?]
	-Pay Board
-Newspaper ads
	-AFL-CIO
-Bridges's meeting with Fitzsimmons
-Chuck Belsa [?], Chester
-Bridges's communist associations
-AFL-CIO
-Meany
-Woodcock
-Smith, Abel
-Meany phone conversation with Fitzsimmons
-Council meeting
-Longshoremen strike
	-Teamsters
	-Garment workers
	-Cement finishers
	-Glass bottle blowers
-Pay Board
-Commitment to the President
	-Shultz
-Meany's resignation
-Unknown person
-Connally
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Proposed meeting with the President
-Updates
-Fitzsimmons to Shultz
-Teamsters
-Bridges
-Shipping containers
-Guaranteed fund
-Charges
-Courts
					-Possible longshoremen union consolidation with Teamsters
-Executive Board
-Congressional leaders
-Meetings with the President
-Meany
-Pay Board
-Strikes
-Effects
	-Anti-strike legislation
-John L. Lewis

Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:27 pm.

Ashtray

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:40 pm.

Labor situation
-Pay Board
-Meany
-Lewis

Columbia Country Club
	-Fitzsimmons’s application
-The President
-Golf
-Shultz
-Fitzsimmons
-Mitchell

Gifts

Pay Board
		-Fitzsimmons's request of Colson
			-Fitzsimmons's call to Bob [last name unknown]

Golf
-Unknown man [Shultz?]

Fitzsimmons
-Colson
-Shultz
-Meeting with the President

Fitzsimmons, Colson and Shultz left at 4:40 pm.

Conversation No. 698-3

Date:  March 30, 1972
Time:  4:40 pm - 4:41 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting

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Bull left.

Conversation No. 698-4

Date:  March 30, 1972
Time:  4:42 pm - 5:03 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Phillip V. Sanchez, George P. Shultz and Alexander P. Butterfield; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

Item for the President’s signature

[Photograph session]

Luis Echeverria Alvarez
-Schedule
-Invitation to Sanchez for dinner
		-Sanchez’s suggestions for additional invitations to dinner
-Rose Mary Woods
-Previous dinner in San Diego
-Gustavo Diaz Ordaz

Woods entered at an unknown time after 4:42 pm.

Sanchez

State dinner
-Echeverria
-Guest list
	-Robert H. Finch
-Timing

Woods and Butterfield left at 4:46 pm.

Sanchez
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
-Work
-Shultz
			-Constituency
			-Bureaucracy
-Previous administrations
-Role

OEO
-Research and development
-Economic Opportunity Act extension
-Legislative situation
-Poor individuals
-Sanchez’s meeting with syndicated columnists
-Veto
-Travel
-Image
-Poor individuals
-Spanish speaking community
-Sanchez's public appearances
	-Use of Spanish

Busing issue
-Equal Educational Opportunities Act
-Bilingual education

OEO
-Department of Community Development
-Revenue sharing
-Cabinet Committee on Spanish Speaking
-The President's remarks
		-Regional Councils
			-Finch
-Democrats
-Statements
	-Budget
-Present administration
	-Family Assistance Plan
		-Poverty level
		-New York City example
-Sanchez
-Political career
-Poverty level
-Day care
-The administration
	-Prices and taxes
	-Increase
	-Government spending
-Client communities
-Mexican
-Puerto Rican
-Negroes
-Employment
-Education
-Shultz
-Elliot L. Richardson
-The administration
-Great Society programs
-Experimentation
-Position of Director

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:46 pm.

The President's schedule
-Melvin R. Laird

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:03 pm.

Sanchez
-Relationship with Frank C. Carlucci
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Relationship with Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Shultz
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Meetings with the President
-Spanish speaking
-The administration
	-Hispanics
	-Women
	-Blacks
	-Mexican-Americans
-Sanchez's public appearances
-Staff
-Appreciation

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:46 pm.

Spanish
-Manolo Sanchez

Phillip Sanchez
-Gifts
-Secretaries

Spanish
-Manolo Sanchez
-Swear words
-Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo

Manolo Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:03 pm.

Manolo Sanchez's background

Phillip Sanchez's schedule
-Dinner invitation

Sanchez and Shultz left at 5:03 pm.

Conversation No. 698-5

Date:  March 30, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:03 pm and 5:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with an unknown person [Henry A. Kissinger ?].

Kissinger's [?] schedule

Conversation No. 698-6

Date:  March 30, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 5:03 pm and 5:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule
-Signing documents
	-Executive Order

Crab apple blossoms
-Zoological Gardens
-Timing
-Weather
-Stephen B. Bull

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

Conversation No. 698-7

Date:  March 30, 1972
Time:  5:07 pm - 5:11 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

	Middle East

Soviet Union
-Kissinger's meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Vietnam
-The People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Most Favored Nation [MFN] status
-Negotiations
-Middle East
-Soviet interests
-Egypt
-Israel
-Negotiations
-Yitzhak Rabin

Schedule
	-Weather

The President and Kissinger left at 5:11 pm.

Conversation No. 698-8

Date:  March 30, 1972
Time:  5:18 pm - 5:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger; the conversation began in progress.

Vietnam
-Democrats
-Negotiations

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An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 5:18 pm.

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:18 pm.

The unknown man and Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:30 pm.

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Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Interview with Kissinger
-Timing
	-Audience
	-Campared to George Putnam's show

Soviet trip
-Poland
-Stopover
-Possible itinerary
-Baku to Iran
-Iran to Warsaw
-Arrival ceremony
-Crowds
-Departure time
-Washington, D.C.
-Poland
-Stopover
	-Public reception
			-Campared to Spain
			-Compared to Romania
			-The President’s reception in Warsaw while Vice President
-Poles
-Reaction to the President's visit
-Iran
-Reception
-Warsaw reception
		-Soviet reaction
-Kissinger's meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Accommodations
-Kremlin
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Soviet reaction
-Public expectations for Moscow summit
-Strategic Arms Limitations Talks [SALT]
-Gerard C. Smith
-Kissinger's talk with Dobyrnin

Middle East
-Interim settlement
-Final settlement
-Kissinger's schedule
-Trips
	-Middle East
-The People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Soviet Union
-1972 campaign
					-Television
					-Foreign policy
					-PRC
						-Timing
							-Democratic National Convention

European trip
-William P. Rogers
-Announcement
	-Kissinger's forthcoming trip to Japan
		-Announcement
	-Kissinger's forthcoming meeting with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Kissinger left at 5:30 pm.

Conversation No. 698-9

Date:  March 30. 1972
Time:  5:32 pm - 6:11 pm
Location:  Oval Office

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

The President's schedule
-Prior meeting with Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-George Meany
-Forthcoming speech at the National Catholic Educational Association [NCEA] convention
-Wisconsin primary
-Timing

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 5:32 and 5:51 pm; the President conferred with Haldeman during the call.

-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Length
-Buchanan
-Completion
-Timing

[End of telephone conversation]

-Opinions whether to give the speech
-Pro and con
-Debates
-Domestic Council
-Meeting
-Charles W. Colson
-George P. Shultz
-John B. Connally

Canadian trip
-Schedule
-State dinner
-Roland Mitchener
-Luncheons
-Pierre E. Trudeau
-Entertainment
-Buffet
-Receiving line
-Mitchener
			-Arrival time

Soviet trip
-Kissinger's meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Poland
-Stopover
-Kissinger

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International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Colson
-Discussions
-Colson
-Vacation
-Other work
-John D. Ehrlichman
-The administration’s anti-trust policy 
-Statements
-News stories
-Meeting
-Memoranda
-John N. Mitchell
-Richard W. McLaren

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Forthcoming speech to the NCEA
-Timing
-Wisconsin primary
-Television
-Time
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

Phillip V. Sanchez
-Background
-Meeting with the President
-Discussion
-Position
-Haldeman’s view
		-Lawyer

American Cancer Society meeting
-Ann Landers
-Letter
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-[Mike Finamore]
-Leukemia
-Finamore
-Statement to the President
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-John F. Kennedy

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:32 pm.

Birthday calls

	Meeting with Colson

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:51 pm.

	Telephone calls
		-Birthday greetings
-Associates of the President
-Senators and Congressmen
-One call per day
-Notes
-Edward J. Gurney
-Marlow W. Cook
-Hugh Scott
	-Congratulation calls
	-Fitzsimmons
	-Pay Board
	-Meeting
	-Notes
-Criteria for notes
	-General Services Administration [GSA]
-The President as Vice President
-Letters from Dwight D. Eisenhower

Sanchez
-Invitation to the state dinner for Luis Echeverria Alvarez
-Rose Mary Woods
-List
-Romana Acosta Banuelos
			-Food
			-Fred Waring
-Eisenhower
	-Press reaction

Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
	-Waring
-Alice Roosevelt Longworth
-Naming of center
-Kennedy
-Kennedy family
-[William McC. Blair, Jr.]
-Roger C. Stevens
			-Personnel Committee
				-Trustees
				-Administration action

Colson entered at 5:51 pm.

Fitzsimmons
		-Experience
		-George Meany
-Election
-Meeting with the President
-Discussion 
-Compared to the President’s breakfast with Meany
-Stephen B. Bull
-Longshoremen
-Building trades
-Unions
-Meany
-Henry M. ("Scoop") Jackson
-Leonard Woodcock
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Democratic National Convention
-Muskie
-Meany
-Woodcock
-American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO]
-Control by Meany
		-Meany
			-John L. Lewis
-Talk with Colson
	-Meany
	-Constituency
-Columbia Country Club
-Burning Tree
	-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Meany
-Membership for Fitzsimmons
-Chevy Chase
-Joseph Vitolio [sp?]
-New York
-[First name unknown] Schlesing [sp?]
-Einar Mohn
-Murray R. (“Dusty”) Miller
-George T. Bell
-Meeting with eastern Ohio business agents of all unions
-[First name unknown] Galtieri [sp?]
-International Brotherhood of Teamsters
-Support for the President
-James R. (“Jimmy”) Hoffa
-Television appearance
-Endorsement for the President
-Issues and Answers
-Meany
	-Relationship with the Administration
	-Breakfast meeting with the the President
		-Connally
-Labor leaders
-Compared to businessmen
		-View of the President
-Vocabulary
-George P. Shultz
-Relationship with Fitzsimmons
-Golf

The President's schedule
-Golf
-Meany
-Fitzsimmons
-Shultz
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

Colson's schedule

Dinah Shore Show
-Landers
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Taping
	-Timing
		-The President’s trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]

Colson's schedule
-Vacation
-Golf
-Greenbrier
-Truman Wright
			-Homestead
-Williamsburg
-New England
-Jack J. Dreyfus, Jr.
-Boston
-Cape Cod

Aid for parochial schools
-Shultz
-Speech at the NCEA
-Timing
-Wisconsin primary
-Catholics

The President's schedule
-Sons of Italy
-John Cardinal Krol
-Philadelphia
-Aid for parochial schools
-Controversy
-Cardinal Krol
-Terence Cardinal Cooke
-The President's announcement
-Archdiocese press
-Catholic Standard

News events
	-Politics
	-Wisconsin primary
	-Edward M. Kennedy
	-Birch E. Bayh, Jr.
-ITT

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ITT
-Public opinion
-Mail
-Congressional
-White House
-Party workers
-Republican National Committee
			-Edward Kennedy
-Kleindienst
-Talk with James O. Eastland
-Possible closing of hearings
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Statement

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Economy
-Grand Union food chain
-Announcement of freeze on prices
-Meat
-Poultry
-Public psychology
-Connally
-Networks
-Grand Union

Rose Mary Woods entered at 6:08 pm.

Dinah Shore Show
-Appearance by Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Haldeman's schedule

Haldeman and Colson left at 6:08 pm.

Dinah Shore Show
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower's appearance

	The President’s schedule

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Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 6:08 pm.

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:11 pm.

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White House bonsai trees

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The President and Woods left at 6:11 pm.

Conversation No. 698-10

Date:  March 30, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 6:11 pm and 6:13 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Stephen B. Bull, Alexander P. Butterfield, an unknown woman, and an unknown man met.

Oval Office
	-Installation of equipment
		-George [surname unknown]
		-Foot button
		-Number sequence

Bull, Butterfield, the unknown woman, and the unknown man left at an unknown time before 6:13 pm.