Conversation No. 699-1

Date:  March 31, 1972
Time:  10:13 am - 11:14 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

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Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 10:13 am.

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Woods and Sanchez left and Henry A. Kissinger entered at 10:17 am.

Vietnam
-North Vietnamese offensive
-Timing
-Firebases
-Directives
			-Timing
		-US air strikes
			-Surface-to Air-Missile [SAM] sites
-Timing
-Air Force
-Orders
-SAM sites

	Harold J. Gibbons
		-Today show appearance

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Foreign Policy
-William P. Rogers’s forthcoming trip to Europe
-Announcement of trip to Europe
-Timing
			-Kissinger's trip to Japan
		-Messages to heads of state
			-Announcement
				-Timing
		-Europeans
-Messages to heads of state
-Willy Brandt
-Georges J. R. Pompidou
-Timing
		-The President’s Message to Luis Echeverria Alvarez
			-Camp David
		-The People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
			-Messages from the President
-Josip Broz Tito
-Nicolae Ceausescu
		-Kissinger’s conversation with John C. Stennis
			-War Powers Act
-Vote
		-The President’s preparation for US-Soviet summit
			-Leonid I. Brezhnev
		-Troop cuts
			-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
		-Number
		-Melvin R. Laird
			-Support troops
					-Combat troops
		-Possible military base closures
			-1972 election
			-War Powers Act
				-Clark Macgregor

Intellectual community
-Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT] Study [The Limits of Growth]
			-Howard K. Smith
-Politics
-Conservatism
-Education
-Perfect society
-Communism
-Socialism
-Marxists
-Jeremy Bentham
-Views regarding the US
-Academic life
-Teenager’s effect on professors
-Insecurity
-National reputation
-Arthur M. Schlessinger, Jr.
-Kissinger
-Average Harvard University professor
-Tenure
-Compared to the law profession
-Kissinger at Harvard
-Books
-Nuclear Weapons and Foreign policy
-19th century diplomacy [A World Restored:Castlereagh, Metternich and the Restoration of Peace 1812-1822]
-Socialist theory
-Low social standing
		-Manipulativeness
-Kennedy family
-The President’s possible interaction with intellectuals
-Reelection of the President
-Vietnam War
-1972 campaign
-Reelection
-Percentage of votes
-Events
-Press
-Republican National Convention
-Soviet trip
-Democrats
	-Wisconsin primary

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Gabriel Heatter
-News characteristics
-World War II

News commentators
-White House attitude toward opponents
-1970 decision
-"Americanism"
-Economy
-William L. Safire
-Economy
-Unemployment
-Vice-President Spiro T. Agnew
-Democrats
-Basic American values
-Attack on opponents
-Timing
-Election
-Democratic National Convention
-Republican National Convention
-The President's trips
-Possible trip around US
-Soviet Union
	Soviet summit
		-Kissinger's meeting with Anatoliy E. Dobrynin
			-Dobrynin’s previous meeting with Rogers
				-SALT
				-State Department announcement
				-Submarine-launched Ballistic Missiles [SLBM]
-SALT
-SLBMs
				-State Department
				-Defense Department
				-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Democrats
		-Expectations for summit
-Trade
-State Department
-Negotiations
-Agriculture Department
-Earl L. Butz's trip
-Timing

	Negotiations
		-State Department
			-Ambassadors
		-Agencies
			-Example
				-Drugs
					-State Department
						-Ambassadors
					-John B. Connally
					-John N. Mitchell
					-Richard G. Kleindienst
					-Ellsworth F. Bunker
						-Vietnam
					-Ambassadors
					-State Department
					-Meeting
						-Connally

The President left at an unknown time after 10:17 am.
[No Conversation]

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 10:17 am.

[General conversation]

The President entered and Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:10 am.

Foreign Policy
-Kissinger's Meeting With Connally
-Future meetings
				-Frequency
-Connally's understanding of foreign policy issues
-Dinner
-Economy
-Bloc of countries
-US
-Argentina
-Japan
-Canada
-Indonesia
	-Europeans
-Varied interests of possible member nations
-Canada
-The President compared to Connally
-Arthur Krock
-Analysis
-Joseph McCarthy
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Leaders
-Politics and foreign affairs
-Anti-foreign sentiment
-Azores trip
-Pompidou
-US cooperation with Europe
-Kissinger
	-Germans
	-Israel
		-Rogers
		-Joseph J. Sisco
	-George H. W. Bush
		-Talk with the President
			-Bureaucratic system
				-United Nations [UN]
				-State Department
				-Israelis
				-United Arab Republic [UAR]
				-Jordan
					-The President and Rogers
					-Hussein ibn Talal [Hussein, King of Jordan]

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-Prince Klemens Furst von Metternich
-Quote on foreign policy
-Pakistan
-The President's talk with Foreign Minister [Aziz Ahmed]
-PRC
-Soviets
-India
-Bangladesh
-Recognition
-Connally
-Multi-lateral agreements
-Analysis
	-Common Market
-Tactics
-Relations with foreigners

Economy
-Food prices
-Peter G. Peterson
-Donald  H. Rumsfeld
-George P. Shultz
-Connally

The PRC trip
-Rogers
-Marshall Green
	-Appearance on Face the Nation
-Rogers
-Public statements
-Stewart J. O. Alsop's column
-Foreign Affairs Committee
-Public appearances
-Council of Foreign Relations [CFR]
-Advertising Council
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Television
-Knowledge
			-Tone
-Liberals compared to conservatives
				-Human nature
				-Interests compared to ideals
-The President’s meeting with foreign leaders
-Tito
-Ceausescu
-Dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Alsop
-Meeting with Mao Tse-Tung
-Joseph Alsop
-Dinner
-Articles

The President's schedule
-CFR
-Rogers
-Bohemian Grove
	-1967
-Kansas City
-Briefing of the press
-CFR
		-Rogers
-J. William Fulbright
-Michael J. Mansfield
-PRC trip
	-Meetings with Chou En-Lai
-Rogers's conversation with Foreign Minister
-US presence in Asia
-Minutes
	-Meeting With Mao Tse-Tung
	-Chou En-Lai
-The President's meeting with Tito
-Tone
	-Cigars
	-Winston S. Churchill
				-Scotch

Liberals
-Beliefs

Rogers
-Washington Post
-Kissinger
-Administration's accomplishments
	-PRC
	-Soviet Union
			-1972 election
-Washington Post
-Clark M. Clifford
-Preparation

India-Pakistan relations
-Bangladesh
-Kissinger's meeting with Indian Ambassador
-Newsweek Story
				-Jack N. Anderson papers
-Aid
-Continuation as an issue
-Democrats
-PRC
-Soviet Union
			-Liberals
			-The PRC trip
			-India-Pakistan
	-Jordan
				-Minister of Culture’s talk with Kissinger

	Kissinger’s schedule

Vietnam
-Possible US bombing
	-Timing
	-Plan
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Approval
	-SAM sites
	-Demilitarized Zone [DMZ]
	-Laotian border
	-B-52s
	-North Vietnam

Kissinger left at 11:14 am.

Conversation No. 699-2

Date:  March 31, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 11:14 am and 11:20 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

The President's schedule
-Unknown event or item
-Meeting with Woods

Conversation No. 699-3

Date:  March 31, 1972
Time:  11:20 am - 11:40 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

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Disposition of gifts to the President
-Head of State gifts

Call from C. Arnholt Smith
		-1968 campaign
	-Corporate funds
				-[Life article of March 24, 1972]
				-Yellow Cab Company

Parades
-Gen. Robert E. Cushman, Jr.
-Timing
-Election

Letters to the President
-Unknown man
-Unemployed

Department of Commerce
-William Peterson
-Economics
-U.S. Steel
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Daughter
					-Writing [for Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Tricia Nixon Cox]

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Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:20 am.

The President's schedule
-Meeting
-National Commission on Fire Prevention and Control
-Chairman and Vice Chairman
-Press photograph
-Presentation
-Gifts
-Richard E. Bland
-W. Howard McClennan
					-International Association of Fire Fighters

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:40 am.

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Note
-Arnold Reston
-Honore Daumier prints
-The President and Henry A. Kissinger
-Description
				-Camp David

Letters
-Salutation
-“Ms.”
-Compared to “Miss” or “Mrs.”

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Woods left at 11:40 am.

Conversation No. 699-4

Date:  March 31, 1972
Time:  11:42 am - 11:59 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

	Arrangements for photograph

The Presidents left at an unknown time after 11:42 am.

Bull met with  Richard E. Bland, W. Howard McClennan, Louis Amabali [?], Lt. Tommy Arevala, Perce Bugbee, Dorothy S. Duke, Ernst R. G. Eckert, Roger M. Freeman, Jr., Robert Hechtman, Albert E. Hole, John F. Hurley, John L. Jablonsky, Keith E. Klinger, Dr. Anne W. Phillips, John A. Proven, Baron Whitaker, William J. Young, Howard D. Tipton, Clayton Willis, George T. Bell, and James Casey;members of the press and the White House photographer were present at the beginning of the meeting.

	The President’s schedule
		-Telephone call

Greetings

Press photograph
-Lining up
-Two rows
-Firemen
-Organization

The President entered at an unknown time after 11:42 am.

Introductions

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:59 am.

	[Photograph session]
		-General conversation
			-The President’s 1953 trip to Singapore 

Presentation of the report
-Casualties
-Cost of fire damage per annum
-Commission members
-San Clemente
-Doctor
-Anne W. Phillips
-Massachusetts General Hospital

Presentation of gifts
		-Cufflinks
		-Bows

White House fire drill
-Fire prevention week
	-National attention
	-Importance
	-Residence
			-Offices
-Aid in reduction of fire injury
-Fire drill on ships
-White House
-Age
-Fireplaces

	Bell
		-Appreciation

Introductions
-Unknown man
-Friend of the President
-Ohio
			-Vinton County
				-Frank Nixon
		-New York
		-San Clemente
			-Forest fires
		-Paul Miller
		-Hackes
			-Possible participation in the President’s trip to Soviet Union while Vice-President

General conversation
-Richard B. Ogilvie
-Minnesota
-California
-Trees
-Forest fires
-Reston, Virginia
-North Carolina
-North Carolina State University
-Duke University
		-Dr. Phillips
			-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
			-Gifts
	-New Hampshire
	-Margaret Chase Smith
	-Norris Cotton

Rhode Island
	John H. Chafee

	The President’s trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]

Connecticut
-Re-election of the President
-Thomas J. Meskill
-J. William Middendorf
-Lang [surname unknown]
-Wife
	Tipton’s experience playing football
	-George E.  Allen
		-University of Redlands
		-Whittier College
		-Harry Tipton
			-Duke
		Golf

Bland et al. left at 11:59 am.

Conversation No. 699-5

Date:  March 31, 1972
Time:  11:59 am - 12:00 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting
-Eugene S. Cowen

Bull left.

Conversation No. 699-6

Date:  March 31, 1972
Time:  12:00 pm - 12:02 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Eugene S. Cowen and Richard K. Cook; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Cowen's departure
-Network executive
-The President's send off

	[Photograph session]

Presentation of gifts
		-Money clip

Appreciation

Cowen and Cook left.

Conversation No. 699-7

Date:  March 31, 1972
Time:  12:02 pm - 1:58 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Media
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-H.R. (“Bob”)Haldeman
-Appearance
-Marvin L. Kalb
				-Backgrounder
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower's television appearance
-Dinah Shore
-Haldeman
-Ziegler
-William L. Safire
-Richard A. Moore
-Kissinger
-Interest in substance
-State Department
-Return from Moscow
-Democratic National Convention
-Forthcoming television appearance

Haldeman entered at 12:08 pm.

-Julie Nixon Eisenhower television appearance
-Godfrey Sperling, Jr. 
-Staff viewing
-Conduct on television
-Ingrid Bergman
-Christmas show
-Shore
-Christmas show
-Maria McCllelan
-Harry Reasoner
-Shore
-Tricia Nixon Cox
			-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s performance
				-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
				-The President
-Kissinger’s possible appearance on CBS
-Kissinger's press conference
-Transcript
-The PRC press corps
-The President's meeting with Chou En-Lai
-PRC
-The President and Mrs. Nixon
	-Conduct
	-Audience
			-CBS
	-Kalb
	-Kissinger
	-Herbert G. Klein
	-Compared to efforts of John A. Scali
	-Press coverage 
-Ziegler’s view
	-Timing of Kissinger’s appearance
						-PRC
						-The President’s forthcoming Soviet trip
	-Kalb
-The President’s view
					-The President’s press conferences compared to John F. Kennedy’s press conferences
			-Nicholas P. Thimmesch
			-Peter Lisagor
			-Kalb
	-Timing
		-Soviet trip
					-Democratic National Convention
-Partisanship
-White House staff
-Domestic Council
-Klein
-Dealings with the press
-Compared to Kissinger
-John B. Connally
-Network coverage

Economy
-Prices
-Meat
	-Percentages of increase
	-Family budgets
	-The President
	-Work in a grocery store during the Great Depression
-Connally

Media
-Kissinger’s possible television appearance
-Kalb
-Prime time
-Kissinger's talk with Ziegler
-Kissinger's previous meeting with the President
-Termination
	-Timing
	-William P. Rogers
	-State Department
-Timing
				-Soviet trip
-Networks
-Bargaining
-Questions
-Vietnam
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-Middle East
-Soviet summit
-Balance of power
-Middle East
-Original purpose of appearance
				-PRC
-Timing
-CBS
-Spokesman for US foreign policy
-Rogers
-The President
-Soviet summit
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Kalb
-Herbert E. Kaplow
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-Removed from White House press detail
-Radio
-Sponsorship by insurance company
		-Television
-Possible resignation
-NBC
-White House coverage
-Forrest Boyd
-Thomas E. Jarriel
-William A. Gill, Jr.
-CBS
-Robert Pierpoint
-Dan Rather
-Schedule
-NBC
-John W. Chancellor
-Richard G. Valeriani
-Wife
				-Previous interaction with the President
-Kaplow
-Pierpoint
-Rather
-Radio and television correspondents dinner
				-Ziegler
				-Rather’s January 2, 1972 interview with the President
				-News summary
				-Warren E. Burger
-Ziegler's introduction of correspondents
-Kaplow, Jarriel, Rather
-Rather
-Humor
-Ziegler
-PRC trip
-Suits
-Kaplow
-Humor
-Rather
					-Reaction to comments
-Rather
-Talk with Ziegler
-Talk with Nancy Plessinger Ziegler
-Public reaction to Rather’s humor
					-Haldeman’s view
-Kaplow
-The President's trip around the world, 1963
-The President's visit to Caracas
-White House coverage
-Possible environment job
-Other White House positions
-Haldeman’s view
-Scali
-Rather
			-Correspondents dinner

Gridiron dinner
-Burger’s possible attendance
-Edgar A. Poe
-Call from the White House
-Roger’s possible call to Burger
-Carl B. Albert
-Rogers's appearance

The President's meeting with Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-George Meany
-Pay Board
-Meany
	-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO] council meeting
-Leonard Woodcock
-Loan from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters
-Labor leaders compared to businessmen
			-The President’s view

PRC trip
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's television special
-Constance M. Stuart
-Scali
-Highlights of Mrs. Nixon's tours
-Voice-over by Mrs. Nixon
-Script
-Importance
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-Length
-Timing
-Preparation
-Scali
-Ziegler
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Decision date
-Narration
-Highlights of Mrs. Nixon's tours
-Audio tape
-Scripting
-Mrs. Nixon’s voice
-Narration
-Announcer
-Stuart
-Scheduling
-Haldeman’s view
-Hairdresser during trip [Rita R. DeSantis]
-John V. (“Jack”) Brennan
-Mike Schrauth
-John P. D'arcy
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Talk with Haldeman
-Film
				-Compared to moon landing
				-Footage of banquet
	-Guest House
-Narration
	-The President’s activities during the trip
-Public interest in trip
-John F. Kennedy administration
-Trips
-Jacqueline (Bouvier) Kennedy
-Paris
-Mt. Vernon party for Mohammed Ayub Khan
-Opportunity
-Narration
	-Voice
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Talk with Haldeman
		-Ziegler
		-Importance
-Mrs. Nixon's schedule
-Public event in California
-Importance
-Audience
-Beginning of program
-Film
-Voice-over
-Haldeman's talk with Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Kissinger's possible television appearance
-The President’s view
-Willingness
-Kalb's involvement
-Timing
-Soviet trip
-The President’s memoranda
-Buildup of Kissinger
-Soviet trip
-Foreign policy question

	Ziegler’s schedule

American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE] reception
-Number of participants
-Questions and answers [Q and A]
	-White House events
				-Frequency
-Panel
-Location
			-East Room
-The President's appearance
-Questions
-Length
-Date
-The President's press conference
-Television

Press conferences
-Office
	-Television coverage
				-Writing press
-Previous press conference in the Oval Office, March 24, 1972
-Television coverage of stories from the press conference
-Haldeman
-Film cameras
	-Ziegler’s view
	-NBC
		-Possible story on refusal to answer questions
-Location
-Previous press conference in the Oval Office
	-Television compared to the writing press
-Impromptu nature of office press conferences
-Location
	-East Room compared to Press Room
-Press coverage
-Audience
		-Equal time
-315 ruling on press conferences 
		-Federal Communications Commission [FCC] testimony memorandum
		-Newton Minow
				-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Election
-Democratic primary
-John N. Ashbrook
		-Democrats
	-Presidential advantage
					-Democratic National Convention

ASNE reception [April 20, 1972]
-Length
-White House policemen, fire chiefs, church services
-Comparisons
-News conference
		-Length
-Networks
-Ziegler’s view
-Editors 
-[First name unknown] Whiteough [?] from Missouri
			-Unknown editor from North Dakota
	-Orange County
-White House press corps
-Numbers
-White House correspondents
-Q and A session
-Klein
-Wives
-Length
-Timing
-Press conference
-Q and A
-Television
-Possible event at ASNE hotel
			-White House reception
		-Timing
			-Press conference
			-The President’s forthcoming trip to Canada

PRC
-Ping Pong match between PRC and US teams
-Press coverage
-Timing
-White House tennis court
	-Grandstand
-Doubles
-Singles
-Mixed doubles
-Demonstration for the President

ASNE reception
-Questions
-Previous press conference
-Length
-Location
-Questions
-Number of attendees
-Radio
-Live
-Time
-Networks
				-Television
-Q and A
-Location
-Radio
-Length
	-Editors 
-Radio
-Time
	-Audience
-Dinner
-Panel
-Number of participants
-Applause
-Wives
-Press conference
-Questions

Press conferences
-Television
-Number
-Timing
-Soviet trip
-Democratic National Convention
-Possible dates
-Possible network interview
-“Three on one”
			-Soviet trip
			-Foreign policy
-Ziegler’s view
-Timing
				-“Three on one”
				-Press conference
-Summits
-Foreign policy
-Pattern
-1969
-ABC
-One on one interview
-CBS
-One on one interview
-NBC
-A Day in the Life of the President
-Three on one
-Timing
				-Soviet summit
-Format
-Q and A
-Television
-Networks
-Equal time
-315 ruling
-Soviet summit
				-Busing
				-Networks
					-Audiences
		-1960 campaign
-Claire Booth Luce
-Speech
-Rating
-Air time
-Vice Presidential candidates
-Henry Cabot Lodge
						-Rating
				-The President’s appearance as a candidate
					-Rating

ASNE reception
-Radio
-Importance
			-Endorsements
-Klein
-Convention
-Drawing
-Criteria for attendance
-Q and A
-Location
-Receiving line
-Blue Room
-Redecoration
					-Compared to Red Room and Green Room

Ziegler left at 1:16 pm.

The President's schedule
-Possible speech at the National Catholic Educational Association [NCEA] convention
-Timing
-Connally
-Tax reform
-Wilbur D. Mills

The President left at an unknown time after 1:16 pm.

	Request for Manolo Sanchez

The President re-entered at an unknown time before 1:53 pm.

	The President's schedule
		-Possible trip to Cambridge, Massachusetts
	-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Harvard University
	-Spring vacation
-Plane travel
-Size of plane
	-Press
-Backup plane
-Helicopter
-Large plane
-Possible departure from Camp David
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Departure from airport
					-Gettysburg
					-Harrisburg
-Press pool
					-Advance notice of trip
-Easter Sunday
	-News
			-Demonstrations
			-Previous Easter
			-Episcopal priests

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:16 pm.

The President's schedule
-Camp David
-Departure
-Time
-Helicopter
-Mrs. Nixon
-Car
				-Ellipse

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:53 pm.

Rose Mary Woods entered at an unknown time after 1:16 pm.

Camp David
-Departure
-Woods's call to Mrs. Nixon
-Time
-Car to Ellipse

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 1:16 and 1:53 pm;the President can be heard talking with Woods in the background.

The President's schedule
-The President’s possible speech at the NCEA conference
-Cancellation
		-Tennis racquets

Woods left at an unknown time before 1:53 pm.

-Camp David
-Time
-Departure

[End of telephone conversation]

Material for the President's review
-Canadian Parliament speech
-U.S. News and World Report article
-Canadian Parliament speech
-Safire
-Price
-Kissinger

	Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.
		-Possible participation in the Soviet trip
		-Seating arrangements in motorcades
			-The President's car
			-Patricia R. Mosbacher
		-Emil Mosbacher’s possible participation in Soviet trip
			-Advance trips
			-Patricia Mosbacher
			-Adele (Langston) Rogers
			-Advance trips
				-William R. Codus
		-Protocol
			-Hussein ibn Talal [Hussein, King of Jordan]

Woods entered at an unknown time after 1:16 pm.

The President's schedule
-Camp David
-Mrs. Nixon
-Travel plans

Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:16 pm.

-Time

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:53 pm.

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	The President’s schedule
		-Flight to Camp David
-The President’s possible speech at the NCEA

Woods left at an unknown time before 1:53 pm.

-Elliott Richardson
-Politics
-Importance
-Connally
-Vice-President Spiro T. Agnew

Camp David
-Dwight David II and Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Use of helicopter from Andrews Air Force Base
-Compared to driving
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Cabinet
-Staff
-Military aide
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Convenience
					-Forthcoming discussion with the President regarding public programs

	News summary story
	-Contributors
	-John V. Tunney
-C. Arnholt Smith
	-1968

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Dita D. Beard
-Secretary
-Vance Hartke
-Helicopter and plane story
-Contributions
		-Democratic

Charles W. Colson
-Schedule
-Location
-Relaxation

Busing issue
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Role
-Rowland Evans and Robert D.Novak

News summary
-Evans and Novak
-Politicians
-Analysis
-Detail

ITT case
-Robert H. Finch
-Effect on the administration
-Press
		-Finch
			-Quotation
-Dealing with the press
-Klein
-Possible meeting with Finch
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Clark MacGregor
-Colson
-News
-Secretary's testimony [Mrs. Stanwich?]
		-Hartke
			-Airplane
-Harold S. Geneen
-White House strategy
-Tunney
			-Questions
-Hartke

	Congress
		-Use of airplanes
		-Gill report
			-State Department
				-Investigation
					-Alcohol
					-John E. Hunt
						-Overseas travel of Congressmen and Senators
-Use of funds
-Kleenex story
-ABC
-Congressmen's calls to the State
 Department

	Democrats
		-Contributions

Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Television appearance
-Staff viewing
-Convention plans
-John Reagan (“Tex”) McCrary
-Dinah Shore show
-Staff viewing

Media
-Possible meetings with the President
			-Kissinger
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr. 
-John Chancellor 
-Howard K. Smith 
-Kissinger's role in establishing meetings
			-Scali
			-Klein
-Writing press
-Lunch with Stewart J. O. Alsop
-Joseph G. Kraft
-New Republic
-Cronkite
-Chancellor
-Smith
-Kissinger
		-Handshaking

PRC
-Ping Pong team
-Visit to the US
-Newsworthiness
-Travel
-Pandas
-Naming

White House staff
-Discipline
-Klein
-Finch
-Haldeman's forthcoming conversation with Lyndon K. (“Mort”)Allin
					-Reporting of Finch’s comments
-Finch’s and Klein's statements
-Foreign policy remarks
-Youth
-Primaries
-ITT case
					-Settlement
-Convention
-Republicans
-William V. Roth, Jr.
-Sherman Adams example

News summary
-Preparation
-Allin

Press

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[Duration:  9m 59s   ]

Woods entered at 1:53 pm.

Woods left at 1:54 pm.

Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:54 pm.

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Haldeman and Bull left at 1:58 pm.

Conversation No. 699-8

Date:  March 31, 1972
Time:  2:00 pm - 2:05 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule

[Signing documents]

Entertainment for the White House
-Arthur Rubinstein
-European tour
			-Blacks
			-Organization of American States [OAS] dinner
Rose Mary Woods entered at an unknown time after 2:00 pm

			-Forthcoming dinner for Luis Echeverria Alvarez
-Fred Waring
-Dinner for Echeverria
-Medal of Freedom

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:00 pm.

Schedule
-Camp David
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:05 pm.

Dinah Shore
		-Note from the President
			-Addressing
			-Dictation
-Television show
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Mrs. Nixon and the President
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Dictation of note to Mrs. Joseph W. Alsop [Susan (Patten) Alsop]
-Book
-Page 51
-Reference made by Russell A. Kirk
-Edmund Burke
-French Revolution
	-The President’s conversation with Susan Alsop
	-Kirk's book

Susan Alsop

	Echeverria

The President, Butterfield and Woods left at 2:05 pm.