Conversation No. 740-1

Date:  June 22, 1972
Time:  Unknown between 9:02 am. and 3:02 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown persons (Secret Service agents) met.

	[Unintelligible]

This conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 3:02 pm.

Conversation No. 740-2

Date:  June 22, 1972
Time:  3:02-3:44 pm.
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Bonnie Angelo, Frank Cormier, Sarah McClendon, and unknown members of the press.

This recording began at an unknown time while the conversation was in progress

[A list of attendees at this press conference was not included in the Daily Diary.]

[An edited transcript of this press conference appears in Public Papers of the Presidents:  Richard Nixon 1972, pp. 690‑701.]

Press Conference
	-Questions

	California

	Baseball
		-Prominent players
-Lou Gehrig
-George Herman "Babe" Ruth
-Jackie Robinson
-Mickey Mantle
-Ted Williams
	-Ty Cobb
-Stan Musial
-Pitchers
-Mantle

	Autograph
		-J.A. Hayward

The President's wedding anniversary
	-"The Cardinal" (movie)
		-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
		-Main character
			-Trip to black southern church
				-Parochial schools in South
		-Quality

Angelo, et al. left at 3:44 pm.

Conversation No. 740-3

Date:  June 22, 1972
Time:  3:44-4:06 pm.
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Ronald L. Ziegler.

The President's previous press conference
		-Oval Office
			-Value
		-Questions
			-Wiretapping
				-Supreme Court decision
				-John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson
			-Tax reform
			-Welfare reform
			-Offensive weapons
			-Watergate controversy
				-Lawrence F. O’Brien, Jr.
			-Gen. John D. Lavelle
			-Campaign contributions
			-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
				-Melvin R. Laird
			-Helen A. Thomas
		-The President's schedule
		-Questions
			-Busing
			-House Resolution [H.R.] 1
		-Sarah McClendon

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Republican Congressmen and Senators
	-Gifts
-Broadcasters meeting
	-Herbert G. Klein
	-Value

	The President's previous press conference
		-Questions
			-Tax reform
			-Quality
				-Humor
					-Quality of press questions
			-Tax reform
				-Current tax laws
			-Complexity
				-President’s view
-Length
-News value
	-Campaign contributions
-Watergate break-in
-Questions
-Debate between candidates
-1964 Michael J. Mansfield Amendment
-Barry M. Goldwater, Johnson
-Hubert H. Humphrey, Edmund S. Muskie, George S. 
 McGovern
-Vote for amendment
-Johnson
-SALT negotiations
-Laird
-Necessity
-Middle East
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Busing issue
-Sports
-Houston, Texas
-The President's analogy
-Questions
-Republican Convention
-Security
-Wilbur D. Mills
-John R. “Tex” McCrary
-Newspapers compared with television
-Impact
-Radio
-Impact
-Detroit stations
-Busing issue
	-Buchanan
-Detroit case
-The President's statement
-Racial balance
-Quality of education
-Congressional action
-Moratorium
-Constitutional amendment

Stephen B. Bull entered at 4:03 pm.

The President's schedule
	-Meeting with John Cardinal Krol

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	Krol
		-Meeting with the President
		-Philadelphia
		-Photographs
			-Broadcasters meeting

Haldeman and Ziegler left and Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 4:04 pm.

	The President's schedule
		-Meeting with Krol
		-Forthcoming Breakfast on June 23
			-[Thomas] Hale Boggs
			-Gerald R. Ford
			-Importance

Butterfield left at 4:06 pm.

Conversation No. 740-4

Date:  June 22, 1972
Time:  4:06-4:35 pm.
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John Cardinal Krol, John Gurash, Charles W. Colson, and Henry C. Cashen II.

[Members of the press and the White House photographer were present at the beginning of the meeting.]

	Greetings

	Report for the President

	Arrangements for photograph

	Aid to private religious schools
		-Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
		-Philidelphia
			-Jews
			-Protestants
		-Catholics
	-Colson
		-Non-Catholics
		-Religious leaders group
			-Support
	-Quakers
		-Report
			-Time of preparation
			-Distribution
				-Congressmen
				-Business and Labor Leaders
				-Editors
				-Platform committees of parties
					-Opposition
		-Administrative support
			-Tax incentives
			-Administrative efforts		
				-Public relations
			-Candidates for office
				-Commitments
				-State-level candidates
			-Supreme Court
				-Warren E. Burger
					-Colson
						-The President’s view
			-Courts
		-Senate Education Committee
			-Testimony
		-Supreme Court
			-Problems
		-Public opinion
		-Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) documentary
			-Frank Stanton
		-Summary of report
		-Press briefing
			-New York Times
		-James Cardinal McIntyre
			-Position on issue
	-Bishop Timothy Manning
		-Critical states
			-New York
			-Pennsylvania
			-Ohio
			-Illinois
			-Michigan
			-California

	Gifts

	Golf
		-The President's game

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:06 pm.

	Gifts
		-Golf balls
		-Ashtrays

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:34 pm.

	Golf
		-The President's games

	Gifts
		-Ashtrays

	The President's law firm

	Gifts
		-Ashtray
		-Presentation
		-Golf balls
			-Seal
			-Spiro T. Agnew

Bull was present at an unknown time after 4:06 pm.

	Golf balls
		-Number
		-Seal

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:34 pm.

	Golf
		-Putting
		-Jack Nicklaus
			-Game against Arnold Palmer
	
	Meeting
		-Publicity

	An election in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
		-A defeat

	Unknown person
		-Friendship with McIntyre
		-Work with the President
		-Religion
		-Work with McIntyre

Krol, et al., left and Alexander Butterfield entered at 4:35 pm.

	The President’s schedule

Butterfield left at 4:35 pm.

Conversation No. 740-5

Date:  June 22, 1972
Time:  4:35 pm.
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 25-124]

Conversation No. 740-6

Date:  June 22, 1972
Time:  4:35 pm.
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield at 4:35 pm.

	Telephone call from Tricia Nixon Cox
		-Return call

Butterfield left at 4:35 pm.

Conversation No. 740-7

Date:  June 22, 1972
Time:  4:35-5:20 pm.
Location:  Oval Office

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

The President's meeting with John Cardinal Krol

The President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox between 4:35 and 4:36 pm.

[Conversation No. 740-7A]

[See Conversation No. 25-126; one item has been withdrawn.]

[End of telephone conversation]

	Merv Griffin

	David Frost's television show
		-Question to Julie Nixon Eisenhower
			-Response
		-Frost's questioning
		-Intermission
			-Questions from audience
				-[Dwight]David Eisenhower, II
				-Julie's response
		-Arrangements
			-Importance
				-White House efforts

	Julie Eisenhower
		-Atlanta speech on cancer
			-Press coverage
		-Question on Frost's show
			-Tricia Nixon Cox
			-Frost
			-Haldeman’s view
				-White House role

	The President's schedule
		-Forthcoming meeting with broadcasting executives
			-Peter M. Flanigan
			-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr., briefing
			-Herbert G. Klein
			-Statement by the President
			-Broadcasting executives concerns
			-Haldeman’s view
			-Cable television
			-The President’s view
				-Business leaders
			-Caspar W. Weinberger
				-Other meetings
		-Press conferences
			-The President's foreign travel
			-Value
			-Television presentations
				-Preparation
				-Questions
					-Campaign contributions
			-Value
				-Departments
				-Congress
					-Ronald L. Ziegler
	-John D. Ehrlichman
	-House Resolution [H.R.] 1
	-Equal time
	-Ziegler

	The President's previous press conference
		-Questions
			-Topics
			-Wire reports
				-Meat quotas
			-Price controls
			-Quotas on meat
				-The President's answer

Beef prices
		-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
		-Quotas
			-The President’s position
			-Possible administrative action
		-Meat substitutes
		-Melvin R. Laird
			-Military procurement
				-Beef
				-Prices of meat
					-Weinberger
		-Fish
		-Chicken
			-Supply
			-Prices
				-Compared with beef
				-COLC
			-General Services Administration [GSA]
				-The President’s view
			-Storage
-Earl L. Butz
-Weinberger
-The President’s view
	-George A. Lincoln
-Military menus

	Talk show
		-Griffin
			-Commentator
		-David N. Parker [?]

	Press conferences
		-Briefing books
			-Size
		-Patrick J. Buchanan

	Books by Henry Fairlie
		-Ehrlichman
			-Extra copies

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:36 pm.

	Ziegler
		-Press conference

	The President's schedule
		-Meeting in the Cabinet Room

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:02 pm.

	Kristol
		-Quality of writing, thinking
			-Haldeman’s view

	Andrew M. Greeley
		-Quality of writing, thinking

	Unknown person from Hagerstown, Maryland
		-Charles W. Colson

Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:36 p.m.

	The President's schedule
		-The President’s view
			-Staff suggestions
		-Meeting
		-The President's meeting with broadcasters
			-Time

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:02 p.m.

	The President's schedule
		-Use of time

	The President's schedule
		-Press conferences
			-Preparation
			-Questions
			-Preparation
			-Length
			-Trip to California
				-Press conferences
					-Frequency
					-Lawrence M. Higby
				-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
			-Trips
				-Plans
				-Trip to Mexico
					-Weather

Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:36 and 5:02 pm.

[Conversation No. 740-7B]

[See Conversation No. 25-127]

Haldeman conferred with the President at an unknown time.

	The President's schedule
		-Plans

Haldeman talked with Colson.

[See Conversation No. 25-127]

[End of telephone conversation]

	The President's schedule
		-Time off
		-Florida
			-Walker’s Cay
			-Presidential telephone calls
		-Relaxation

Ziegler entered at 5:02 pm.

	The President's previous press conference
		-Press coverage
		-Congressional action on weapons
			-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
			-Laird
			-Effect on future negotiations
		-Meat quota
		-Tax reform
			-Timing of proposals

Colson entered at 5:04 pm.

	The President's press conference
		-Political questions
			-Television
			-Campaign ground rules
				-Equal time concerns
				-News conferences

	Telephone

The President talked with Richard J. Daley between 5:05 and 5:07 pm.

[Conversation No. 740-7C]

[See Conversation No. 25-128]

[End of telephone conversation]

	The President's conversation with Daley
		-Vietnam Statement

	Krol’s meeting with the President
		-Statement to Philadelphia Inquirer reporter
			-Support for the President

	The President's schedule
		-Press conferences
			-Value
			-Timing
				-Vietnam
				-Summits in Moscow and Peking
				-Mining of Haiphong Harbor
				-Dangers
				-Importance of mining Haiphong Harbor
					-Soviet Union

	Press conferences
		-Effect
			-Possible consequences
				-Administration view
		-Press
			-Haldeman’s view
			-Congress
		-Press conferences by the President
			-Value
				-Publicity for the President
					-Timing
					-Elliot L. Richardson
						-Effect
			-Busing issue
			-Food prices
			-Television coverage
				-Preparation by the President
				-The President's answers

	William McC. Blair, Jr.
		-Position
			-Administrative Action
		-Funding for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
			-Haldeman’s role
		-Replacement
		-Park Service
		-Salary

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		-New position
			-Responsibilities
		-Abe Fortas
			-Resolution of commendation

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 5:14 pm.

	Correspondence
		-John Mackey
		-Hays Parker

Ziegler left at 5:17 pm.

	Correspondence
		-Letter to Parker
		-Quality of preparation
		-Quality of style
		-Revision
		-Draft
			-Information
		-Revision
			-The President's review
		-Letter to Mackey

Butterfield left at 5:19 pm.

The President, Haldeman, and Colson left at 5:20 pm.