324–22

Conversation No. 324-22

Date: March 22, 1972
Time: 11:01 am - 12:47 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

[Unintelligible]

Table tennis team from the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-John A. Scali’s request
-Secret Service protection
-State Department

Butterfield left and the President entered at 11:05 am.

Briefing books
-William L. Safire
-Completion of draft
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Political questions

Ronald L. Ziegler
-Talk with Haldeman
-Radio address
-John D. Ehrlichman’s views
-Points to be made
-Television
-Pictures
-Microphone
-Television
-Haldeman’s view
-Live coverage
-Questions
-Briefings
-Questions
-PRC
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-Soviet Union
-Ireland
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Busing
-ITT case
-Senate Committee hearings
-News coverage
-Hearings
-Dita D. Beard
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Haldeman talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr. at an unknown time between 11:05 am and 12:47
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[Conversation No. 324-22A]

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Chile
-Jack N. Anderson’s column
-Wire service story
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Anderson’s source
-Dita Beard
-Confidentiality
-Rifling of ITT files
-Inaccuracy of report
-ITT
-Business interests
-Overthrow of Salvador Allende Gossens
-Money
-Contact with Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Absence of work with CIA
-Washington, DC contacts
-Shredding of files
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Life magazine story
-San Diego convention
-District Attorney
-Edmund G. (“Pat”) Brown
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Public opinion

Soviet Union
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Trade deals
-Peter G. Peterson
-State Department
-Memoranda
-White House

Current events
-Public reaction
-Flanigan
-Clifford Irving’s book
-Howard Hughes
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

Life magazine story
-Irving’s book
-Hughes
-Agnew[?]
-Haldeman’s view
-The President’s view
-Congressmen, Senators

[Unintelligible]

Nelson A. Rockefeller

Candidates
-Nomination
-Ogden R. Reid
-Support for the administration
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-Busing

Unknown man’s speaking engagements
-Scholastic press corps
-California
-National Feed and Grain Association
-New Orleans
-Electric Cooperative
-Florida

George Meany
-Situation
-George P. Shultz
-Unknown gathering
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Invitations
-Harry Bridges
-Longshoremen strike
-Busing
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Haldeman’s view
-Constitutional amendment
-Shultz
-Talk with Haldeman
-Democrats


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Presidential approval polls
-Shifts
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-Men and women
-Uneducated
-Union and non-union families
-Blacks
-Households within an income level
-Uneducated
-Republicans
-Democrats
-Independents
-Liberals
-Conservatives
-Liberals
-Busing
-The People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-George C. Wallace voters
-South
-East
-Midwest
-South
-Busing
-Haldeman’s view
-West
-East
-Midwest
-Wallace voters
-Conservatives
-Age group
-Blacks
-Upper income
-Liberals
-West
-South
-Unknown person’s thesis
-PRC
-ITT
-San Diego
-California
-Busing
-ITT
-Wallace voters
-Conservatives
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Tape Subject Log
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-South
-Nashville Banner
-Busing
-Moratorium
-The President’s view
-Busing
-Foreign policy
-November 1972
-Trial heats
-Voting procedures
-Haldeman’s view
-Issues
-PRC
-ITT
-William L. Calley, Jr.
-Announcement of trip to PRC
-Announcement of Phase II
-The President’s peace proposal speech, January 25, 1972
-Announcement of wage and price controls
-Television events
-Views of William F. (“Billy”) Graham and Taft Schreiber
-South
-West
-East and Midwest
-Jews
-Leonard Garment
-Importance
-Media bias
-PRC
-Busing statement
-South
-Florida primary
-Blacks’ view of the President
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-The President’s view
-Media bias
-News magazines
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Florida primary
-Illinois primary
-Percentages
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-Polls
-Busing
-Democratic candidates’ position
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-The President’s position
-Humphrey’s position

The President’s schedule
-Raymond P. Shafer
-Meeting
-Moscow
-Ehrlichman
-Haldeman
-Buchanan[?]
-Sultan Mohammed Khan
-Other foreign ministers
-Foreign policy
-Kissinger
-State Department
-Signing of Biological Weapons Convention
-Politics
-PRC table tennis delegation
-Canada
-Scheduling of events
-The President’s view
-Governor General
-Pierre E. Trudeau
-The President’s possible address to a joint session of Parliament
-John F. Kennedy
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Great Lakes agreement
-Schedule
-National Arts Center
-Possibility of demonstrators
-Dinner
-Entertainment
-Governor General
-Dinners and luncheons
-Ottawa
-Toronto
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-Signing ceremony for Great Lakes agreement
-Stopover
-Buffalo, New York
-Great Lakes governors
-Great Lakes agreement
-Toronto
-Ottawa
-Return meeting
-Treaty signing ceremony
-Dinners
-Diplomatic corps
-Schedule
-Toronto
-Ottawa
-Motorcade
-Demonstrators
-Signing ceremony
-Events in cities
-PRC
-Soviet Union
-Joint Session of Parliament
-Presidential address
-Bonn
-London
-Trudeau meeting
-Speech preparation
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-William L. Safire
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-US relations with Canada
-”Peace in the world” speech
-Television
-Reception
-Diplomatic corps
-Meeting
-Trudeau
-Schedule
-White House
-State Department
-Canadian Embassy
-Trudeau meeting
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-Luncheon
-Governor General
-Meeting with Trudeau
-Parliament
-Address
-Reception
-Diplomatic corps
-Timing
-State dinners
-The President’s view
-PRC
-T.N.J. Suharto
-Staff at dinners
-Johnson
-Dinners at the Canadian Embassy
-Diplomatic corps reception
-Dinner
-Return luncheon
-Governor General
-Trudeau
-Parliament
-Address
-Tree planting
-Johnson
-Tradition
-Schedule
-Parliament
-Governor General Meeting
-The President’s possible speech before Parliament
-US relations with Canada
-Desire for world peace
-PRC initiative
-Soviet initiative

Speeches by world leaders at meetings
-Indira Gandhi
-Luis Alvarez Echeverria
-The PRC trip

The President’s forthcoming trip to Canada
-Possible speech
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Tape Subject Log
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-Theme
-The President as parliamentarian
-Timing
-Speech
-Length
-Safire
-Price
-Safire
-US News and World Report article
-Haig
-The President’s view
-Press conference
-Deadline
-Easter
-Haig
-Haldeman’s view

Foreign policy
-Memorandum
-Poland
-Turkey
-Haig
-Kissinger
-Television coverage of the PRC trip

The President’s schedule
-Proposed meeting with Khan
-Echeverria
-Hussein ibn Talal [King of Jordan]
-Soviet representative
-United Nations [UN]
-Turkey
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] member
-The President’s possible trip
-Memorandum
-UN
-Kissinger
-Poland
-The President’s possible trip to Warsaw
-Reception
-Radio Free Europe
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-West Germany
-Planning
-Kissinger
-National Security Council [NSC]
-State Department
-The President’s previous meeting with Gerard C. Smith
-The President’s previous meeting with the General Advisory Committee on
Arms Control and Disarmament
-The President’s view
-Re-election
-Kissinger
-Vietnam
-Haig’s memorandum

An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time after 11:05 am.

American Federation of Labor – Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO]
-Possible walkout from the Pay Board
-Shultz’s opinion
-United Auto Workers [UAW]
-International Brotherhood of Teamsters
-Miami
-George Meany
-Public opinion
-Shultz
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-John B. Connally

The President’s schedule
-Political considerations
-Events
-Risks
-Benefits
-Previous trip to New York
-Signing ceremony for Drug Abuse Office and Treatment Act of 1972
-Television
-Statements by the President
-Wallace

The President’s public stance
-Price’s view
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Tape Subject Log
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-Issues
-Busing
-Drugs
-Haldeman’s view
-Environmental cleanup
-Bureaucrats

The President’s schedule
-Philadelphia
-Possible address at the Annual Convention of the National Catholic
Educational Association [NCEA]
-John Cardinal Krol
-White House church service
-National Governor’s Conference
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Southern Baptists
-Philadelphia
-Campus Crusade
-Public reception
-Congress
-Politicians
-Jaycees Convention
-Atlanta
-Rotary International Convention
-Forthcoming meeting with Echeverria
-Appearances
-Timing
-Forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Democratic National Convention
-California primary
-American Legion Convention
-Cartha D. (“Deke”) De Loach
-Donald McI. Kendall
-Donald E. Johnson [?]
-Chicago
-Republican National Convention
-Acceptance speech
-Television
-Compared with Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-Haldeman’s view
-Chicago
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-Time
-Soviet Union trip
-Ohio
-Baseball
-Cincinnati
-Texas
-Jaycees Convention
-Rotary International Convention
-President
-Swedish
-Boys’ Club of America
-American Legion
-Speech
-California
-Convention
-Platform Committee
-The President’s instructions to Haldeman
-Haig
-Kissinger
-West Germany
-Poland
-The President’s view
-Politics

Media relations
-News summaries
-The President’s trip to PRC
-Campaign
-1968
-Bombing halt
-Humphrey
-Making news

Poland
-The President’s previous conversation with Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-Jews
-Kissinger
-Haldeman’s view
-Reception
-Reception
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Tape Subject Log
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-Romania [Poland]
-Reception
-Effect
-Pennsylvania
-Ohio
-Illinois
-Michigan
-New York
-Buffalo
-Pennsylvania
-Ohio
-Illinois
-Michigan
-Wisconsin
-Illinois
-Edmund S. Muskie

Foreign policy
-Poland and Turkey
-Haig
-Soviet trip
-Iran
-Dinner and reception
-Arrival
-Timing
-Tehran
-Istanbul
-Poland
-Istanbul
-Iran
-Tehran
-Reception
-[Shah of Iran] Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
-Istanbul
-Distance
-Compared to Israel
-Tehran

Presidential approval polls
-South
-West
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-Haldeman’s view
-South
-Busing
-John N. Mitchell

Possible AFL-CIO walkout from the Pay Board
-Shultz
-Connally
-The President’s statements
-Possible press conference
-Compared to television
-Radio
-Ziegler
-Ehrlichman
-The President answering questions
-Television address
-Timing

Haldeman left at 12:47 pm.