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Conversation No. 326-8

Date: March 24, 1972
Time: 9:50 am - 10:45 am
Location: Executive Office Building

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

Pay Board
-George Meany’s resignation
-Charles W. Colson’s efforts
-Clark MacGregor’s possible effort
-Congress
-Statements by Michael J. Mansfield and Jacob K. Javits

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Colson’s efforts

John B. Connally
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-Comments on Today
-Meany’s resignation from the Pay Board
-Food prices
-Meat prices
-Earl L. Butz
-Farm prices
-Retailers
-Transportation costs
-Meany’s resignation from the Pay Board
-Meany’s attendance at Pay Board meetings
-Meany’s conversation with George H. Boldt
-Effect
-Tone
-News summary
-The President’s view
-Performance
-Herbert G. Klein
-Comments regarding Meany’s resignation from Pay Board
-Interview technique
-Reaction of Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman and George P. Shultz
-The President’s view
-Irving R. Levine [?]
-Previous call to Haldeman
-Jews
-Arthur F. Burns, Hobart Rowan, Nathaniel Samuels
-Burns
-The President’s view
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Forthcoming call from Haldeman
-Secretary

Anti-Semitism
-Haldeman’s view

The President’s schedule
-Camp David

Middle East
-The President’s forthcoming memorandum to Henry A. Kissinger
-Soviet Union
-John N. Mitchell
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-Kissinger’s advice in 1970
-Israel
-Elections

An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time between 9:50 am and 10:45 am.

-Andrei A. Gromyko’s offer
-Soviet presence in Egypt
-Israel
-Kissinger’s response
-1972 election
-Jews
-Democrats
-The President’s forthcoming visit with Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Soviet presence in Egypt
-Mediterranean
-Israel
-Kissinger
-The President’s view
-Jews
-Mitchell
-Max M. Fisher
-Golda Meir’s statements regarding the President
-Support for the President
-Effect on US policy
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Soviet Union
-Mediterranean
-Oil
-Israel
-Barry M. Goldwater
-US relationship with Arabs
-United Arab Republic [UAR]
-Oil
-The President’s forthcoming visit to the Soviet Union
-Opportunity to alter Us policy
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Soviet presence in the Middle East
-Israeli occupation of territory
-Compared to Okinawa
-Japan
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-Pearl Harbor
-The President’s forthcoming memorandum to Kissinger
-Camp David

Jews
-Media
-Haldeman’s view
-Mitchell
-Views regarding the President
-Anti-Semitic vote

Middle East
-The President’s forthcoming memorandum to Kissinger
-Timing
-US policy

Jews
-President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Pressure regarding Israel
-Burns
-Leonard Garment
-Fisher
-Support for the President

News media
-Television coverage of the President’s previous statement on Meany
-American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC]
-Ronald L. Ziegler’s expectations
-ABC
-Length of statement
-Reaction
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]

Connally
-Comments on Today
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
-Haldeman’s view
-Charts
-The President’s view
-Schedule
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Federal Reserve Board
-Appointments
-Roles of Burns and Connally
-Haldeman’s previous conversation with Shultz
-Shultz’s previous conversation with Burns
-Frederic V. Malek’s role
-Burns’s role in approving appointments
-The President’s role
-Malek
-Burns
-Connally
-Shultz

Connally
-The President’s view
-Haldeman’s view

MacGregor
-House members

News summary
-ITT
-James O. Eastland’s committee’s activities
-San Diego
-Haldeman’s view

Media coverage of administration
-The President’s view
-Haldeman’s view
-Sherman Adams
-Harry H. Vaughn
-Robert C. Wilson, Robert H. Finch, Herbert G. Klein
-The President’s view
-Sheraton Hotels

Connally

Administration’s activities
-Drugs
-[Pay Board]
-Staff morale
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-The President’s previous statement regarding Meany
-Haldeman’s view
-Drugs

Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-FBI experts compared to external experts

The President’s instructions
-Russell A. Kirk
-Robert A. Nisbet

The President’s schedule
-Possible press meeting with China experts
-Ziegler’s views
-Soviet Union
-Wives
-Press conferences
-Value
-Timing
-Camp David
-Gridiron dinner
-Television
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Possible fireside talk on drugs
-Timing
-Preparation
-The President’s view
-Format
-Telephones
-Radio talks
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.’s talk with Haldeman
-Gridiron dinner

Supreme Court
-Mitchell

The President’s schedule
-Press conferences
-Timing
-Vacations
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-Democratic National Convention
-Republican National Convention
-Marvin L. Kalb
-Kissinger
-Soviet Union trip
-Ziegler

Kissinger’s schedule
-Chicago, Houston, Dallas
-Television talk shows
-Connally
-Texas
-Houston
-Dallas-Ft. Worth
-Kalb
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Size of television audience
-Treatment of the administration

William P. Rogers
-Kissinger
-Comments regarding Arthur K. Watson

Watson
-Incident on airplane
-Public reaction towards President
-Bible Belt
-Haldeman’s view
-Frank F. Church’s comments
-Chinese
-Rogers

Haldeman left at 10:45 am.