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Conversation No. 678-7

Date: March 6, 1972
Time: 5:15 pm - 6:59 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming breakfast with George Meany
-George P.Shultz and Henry A. Kissinger
-Forthcoming breakfast with leaders and Speaker of the House [Carl B. Albert]
-Clark MacGregor
-William E. Timmons
-Meeting with George W. Romney
-The President’s recent rip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Citizens for Michigan
-Great causes
-Cities
-Racial division
-Concentration of power
-Lack of confidence in government
-Common Cause
-John W. Gardner

John D. Ehrlichman entered at 5:20 pm.

-1972 election
-Undelivered speech
-William C. Simon quote
-The Real City
-Citizens for America
-The President’s recommendations
-Financial support
-Staffing
-Kissinger
-Romney
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-Staff at Housing and Urban Development [HUD]
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Compared to John W. Gardner

John N. Mitchell
-New law office
-Meeting with Ehrlichman
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Mitchell’s statement
-Testimony
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Confirmation
-Dita D. Beard
-Rose Mary Woods
-James E. Bassett
-Ted Rodgers’s secretary
-1960 campaign
-Washington lobbyist
-Robert C. Mardian
-Wallace H. Johnson
-San Diego
-Convention
-Robert H. Finch and Herbert G. Klein
-Other sites
-Robert C. Wilson
-Testimony
-Finch
-Chicago
-Robert J. Dole
-Finch
-Contribution
-Wilson
-Miami and Chicago
-Dole
-Chicago
-Mitchell
-Finch
-James O. Eastland
-Hearings
-Edward M. Kennedy, Philip A. Hart, Birch E. Bayh, Jr.
-Kleindienst
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-Hearings
-The President’s statement
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Testimony
-Justice Department
-Executive privilege
-Patrick J. Buchanan

Busing
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Leaks
-Announcement
-Timing
-Statement
-Florida primary
-George C. Wallace
-Moratorium
-Press briefing
-Leaks
-Wire story
-United Press International [UPI]
-Justice Department
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Edward L. Morgan
-Justice Department
-Civil Rights Division

Government employees
-Staff changes
-Schedule C employees
-Civil service
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Public information personnel
-Lawyers
-Congressional liaison personnel
-Lawyers
-The President’s view
-Mitchell
-Morgan
-Hiring and firing
-Schedule C employees
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-Resignations
-Timing
-Election
-Buchanan

Busing
-Moratorium
-Leak
-Reported on radio
-The President’s view
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-News summary
-Lyndon B. Johnson

Presidential Libraries
-Lyndon Johnson Presidential Library and Museum
-Model of the Oval Office
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Scale
-The President’s visit to the library, May 1971
-Popularity of cabinet
Nixon Library
-“China Room”
-“Soviet Room”
-“China Room”
-Personal papers
-Lyndon Johnson Library
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Editorial cartoons
-Campaign material
-Daughters weddings
-Foreign affairs exhibits
-Vietnam
-Glassboro Summit
-Ehrlichman’s tour
-Education exhibit
-Size
-The President’s view
-Harry Middleton
-Motion picture exhibit
-Site location
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-Pendleton, California
-Congressional role
-“China Room”
-Gift from Chou En-lai
-History of China
-State Department
-Placement of second set
-Harvard University
-University of California, Berkeley
-Nixon Library
-Presidential documents
-Whittier College
-Endowed chair
-School of Asian studies
-Lyndon Johnson Library as a model
-Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
-School of International Affairs
-Johnson School of Public Affairs
-John A. Gronouski
-Winton M. (“Red”) Blount
-Luncheon
-Gronouski, Walter W. Rostow, Tom Johnson, Middleton, and
Betty Tilson [?]

Lyndon Johnson
-The President’s view
-The President’s talk with Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Plans
-Democratic candidates
-Republican candidates
-Former Presidents
-Law practices
-Boards
-Boys Club of America
-Young Men’s Christian Association [YMCA]
-Mexico
-Ranch
-Acapulco
-Use of planes
-James D. (“Don”) Hughes
-Travel on government planes
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-Florida
-Jetstar
-Secret Service
-The President’s future travel as a former President
-The President’s view

Former vice presidents
-The President’s view
-Car
-Secret Service protection
-Pension
-Staff
-The President as Vice President
-Republican National Committee
-Funding for correspondence staff
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-The President’s (as former Vice President) staff budget
-John Clifford Folger
-1962 election

William P. Rogers
-Finances


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Former vice presidents
-Government support
-Transition funding
-Secret Service protection
-Hubert H. Humphrey
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-Former Vice Presidents compared to former Presidents
-Politics


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Presidential debates
-Legislation
-The President’s possible veto
-John O. Pastore’s Bill
-Lyndon Johnson and Barry M. Goldwater
-John F. Kennedy
-Robert F. Kennedy
-Klein
-Newspapers
-Associated Press [AP]
-United Press International [UPI]
-The President’s previous speeches

1972 campaign
-Ziegler
-White House Press Office

ITT case
-Mitchell testimony
-Wallace Johnson
-Kleindienst confirmation
-Beard testimony
-Memorandum
-Harlow
-Flanigan
-Henry E. Petersen
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Forest Hills Housing Project
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming meeting with Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Department of Labor
-Jewish vote
-James L. Buckley
-Possible administration actions
-Rockefeller
-John V. Lindsay
-Florida primary


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The President’s forthcoming press conference
-Reporting of campaign contributions
-Maurice H. Stans
-Reporting forms
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-Elmer Staats
-Record keeping
-Stans
-Mitchell
-Response to political questions


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Press
-News summaries
-Briefing books
-Buchanan
-The President’s response to political questions
-Hugh S. Sidey
-The President’s previous press conference
-Legal aid question
-Press corps reaction
-Answering questions
-Office press conferences
-Televised press conference
-Refusal to comment
-Harry Truman and Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Ziegler
-Jack N. Anderson
-[F. Donald Nixon]
-Gossip columns
-Anderson
-Relationship with the President
-Sidey’s previous talk with Kissinger
-Compared to Lyndon Johnson’s relationship with the press
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Tape Subject Log
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-Ehrlichman’s meeting with Rowland Evans
-Evans’s book
-Evans and Robert D. Novak newsletter

Books

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:20 pm.

Meeting with Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 6:32 pm.

Books
-Jeffrey Hart
-James Keogh
-Victor Lasky
-William L. Safire
-Keogh
-Herbert E. Kaplow
-Robert Pierpoint
-Sales
-Bantam book on China
-Initial number printed
-Haldeman’s view

Kissinger entered at 6:32 pm.

Mitchell
-Wallace Johnson

Ehrlichman’s schedule
-Busing announcement
-Timing
-Ehrlichman’s forthcoming talk with Ziegler

Haldeman and Ehrlichman left at 6:33 pm.

Vietnam negotiations
-North Vietnamese postponement of meeting
-Chinese
-North Vietnamese
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-Kissinger’s talk with Winston Lord
-Linkage of Vietnam to Taiwan
-Hugh Scott
-State Department
-Charles W. Bray, III
-Troop withdrawal announcement
-Kissinger’s backgrounder in Shanghai
-Leadership meeting
-US forces in Taiwan
-Scott

Haldeman entered at 6:38 pm.

Stock market
-Dow Jones
-Strength
-Compared to April 1971
-Blind trusts

Haldeman left at 6:45 pm.

Vietnam negotiations
-Meeting with North Vietnamese
-Forthcoming US-Soviet Summit
-Chinese
-Cancellation
-Reason
-Alleged aerial action
-Pentagon
-Chinese allegations of aerial activity
-Chinese
-Shanghai Communiqué
-Link to Vietnam
-Scott’s statement
-State Department
-Kissinger’s talk with Rogers
-Timing
-Kissinger’s view
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Michael J. Mansfield
-University of Montana
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-Forthcoming US-Soviet Summit
-Le Duc Tho
-Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
-Possible Chinese influence on North Vietnamese
-Chinese criticism of US policy in Vietnam
-Possible message from the Chinese
-Rogers
-Taiwan
-Vietnam
-Statements
-Kissinger’s previous backgrounder
-Possible settlement on Vietnam
-Paris
-Taiwan
-Kissinger’s talk with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Statement of support for North Vietnam
-Timing of North Vietnamese request for meeting
-The President’s trip
-Kissinger’s view
-Jonathan T. Howe
-PRC Ambassador

Buchanan
-Decision not to resign
-Taiwan
-Toast
-Chou En-lai
-Mao Tse-tung
-Shows
-Chinese ballet
-Spartacus
-Soviets

Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-Kissinger’s speech before the VFW Board of Directors
-The President’s forthcoming appearance
-Award
-Thomas E. (“Doc”) Morgan

PRC
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-Soviet Union
-Forthcoming US-Soviet Summit
-North Vietnamese position
-Korea
-Japan
-Buchanan’s criticism
-Haldeman
-Material
-Toasts
-Shanghai Communiqué
-Wording
-Buchanan’s talk with Kissinger
-Japan
-Use of “People’s Republic of China” compared to use of “China”
-Japan
-Buchanan
-The President’s view
-Rogers
-Defense treaty
-Taiwan
-Buchanan
-The President’s view
-Right Wing
-Cambodia
-Anti-ballistic missile [ABM]
-Memorandum for Rogers
-Rogers’s press conference
-Kissinger’s view
-The President’s view
-State Department
-Shanghai Communiqué
-Kissinger’s backgrounder
-Response to PRC message
-Congress
-[Scott]
-Kissinger’s talk with Haldeman
-Haig’s talk with Kissinger
-Taiwan
-Defense treaty
-World publicity
-Soviets
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-Linkage of Taiwan to Vietnam
-Scott’s statement
-State Department
-Scott’s Statement

Cambodia
-Marshall Green
-Separate peace deal
-William H. Sullivan
-State Department
-Norodom Sihanouk
-Memorandum
-Instruction

Chinese message to the US
-Vietnam

The President and Kissinger left at 6:59 pm.