Conversation: 022-044
Prev: 022-043 Next: 022-045Start Date: 29-Mar-1972 3:07 PM
End Date: 29-Mar-1972 3:15 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); MacGregor, Clark; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob");Recording Device: White House Telephone
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:53:15
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:01:00
NARA Description:
On March 29, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Clark MacGregor, and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman talked on the telephone from 3:07 pm to 3:15 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 022-044 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 22-44 Date: March 29, 1972 Time: 3:07 pm - 3:15 pm Location: White House Telephone The President talked with Clark MacGregor; H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman can be heard in the background. [See Conversation No. 328-19] Busing -MacGregor’s meeting with Southern Congressmen -Busing issue -Number -Members of the House -Location -Leslie C. Arends’s whip office -Joe D. Waggonner, Jr. -Thomas N. Downing -Results -Gerald R. Ford -Richard H. Poff -Constitutional amendment -Moratorium -Congressmen’s views -Moratorium -Congressmen’s views -Court order -Section 406 of five and ten year cleansing provisions 39 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) -Moratorium -Waggonner Amendment -Old and new busing order -Equal Educational Opportunities Act proposal -Waggonner Amendment -Language -Three Sisters Bridge opinion -[Warren E. Burger] -Authority of Congress -Administration support -Ford and Poff support International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case -Senate hearings -Report to the President -James O. Eastland’s position -Latest developments -Discussion -Haldeman -Charles W. Colson -Wallace H. Johnson -Vote on termination -Eastland -Possible filibuster -Timing -Continuation of hearings -Republican Senators’ views -Richard G. Kleindienst debate -White House opposition -Senate Judiciary Committee -MacGregor’s report to the President -Harold S. Geneen testimony -Additional witnesses -Eastland -Unknown secretary and unknown lawyer -Geneen -Performance -Termination of hearings -Republican Senators’ views -Charles McC. Mathias, Jr. -Hugh Scott -Strategy 40 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) -Kleindienst confirmation -White House position -Edward M. Kennedy versus the President on the issue -Vote Haldeman can be heard talking in the background. -Termination of hearings -Number of votes needed -MacGregor’s efforts -Public response -ITT confusion