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Start Date: 24-Mar-1972 1:24 PM

End Date: 24-Mar-1972 2:00 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Ziegler, Ronald L.Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:17:34

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:52:02

326a.mp3

326b.mp3

NARA Description:

On March 24, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 1:24 pm to 2:00 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 326-019 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 326-19

Date: March 24, 1972
Time: 1:24 pm - 2:00 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

     The President’s forthcoming press conference
          -Possible topics
               -Patrick J. Buchanan
               -Northern Ireland
                      -Press coverage

     Public relations
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                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. 10/06)
                                                                     Conv. No. 326-19 (cont.)


          -John B. Connally’s previous Today appearance
          -Donald Rumsfeld’s previous Meet the Press appearance

     The President’s forthcoming press conference
          -The President’s possible demeanor
                -Ziegler’s view
                -Connally
          -National economy
                -Pay Board
          -Judiciary Committee
                -Michael J. Mansfield
                      -Vote on Richard G. Kleindienst’s nomination

     National news items
          -Herbert Stein’s statement
                -Ziegler’s view
                      -Food prices
                            -Price Commission
                            -Connally’s statement
          -Unknown person [Hubert H. Humphrey?]
                -Productivity Commission
          -Busing
                -Detroit
                -Stephen J. Roth
                -Moratorium
                -Department of Justice
          -New York banks’ prime rate
                -Unknown bank
                -First National Bank

The President talked with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman at an unknown time between 1:24 pm and
1:28 pm.

[Conversation No. 326-19A]

     National economy
          -New York banks’ prime rate
                -Connally

[End of telephone conversation]
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                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. 10/06)
                                                                      Conv. No. 326-19 (cont.)


     The President’s forthcoming press conference
          -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
                -Statement in New Orleans
                      -Vice Presidency
                -The President’s view
          -Politics
                -Primaries
                -George C. Wallace
                -Campaign spending
                -Buchanan’s view
                      -Wallace
                -Section 315 regarding equal time
                      -Possible debates
                      -Howard H. Baker, Jr.’s equity amendment

Haldeman talked with the President between 1:28 pm and 1:29 pm.

[Conversation No. 326-19B]

[See Conversation No. 22-16]

[End of telephone conversation]

     The President’s forthcoming press conference
          -Politics
                -Possible debates
                -The President’s view
                      -Timing of political speeches
                      -Debates
          -The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
                -Press interest
                      -Itinerary
                      -Agenda
                            -Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
                            - Trade
          -International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
                -Peter M. Flanigan
                      -Thomas F. Eagleton’s attack
                      -Ziegler’s statements
                            -Richard W. McLaren’s statements
                            -Chile
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                       NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                  Tape Subject Log
                                    (rev. 10/06)
                                                            Conv. No. 326-19 (cont.)


                        -Statement Department
             -Dwight D. Eisenhower
                  -Sherman Adams
             -Harry S. Truman
                  -Alger Hiss
                  -Harry H. Vaughn
             -Scandals
                  -Proof of charges
                        -Harry S. Truman

Press
        -Ziegler’s forthcoming list
             -The President’s view
                    -Television
                    -Radio
             -Nicholas P. Thimmesch
             -Frank van der Linden
             -Richard (“Dick”) Wilson
             -Clark R. Mollenhoff
             -Wire services
                    -Frank Cormier
                    -Ziegler’s view
                         -Helen Thomas
                         -Gaylord Shaw
             -Preparation

The President’s forthcoming press conference
     -Schedule
          -Timing
          -Length
                 -Jim Deakin
                 -Cormier

Unknown man
    -Views of the press
    -Busing
         -Liberals
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                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                 Tape Subject Log
                                   (rev. 10/06)
                                                                  Conv. No. 326-19 (cont.)


Unknown man [George C. Wallace?]
    -Tax reform
    -Democratic presidential candidates
         -Combined tenure in Senate
               -Inactivity

The President’s forthcoming press conference
     -National economy
          -Price control
                 -Consumer Price Index [CPI]
          -George Meany
          -Leonard Woodcock
     -Busing legislation
          -South
          -School bus accident
     -Separate but equal education
          -Ziegler’s statement regarding the President’s views
                 -Brown vs. the Topeka Board of Education
          -The President’s view
     -Ziegler’s view
     -George P. Shultz’s views

The President’s schedule
     -Press conferences
          -Frequency
                 -The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
                 -Democratic National Convention
          -The President’s view
          -Ziegler’s conversation with Haldeman
          -Format
          -Timing and location
                 -Democratic National Convention
                 -Republican National Convention
                 -San Clemente
                 -Democratic National Convention
                      -The President’s view
                             -Staff schedules
                             -Youth
          -Possible international press conference
                 -The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
                 -Ziegler’s conversation with Haldeman
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                           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/06)
                                                                Conv. No. 326-19 (cont.)


                 -The President’s demeanor
                      -Compared to Connally’s demeanor
                            -Meany
                            -Charts

     Agnew
         -Press coverage
         -Statements to press
               -California
                     -ITT
               -Ziegler’s view
                     -Defensiveness
         -Press coverage

     The President’s forthcoming press conference
          -National economy
               -The President’s program
                      -Price controls
                            -Humphrey, Meany
                            -Food prices
                                  -Price Commission
                                  -Middlemen
                                  -Farmers
                            -Ziegler’s view
                                  -Pay Board
                            -Inflation

Ziegler left at 2:00 pm.
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                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/06)