Conversation: 677-005
Prev: 677-004 Next: 677-006Start Date: Monday, March 6, 1972 2:12 PM
End Date: Monday, March 6, 1972 3:30 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Sanchez, Manolo; Bull, Stephen B.; Morgan, Edward L.; Ehrlichman, John D.Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:29:07
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:50:32
NARA Description:
On March 6, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander P. Butterfield, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Manolo Sanchez, Stephen B. Bull, Edward L. Morgan, and John D. Ehrlichman met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:12 am to 10:30 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 677-005 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 677-5
Date: March 6, 1972
Time: 9:12 am - 10:30 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
Busing
-John D. Ehrlichman
Butterfield left at an unknown time before 10:24 am.
The President left and re-entered at an unknown time between 9:12 am and 10:24 am.
William P. Rogers
The People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Substance
-The President’s report
-Shanghai Communiqué
-Rogers
-Henry A. Kissinger’s backgrounder in Shanghai
The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Council of Black Appointees [?]
Haldeman’s schedule
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Responsibility
-Possible resignation
-Timing
An unknown person [Manolo Sanchez?] entered at an unknown time after 9:12 am.
-Possible position
-Committee to Re-elect the President [CRP]
-Answer desk
-John N. Mitchell
-Press relations
-Harry S. Flemming
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 677-5 (cont.)
-Charles W. Colson
-[Unknown person]
The unknown person [Sanchez?] left at an unknown time before 10:24 am.
-White House staff
-The President’s view
-Personal views of staff members
-Buchanan
-Productivity
-Haldeman’s talk with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Possible resignation
-Buchanan’s talk with conservatives
-Public relations
-Supreme Court justices
-Day care
-Busing
-Cambodia
-Anti-ballistic missile [ABM] defense
-James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.
-Ability
-Compared to Lee W. Huebner
-Shelley A. (Scarney) Buchanan
-Resignation
-Timing
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-PRC
The PRC trip
-News summary
-Los Angeles Times editorial
-Martin Z. Agronsky
-Peter Lisagor
-Kissinger
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Colson
-Louis P. Harris
-The President’s image
-Baltimore Sun
-Lisagor
-Significance
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 677-5 (cont.)
-The President’s image
-“Kitchen debate”
-Effect on 1960 election
-Press coverage
-Kissinger
-Talk with the President
-Media coverage
-News summary
International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC] report
-The President’s schedule
-Sheraton Hotel
-Press release
-Origin
-Republican convention
-C. Arnholt Smith
-Public relations
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Statement
-Clark MacGregor
-Ziegler’s statement
-Circumstances
-Flanigan
-Richard McLaren
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Michael J. Ramsden
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Background
-Study done for the White House
-Sheraton decision
-ITT reaction to decision
-Flanigan
-Ramsden
-White House appearance to public
-Jack Gleason
-Testimony
-Fundraising role
-Dita D. Beard memorandum
-Mitchell
-Colson
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 677-5 (cont.)
-William L. Safire
-Richard A. Moore
-Safire
-Flanigan
-Washington Post
-NBC
-New York Times
-Washington Star
-Kleindienst
-Colson
-Mitchell
-Reopening hearings
-Haldeman
-Justice Department
-Domestic Council study on anti-trust policies
-Possible release
-Effect on ITT case
-Effect on anti-trust
-Effect on Kleindienst
-Jack N. Anderson papers
-White House
-Mitchell
-Gleason
-Baltimore Sun
-Republican National Convention
-Hotels
-Robert H. Finch
-Herbert G. Klein
-Robert C. Wilson
-William E. Timmons
-Sheraton
-San Diego Host Committee
-White House response
-Brad Hayes
-Unknown man
-San Diego offer
-Sheraton contribution
-Amount
-Circumstances
-Klein, Finch
-Edwin Reinecke
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 677-5 (cont.)
-Flanigan
-Kleindienst
-Justice Department
-Flanigan
-White House statement
-Ramsden
-Bakcground
-Sherman Adams case
-Gleason
-Role as fundraiser
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Public relations job
-Kevin P. Phillips
-Newsletter
-ITT possible witnesses
-Beard’s doctor
-Mitchell
-Gleason
-James O. Eastland calls witnesses
-Beard interview with Anderson
-Beard
-Involvement
-Rose Mary Woods
Beard memorandum
-People mentioned in memorandum
-Louie B. Nunn
-Haldeman
-Mitchell
-Arrangements made
-Contribution
-Republican National Convention
-Haldeman
-Contribution
-San Diego
-Anderson
-Ramsden
-Rumsfeld
-Beard memorandum
-Leaking of memorandum
-William R. Merriam
-Colson
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 677-5 (cont.)
-Role in hearings
-Mitchell
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Views
-Kleindienst
-William P. Rogers
-George P. Shultz
-Colson, Safire, Ehrlichman, MacGregor, Klein
-Reactions
-Strategy
-Wallace H. Johnson
-Job history
-Justice Department
-Johnson compared to William H. Rehnquist
-Assignment
-Moore
-Other White House involvement
-Shultz, Kissinger
-Rumsfeld and Herbert Stein
-Public relations for White House
-Harold S. Geneen
-Canteen Corporation
-Statements
-Justice Department
-Ziegler
-Justice Department
-McLaren
-[Forename unknown] Engsberg [?]
Bureaucracy
-The President’s view
-The President’s previous conversation with Haldeman
-Replacement of Schedule C employees
Public relations
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Key Biscayne
-Admiration from the public
-New York
-Meeting with Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Haldeman
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 677-5 (cont.)
-Admiration from the public
-Dinner in Miami Beach
-[Forename unknown] Weis [sp?]
-Reservation
-Lawrence M. Higby
-Lisagor
-Charles Corddry
-Haldeman’s view
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Public relations problems
-New Hampshire
-Democratic candidates debate
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Vance Hartke
-Craig Williams’s report
-Election problems
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Busing
-Buchanan
-Senate vote
-Ehrlichman
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.’s speech draft
-Constitutional amendment
-Chance for ratification
-Senate vote
-Effect on Americans
ITT
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 677-5 (cont.)
-Kleindienst
-Comparison to Dwight D. Eisenhower
-White House statement
-$100,000
-Mitchell’s testimony
-Gleason and Birch E. Bayh, Jr.
-Questioning
-Contribution
John B. Connally’s schedule
The President’s schedule
-National Advisory Committee on Child Nutrition
-Report
-Earl L. Butz
-Photographs
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Size of committee
-Timing of possible meeting
-Ziegler
-Possible meeting with Robert Strausz-Hupe
Strausz-Hupe’s forthcoming trip to Belgium
-Forthcoming meeting in the Roosevelt Room
-Summer Youth Program
-Five unidentified mayors
-Elliot L. Richardson, James D. Hodgson, and Rogers C.B. Morton
-Colson
-Possible meeting with senior citizens
-Forthcoming special message to the Congress on Older Americans
-Henry Cabot Lodge meeting
-Rome
-Possible meeting with Iakovos
-Greek Orthodox group
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Possible meeting with Robert S. Ingersoll
-Ingersoll’s forthcoming trip to Japan
-The President’s view
-Possible sound clip for the National Health Forum
-Possible meeting with officials from the National Alliance of Business [NAB]
-Possible meeting with the General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and
Disarmament
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 677-5 (cont.)
-John J. McCloy
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Kissinger
-Robert F. Ellsworth
-David Packard
-Possible meeting with Advertising Council
-Colson
-The President’s view
-Jews
-Economy
-Reception
-Possible meeting with the Inter-American Defense Board
-John F. Kennedy
Bull entered at 10:24 am.
The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting on busing
-Ehrlichman
Bull left at 10:25 am.
The President’s schedule
-Various possible meetings
-Signing ceremony on the Biological Weapons Convention
-Geneva
-State Department
-The President
-British
-Soviets
-Rogers
-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
-Princeton University
-Question and answer [Q&A] session
-PRC
-Youth
-The President’s view
-Congress
-Press conferences
-George H. Mahon and Grover E. Murray, President of Texas Tech University
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 677-5 (cont.)
-American Association of Engineers
-Catholic University graduation
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-The President’s view
-Possible demonstrators
-Colson
-White House Conference on Youth
Ehrlichman and Edward L. Morgan entered at 10:25 am.
Busing
-Congressional leadership meeting
-Ehrlichman memorandum
-MacGregor
-De-segregated housing
-[Forename unknown] Jackson
-Morgan’s work
The President left at an unknown time after 10:25 am.
-Moratorium on busing
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-Left wing
The President entered at an unknown time before 10:30 am.
-Upcoming meeting with President’s Commission on School Finance
The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Council of Black Appointees
The President, Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Morgan left at 10:30 am.