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Start Date: 13-Mar-1972 9:41 AM

End Date: 13-Mar-1972 10:15 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Ziegler, Ronald L.Bull, Stephen B.Eisenhower, Julie Nixon

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:19:34

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:53:47

683a.mp3

683b.mp3

683c.mp3

NARA Description:

On March 13, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, Stephen B. Bull, and Julie Nixon Eisenhower met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:41 am to 10:15 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 683-003 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 683-3

Date: March 13, 1972
Time: 9:41 am - 10:15 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
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                 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                 Tape Subject Log
                                   (rev. Aug-01)
                                                                Conv. No. 683-3 (cont.)

Press stories
      -Florida primary
      -Bangladesh recognition
            -India
      -International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
            -Hearings
                  -Marlow W. Cook
                        -Executive session
      -Population Commission
      -Cambodia
            -Lon Nol
      -People’s Republic of China [PRC]
            -British diplomatic recognition
                  -Charge d’affaires

Upcoming press briefing
    -Questions
         -Busing
               -The President’s forthcoming statement
                     -Timing
                           -The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
                     -Decision
                     -Preparation
                           -Drafting
                     -Message to Congress
                     -Timing
                     -Message to Congress
                           -Constitutional amendment
                           -Legislation
                     -The President’s meeting with John D. Ehrlichman, George P. Shultz
                           and lawyers
                     -Drafting
                           -Raymond K. Price, Jr.
                     -Leonard Garment
                     -Shultz
                     -Ehrlichman
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                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                    Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. Aug-01)
                                                           Conv. No. 683-3 (cont.)

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 1m 59s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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    Busing
         -Black caucus comments
              -Ehrlichman


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 17s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
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    Press stories
          -The PRC trip
                -News summary
                      -Clayton Fritchey
                           -Effect of ITT stories
          -ITT
                -Paris contact between US and PRC
                -Overshadow the PRC trip
                -Fritchey
          -The PRC trip
                -Polls
          -Key Biscayne
                -Tribune article
                -Compared to Lyndon B. Johnson
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                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                  Tape Subject Log
                                    (rev. Aug-01)
                                                            Conv. No. 683-3 (cont.)

                 -Johnson City, Texas
          -Compared to Dwight D. Eisenhower
                 -Augusta, Georgia
          -Press briefings
                 -Gerald L. Warren
                 -Florida
                 -California
          -Camp David
          -Columns
     -Joseph C. Kraft article
          -News summary
          -Press corps during the PRC trip
          -Ziegler
     -The President’s relationship with the press
     -Press during PRC trip
          -Visit to Great Wall of China
                 -Marvin L. Kalb
          -Visit to Forbidden City
     -Kraft’s article
          -Ziegler’s view
                 -Press corps
                       -The PRC trip
                             -Visit to the Great Wall

The President’s forthcoming press conference
     -Timing
          -ITT
                 -Hearings
                      -Dita D. Beard
          -Televised press conference

Press corps
      -The President’s exposure to the press
           -Wire services
           -Woodcutters of America
                 -Example
           -United Press International [UPI]
           -Marina von N. Whitman swearing-in ceremony
                 -Photographs
                 -First woman on a cabinet committee
      -James Keogh’s book [President Nixon and the Press]
           -Presidents and the press
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                         NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                        Tape Subject Log
                                          (rev. Aug-01)
                                                                      Conv. No. 683-3 (cont.)

                        -George Washington
                        -Warren G. Harding
             -The President’s relationship with the press
                  -The PRC trip
                  -The President’s forthcoming trip to Soviet Union
                  -Hawaii
                  -Kraft article
                        -Great Wall
                  -The PRC trip
                        -Peter Lisagor
                        -Hugh Sidey
                              -Magazines
                              -Television coverage of the PRC trip
                                    -Compared to printed press
                              -Shanghai Communiqué
                        -Soviet trip
                        -Britain’s recognition of the PRC
                        -Lisagor, Sidey, Fritchey and Kraft
                        -Kraft
                              -Ziegler’s view
                        -Fritchey
                        -WTOP
                        -Martin Z. Agronsky
                        -George Putnam
                        -Washington, DC
                  -Ziegler’s view

Stephen B. Bull entered at 10:06 am.

     Julie Nixon Eisenhower
           -Call to the President

Bull left at 10:06 am.

     Press
             -Ziegler’s schedule
                  -Neal Ball
                  -Warren

Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked with the President between 10:06 am and 10:07 am.

[Conversation No. 683-3A]
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                       NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. Aug-01)
                                                                          Conv. No. 683-3 (cont.)


[See Conversation No. 21-48; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

     Ziegler’s previous press briefing
          -Paris contact between the US and PRC
          -Ball

     Press corps
           -Herbert G. Klein
           -Stories
                 -ITT
                 -Bombing of aircraft
                 -US-PRC contact in Paris
                 -New Hampshire primary
                 -Florida primary
                 -ITT
                       -Richard G. Kleindienst
                       -Contributions
                 -Anti-trust settlement
           -Objective
           -Congress
           -The Administration
                 -Alger Hiss case
                 -Five percenter case

     The President’s schedule
          -Gridiron dinner
               -Women’s movement
                      -Richard (“Dick”) Wilson
                            -Ziegler’s talk with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
                      -Helen A. Thomas
                      -Shirley Chisholm
                      -Bella S. Abzug

     Busing
          -The President’s forthcoming statement
               -Timing
                     -Typing

     Whitman swearing-in ceremony
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                        NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. Aug-01)
                                                                      Conv. No. 683-3 (cont.)

           -Photograph session

Ziegler left at 10:15 am.