Conversation: 683-003
Prev:  683-002 Next: 683-004Start 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
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. 2 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 3 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Aug-01) Conv. No. 683-3 (cont.) ****************************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 1m 59s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ****************************************************************************** Busing -Black caucus comments -Ehrlichman ****************************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 17s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 ****************************************************************************** Press stories -The PRC trip -News summary -Clayton Fritchey -Effect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 4 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 5 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] 6 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 7 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. Aug-01) Conv. No. 683-3 (cont.) -Photograph session Ziegler left at 10:15 am.