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Conversation: 686-004

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Start Date: 17-Mar-1972 7:58 AM

End Date: 17-Mar-1972 8:04 AM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:05:51

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:15:58

686a.mp3

NARA Description:

On March 17, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Oval Office of the White House from 7:58 am to 8:04 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 686-004 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 686-4

Date: March 17, 1972
Time: 7:58 - 8:04 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.


     Ziegler's conversations
          -H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
          -John D. Ehrlichman


     Forthcoming bipartisan leaders meeting
          -Robert P. Griffin
          -Message to Congress
          -The President’s return from the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
          -Television
          -Congress
          -Michael J. Mansfield
          -George H. Mahon

Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 7:58 am.

     News story
         -Unknown place
               -Washington Post
               -Ziegler’s schedule

     Busing
          -Ehrlichman
                                    3

                 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                            Tape Subject Log
                              (rev. 10/06)
                                                                Conv. No. 686-4 (cont.)

-Constitutional amendment
-Griffin amendment
-Press briefing
      -East room
      -Reporters
      -Timing
      -Busing speech
-Constitutional amendment
      -Ehrlichman [?]
            -Talk with Haldeman
      -Leonard Garment
      -Raymond K. Price, Jr.
      -Elliot L. Richardson
      -George P. Shultz
      -Support
      -William E. Brock, III
      -Howard H. Baker, Jr.
      -John G. Tower
      -Washington Post
      -George S. McGovern
      -Edmund S. Muskie
      -Edward M. Kennedy
      -McGovern
      -George C. Wallace
      -John N. Ashbrook
      -Henry M. ("Scoop") Jackson
      -Brock
      -Hugh Scott
      -Newspapers
      -McGovern
      -John V. Lindsay
      -Roy Wilkins
            -News
      -Congress of Racial Equality [CORE]
      -Thomas G. Wicker
      -Sander Vanocur
      -Percentage of people supporting the President’s policy
            -Comparison to New Hampshire primary
            -Professors
            -Telephone calls
                  -Computer
            -Overall reactions
                                               4

                            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                        Tape Subject Log
                                          (rev. 10/06)
                                                                 Conv. No. 686-4 (cont.)

                     -Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak
                          -Florida primary
                     -Wallace
                          -Archie Bunker
                                -All in the Family

Ziegler and Haldeman left at 8:04 am.