Conversation: 690-011
Prev: 690-010 Next: 690-012Start Date: 21-Mar-1972 1:00 PM
End Date: 21-Mar-1972 2:15 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.; White House operator; Shultz, George P.; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob");Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 03:02:37
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 04:33:23
NARA Description:
On March 21, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, White House operator, George P. Shultz, and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Oval Office of the White House from 1:00 pm to 2:15 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 690-011 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 690-11
Date: March 21, 1972
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler; the conversation began in progress.
The President's schedule
-Gridiron dinner
-Decision
-Wage Board
-Announcement
-George Meany
The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:00 and 1:03
pm.
[Conversation No. 690-11A]
[See Conversation No. 21-124]
[End of telephone conversation]
The President's forthcoming press conference
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Television
Drugs
-Possible national broadcast by the President
-Penalties for drug dealers
The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 1:00 and 1:03
pm.
[Conversation No. 690-11B]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 690-11 (cont.)
[See Conversation No. 21-125]
[End of telephone conversation]
Drugs
-Penalties for drug dealers
-Death penalty
-National broadcast by the President
-Prime time
-Statement to the American public
-Bill signing
-Cooperation of the American public
The President talked with George P. Shultz between 1:03 and 1:09 pm.
[Conversation No. 690-11C]
[See Conversation No. 21-126]
[End of telephone conversation]
H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 1:10 pm.
Economy
-Arthur F. Burns
-Interest rate increase
-Secretary of the Treasury
-Administration policy
-Possible question during Ziegler’s press briefing
-John B. Connally
-Forthcoming call from Ziegler
-Timing
-Unions
-Interest rates
-Food prices
The President's schedule
-Gridiron dinner
-Edgar Allan Poe
-[Warren E. Burger]
-Cabinet officers
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 690-11 (cont.)
-White House staff
-Henry A. Kissinger's schedule
-Peter M. Flanigan's schedule
-The President's attendance
-Ziegler's statement
The President’s forthcoming press conference
-Office
-Timing
-ITT questions
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Television compared to office
-Haldeman's view
-Television
-Timing
-Number of appearances
-Radio
-Microphones
Ziegler left at 1:16 pm.
Julius Klein
-Note to Haldeman
-Contents
-Richard J. Daley
-The President’s busing speech
Drugs
-Talk with Ziegler
-National television broadcast
-Bill signing
-Laws
-Enforcement
-More penalties
-Rehabilitation of addicts
-Legalization of marijuana
-Heroin
-Haldeman's view
-“Fireside chat”
-Timing
-California
-Writer
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Conv. No. 690-11 (cont.)
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Outline from John D. Ehrlichman
-Pamphlet
-Ehrlichman
-Quote from the President
-Wording
-The President’s view
-Haldeman’s view
-Addicts
-Pushers
-Victims
-Commission
-Law enforcement
-Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe
-Addicts
-Marijuana
-Heroin
-Lsyergic acid diethylamide [LSD]
-Children
-Example of mental illness
-James A. Rhodes
-Comments to the President in 1968
-Funding for mental health centers
-Blacks
-Mental institutions
-Psychiatry
-The President’s view
-Supply
-Efforts by Turkey
-Pushers
-Education of children
-Law enforcement
-Pushers
-Children
-The President’s possible speech
-Legalizing marijuana
-Weekly announcements
-Ehrlichman
-Administration accomplishments
-Unknown man [Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.?]
-Government agents
-Number
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 690-11 (cont.)
-Bureaucrats
-Instructions
-The President's trip to New York
-News coverage
-National networks
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Local
-Airport
-Advantages of trips
-The President’s possible speech
-Live audience
-Radio message
Stockholm Conference [World Conference on the Human Environment]
-The President’s memorandum to William P. Rogers
-Delegation
-Russell E. Train
-Cabinet officers
-Rogers
Ambassadorships
-Flanigan
-Charge d’affairs
-West Germany
-Pakistan
-Joseph S. Farland
-Recommendation
-Robert G. Neumann
-Kissinger
-Afghanistan
-Finland
-Arthur Brimmer
-Jerome Holland
-Sweden
-Wiley Buchanan
-Haldeman's talk with John N. Mitchell and Maurice H. Stans
-Contributions
-Stans
-Kissinger and Rogers
-Emory C. Swank
-Ceylon [Sri Lanka]
-Charles S, Whitehouse
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Conv. No. 690-11 (cont.)
-Vietnam
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Cambodia
-Adm. Horacio Rivero
-Spain
-Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.
-Rivero
-United Nations [UN]
-Ralph Bunche
-Richard F. Pederson
-William B. Buffum
-Lebanon
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-F. Bradford Morse
-Moynihan
-Possible Ambassador to the UN
-Pederson
-Kissinger
-Rogers
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George Meany
-George P. Shultz
-Previous breakfast meeting with the President
-Augusta, Georgia
-Mamie G.D. Eisenhower
Ziegler entered at 1:36 pm.
Economy
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 690-11 (cont.)
-Burns
-Ziegler's talks with Connally, Shultz and Herbert Stein
-Connally's suggestions
-Intermediate or long-term loans
-Interest rates
-Wage-Price Board
-Mortgage rates
Ziegler left at 1:37 pm.
Foreign policy
-Television broadcast with Kissinger
-Marvin L. Kalb and William Small
-Talk with Ziegler
-Length
-Time
-Date
-The People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Three cornered foreign policy
-Middle East
-Kalb
-Kissinger
-The President
-Backgrounder
-The President's instructions
-Possible appearances by Kissinger
-Chicago
-Forthcoming Soviet trip
-The PRC trip
-Coverage of the PRC trip
-Kissinger
-The President’s reelection
-Schedule
The President's schedule
-The President's possible meeting with Frank Fitzsimmons
-Meany
-Breakfast
-Wage Board
-Oval Office
-Charles W. Colson
-Meany
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 690-11 (cont.)
-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations
[AFL-CIO]
-National Alliance of Businessmen
-Reception
-Jobs for veterans
-Gordon M. Metcalf
-Handshaking
-Jobs produced
-Blacks
-Veterans
-Dinner
-Board meeting
-Reception for regional chairmen
-Timing
-Metcalf
-Haldeman’s view
-Retail enterprise
-Public interest
-Donald McI. Kendall
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Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Gridiron dinner
-The President’s view
The President’s forthcoming press conference
-Timing
-Television
-Use
-Lyndon B. Johnson
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Conv. No. 690-11 (cont.)
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Polls
-[Forename unknown] Denham
-The PRC trip
-Louis P. Harris
-Percentages
-Denham
-George H. Gallup
-White House
-Harris
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Popularity
The President’s forthcoming press conference
-Timing
-Radio
-Television
-Timing
International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Effect on polls
-Effect on American public opinion
-Ten percent
-Busing
[No conversation]
Advisory committees
-Kissinger
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 690-11 (cont.)
-State Department
-Usefulness
-Raymond P. Shafer
-Laurence S. Rockefeller
Haldeman's schedule
-John R. (“Tex”) McCrary
-Projects
-Pay
-Clients
-Memorandum to Haldeman
Russell A. Kirk
-Book, A Program for Conservatives
-Copies
-The Conservative Mind
-Liberal approach
-Ten copies
-Ehrlichman
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
Drugs
-Heroin
-Maintenance
-Crime prevention
-Euthanasia
-Individuals viewpoint
-Jaffe
-American Civil Liberties Union [ACLU]
-Vietnam
-Urinalysis
-Penalties
-Iran
-Habeas corpus
Book by Kirk
-Connally
-Ehrlichman
-Connally
-Shultz
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Leonard Garment
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 690-11 (cont.)
-Price
-Garment
-Buchanan
The President's schedule
-Possible meeting with Kirk
-Meetings with Congressmen
White House church services
-Fred B. Rhodes
-World Baptist Alliance
-The President’s view
-Preachers
Arrival ceremonies
-Washington, DC
-Crowds
-Compared to Los Angeles
-Compared to New York City
-Foreign guests
-Andrews Air Force Base
-Blacks
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-The President’s experiences as Vice President
-National Airport
-Arrival of Winston S. Churchill
-Washington, DC streets
-National Airport
Drugs
Soviet Union trip
-Possible stop in Turkey
-Istanbul
-Kissinger
-Iran
-Istanbul
-Poland
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] meeting
The President's forthcoming trip to Florida
-Meeting with Marshall Green
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 690-11 (cont.)
-Timing
-Wage and price issue
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
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[Duration: 1m 4s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
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Drugs
-Poll
-Small sample
-Death penalty for traffickers
-Heroin
-Drug addiction
-Interstate law
-Compared to Charles A. Lindbergh law
-Kidnapping
-American public opinion
-Congress
-Supreme Court
-California
-Life imprisonment without parole
-Ehrlichman
-Death penalty compared to life imprisonment
-Bureaucrats
-Credit
-Offices
-Departments
Prices's schedule
George H.W. Bush
-Forthcoming speeches
-Talking points
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 690-11 (cont.)
-Cabinet
-UN
-The President’s foreign policy leadership
-World reaction to the PRC trip
The PRC trip
-Possible public talks
-Ziegler
-Haldeman
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Importance
-Kissinger's possible television appearance
-Kalb
-John A. Scali
-Speech
-Luncheon
-Contents
-Testimonial for the President
-Kissinger
-Herbert G. Klein
-Detroit
-Talk show
-Chapin
-Chou En-lai quote
The President’s schedule
-General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament
-Gerard C. Smith
-Manea Manescu
-Shafer
-Beginning of administration
-Meetings
-Times
Haldeman left at 2:15 pm.
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