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Start Date: 19-Mar-1973 10:30 AM

End Date: 19-Mar-1973 12:34 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")Ziegler, Ronald L.[Unknown person(s)]

Recording Device: Oval Office

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NARA Description:

On March 19, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Ronald L. Ziegler, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House from 10:30 am to 12:34 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 883-005 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 883-5

Date: March 19, 1973
Time: 10:30 am - 12:34 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

       Weather
            -Snow
            -Cherry blossoms

       President’s schedule
             -Willy Brandt’s visit
                   -Confirmation of date
             -Kakuei Tanaka's visit
                   -Confirmation of date
             -May 1, 1973 date for Brandt visit
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             -Possible trip to Africa
                   -Dates
                          -Prisoners of war [POWs] dinner
                          -Problem of scheduling
                                -Congressional fundraising dinner
                          -Mid-week departure
                                -Press coverage
             -Meeting with Brandt
                   -Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft’s participation
                          -Advice from Henry A. Kissinger

Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 10:30 am and 11:06 am.

[Conversation No. 883-5A]

       Brandt visit
            -Scowcroft
                    -Date
                    -Status report

[End of telephone conversation]

       President's schedule
             -Meetings with foreign heads of state
                    -Brandt
                    -Guilio Andreotti
                    -Paris visit
                          -Georges J. R. Pompidou
                          -Kissinger's recommendations
                                 -Visit by Pompidou to US
                                 -North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] country objections
                                        -President’s concerns
                          -US-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] summit
                    -Brandt's trip to US
                          -Public relations trip
                                 -Paris
                          -Haldeman's meeting with Kissinger
                    -Pompidou's visit
             -President's meetings with European leaders
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                 -Kissinger’s recommendation
                       -Location of meetings in Europe
                              -Azores
                              -Paris
                              -President’s concern
                                     -Kissinger
                                           -State Department
           -President’s trip to Africa
                 -Two country visit
                       -Favors
           -NATO
           -President’s security during visits
                 -Europe
                       -Netherlands
                       -Denmark
                       -Belgium
                              -NATO base
                       -Luxembourg
                       -Spain
                       -Portugal
                              -Azores
                       -Frequency of visits

      Julie L. Pineau
            -Departure from National Security Council [NSC] job
                  -Reasons
                        -Kissinger
                        -Abilities


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      John B. Connally
           -Party switch
                 -Arrangements
                       -George Christian
                 -Announcement
                       -Paul Latt [?]
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                      -Follow-up
                 -Delays
                 -Timing
                      Christian
                 -Democratic Party

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      Gen. John P. Flynn
            -Health
            -Announcement
                  -Telephone call to Flynn
                  -Timing
                  -Senior officer status

      Pineau
           -Competence
           -Dealings with Kissinger

      Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s schedule
            -White House weekend events
                  -Church services
                  -Evenings at the White House
                  -Rigor of schedule
                       -Rex W. Scouten
                       -Lucy A. Winchester

      President’s schedule
            -Head of state Visits
            -Number of Evenings at the White House
                  -Lists of invitees
                        -Rose Mary Woods and William E. Timmons
                               -Individuals sought by President
                        -Completion
                               -Maurice H. Stans
            -Worship services
                  -Local guests
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     -Purpose of events
           -Compared with purpose of audience
     -Evenings at the White House
           -Political figures
           -Stans's group
           -Campaign contributors
     -Frequency of Evenings at the White House
           -Limitations
                  -Rest
     -Press conference
           -Congressional relations
     -Trip to west coast
           -Nguyen Van Thieu
     -Lee Kuan Yew's dinner
     -Andreotti's visit
     -Florida trip
           -Easter holiday
     -Brandt's visit
     -Evening at the White House
     -Finance dinner
     -USSR visit
           -Dates
           -Evening at the White House
     -Visit by African head of state
           -President’s trip to Africa
     -[Shah of Iran] Mohammed Reza Pahlavi’s visit
     -Dinners
           -Entertainment
           -Gifts for attendees
           -Foreign visitors
           -Congress members
                  -Congressional assistants
           -Length of time

Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s schedule
      -Meetings with young people
            -Value to administration
                 -Symbolism
                 -Committee to Re-Elect the President [CRP]
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            -Party at White House
            -Church service
                  -Oswald Hoffman [?]

President's schedule
      -Church services
             -Monthly schedule
             -White House correspondents dinner
             -Palm Sunday [?]
      -May schedule
             -Brandt’s visit
             -President’s trip to Africa
                   -Mother’s Day
      -President's revisions
             -White House correspondents dinner
             -Saturday events
      -Use of White House
             -Effectiveness
                   -Summer schedule
                   -California
                   -Frequency
                         -Difficulty of scheduling
                                -International monetary situation
                                -Speeches
      -Evenings at White House
             -Preparations
                   -Early scheduling
             -Arrangements
                   -Quality of show
                   -Audience
                         -Congress member
                                -Kentucky
             -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's birthday
             -Personal touch
                   -Green bow tie
                   -Entertainment
                   -Poem
             -Bonnie Owens of Merle Haggard's group
                   -Birthday poem
                                -8-

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      -Merle Haggard
            -Personality
      -Guests
            -Visits upstairs
                   -Value
                         -Flowers
                         -Dining room
            -[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II's comparison of President, Dwight D.
             Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy
                   -Availability
                   -Rose Mary Woods
                         -Attendance of White House dinner
                   -Spiro T. Agnew
                         -Secretary’s attendance
                         -[First name unknown] Summers
-Camp David and Sequoia
      -Cabinet
      -Use
            -David Eisenhower's observations
-Social events
      -Frequency
            -First term
                   -Psychology
                   -Pressures of election
                         -Congressional relations
-Camp David and Sequoia
      -Cabinet
-Upstairs of White House
      -Use by outsiders
            -Mrs. Nixon’s birthday
            -POWs
            -Evening at the White House
-Stag dinners
      -Campaign contributors
            -Compared with state dinner
            -Dwight D. Eisenhower's approach
            -Number attending
            -Conversation with White House staff
                   -Cabinet
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      -Governors
      -Value and format
            -William T. Cahill
      -Foreign visitors
            -Length of dinner
      -Chief of protocol
      -Identification of campaign contributors
            -Foreign visitors
            -Congress members
-Church services
      -Invitees
      -William F. (“Billy”) Graham's recommendation of minister
      -Reasons for having services
            -Religious observance
      -Church in Florida
            -Compared with White House for holidays
      -Assistant secretary invitees
            -Evening at the White House
            -Campaign contributors
-Social events
      -Types
            -Church services
            -Evening at the White House
            -State dinner
-Youth events
      -Frequency
-Brandt’s visit
-Lee Kuan Yew's visit
      -Stag dinner
            -Woods, Charles W. Colson and Patrick J. Buchanan
            -Invitees
            -New establishment compared with New Majority
                   -Educators
                   -Columnists
                   -Broadcasters
                   -Editors
                   -Publishers
                   -Government managers
                   -Foundations
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                               -Labor unionists
                               -George Meany
                                      -Jay Lovestone
                               -Blacks and Mexican-Americans
                                      -Quota basis
                         -New Majority
                               -Italian-Americans
             -Brandt dinner
                   -Invitees
                         -Campaign contributors
             -Pahlavi [Shah of Iran] dinner
                   -Invitees
                         -Campaign contributors
             -Haldeman's conference with Kissinger and Agnew
                   Nguyen Van Thieu's visit
                         -Visit to Washington, DC
                               -California
                                      -Isolation
                               -Demonstrators
                                      -Impact
                               -Possible cancellation by Thieu

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 11:06 am.

                   -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.'s advice

       Watergate
            -News report on Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
                 -Image
                       -Partisanship
                 -Gerald L. Warren's briefing
                 -Arrests of potential witnesses
            -Administration response
                 -Approaches
                       -John D. Ehrlichman, Richard A. Moore, and John W. Dean, III
                       -President's statement
                       -Comments on Ervin's comments
                              -Ehrlichman
                 -President's response to Ervin's threats
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             -White House cooperation on information
             -Separation of powers
             -Supreme Court test
             -White House cooperation
                   -Ziegler's statement for press
             -Ervin's partisanship
                   -Confrontation with administration
                   -"Face the Nation" appearance
      -Emphasis on administration's cooperation
             -Ehrlichman
-News media
      -Congress
      -Reporting on Watergate
-Peter M. Flanigan's testimony
      -Ziegler's response on question
-Sherman Adams testimony
      -Ziegler's statement
             -Charge of crime
-Flanigan's testimony
      -Precedent
      -Written statement in Sansinena oil tanker case [1970]
      -International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
             -Circumstances
             -Parallels with Watergate
-White House aides
      -Testimony
             -Court case
                   -Delays
-Ervin Committee
      -Ehrlichman's advice
      -Threats of imprisonment
             -President's reply
                   -Separation of power
                   -Cooperation
                          -Justice Department
                   -Sensationalism
      -Central issues
             -White House cooperation
                   -Separation of powers
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                        -Examination of Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] raw files
     -White House staff morale
     -Ervin Committee
           -Sensationalism
           -Dean
     -ITT case
           -Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC] investigation
                 -Justice Department
                 -Ziegler's comments
           -Files on case
                 -SEC subpoena
                        -William J. Casey
                        -Summary of contents
                              -Agnew, Connally, and Peter G. Peterson
                              -Leaks from committee
                 -Comments

Press relations
      -Proper length of briefing
             -Ziegler's judgment
      -Ehrlichman's briefings
             -Compared with Kissinger’s briefings
      -Length
             -Limits
             -Earl L. Butz
             -Department briefings
             -Press objective
             -Cut-off point
      -Press hostility
             -Clark R. Mollenhoff
             -Biases of reporters
      -Announcements of positive stories
             -[First name unknown] Alexander
             -Food White Paper
                    -Herbert G. Stein

Watergate
     -Press briefings
     -Warren
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                 -Briefings
             -Administration's cooperation
                 -William J. Baroody's office
                        -Publicity
                 -Jeremiah O'Leary story in Washington Star
                        -Raw files
                               -Alger Hiss analogy
                        -Cooperation

Ziegler left at 11:26 am.

             -Public relations efforts
                   -Someone to direct
             -White House staff
                   -Public relations sense and coordination of efforts

       Public relations
             -POW story

       President’s schedule
             -POW party
                   -Press presence
                         -Risk
                         -Coverage
                         -Restrictions on behavior
                               -Ziegler
                   -Entertainment
                         -Response by women attendees
                         -Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
                   -Format
                         -President's toast and Flynn's response
                               -Press coverage
                   -Entertainment
                         -Hope
                               -Personality
                               -Gags
                         -Haggard
                               -Straight lines
                                      -Welfare recipients
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                                    -Patriotism
                                          -Bumper stickers

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 11:26 am.

      President’s schedule
            -President's meeting with Theodore H. (“Teddy”) White
                  -White’s notebook
            -Memorandums on Brandt

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:34 pm.

      POWs
         -Reception
               -State Department
               -Defense Department
         -Briefing
               -Value
                     -Flynn’s opinion
         -Wives
               -Activities
                     -Tea at State Department

      President's schedule
            -Social events
                   -Amount of effort
                   -Range of invitees
                   -Value
                         -President’s popularity
                         -Job responsibility of President
                                -Renewal of country’s faith
                   -Event in Topeka
                         -Value
                         -Motorcade
                   -Chicago trip
                         -Format
                                -Walk
            -Thieu’s visit
                   -President's trip to California
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            -Florida
                  -President's visit
                        -Weather compared to California
            -Location
                  -Washington, DC
                  -California
                  -Demonstration
                        -Jane Fonda
            -Beaches in California
                  -Camp Pendleton
                  -Capistrano State Park
            -Protesters
                  -Fonda’s presence
                        -POWs

POWs
   -North Vietnam
   -Viet Cong
   -Absent without leave [AWOL]
   -Public relations
         -Determination
   -Confinement
         -Prayers
         -Patriotism

Vietnam War
     -Definitive history
           -Sir Robert Thompson
                 -Kissinger
           -Joseph W. Alsop
     -Thompson's book
           -President's impressions
                 -Sequel
                        -President's support and collaboration
           -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
     -Kissinger
           -Sensitivity to left-wing criticism
           -December 1972 bombing
                 -Conflicts with Haig
                               -16-

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            -Success
            -Behavior
-December 1972 bombing
     -POW reaction
            -Support for President’s decision
            -Release from captivity
     -Decision
            -Haldeman's conversation with William L. Safire
            -Relation to May 8, 1972 decision
            -Use of B-52's
                  -President’s decision
                  -Carpet bombing
                  -Terror bombing
                  -Military targets
            -Stewart J. O. Alsop's column
     -Criticism of President
            -Lyndon B. Johnson and Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
            -Reasons
                  -Defending troops and POWs
                        -Grounds to resume bombing
            -Bombing of military targets
                  -Hanoi
                  -Future US bombing
                  -Dikes
                  -Civilian targets
                  -Previous accusations
                  -Cease fire
            -Sources
            -Herman Kahn
            -Abandonment of settlement effort
                  -POWs
                  -Cease-fire
            -Limited scope
                  -Press reports
                        -Stories of massive destruction
                               -Earlier bombing
                               -Dikes
                               -Prison camps
                               -Hospitals
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            -Reaction of POWs
            -Kissinger's ambivalence
                   -Appearance of objections
                   -Safire
                   -May 8, 1972 decision
      -Safire's writing on President's and Kissinger's behavior
            -Cambodia
                   -Role of Kissinger in decision
                         -Inaccuracies
                               -Demeanor of Kissinger compared with President
                                     -Dr. G[eorge] Alexander Heard
                                           -College students
                                     -Association with protester
                         -Safire
                               -Rebuttals to Kissinger's accounts
                                     -Role as Jew
Kissinger
      -Cambodia
      -India-Pakistan War of 1971
      -Laos
      -Anxieties
      -Vietnam War
            -Bombings
            -TV
      -Safire
            -December 1972 bombing
                   -Paris messages
                   -Proposed TV appearance by President
      -Henry Brandon
      -Conflicts with William P. Rogers and Melvin R. Laird
            -Disruption
            -Safire
            -Brandon
      -Comments on Rogers
            -Safire’s opinion
      -Role in Cambodia invasion
            -Self-delusion
      -Talks with James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
            -Haldeman's comments
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           -Kissinger's reactions to Reston's column
                 -State Department
     -Meeting with Reston
     -Personality
           -Integrity
     -Self-delusion
           -Oriana Fallacci interview
                 -Haig
                 -Tape recording
     -Safire
     -Haig
     -Cambodia
           -Kissinger's conversations with Haldeman
     -May 8, 1972 decision
           -Military’s role
           -Kissinger's role
           -1972 Moscow summit
                 -Cancellation
                        -December 1972 bombing
                        -Responsibility
           -Connally's role
           -Kissinger's approach
                 -Mining
                 -Bombing
                        -Surgical bombing
                              -Ports
                                     -Ship withdrawal
                        -Menu strikes
                        -Johnson

Vietnam War
     -Gradual escalation
     -Vietnam settlement
           -Military fears of losing B-52's
                 -Kissinger
     -Bombing
           -Use of B-52's
                 -Kissinger’s reaction
                 -Adm. Thomas H. Moorer's conversation with the President
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                      -President’s responsibility for decision
         -Expansion of strikes
               -Kissinger’s opinion
               -Publicity
                      -President's record of conversations with Kissinger
                            -President’s memory
                            -Revisionism
     -Cambodian invasion
         -President's role in decision
               -Heard
               -Determination
               -Military advice
         -Public relations
               -Kissinger on offensive
               -Ehrlichman’s public appearances
               -Connally [?]
               -Herbert G. Klein, Bryce N. Harlow and Haldeman’s role
               -Arms capture
                      -Compared with heroin seizure
                      -Significance
                            -Talking points
         -Press coverage
               -Ziegler, Moore, David R. Gergen, Buchanan and Ehrlichman
                      -Domestic side
                            -Ehrlichman compared with Kissinger

Kissinger
      -TV briefings
            -Popularity
      -Integrity
            -Accounts of personal involvement in decisions
                 -Self-delusion
      -Cambodia decision
            -Sunday Supplement magazine excerpt
                 -Brandon’s book on Kissinger
                        -Leaks on Cambodia
            -Kent State University
                 -Speech
            -Heard
                                           -20-

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                 -Meeting with Ivy League presidents

     Book by Safire
          -Potential controversy
                -View of Kissinger
          -Haig's role on Vietnam


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      1972 campaign
           -Surplus finds
                 -Disposal
                       -George H.W. Bush
                       -State committees
                             -Candidate selection
                             -Bills
                       -Apportionment around states
                             -California
                             -New York
                             -Advertising
                       -Stans
                       -Republic National Committee [RNC] plans
                             -Announcement
                       -Bush
                             -Role of RNC
                                    -Candidate selection
                                         -President’s concern
           -RNC
                 -Press coverage
                       -Washington Post
                 -Limits of role
                       -Grassroots organization
                       -Candidate selection
                       -Committees
                             -Ethnics
                             -Women
                             -Youth
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                           -National and county organization
                                 -Campaign
                -Candidates for House of Representatives
                     -Senate

     1974 election in Illinois
          -Senate race
                 -John B. Anderson
                 -Donald H. Rumsfeld
                        -Delay of decision
                 -President’s non-involvement in primary
                        -Pre-emption of primaries
                               -Candidate selection
                        -Bush
          -Robert H. Finch
                 -Indecision on race in California
                        -Senate
                        -Governor

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      Agnew
          -David Eisenhower
          -Statements
                -Quotations from liberals
                -Intellectual pretensions
                       - John K. Galbraith and Plato
          -Press relations
                -Gridiron comments
                       -Texas
                -Credibility
          -Comments on Southern Republicans
                -Harry S. Dent’s support for Connally
                       -Compared with support for Agnew
                -Colson

      Speech to Congress
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     -Delays
          -Cooperation with Congress
     -Conditions
          -TV coverage
          -Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy and Roman L. Hruska
     -Contents
          -Domestic concerns
                 -Responsibility of Congress

Press conference
      -Watergate questions
            -Public interest
            -Media interest
            -Testimony before Congress
                  -Cooperation
            -Press reports
                  -Stories of confrontation
      -Scheduling
            -Last troop withdrawal from Vietnam
            -Return of POWs

President’s speech
      -TV speech
            -Reading
                  -White House
                  -Congress
                  -Personal role
            -Dwight Eisenhower
            -Tone
                  -Microphone technique
                        -Franklin D. Roosevelt and President
      -Speech before Congress
            -Advantages
                  -Congressional relations
                        -Willingness to cooperate
            -Public perception of conflict
                  -Reassurance of cooperation
                  -Reception of President by Congress
      -Press conference
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                  -Disadvantages
                        -Attention on Watergate
            -Scheduling
                  -Watergate hearings
            -Options
                  -Press conference
                        -TV coverage
                        -Timing
                        -East Room
                              -Advantages to President
                        -TV coverage
                              -Timing
                                    -Advantages to press
            -Speech to Congress
                  -Haldeman's preference

      Book by Safire
           -Deadline
           -Interview of President
                 -President’s schedule
                       -California
           -Biases
                 -Jew
           -Analysis of Kissinger
                 -Critique of book by Brandon
                       -Rogers, Laird
                       -Impression of President
                             -Treatment
                       -Brandon's background
                             -Jew
                                   -Czech

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 11:26 am.

      Items for Old Executive Office Building [EOB] office
            -Dictabelts for private file


The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:34 pm.
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       State dinners
             -Lists of guests
                   -Preparation by President
                   -Staff member's aid at receiving line
             -African dinner
             -Brandt dinner
                   -Guests
                         -Selection and announcement
                               -Arthur F. Burns and Hugh Scott
             -Guests
                   -Invitation

       Weather

       Speech
            -Work by President

Haldeman left at 12:34 pm.