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Start Date: 7-Mar-1972 2:35 PM

End Date: 7-Mar-1972 3:00 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Ziegler, Ronald L.Kissinger, Henry A.

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:15:24

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:38:56

322a.mp3

322b.mp3

322c.mp3

NARA Description:

On March 7, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 2:35 pm to 3:00 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 322-028 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 322-28

Date: March 7, 1972
Time: 2:35 pm - 3:00 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

     Press briefing
           -The President’s schedule
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                        NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                    Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. 10/06)



              -Congressional leadership meeting
         -Busing
              -Meeting
                    -Timing
              -Camp David
                    -Purpose
              -Meeting with Cabinet
                    -Timing
              -Possible message
                    -Timing
                         -Ziegler’s talk with John D. Ehrlichman
                                     -Decision
                                          -Timing
                                          -Florida primary
                                          -Influence
         -Domestic issues
         -Foreign policy
              -William P. Rogers
                    -Meeting
                         -Testimony
                         -General topics
         -Domestic issues
              -Revenue sharing
              -George W. Romney
         -Dinner
              -Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
                    -Award to Dr. Thomas E. (“Doc”) Morgan
                         -Bipartisan foreign policy
         -New Hampshire primary


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 33s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                Tape Subject Log
                                  (rev. 10/06)
                                                              Conv. No. 322-28 (cont.)




     -New Hampshire primary
          -Press coverage
          -Timing
               -Gerald L. Warren
               -The President’s previous conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
          -Questions
               -Primary
               -John N. Mitchell
                     -Press referrals
                           -White House press practices
                           -Comment on the primaries
     -Economic matters
          -Herbert Stein
               -Previous conversation with Ziegler
          -Progress report
               -Wage and price freeze
               -Raymond K. Price, Jr.

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
      -Press briefing
            -White House response
            -Television networks
            -Dita D. Beard
                  -White House response
                  -Memorandum
                  -Hugh Scott’s statement
      -Rogers
      -Revenue sharing
      -Busing message
            -Timing
      -Price, Ehrlichman, George P. Shultz
      -Rogers
            -Washington story
            -Time for foreign leaders
                  -Mao Tse-tung
                  -Leonid I. Brezhnev
                  -Mao Tse-tung
                  -Chou En-lai
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                           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. 10/06)
                                                                  Conv. No. 322-28 (cont.)


     Ziegler’s schedule
          -Disney World
          -Orlando paper
          -Miami Herald

     ITT
           -Press coverage
                -Washington Post
                -Washington Star
                -New York Times

Ziegler left and Henry A. Kissinger entered at 2:46 pm.

     Meeting with Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
          -Rogers
               -Press conference
               -White House position
                    -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

     John B. Connally
          -Kissinger’s meeting
          -Communiqué
               -Criticism
          -Taiwan, Republic of China

     Rogers
         -State Department
         -People’s Republic of China [PRC]
               -Trade
         -Conduct
               -Differences
                     -Azores
         -President’s work habits
         -State Department
         -November 1972
         -Vietnam negotiations
               -Perception of the President
                     -Politics
               -State Department
         -PRC trip
               -Hangchow
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                             NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/06)
                                                                  Conv. No. 322-28 (cont.)


                -The President’s efforts
                       -Concessions
           -Foreign policy
                -Connally’s view
           -Possible replacement
           -[Unintelligible]
           -USSR trip
                -Timing

     The President’s schedule
          -Quadriad meeting, March 8, 1972

     Kissinger’s schedule
          -Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
                -Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]

     Meeting

Kissinger left at 3:00 pm.