Conversation 322-045

TapeTape 322StartThursday, March 9, 1972 at 2:40 PMEndThursday, March 9, 1972 at 4:30 PMTape start time02:27:35Tape end time02:39:20ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")Recording deviceOld Executive Office Building

On March 9, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:40 pm and 4:30 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 322-045 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 322-45

Date: March 9, 1972
Time: Unknown between 2:40 pm and 4:30 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

     People’s Republic of China [PRC]
          -Pandas
               -National Zoo
               -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
                     -Chou En-lai
                           -National Zoo

-Gifts
      -Display
            -Tourists
            -Mrs. Nixon
            -Dwight L. Chapin
      -Mao Tse-tung
      -Chou En-lai
      -Display
      -Mao Tse-tung
            -Pictures
                  -Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
                  -West Wing
-Dinner
      -Place cards
            -Peking
            -Hangchow
            -Shanghai
            -Historical record
            -Display
      -Portraits
      -Tricia Nixon Cox
      -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
      -Jacksonville and Cambridge
      -Display
      -Tricia Cox
            -Cloisonné vases
                  -Mrs. Nixon
      -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
            -Jacksonville
                  -Mrs. Nixon
      -Atkins
            -Chopsticks
                  -Chou En-lai
-Gifts
      -Display
            -Instructions to Haldeman
            -East Wing
            -Tricia Cox
            -Julie Eisenhower
            -Chapin
            -Ronald H. Walker

          -Press interest
                -Henry A. Kissinger
                -Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] announcement
                -Peking announcement
                      -Timing
                -John F. Kennedy
                      -Nuclear test ban treaty
          -Public interest
                -Kissinger broadcast
          -Follow-up
                -Pocketbook
                -Press
                      -Forthcoming trip to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
                -Speech
                -Public interest
                -Media coverage
                      -International Telephone and Telephone [ITT]
                      -Edward M. Kennedy
                      -Kissinger

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[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 10/10/2019.
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[322-045-w002]
[Duration: 1m 49s]

      Camp David
            -[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
            -Florida
                    -Easter
                            -Gettysburg
                            -Announcement

      The President's schedule
             -Press conference
             -Florida trip
             -Texas trip
             -John B. Connally

              -California trip
                      -April 1972
                      -[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
                               -Schedule
                      -Departure

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I ran out of the door with her.
Paris decided that the pandas must go to the Washington Zoo.
She said that it was tough to show them live.
She indicated that since they came to the response that perhaps they should go to the National Zoo here.
That is what we should do.
Paragraph.
What I would like to be understated discreetly is the play of the state guests of China for the tourists to see.
I'm not going to hurt them.
I'm taking it all as to what had happened to the guests.
It wasn't that the guests must enjoy life.
And other than that, it was a trip we set up on a much more elaborate basis than had been in these retreated state bases.
For example, the college pictures are very good, but they are wasted simply showing them in the West Wing where nobody sees them except members of our staff and occasional members.
This is a picture displayed.
The college collection and the whole area prior to the place of the state base display
Also, along those same lines, as you know, I have instructed each case in whatever there is in there, state or otherwise, a member of the staff to take me to the military.
That led to the observation that that's amended and placed on.
I assume that that would be done in Beijing and Jiangnan and Shanghai.
It was not done.
I would like to check other things in the staff to see if they happen to have any of these movies that I saw on the record.
I would like to, however, at the present time, consider making the future of Guinness.
The place that I did want to reveal should be put on display in this kennel area that I was building it on.
This wasn't built to be built in the kennel.
Thank you.
I would like for you to see a group of defendants and people with pictures of your portrait, your ring, and be given to Trish and him to do it.
For this party and areas that they are planning to do it.
Jacksonville and Cambridge, a commemorating trip.
Trish, for example, is going to, but I'm afraid the lady is going to have to offer her opinion.
and both the pictures and the makers, the tuners, could be added to the display, could be whitened, and, of course, any of the other things we may have collected could be the makers.
Julie in Jacksonville is going to do the same thing.
I'm going to pass it on back to Jen and her and these other people.
Our pictures, they were just busts
I would put out the chopsticks, never acceptably used for the Jews' dinners.
It's a very aggressive, big-mouthed thing to make a difference.
We undoubtedly have some top stakes, either way or otherwise.
As a matter of fact, your audience is going to be as important as any of the patients I accommodate in that respect.
It feels like we're going to be talking to you about any of the patients at the end of the act.
Plus, none of these things are particularly important.
And they aren't.
And that's just the overall impression.
But I consider it
and a report made directly to me as to what has been done.
First, with regard to the display or White House agency and the display.
And second, what has been made available in creation for the displays that they are presenting to.
and they answer whatever it is, and they're voting, and they have to answer whatever it is, and they respect people's comments.
That's not a big statement, but if you look to us, we'll get to China.
Remember, when they talk with you, on the other hand, there will be in the Congress a lot of interest from the people who have to see it.
And we already have some concern.
I think Chapin or Ron Walker or someone else who has the time
and the energy to follow through on this.
And the impact will be important.
The same lines are constantly hanging today.
And the universe is subject to fighting.
We're only two weeks gone.
We can't trade.
The question is, how substantially do we back this up?
This, of course, is more surprising than you'd go for.
It's always a surprise to me.
Oh, and I agree with you.
I agree with you.
I agree with you.
I agree with you.
I agree with you.
I agree with you.
I agree with you.
I agree with you.
I agree with you.
It was very much in our interest, of course, to keep the China story alive
in terms of, you know, this public impact that this has.
That is why the business of the broadcast is probably a good idea.
I trust that we are putting every effort that we can behind building that sales for the pocketbook on China.
This should be a bestseller at various
party events that occurred over the next few months.
I would like you to put some money to work on seeing what can be done to follow up on the kind of work so that the press does not succeed in its values of it to bury it as quickly as possible.
I do think that they know there's a plus for us
We are highlighted in front of the same situation with regard to civility, so we might as well get into practice right now.
And a few more appearances and speeches and so forth by people that we don't know of might well be considered, despite the obvious risk of having something said that might disturb Henry's sensitivity.
Just to give you a recommendation, I want to recommend that it's very much in our interest that people try to visit in the minds of people across the country, and not to allow oppression to succeed in reference to the subordinated and the disemerging community.
As a matter of fact, we have to be based on it deliberately.
service at this time in the business of knocking down public interest and being uncovered in the China movement.
And that connection is a very successful one.
Although not a total success in the event, we had a few announcements that made it to the end.
We had a few stories as well.
But I made no mistake about it.
It's the exact same way.
Kennedy and all
broke that story at this point.
They have had it for a long time, and they've saved it up for right now so that they could put feet on the genitals.
I'm sure that Henry, whenever he's concerned, would not understand this is what the video is all about, but I can see at the moment that I saw the stories in the surface on the Friday after we had become China on Sunday.
Both of the pre-guards are second.
David wants to come up to me on David for his first thing on the day of the first, so we will not go to Florida for Easter.
I announced it, but what we will plan to do is to go early, let the church get its first first Easter sermon.
We will all agree on this, but we will not announce it until 3 or 4 a.m. And then we will have a chance to build up some kind of demonstration.
That week's open.
We'll create it in the weekend.
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The economy trip to Texas and the California trip.
It may be that I may want to make the California trip the last, and we can pay for it.
That is the last time David can get off and see me.
And if you would like to go with me through California, it would be very much in that point.
Go both in the common time for whatever David's best for that.
and then I will see whether I want to go out and tell them on the third month of May exactly.
But in addition to looking at whether or not it would make me a good idea to tag my people, I suspect that we can tell them on the third or the last week of April.
We cannot do it after that month because when the first of May came it was out in the city and then the third month.