Conversation: 324-022
Prev: 324-021 Next: 324-023Start Date: Wednesday, March 22, 1972 4:01 PM
End Date: Wednesday, March 22, 1972 5:47 PM
Participants:
Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Butterfield, Alexander P.; Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.; [Unknown person(s)]Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:50:02
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 03:17:26
NARA Description:
On March 22, 1972, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Alexander P. Butterfield, President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 11:01 am to 12:47 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 324-022 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 324-22
Date: March 22, 1972
Time: 11:01 am - 12:47 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman met with Alexander P. Butterfield.
[Unintelligible]
Table tennis team from the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-John A. Scali’s request
-Secret Service protection
-State Department
Butterfield left and the President entered at 11:05 am.
Briefing books
-William L. Safire
-Completion of draft
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Political questions
Ronald L. Ziegler
-Talk with Haldeman
-Radio address
-John D. Ehrlichman’s views
-Points to be made
-Television
-Pictures
-Microphone
-Television
-Haldeman’s view
-Live coverage
-Questions
-Briefings
-Questions
-PRC
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/10)
Conv. No. 324-22 (cont.)
-Soviet Union
-Ireland
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Busing
-ITT case
-Senate Committee hearings
-News coverage
-Hearings
-Dita D. Beard
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/10)
Conv. No. 324-22 (cont.)
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Haldeman talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr. at an unknown time between 11:05 am and 12:47
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[Conversation No. 324-22A]
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Chile
-Jack N. Anderson’s column
-Wire service story
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Anderson’s source
-Dita Beard
-Confidentiality
-Rifling of ITT files
-Inaccuracy of report
-ITT
-Business interests
-Overthrow of Salvador Allende Gossens
-Money
-Contact with Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Absence of work with CIA
-Washington, DC contacts
-Shredding of files
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/10)
Conv. No. 324-22 (cont.)
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Life magazine story
-San Diego convention
-District Attorney
-Edmund G. (“Pat”) Brown
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Public opinion
Soviet Union
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Trade deals
-Peter G. Peterson
-State Department
-Memoranda
-White House
Current events
-Public reaction
-Flanigan
-Clifford Irving’s book
-Howard Hughes
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
Life magazine story
-Irving’s book
-Hughes
-Agnew[?]
-Haldeman’s view
-The President’s view
-Congressmen, Senators
[Unintelligible]
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Candidates
-Nomination
-Ogden R. Reid
-Support for the administration
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/10)
Conv. No. 324-22 (cont.)
-Busing
Unknown man’s speaking engagements
-Scholastic press corps
-California
-National Feed and Grain Association
-New Orleans
-Electric Cooperative
-Florida
George Meany
-Situation
-George P. Shultz
-Unknown gathering
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-Invitations
-Harry Bridges
-Longshoremen strike
-Busing
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Haldeman’s view
-Constitutional amendment
-Shultz
-Talk with Haldeman
-Democrats
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Presidential approval polls
-Shifts
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/10)
Conv. No. 324-22 (cont.)
-Men and women
-Uneducated
-Union and non-union families
-Blacks
-Households within an income level
-Uneducated
-Republicans
-Democrats
-Independents
-Liberals
-Conservatives
-Liberals
-Busing
-The People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-George C. Wallace voters
-South
-East
-Midwest
-South
-Busing
-Haldeman’s view
-West
-East
-Midwest
-Wallace voters
-Conservatives
-Age group
-Blacks
-Upper income
-Liberals
-West
-South
-Unknown person’s thesis
-PRC
-ITT
-San Diego
-California
-Busing
-ITT
-Wallace voters
-Conservatives
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/10)
Conv. No. 324-22 (cont.)
-South
-Nashville Banner
-Busing
-Moratorium
-The President’s view
-Busing
-Foreign policy
-November 1972
-Trial heats
-Voting procedures
-Haldeman’s view
-Issues
-PRC
-ITT
-William L. Calley, Jr.
-Announcement of trip to PRC
-Announcement of Phase II
-The President’s peace proposal speech, January 25, 1972
-Announcement of wage and price controls
-Television events
-Views of William F. (“Billy”) Graham and Taft Schreiber
-South
-West
-East and Midwest
-Jews
-Leonard Garment
-Importance
-Media bias
-PRC
-Busing statement
-South
-Florida primary
-Blacks’ view of the President
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-The President’s view
-Media bias
-News magazines
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Florida primary
-Illinois primary
-Percentages
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/10)
Conv. No. 324-22 (cont.)
-Polls
-Busing
-Democratic candidates’ position
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-The President’s position
-Humphrey’s position
The President’s schedule
-Raymond P. Shafer
-Meeting
-Moscow
-Ehrlichman
-Haldeman
-Buchanan[?]
-Sultan Mohammed Khan
-Other foreign ministers
-Foreign policy
-Kissinger
-State Department
-Signing of Biological Weapons Convention
-Politics
-PRC table tennis delegation
-Canada
-Scheduling of events
-The President’s view
-Governor General
-Pierre E. Trudeau
-The President’s possible address to a joint session of Parliament
-John F. Kennedy
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Great Lakes agreement
-Schedule
-National Arts Center
-Possibility of demonstrators
-Dinner
-Entertainment
-Governor General
-Dinners and luncheons
-Ottawa
-Toronto
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/10)
Conv. No. 324-22 (cont.)
-Signing ceremony for Great Lakes agreement
-Stopover
-Buffalo, New York
-Great Lakes governors
-Great Lakes agreement
-Toronto
-Ottawa
-Return meeting
-Treaty signing ceremony
-Dinners
-Diplomatic corps
-Schedule
-Toronto
-Ottawa
-Motorcade
-Demonstrators
-Signing ceremony
-Events in cities
-PRC
-Soviet Union
-Joint Session of Parliament
-Presidential address
-Bonn
-London
-Trudeau meeting
-Speech preparation
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-William L. Safire
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
-US relations with Canada
-”Peace in the world” speech
-Television
-Reception
-Diplomatic corps
-Meeting
-Trudeau
-Schedule
-White House
-State Department
-Canadian Embassy
-Trudeau meeting
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/10)
Conv. No. 324-22 (cont.)
-Luncheon
-Governor General
-Meeting with Trudeau
-Parliament
-Address
-Reception
-Diplomatic corps
-Timing
-State dinners
-The President’s view
-PRC
-T.N.J. Suharto
-Staff at dinners
-Johnson
-Dinners at the Canadian Embassy
-Diplomatic corps reception
-Dinner
-Return luncheon
-Governor General
-Trudeau
-Parliament
-Address
-Tree planting
-Johnson
-Tradition
-Schedule
-Parliament
-Governor General Meeting
-The President’s possible speech before Parliament
-US relations with Canada
-Desire for world peace
-PRC initiative
-Soviet initiative
Speeches by world leaders at meetings
-Indira Gandhi
-Luis Alvarez Echeverria
-The PRC trip
The President’s forthcoming trip to Canada
-Possible speech
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/10)
Conv. No. 324-22 (cont.)
-Theme
-The President as parliamentarian
-Timing
-Speech
-Length
-Safire
-Price
-Safire
-US News and World Report article
-Haig
-The President’s view
-Press conference
-Deadline
-Easter
-Haig
-Haldeman’s view
Foreign policy
-Memorandum
-Poland
-Turkey
-Haig
-Kissinger
-Television coverage of the PRC trip
The President’s schedule
-Proposed meeting with Khan
-Echeverria
-Hussein ibn Talal [King of Jordan]
-Soviet representative
-United Nations [UN]
-Turkey
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] member
-The President’s possible trip
-Memorandum
-UN
-Kissinger
-Poland
-The President’s possible trip to Warsaw
-Reception
-Radio Free Europe
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/10)
Conv. No. 324-22 (cont.)
-West Germany
-Planning
-Kissinger
-National Security Council [NSC]
-State Department
-The President’s previous meeting with Gerard C. Smith
-The President’s previous meeting with the General Advisory Committee on
Arms Control and Disarmament
-The President’s view
-Re-election
-Kissinger
-Vietnam
-Haig’s memorandum
An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time after 11:05 am.
American Federation of Labor – Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO]
-Possible walkout from the Pay Board
-Shultz’s opinion
-United Auto Workers [UAW]
-International Brotherhood of Teamsters
-Miami
-George Meany
-Public opinion
-Shultz
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-John B. Connally
The President’s schedule
-Political considerations
-Events
-Risks
-Benefits
-Previous trip to New York
-Signing ceremony for Drug Abuse Office and Treatment Act of 1972
-Television
-Statements by the President
-Wallace
The President’s public stance
-Price’s view
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/10)
Conv. No. 324-22 (cont.)
-Issues
-Busing
-Drugs
-Haldeman’s view
-Environmental cleanup
-Bureaucrats
The President’s schedule
-Philadelphia
-Possible address at the Annual Convention of the National Catholic
Educational Association [NCEA]
-John Cardinal Krol
-White House church service
-National Governor’s Conference
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Southern Baptists
-Philadelphia
-Campus Crusade
-Public reception
-Congress
-Politicians
-Jaycees Convention
-Atlanta
-Rotary International Convention
-Forthcoming meeting with Echeverria
-Appearances
-Timing
-Forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Democratic National Convention
-California primary
-American Legion Convention
-Cartha D. (“Deke”) De Loach
-Donald McI. Kendall
-Donald E. Johnson [?]
-Chicago
-Republican National Convention
-Acceptance speech
-Television
-Compared with Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-Haldeman’s view
-Chicago
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/10)
Conv. No. 324-22 (cont.)
-Time
-Soviet Union trip
-Ohio
-Baseball
-Cincinnati
-Texas
-Jaycees Convention
-Rotary International Convention
-President
-Swedish
-Boys’ Club of America
-American Legion
-Speech
-California
-Convention
-Platform Committee
-The President’s instructions to Haldeman
-Haig
-Kissinger
-West Germany
-Poland
-The President’s view
-Politics
Media relations
-News summaries
-The President’s trip to PRC
-Campaign
-1968
-Bombing halt
-Humphrey
-Making news
Poland
-The President’s previous conversation with Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-Jews
-Kissinger
-Haldeman’s view
-Reception
-Reception
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/10)
Conv. No. 324-22 (cont.)
-Romania [Poland]
-Reception
-Effect
-Pennsylvania
-Ohio
-Illinois
-Michigan
-New York
-Buffalo
-Pennsylvania
-Ohio
-Illinois
-Michigan
-Wisconsin
-Illinois
-Edmund S. Muskie
Foreign policy
-Poland and Turkey
-Haig
-Soviet trip
-Iran
-Dinner and reception
-Arrival
-Timing
-Tehran
-Istanbul
-Poland
-Istanbul
-Iran
-Tehran
-Reception
-[Shah of Iran] Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
-Istanbul
-Distance
-Compared to Israel
-Tehran
Presidential approval polls
-South
-West
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/10)
Conv. No. 324-22 (cont.)
-Haldeman’s view
-South
-Busing
-John N. Mitchell
Possible AFL-CIO walkout from the Pay Board
-Shultz
-Connally
-The President’s statements
-Possible press conference
-Compared to television
-Radio
-Ziegler
-Ehrlichman
-The President answering questions
-Television address
-Timing
Haldeman left at 12:47 pm.