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Conversation 328-002

TapeTape 328StartMonday, March 27, 1972 at 11:11 AMEndMonday, March 27, 1972 at 12:04 PMTape start time00:18:50Tape end time00:25:16ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")Recording deviceOld Executive Office Building
AI Summary

President Nixon and H. R. Haldeman coordinated the President's upcoming travel and media schedule, focusing specifically on preparations for the forthcoming summit in the Soviet Union. The discussion centered on timing press conferences around international travel, planning domestic political outreach regarding American ethnic groups in cities like Chicago and Cleveland, and evaluating the feasibility of a satellite press conference to discuss foreign policy. Haldeman also briefed the President on the health and political status of legislative leaders such as Leslie Arends.

Soviet Union summitPresidential schedulingForeign policyDomestic politicsEthnic outreachSatellite communications
AudioNARA Description

On March 27, 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 11:11 am and 12:04 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 328-002 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 328-2

Date: March 27, 1972
Time: Unknown after 11:11 am until 12:04 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

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

[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]

     The President’s schedule
          -Possible press conference
               -The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
          -Before Soviet trip
               -Tempo of activities
               -Preparation for trip
                      -Amount of time
          -The President’s possible trip to Philadelphia
               -Sons of Italy meeting
               -The President’s forthcoming trip to Canada
               -Possible speech
                      -American ethnics
                           -Chicago
                             -Cleveland

     Leslie C. Arends
           -The President’s view
           -Leaders meeting
           -Republicans
                -Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.
                -John J. Sparkman
                -Chou En-lai
                -Cotton
           -Health

     The President’s schedule
          -Possible satellite press conference
                -Press coverage
                -Topics
                      -Foreign policy
                            -People’s Republic of China [PRC
                -Translation
                -Timing
                      -Forthcoming Soviet trip
                -Preparation
          -International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]

Haldeman left at 12:04 pm.
Transcript (AI-Generated)

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I don't believe I want to have one the week before Russia.
I don't think you should.
I think you ought to start in.
do a couple before you go, and then start the three.
And you can kind of pick it up early, early, soon.
Well, my feeling is that the 11th is the best day for me.
But if in May, I need the rest of the week of that time.
I don't need to study Russian all the while.
11th.
And then you see the 12th would fit in neatly.
With that, it was a long part.
Four weeks, then you go down to 10, you've got five weeks, and also if 10 is only two weeks from now, that would perhaps be probably three weeks from now.
Doesn't that make a little more sense?
If it does, then let's go for a hard movement on the fifth and sixth.
Thank you, too.
So I don't get the answer to the speech before the election.
That may be over the top.
That's what bothered me.
Yeah.
Stacking that onto the Suns of Italy.
The same city.
The Suns of Italy were incredible.
I think they're damn good.
The Suns of Italy is a Sunday night where you just want to do something that's more of a personal thing.
Well, if you can get me a good speech, let's hit it.
This sounds fiddly.
I could do something very personal.
The American ethics.
Ethnic, so-called, right?
On the other hand, there may be some other than that.
Is there a Chicago or Cleveland?
Yeah.
I'd like to get a Chicago or something at this point.
I think it's over the primary.
You know, an indication of the trend of the times is that Aaron's had a hell of a close fight under your laws.
I was scared to death for a while.
But, you know, the whole, the whole thing was age.
It wasn't only age and rebound from ourselves.
Only the crossover and the whole together thing.
But, uh...
I've seen both him and Cox go to school together.
people do it because they're very well let's try to show a lot yeah that's what I said I'll be heard or I'll be banned but cotton is always a practice and rural or rural west sudamerica holds up
And he takes to the curb.
He seems to be in great physical shape.
He does.
His job right through all those years.
The other thing that you raised at one point that I think we ought to reconsider, if you think we could get the networks to pick it up, is to do that satellite press conference thing.
I think it's a way to get a place where we could keep it on foreign policy.
It would be like China to receive this, in the best sense of the word.
and instant translation and that sort of thing.
Yeah.
Who is the ?
I was thinking right after Russia.
I'm going to find out.
I think it would be.
That wouldn't require, for me, the enormous preparation for the whole quote.
But you can do it after Russia visited.
He focused 99% on Russia.
Okay.
Okay.
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