Conversation No. 677-10

Date: March 6, 1972
Time: 12:31 pm - 1:28 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman and Alexander P.
Butterfield.

     The President’s schedule

Butterfield left at 12:31 pm.

     Education
         -Blacks
               -Ehrlichman’s view
         -Paper presented by an unknown person
         -Constitutional amendment
         -Press
         -Congress
               -Hugh Scott
         -The President’s forthcoming meeting with the Cabinet Committee on Education
               -Final paper
                     -Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
                     -Justice Department
                     -Office of Legal Counsel
                           -Civil Rights Division
                     -White House role
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    Speech on busing
         -Raymond K. Price, Jr.
               -Amendments
         -Ehrlichman’s view
         -Haldeman’s view
         -First draft
               -Price
                      -“Soft” moratorium
               -Editing
         -Patrick J. Buchanan
         -Constitutional amendment
         -Blacks
         -The President’s forthcoming meeting with George W. Romney
         -Elliot L. Richardson
         -Projecting press headlines
               -Moratorium
               -Constitutional amendment
         -Price’s draft


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    Buchanan
        -The President’s view
             -Buchanan’s efforts
                   -Supreme Court problems
                   -Day care centers
                   -Cambodia
                   -Anti-ballistic missiles [ABM]
                   -Staff conservatives
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     -Leonard Garment
            -Public relations efforts
-Possible resignation
     -Ehrlichmans’s view
            -Trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
     -Talk with Haldeman
            -Buchanan’s support for the President’s position
                  -As staff member
                  -As private citizen
                  -Role in campaign
                  -Role in White House
            -Buchanan’s view of the Shanghai Communiqué
                  -Henry A. Kissinger
                  -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
                  -William P. Rogers
            -The President’s re-election
            -Shanghai Communiqué
                  -Haldeman’s view
            -Journalism
            -Role as policy maker
                  -Shelly A. (Scarney) Buchanan
                  -1972 election
-The President’s trip to the PRC
     -Buchanan’s criticism of the wording of the Communiqué
            -Japan
            -PRC compared to China
            -Kissinger
            -Rogers
            -US treaty commitments
                  -Japan
                  -Taiwan
            -PRC treaty commitments
                  -North Vietnam
     -Rogers
     -Buchanan in foreign policy field
     -Taiwan, Republic of China
     -Soviet Union
-Talk with Haig
     -Soviet Union
-The President’s view
     -Triangular diplomacy
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             -Kissinger
             -Taiwan
             -Japan
             -India
             -Philippines
             -Thailand
             -Cambodia
         -Work with conservatives
             -House Resolution [HR] 1
             -Day care
                   -Liberals
                   -John N. Ashbrook candidacy
                        -News summary


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    Press conference
          -Ehrlichman
          -PRC
          -Busing
                -Camp David
                -The President’s forthcoming meeting with the Cabinet Committee on
                     Education

    International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
          -John N. Mitchell’s statement
               -President’s statement
                     -Peter M. Flanigan
          -Richard G. Kleindienst
               -Talk with Ehrlichman
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          -Dita D. Beard’s doctor
          -Jack N. Anderson
          -Beard
                -Knowledge of memorandum contents
                -Conversation with Mitchell
                      -Meeting at Louie B. Nunn’s house
                            -Beard’s social life
                -Doctor’s testimony
          -Mitchell’s statement
                -Possible public statement
                      -President
                -Investigation
                -The President’s relationship with Mitchell
                      -Kleindienst’s nomination
    -Settlement procedure
          -Flanigan and Kleindienst
          -Harold S. Geneen
          -Canteen Corporation
          -Geneen meeting with Ehrlichman
                -Justice Department negotiations
                -Talk with Mitchell
                -Mitchell’s talk with Richard W. McLaren
                -Mitchell’s self-disqualification
                -Kleindienst role
                      -Flanigan role
                            -Hiring of economic consultant
                                  -Job description
                                  -Determination of consultant
                                        -San Diego contribution
    -Republican party
          -Financial status
    -Anti-trust
          -Ehrlichman’s memorandum to Mitchell
                -Prosecution’s actions
                -McLaren’s actions
    -Anderson
          -View of situation
                -Quid pro quo

Elmer H. Bobst
    -Cancer information
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     -Appointment as special consultant to the President’s Cancer Panel
     -[Forename unkown] Baker

White House staff
     -Buchanan
     -Political extremists

ITT case
     -Knowledge of situation
          -Charles W. Colson
          -Flanigan
          -William L. Safire
     -Contributions
     -Richard A. Moore
          -Justice Department
     -Kleindienst
     -Anderson papers
          -Book

Book published
    -PRC trip
          -Ehrlichman’s view of book
          -Timing of publication

Housing policy
    -Edward L. Morgan
    -The President’s forthcoming meeting with George W. Romney

White House news summaries
     -Emphasis on negative stories
         -The President’s view
               -Kissinger

Ashbrook
    -California

William F. Buckley, Jr.
     -US Information Agency [USIA] advisory committee
           -PRC trip

James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.
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          -William S. White
          -Lunch with Ehrlichman

     Busing
          -Blue ribbon committee
               -Blacks
               -Liberals
                     -Scott and Michael J. Mansfield

     Construction project
          -Memorandum

     Haldeman’s recent talk with Buchanan

Haldeman and Ehrlichman left at 1:28 pm.