Conversation: 686-004
Prev: 686-003 Next: 686-005Start Date: Friday, March 17, 1972 12:58 PM
End Date: Friday, March 17, 1972 1:04 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:05:51
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:15:58
NARA Description:
On March 17, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Oval Office of the White House from 7:58 am to 8:04 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 686-004 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 686-4
Date: March 17, 1972
Time: 7:58 - 8:04 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
Ziegler's conversations
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-John D. Ehrlichman
Forthcoming bipartisan leaders meeting
-Robert P. Griffin
-Message to Congress
-The President’s return from the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Television
-Congress
-Michael J. Mansfield
-George H. Mahon
Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 7:58 am.
News story
-Unknown place
-Washington Post
-Ziegler’s schedule
Busing
-Ehrlichman
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 686-4 (cont.)
-Constitutional amendment
-Griffin amendment
-Press briefing
-East room
-Reporters
-Timing
-Busing speech
-Constitutional amendment
-Ehrlichman [?]
-Talk with Haldeman
-Leonard Garment
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Elliot L. Richardson
-George P. Shultz
-Support
-William E. Brock, III
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-John G. Tower
-Washington Post
-George S. McGovern
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Edward M. Kennedy
-McGovern
-George C. Wallace
-John N. Ashbrook
-Henry M. ("Scoop") Jackson
-Brock
-Hugh Scott
-Newspapers
-McGovern
-John V. Lindsay
-Roy Wilkins
-News
-Congress of Racial Equality [CORE]
-Thomas G. Wicker
-Sander Vanocur
-Percentage of people supporting the President’s policy
-Comparison to New Hampshire primary
-Professors
-Telephone calls
-Computer
-Overall reactions
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 686-4 (cont.)
-Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak
-Florida primary
-Wallace
-Archie Bunker
-All in the Family
Ziegler and Haldeman left at 8:04 am.