Conversation: 688-012
Prev: 688-011 Next: 688-013Start Date: 18-Mar-1972 12:15 PM
End Date: 18-Mar-1972 1:15 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ehrlichman, John D.; Kissinger, Henry A.; Bull, Stephen B.;Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:25:47
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:18:21
NARA Description:
On March 18, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, John D. Ehrlichman, Henry A. Kissinger, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:15 pm to 1:15 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 688-012 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 688-12
Date: March 18, 1972
Time: 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with John D. Ehrlichman.
Weather
Earl L. Butz
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-Farm income
-Food prices
-Middle man
-Grace period
-The President’s forthcoming press briefing
-Farm income
Henry A. Kissinger entered at 12:24 pm.
Europe
-William P. Rogers
-Talk with Kissinger
-Rogers’s possible forthcoming trip to Europe
-Allies
-Schedule
-Soviet summit
-Iceland
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] Council
-Staff
-Publicity
-White House
-Announcement
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-State Department
-Environmental conference
-Stockholm
-Ireland
-The President
-Timing
-NATO
-Delegation
-Russell E. Train
-William D. Ruckelshaus
-Talk with Ehrlichman
-Cabinet officers
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Soviet Union
-Negotiations
-Soviet summit
-Train
-State Department
-Edward R.G. Heath
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 688-12 (cont.)
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Willy Brandt
-The People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Shanghai Communiqué
-Mao Tse-tung
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Possible leak
-The President’s possible statement
-Soviet summit
-Allies
-State Department
-Foreign Service officers
Kissinger left at 12:30 pm.
State Department
-Reorganization
-Ehrlichman's talk with John B. Connally
-1972 election
-Rogers
-Foreign trade
-Foreign economic policy
-Foreign service officers
-Rogers
-Soviet summit
Rogers
-Possible resignation
-Soviet summit
-Campaign
-Reelection of the President
-New Secretary of State
-Connally
-Reelection of the President
-Completing term
The President’s forthcoming press conference
-Oval Office
-The President's talk with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Questions and answers [Q&A]
-Radio
-Television
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 688-12 (cont.)
-Equal time
Busing
-March 16, 1972 speech
-News summary coverage
-Television
-Democrats
-Blacks
-The President
-Leonard Garment
-Speech
-Tone
-Left
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Democratic candidates
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Moratorium
-Right wingers
-Strom Thurmond
-Media
-Court ordered busing
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
-Harry S. Dent
-Explanation to Southerners
-Ziegler
-Charles W. Colson
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.
-Thurmond
-Dent
-Mayors
-Local press
-Colson
-Editorial comment
-Ziegler
-Local representatives of newspapers
-Wire services
-Intervention
-Announcement
-Richmond
-Memphis
-Michigan
-Edward L. Morgan
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 688-12 (cont.)
-Importance
-Court orders
-Ehrlichman's forthcoming talk with Stewart J.O. Alsop
-Explanation
-Thurmond
-Donald Oberdorfer, Jr.
-David S. Broder
-William S. White
-Holmes Alexander
-Conservatives
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.
-Briefings
-White
-Instructions
-Conservative line
-Clark MacGregor and his staff
-Briefings for members of Congress
-James O. Eastland
-Leaders meeting
-March 16, 1972 speech
-Max Frankel articles
-New York Times
-Oberdorfer articles
-Washington Post
-Washington Post editorial
-Meg Greenfield
-George C. Wallace
-Constitutional amendment
-Television appearance
-Executive order
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
-Constitutional amendment
-Senators
-Congressmen
-Audience reached
-Children
-Colson
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-Dita D. Beard
-Calls to editors
-Southern states
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 688-12 (cont.)
-Trips
-Key states
-Virginia
-Richmond
-Moratorium
-Tennessee
-Ehrlichman's talk with Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Nashville
-Memphis
-Intervention in Nashville
-Michigan
-Intervention
-Status of cases
-Robert P. Griffin
-March 16, 1972 speech
-Left wingers
-Arthur Goldberg
-Parren J. Mitchell [?]
-Jacob K. Javits
-South
-Reactions
-Griffin
-Moderates
-Baker
-William E. Brock, III
-Intervention
-Texas
-John G. Tower
-Moratorium
-Federal government
-Local school board
-Morgan
-Austin, Corpus Christi, Texas
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-George S. McGovern
-Cases
-Court orders for racial balance
-Press conference
-Federal judges
-Racial balance
-Intent
-Effect
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 688-12 (cont.)
-Reasons for busing
-End of discrimination
-Racial balance
-Morgan
-Richardson
-Press conference
-Answer
-Judges
-Courts
-Press
-Morgan
Ehrlichman's schedule
Busing
-Congress
-New compared to old money
-Education support
-Politics
-Democratic candidates
-Wallace
-Jackson
-Congress
-Vote
-Moratorium
-Russell B. Long's conversation with Haldeman
-Haldeman's talk with Ehrlichman
-Reelection
-Connally
-House Resolution [H.R.] 1
-Passage
Social Security
-Ehrlichman's talk with Connally
-Connally's forthcoming meeting with the President
-Percentage
-Cost of living
-Longshoremen strike
-Pay Board
-Anti-inflation stand
-Possible compromise
-Richardson
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 688-12 (cont.)
-Arthur S. Flemming
-Inflation
-Taxes
-The President's memorandum to George P. Shultz
-Talk with the President
-Old age benefits
-Economic issue
-Connally
Longshoreman strike
-Harry Bridges
-Pay Board
-Employers
-Productivity
-Choices
-Effect on costs
-Shultz
-Lawyers
William Brock [not William E. Brock III]
-Letter
-Football teammate of the President at Whittier College
-Orthogonian Society
-Political affiliation
-Race
-Possible position in administration
-Frederic V. Malek
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:30 pm.
Photostatic copy of a document
-Job
-Malek
-Government
Bull left at an unknown time before 1:15 pm.
Judgeships
Hiring
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 688-12 (cont.)
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International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Dita D. Beard memorandum
-Typewriter
-Ribbon
-Time period used
-Committee
-Press
-Colson
-Press
-Leak story
-Beard
-Statement
-Headline in Washington Star
-John V. Tunney
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Jack N. Anderson
-Colson
-Memorandum
-Anderson's secretary
-Beard's secretary
Ehrlichman's schedule
-Alsop meeting
Busing
-Constitutional amendment
-Inferior compared to superior education
-Alsop
-Desegregation
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 688-12 (cont.)
-Old cases
-Ehrlichman's meeting with Alsop
-Senators
Ehrlichman's schedule
-Vacation
-Weekend
-Possible speech to a federal group
-Hawaii
-The President's forthcoming trip to California
-The President’s forthcoming trip to Florida
-Time
-Ehrlichman
-San Francisco
-Time
-Christian scientists
-Los Angeles
-San Francisco
Busing
-Left wing
-Washington Post editorial
Ehrlichman left at 1:15 pm.