NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF Tape Subject Log (rev. 10/06) 1 Conversation No. 698-1 Date: March 30, 1972 Time: Unknown between 2:32 pm and 3:13 pm Location: Oval Office The President met with Stephen B. Bull. The President's schedule -Forthcoming meeting -Location of participants Bull left at an unknown time before 3:13 pm. Conversation No. 698-2 Date: March 30, 1972 Time: 3:13 pm - 4:40 pm Location: Oval Office The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler . Press briefing -Railroad strike -Sheet metal workers -Railroad Emergency Act -George P. Shultz -Memorandum -Documents -Emergency Board -[James D. Hodgson] -The President's signature -Work stoppage -Carl B. Albert -Wage and price freeze -Ziegler's unsuccessful attempt to telephone John B. Connally -Ziegler's talk with Herbert Stein -Administration's response -Connally -Arthur F. Burns -Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
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Conversation No. 698-1 Date: March 30, 1972 Time: Unknown between 2:32 pm and 3:13 pm Location: Oval Office The President met with Stephen B. Bull.
The President's schedule -Forthcoming meeting
-Location of participants Bull left at an unknown time before 3:13 pm.
Conversation No. 698-2 Date: March 30, 1972 Time: 3:13 pm - 4:40 pm Location: Oval Office The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
Press briefing -Railroad strike -Sheet metal workers -Railroad Emergency Act
-George P. Shultz -Memorandum
-Documents -Emergency Board -[James D. Hodgson] -The President's signature
-Work stoppage -Carl B. Albert
-Wage and price freeze -Ziegler's unsuccessful attempt to telephone John B. Connally -Ziegler's talk with Herbert Stein -Administration's response
-Connally -Arthur F. Burns -Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
-The President’s previous telephone conversation with Kissinger -Withdrawal deadline
-Prisoners of war [POWs] -Military aid -North Vietnam -South Vietnam -Timing -Offensive
Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:19 pm.
The President's schedule -Meeting with Fitzsimmons
Bull left at an unknown time before 3:24 pm.
Foreign relations -Kissinger's meeting with Dobrynin
-Vietnam -Withdrawal deadline
-Soviet and US military aid -Economic aid
The President's schedule -Meeting with Fitzsimmons
-Kissinger's meeting with Harold J. Gibbons -Gibbons -International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Bull, Fitzsimmons, Charles W. Colson and Shultz entered at 3:24 pm.
Greetings
Introductions -Kissinger
International situation
-Kissinger’s possible briefings of Fitzsimmons -Soviet summit -National defense -Meany -The People's Republic of China [PRC] trip -Gibbons’s previous trip to North Vietnam
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-Soviet summit
Kissinger's meeting with Gibbons -Possible comments by North Vietnamese -Gibbons’s comments on Today show -POWs
Kissinger's briefing of Fitzsimmons -Timing -Soviet summit -Arms control Golf Kissinger left at 3:27 pm.
The President's forthcoming meeting with Brezhnev Photograph
Bull left at an unknown time before 4:40 pm.
Labor situation
-Fitzsimmons -Pay Board membership
-Cost of living Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins entered at an unknown time after 3:27 pm.
Photographs -Atkins
Atkins left at an unknown time before 4:40 pm.
Labor situation -Meany's resignation from the Pay Board
-Effect on the President's labor relations -Unions
-Construction workers -Teamsters -American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO]
-White House role -Meany
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-Fitzsimmons's advice -Peter J. Brennan -AFL-CIO -Meany
-Resignation from the Pay Board -Unions -Rank and file
-I[lorwith] W[ilbur] Abel -Fitzsimmons
-Henry M. ("Scoop") Jackson -Candidacy for presidency
-Leonard Woodcock -Establishment of the Pay Board -Woodcock
-Walter P. Reuther An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time before 4:40. Refreshments Labor situation -Meany -Woodcock -Loan of money -AFL-CIO -Rubber workers -Steel workers -Teamsters -Peter Bommarito -Abel -Fitzsimmons
-United Auto Workers [UAW] -Collateral -Property -Manchester Union Leader
-AFL-CIO -Endorsement of Edmund S. Muskie -New Hampshire primary -Florida primary -Illinois primary -Nomination
-Abel -Floyd E. (“Red”) Smith
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-Woodcock -Nathaniel Goldfinger -Pay Board
-Meany resignation -Woodcock resignation
-Fitzsimmons -UAW
-Meany resignation -Colson's talk with Fitzsimmons
-Food prices -Meany's relationship with the President -National security -Fitzsimmons's remaining on the Pay Board -Reactions -Polls
-Letters of congratulation -Examples
-Albert E. Sindlinger -Call to Fitzsimmons
-Public opinion -Industry
-Connally -Reduction of food prices
-Retailers -Connally's meeting with food chain executives -C. Jackson Grayson, Jr.’s forthcoming meeting with middlemen
-Meany -Control of profits -Economic Stabilization Act
-Seattle, Washington -Fitzsimmons's endorsement of a candidate for the presidency
-Lee Kearney [sp?] -New York -John V. Lindsay -Unknown name [Mayo?] -Unknown person -Nelson A. Rockefeller -Loeb -New Hampshire -Mitchell -The President
The President's schedule -Philip V. Sanchez
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
Economy -Dock strike
-Harry Bridges -Meany -Thomas W. (“Teddy”) Gleason -Fitzsimmons's speech in New York
-Theodore Kheel -Bridges
-Gleason's support -John M. Bowers
-Gleason’s support of Bridges -William M. Chester, Jr.
-Bridges -Agreements discussed
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-Job disputes -Longshoremen
-Teamsters -Pay Board -Thomas E. Flynn
-Pay -Fitzsimmons's advice
-James J. Reynolds [?] -Pay Board
-Newspaper ads -AFL-CIO -Bridges's meeting with Fitzsimmons
-Chuck Belsa [?], Chester -Bridges's communist associations -AFL-CIO -Meany -Woodcock -Smith, Abel
-Meany phone conversation with Fitzsimmons -Council meeting
-Pay Board -Commitment to the President -Shultz -Meany's resignation -Unknown person -Connally -Donald H. Rumsfeld -Proposed meeting with the President
-Updates -Fitzsimmons to Shultz
-Teamsters -Bridges
-Shipping containers -Guaranteed fund
-Charges -Courts
-Possible longshoremen union consolidation with Teamsters -Executive Board
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-Congressional leaders -Meetings with the President
-Meany -Pay Board -Strikes
-Effects -Anti-strike legislation
-John L. Lewis Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:27 pm.
Ashtray Bull left at an unknown time before 4:40 pm.
Labor situation -Pay Board
-Meany -Lewis
Columbia Country Club -Fitzsimmons’s application
-The President -Golf -Shultz -Fitzsimmons -Mitchell
Gifts
Pay Board
-Fitzsimmons's request of Colson -Fitzsimmons's call to Bob [last name unknown]
Golf -Unknown man [Shultz?]
Fitzsimmons
-Colson -Shultz -Meeting with the President
Fitzsimmons, Colson and Shultz left at 4:40 pm.
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Conversation No. 698-3 Date: March 30, 1972 Time: 4:40 pm - 4:41 pm Location: Oval Office The President met with Stephen B. Bull.
The President's schedule -Forthcoming meeting
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Conversation No. 698-4 Date: March 30, 1972 Time: 4:42 pm - 5:03 pm Location: Oval Office The President met with Phillip V. Sanchez, George P. Shultz and Alexander P. Butterfield; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.
Greetings Item for the President’s signature
[Photograph session]
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Luis Echeverria Alvarez -Schedule -Invitation to Sanchez for dinner
-Sanchez’s suggestions for additional invitations to dinner -Rose Mary Woods
-Previous dinner in San Diego -Gustavo Diaz Ordaz
Woods entered at an unknown time after 4:42 pm.
Sanchez
State dinner -Echeverria -Guest list -Robert H. Finch -Timing
Woods and Butterfield left at 4:46 pm.
Sanchez -Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
-Work -Shultz
-Constituency -Bureaucracy
-Previous administrations -Role
OEO
-Research and development -Economic Opportunity Act extension
-Legislative situation -Poor individuals -Sanchez’s meeting with syndicated columnists -Veto
-Travel -Image -Poor individuals -Spanish speaking community -Sanchez's public appearances -Use of Spanish
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Busing issue -Equal Educational Opportunities Act
-Bilingual education
OEO -Department of Community Development -Revenue sharing -Cabinet Committee on Spanish Speaking
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:46 pm.
The President's schedule -Melvin R. Laird
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Bull left at an unknown time before 5:03 pm.
Sanchez -Relationship with Frank C. Carlucci
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB] -Relationship with Donald H. Rumsfeld -Shultz -John D. Ehrlichman -Meetings with the President -Spanish speaking -The administration -Hispanics -Women -Blacks -Mexican-Americans -Sanchez's public appearances -Staff
-Appreciation Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:46 pm.
Spanish -Manolo Sanchez
Phillip Sanchez
-Gifts -Secretaries
Spanish
-Manolo Sanchez -Swear words
-Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo Manolo Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:03 pm.
Manolo Sanchez's background
Phillip Sanchez's schedule -Dinner invitation
Sanchez and Shultz left at 5:03 pm.
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Conversation No. 698-5 Date: March 30, 1972 Time: Unknown between 5:03 pm and 5:07 pm Location: Oval Office The President talked with an unknown person [Henry A. Kissinger ?].
Kissinger's [?] schedule
Conversation No. 698-6 Date: March 30, 1972 Time: Unknown between 5:03 pm and 5:07 pm Location: Oval Office The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.
The President's schedule -Signing documents -Executive Order
Crab apple blossoms
-Zoological Gardens -Timing -Weather -Stephen B. Bull
Butterfield left at an unknown time before 5:07 pm.
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Conversation No. 698-7 Date: March 30, 1972 Time: 5:07 pm - 5:11 pm Location: Oval Office The President met with Henry A. Kissinger. Middle East
Soviet Union -Kissinger's meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin -Vietnam
-The People's Republic of China [PRC] -Most Favored Nation [MFN] status -Negotiations
-Middle East -Soviet interests -Egypt -Israel
-Negotiations -Yitzhak Rabin
Schedule -Weather
The President and Kissinger left at 5:11 pm.
Conversation No. 698-8 Date: March 30, 1972 Time: 5:18 pm - 5:30 pm Location: Oval Office The President met with Henry A. Kissinger; the conversation began in progress.
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Vietnam -Democrats
-Negotiations ********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 2m 41s ] An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 5:18 pm. Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:18 pm. The unknown man and Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:30 pm. END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 **********************************************************************
Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] -Interview with Kissinger
-Timing -Audience
-Campared to George Putnam's show
Soviet trip -Poland
-Stopover -Possible itinerary
-Baku to Iran -Iran to Warsaw
-Arrival ceremony -Crowds
-Departure time -Washington, D.C.
-Poland -Stopover -Public reception
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-Campared to Spain -Compared to Romania -The President’s reception in Warsaw while Vice President
-Poles -Reaction to the President's visit
-Iran -Reception
-Warsaw reception -Soviet reaction
-Kissinger's meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin -Accommodations
-Kremlin -Leonid I. Brezhnev -Soviet reaction
-Public expectations for Moscow summit -Strategic Arms Limitations Talks [SALT]
-The People's Republic of China [PRC] -Soviet Union -1972 campaign
-Television -Foreign policy -PRC -Timing -Democratic National Convention
European trip -William P. Rogers -Announcement -Kissinger's forthcoming trip to Japan -Announcement -Kissinger's forthcoming meeting with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Kissinger left at 5:30 pm.
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Conversation No. 698-9 Date: March 30. 1972 Time: 5:32 pm - 6:11 pm Location: Oval Office The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
The President's schedule -Prior meeting with Frank E. Fitzsimmons
-George Meany -Forthcoming speech at the National Catholic Educational Association [NCEA] convention
-Wisconsin primary -Timing
Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 5:32 and 5:51 pm; the President conferred with Haldeman during the call.
-Patrick J. Buchanan -Length -Buchanan
-Completion -Timing
[End of telephone conversation]
-Opinions whether to give the speech
-Pro and con -Debates
-Domestic Council -Meeting
-Charles W. Colson -George P. Shultz -John B. Connally
Canadian trip
-Schedule -State dinner
-Roland Mitchener
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-Luncheons -Pierre E. Trudeau
-Entertainment -Buffet
-Receiving line -Mitchener
-Arrival time
Soviet trip -Kissinger's meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Poland -Stopover
-Kissinger [The following portion of this conversation is included in RG 460; the WSPF did not transcribe this portion.]
International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] -Colson -Discussions -Colson
-Vacation -Other work
-John D. Ehrlichman -The administration’s anti-trust policy -Statements -News stories -Meeting -Memoranda -John N. Mitchell -Richard W. McLaren
[End of RG 460]
Forthcoming speech to the NCEA -Timing
-Wisconsin primary -Television -Time -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
Phillip V. Sanchez -Background
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-Meeting with the President -Discussion
-Position -Haldeman’s view
-Lawyer
American Cancer Society meeting -Ann Landers
-Letter -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-[Mike Finamore] -Leukemia
-Finamore -Statement to the President
-John K. Andrews, Jr. -John F. Kennedy
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:32 pm.
Birthday calls Meeting with Colson Bull left at an unknown time before 5:51 pm. Telephone calls -Birthday greetings
-Associates of the President -Senators and Congressmen -One call per day
-Notes -Edward J. Gurney -Marlow W. Cook -Hugh Scott
-Congratulation calls -Fitzsimmons
-Pay Board -Meeting
-Notes -Criteria for notes -General Services Administration [GSA] -The President as Vice President
-Letters from Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Sanchez
-Invitation to the state dinner for Luis Echeverria Alvarez -Rose Mary Woods
-List -Romana Acosta Banuelos
-Food -Fred Waring
-Eisenhower -Press reaction
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts -Waring
-Alice Roosevelt Longworth -Naming of center
-Kennedy -Kennedy family -[William McC. Blair, Jr.] -Roger C. Stevens
-Personnel Committee -Trustees -Administration action Colson entered at 5:51 pm.
Fitzsimmons -Experience -George Meany
-Election -Meeting with the President
-Discussion -Compared to the President’s breakfast with Meany -Stephen B. Bull
-Longshoremen -Building trades
-Unions -Meany
-Henry M. ("Scoop") Jackson -Leonard Woodcock
-Edmund S. Muskie -Democratic National Convention
-Muskie -Meany
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-Woodcock -American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-CIO] -Control by Meany
-Meany -John L. Lewis
-Talk with Colson -Meany
-Constituency -Columbia Country Club
-Burning Tree -Richard G. Kleindienst -Meany -Membership for Fitzsimmons -Chevy Chase
-Joseph Vitolio [sp?] -New York
-[First name unknown] Schlesing [sp?] -Einar Mohn -Murray R. (“Dusty”) Miller -George T. Bell
-Meeting with eastern Ohio business agents of all unions -[First name unknown] Galtieri [sp?] -International Brotherhood of Teamsters
-Support for the President -James R. (“Jimmy”) Hoffa
-Television appearance -Endorsement for the President -Issues and Answers
-Meany -Relationship with the Administration -Breakfast meeting with the the President -Connally -Labor leaders
-Compared to businessmen -View of the President
-Vocabulary -George P. Shultz
-Relationship with Fitzsimmons -Golf
The President's schedule
-Golf
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-Meany -Fitzsimmons -Shultz -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
Colson's schedule
Dinah Shore Show -Landers -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Taping -Timing -The President’s trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Wisconsin primary -Edward M. Kennedy -Birch E. Bayh, Jr.
-ITT [The following portion of this conversation is included in RG 460; the WSPF did not transcribe this portion.]
ITT -Public opinion -Mail
-Congressional -White House
-Party workers -Republican National Committee
-Edward Kennedy -Kleindienst
-Talk with James O. Eastland -Possible closing of hearings -Michael J. Mansfield
-Statement [End of RG 460]
Economy -Grand Union food chain
-Announcement of freeze on prices -Meat -Poultry -Public psychology
-Connally -Networks
-Grand Union Rose Mary Woods entered at 6:08 pm.
Dinah Shore Show -Appearance by Julie Nixon Eisenhower
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Haldeman's schedule Haldeman and Colson left at 6:08 pm.
Dinah Shore Show -Julie Nixon Eisenhower's appearance
The President’s schedule ********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 1m 49s ] Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 6:08 pm. Sanchez left at an unknown time before 6:11 pm. END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4 **********************************************************************
White House bonsai trees ********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 31s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5 ********************************************************************** The President and Woods left at 6:11 pm.
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Conversation No. 698-10 Date: March 30, 1972 Time: Unknown between 6:11 pm and 6:13 pm Location: Oval Office Stephen B. Bull, Alexander P. Butterfield, an unknown woman, and an unknown man met.
