Conversation No. 690-011
Date: March 21, 1972
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler; the conversation began in progress.
The President's schedule
-Gridiron dinner
-Decision
-Wage Board
-Announcement
-George Meany
The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:00 and 1:03
pm.
[Conversation No. 690-11A]
[See Conversation No. 21-124]
[End of telephone conversation]
The President's forthcoming press conference
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Television
Drugs
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-Possible national broadcast by the President
-Penalties for drug dealers
The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 1:00 and 1:03
pm.
[Conversation No. 690-11B]
[See Conversation No. 21-125]
[End of telephone conversation]
Drugs
-Penalties for drug dealers
-Death penalty
-National broadcast by the President
-Prime time
-Statement to the American public
-Bill signing
-Cooperation of the American public
The President talked with George P. Shultz between 1:03 and 1:09 pm.
[Conversation No. 690-11C]
[See Conversation No. 21-126]
[End of telephone conversation]
H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 1:10 pm.
Economy
-Arthur F. Burns
-Interest rate increase
-Secretary of the Treasury
-Administration policy
-Possible question during Ziegler’s press briefing
-John B. Connally
-Forthcoming call from Ziegler
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-Timing
-Unions
-Interest rates
-Food prices
The President's schedule
-Gridiron dinner
-Edgar Allan Poe
-[Warren E. Burger]
-Cabinet officers
-White House staff
-Henry A. Kissinger's schedule
-Peter M. Flanigan's schedule
-The President's attendance
-Ziegler's statement
The President’s forthcoming press conference
-Office
-Timing
-ITT questions
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Television compared to office
-Haldeman's view
-Television
-Timing
-Number of appearances
-Radio
-Microphones
Ziegler left at 1:16 pm.
Julius Klein
-Note to Haldeman
-Contents
-Richard J. Daley
-The President’s busing speech
Drugs
-Talk with Ziegler
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-National television broadcast
-Bill signing
-Laws
-Enforcement
-More penalties
-Rehabilitation of addicts
-Legalization of marijuana
-Heroin
-Haldeman's view
-“Fireside chat”
-Timing
-California
-Writer
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Outline from John D. Ehrlichman
-Pamphlet
-Ehrlichman
-Quote from the President
-Wording
-The President’s view
-Haldeman’s view
-Addicts
-Pushers
-Victims
-Commission
-Law enforcement
-Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe
-Addicts
-Marijuana
-Heroin
-Lsyergic acid diethylamide [LSD]
-Children
-Example of mental illness
-James A. Rhodes
-Comments to the President in 1968
-Funding for mental health centers
-Blacks
-Mental institutions
-Psychiatry
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-The President’s view
-Supply
-Efforts by Turkey
-Pushers
-Education of children
-Law enforcement
-Pushers
-Children
-The President’s possible speech
-Legalizing marijuana
-Weekly announcements
-Ehrlichman
-Administration accomplishments
-Unknown man [Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.?]
-Government agents
-Number
-Bureaucrats
-Instructions
-The President's trip to New York
-News coverage
-National networks
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Local
-Airport
-Advantages of trips
-The President’s possible speech
-Live audience
-Radio message
Stockholm Conference [World Conference on the Human Environment]
-The President’s memorandum to William P. Rogers
-Delegation
-Russell E. Train
-Cabinet officers
-Rogers
Ambassadorships
-Flanigan
-Charge d’affairs
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-West Germany
-Pakistan
-Joseph S. Farland
-Recommendation
-Robert G. Neumann
-Kissinger
-Afghanistan
-Finland
-Arthur Brimmer
-Jerome Holland
-Sweden
-Wiley Buchanan
-Haldeman's talk with John N. Mitchell and Maurice H. Stans
-Contributions
-Stans
-Kissinger and Rogers
-Emory C. Swank
-Ceylon [Sri Lanka]
-Charles S, Whitehouse
-Vietnam
-Ellsworth F. Bunker
-Cambodia
-Adm. Horacio Rivero
-Spain
-Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.
-Rivero
-United Nations [UN]
-Ralph Bunche
-Richard F. Pederson
-William B. Buffum
-Lebanon
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-F. Bradford Morse
-Moynihan
-Possible Ambassador to the UN
-Pederson
-Kissinger
-Rogers
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Frank Leonard
-Newspaper
-The President
-Reelection
-Wisconsin
-Pictures of campaigners
-Committee to Reelect the President [CRP]
-Youth
-The President’s opinion
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon
-Pictures and story
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George Meany
-George P. Shultz
-Previous breakfast meeting with the President
-Augusta, Georgia
-Mamie G.D. Eisenhower
Ziegler entered at 1:36 pm.
Economy
-Burns
-Ziegler's talks with Connally, Shultz and Herbert Stein
-Connally's suggestions
-Intermediate or long-term loans
-Interest rates
-Wage-Price Board
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-Mortgage rates
Ziegler left at 1:37 pm.
Foreign policy
-Television broadcast with Kissinger
-Marvin L. Kalb and William Small
-Talk with Ziegler
-Length
-Time
-Date
-The People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Three cornered foreign policy
-Middle East
-Kalb
-Kissinger
-The President
-Backgrounder
-The President's instructions
-Possible appearances by Kissinger
-Chicago
-Forthcoming Soviet trip
-The PRC trip
-Coverage of the PRC trip
-Kissinger
-The President’s reelection
-Schedule
The President's schedule
-The President's possible meeting with Frank Fitzsimmons
-Meany
-Breakfast
-Wage Board
-Oval Office
-Charles W. Colson
-Meany
-American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations
[AFL-CIO]
-National Alliance of Businessmen
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-Reception
-Jobs for veterans
-Gordon M. Metcalf
-Handshaking
-Jobs produced
-Blacks
-Veterans
-Dinner
-Board meeting
-Reception for regional chairmen
-Timing
-Metcalf
-Haldeman’s view
-Retail enterprise
-Public interest
-Donald McI. Kendall
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The President
-Retirement
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-College
-Foundation
-Whittier College
-Boys Clubs of America
-Boy Scouts
-National Alliance of Businessmen
-Use of name
-Fundraising
-Honorary degrees
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-Too many commitments
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Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Gridiron dinner
-The President’s view
The President’s forthcoming press conference
-Timing
-Television
-Use
-Lyndon B. Johnson
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1972 campaign
-Polls
-Trial heats
-Big shift
-Primaries
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Polls
-[Forename unknown] Denham
-The PRC trip
-Louis P. Harris
-Percentages
-Denham
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-George H. Gallup
-White House
-Harris
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Popularity
The President’s forthcoming press conference
-Timing
-Radio
-Television
-Timing
International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Effect on polls
-Effect on American public opinion
-Ten percent
-Busing
[No conversation]
Advisory committees
-Kissinger
-State Department
-Usefulness
-Raymond P. Shafer
-Laurence S. Rockefeller
Haldeman's schedule
-John R. (“Tex”) McCrary
-Projects
-Pay
-Clients
-Memorandum to Haldeman
Russell A. Kirk
-Book, A Program for Conservatives
-Copies
-The Conservative Mind
-Liberal approach
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-Ten copies
-Ehrlichman
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
Drugs
-Heroin
-Maintenance
-Crime prevention
-Euthanasia
-Individuals viewpoint
-Jaffe
-American Civil Liberties Union [ACLU]
-Vietnam
-Urinalysis
-Penalties
-Iran
-Habeas corpus
Book by Kirk
-Connally
-Ehrlichman
-Connally
-Shultz
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Leonard Garment
-Price
-Garment
-Buchanan
The President's schedule
-Possible meeting with Kirk
-Meetings with Congressmen
White House church services
-Fred B. Rhodes
-World Baptist Alliance
-The President’s view
-Preachers
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Arrival ceremonies
-Washington, DC
-Crowds
-Compared to Los Angeles
-Compared to New York City
-Foreign guests
-Andrews Air Force Base
-Blacks
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-The President’s experiences as Vice President
-National Airport
-Arrival of Winston S. Churchill
-Washington, DC streets
-National Airport
Drugs
Soviet Union trip
-Possible stop in Turkey
-Istanbul
-Kissinger
-Iran
-Istanbul
-Poland
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] meeting
The President's forthcoming trip to Florida
-Meeting with Marshall Green
-Timing
-Wage and price issue
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Florida
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon and Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Vacation
-Media criticism
-Sensitivity
-The President
-Hard-working
-Camp David
-Working vacations
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Drugs
-Poll
-Small sample
-Death penalty for traffickers
-Heroin
-Drug addiction
-Interstate law
-Compared to Charles A. Lindbergh law
-Kidnapping
-American public opinion
-Congress
-Supreme Court
-California
-Life imprisonment without parole
-Ehrlichman
-Death penalty compared to life imprisonment
-Bureaucrats
-Credit
-Offices
-Departments
Prices's schedule
George H.W. Bush
-Forthcoming speeches
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-Talking points
-Cabinet
-UN
-The President’s foreign policy leadership
-World reaction to the PRC trip
The PRC trip
-Possible public talks
-Ziegler
-Haldeman
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Importance
-Kissinger's possible television appearance
-Kalb
-John A. Scali
-Speech
-Luncheon
-Contents
-Testimonial for the President
-Kissinger
-Herbert G. Klein
-Detroit
-Talk show
-Chapin
-Chou En-lai quote
The President’s schedule
-General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament
-Gerard C. Smith
-Manea Manescu
-Shafer
-Beginning of administration
-Meetings
-Times
Haldeman left at 2:15 pm.
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