On March 20, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Charles W. Colson, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, unknown person(s), Ronald L. Ziegler, White House operator, John D. Ehrlichman, and Stephen B. Bull met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 5:21 pm to 6:30 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 324-012 of the White House Tapes. Topics include: The President talked with Charles W. Colson. [See Conversation No. 21-116] H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman entered at 5:30 pm. [End of telephone conversation] International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case - John N. Mitchell - Colson - John D. Ehrlichman - Herbert W. Kalmbach - Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] - Jack Gleason - Gleason's employment - ITT - Kevin P. Philips - Gleason - Financing - Campaign - Milk Fund - President - Maurice H. Stans - Harry S. Dent - Kalmbach - Fundraising role - Knowledge of 1970 campaign financing - Possible danger to administration - Candidates - Story - Kalmbach - Ambassadorships - Haldeman - Congressional campaigns - Fundraising - Murray M. Chotiner - Donald H. Rumsfeld - Robert H. Finch - Haldeman's role in 1970 campaign financing - List - Colson - Money - Purposes - John W. Mulcahy - Stans - Mulcahy - Amount - Candidates - Finances - Reporting - Investigation - District of Columbia [DC] committees [Previous National Security (B) withdrawal reviewed under MDR guidelines case number LPRN- T- MDR-2014-018. Segment declassified on 04/29/2019. Archivist: DR] [National Security] [324-012- W001] [Duration: 37s] International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case - Jack N. Anderson story - Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] - Salvador Allende Gossens - Relations with International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] - The President's assessment - Investment International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case - Colson - Democrats - Justice Department - Internal Revenue Service [IRS] - Henry M. ("Scoop") Jackson, Hubert H. Humphrey The President's schedule - Forthcoming press conference - Consumer Price Index [CPI] - Television - ITT - Proposed meeting with Marshall Green - Timing - The President's forthcoming press conference - Key Biscayne - Advertising Council - Gridiron dinner - Vice President Spiro T. Agnew's view - The President's attendance - Friends - Possible statement - Women's liberation - Friends - Richard ("Dick") Wilson - Terry Green - Roscoe Drummond - Edgar Allan Poe - Possible attendance by Agnew or the President - Agnew's view - California - Unknown man - Wife The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 5:30 pm and 5:50 pm. [Conversation No. 324-12A] The President's schedule - Meeting with Ronald L. Ziegler [End of telephone conversation] The President's schedule - Gridiron dinner - Herbert G. Klein - Ziegler's view - The President's possible attendance - Agnew's possible attendance - Wilson ITT case - White House strategy - Life story on convention - White House response - Department of Justice - San Diego - President's view - Coverage of ITT antitrust case - Contribution - Amount - San Diego - Russell B. Long - Edward M. Kennedy - John V. Tunney - Birch E. Bayh, Jr. - White House strategy - Christmas The President's schedule - Gridiron dinner Ziegler entered at 5:50 pm. Briefing - Drugs - Life story Gridiron dinner - Agnew's possible attendance - Thelma C. ("Pat") Nixon - Julie Nixon Eisenhower - Petition - Boycott - Women - William P. Rogers - Forthcoming call from Haldeman - The President - Agnew - California - Public relations judgment The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:50 pm and 5:56 pm. [Conversation No. 324-12B] [See Conversation No. 21-117] [End of telephone conversation] Haldeman left at an unknown time before 5:56 pm. Drug abuse - Marijuana - Heroin - Dr. Jerome H. Jaffee - Methadone Gridiron dinner - Paul Healy - Women - Ziegler's view - Mrs Nixon - Ziegler's view - The President's attendance - Agnew's attendance - Dwight D. Eisenhower - The President's view - White House Correspondents' Dinner The White House operator talked with the President at 5:56 pm. [Conversation No. 324-12C] [See Conversation No. 21-118] [End of telephone conversation] ITT case - Ziegler's questions from the press - Committee - Dita D. Beard memorandum - Justice Department - Anderson The People's Republic of China [PRC] trip - Press coverage - John A. Scali - Ziegler - Haldeman - Rogers - Dwight L. Chapin - Speeches - Scali - Henry A. Kissinger - Rogers - California - Kissinger Press conference - Timing - Consumer Price Index [CPI] - Food prices - Economy - Press corps - Morning briefings - Afternoon briefings - Time - Forthcoming state dinner The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 5:56 pm and 6:25 pm. [Conversation No. 324-12D] State dinner - Ziegler - Arrangements - East Room [End of telephone conversation] - Dining Room Press coverage of drug story Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 5:56 pm. Gridiron dinner - Rogers - Hawaii - Adele (Langston) Rogers - Rogers's view - The President's attendance - Agnew's possible attendance - Connally - Rogers - Administration boycott - Kissinger - ITT - PRC - Rogers's and Agnew's attendance at previous Gridiron dinner - Connally - Warren E. Burger - Ranking as Chief Justice - Cabinet officers - Rogers - The President's view - Agnew - The President's attendance - The President's view - Women - Rogers - Agnew - Rogers's view - Haldeman's view - Bohemian Grove - Agnew - Cabinet officers - Kissinger - Hubert H. Humphrey - Barry M. Goldwater - Rogers - Humphrey's attendance - Democrats - The President's schedule - California - Florida - Forthcoming meeting with Marshall Green Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:56 pm. Item for Haldeman Bull left at an unknown time before 6:25 pm. The President's schedule - Easter - The President's attendance at the Gridiron dinner - Rogers - Poe - Agnew - Burger - Democrats - Florida - Rogers - California - Florida - Biological Weapons Convention signing ceremony - Time - Press conference - Green meeting - Duration - Rogers - Green - Rogers - Press corps - Kissinger - Taiwan, Republic of China, as a news topic - Rogers - Cabinet officer - Press conference - Rogers - Green Ziegler left at 6:25 pm. The President's schedule - Signing ceremony for the Drug Abuse Office and Treatment Act of 1972 - Bull - East Room - State Dining Room - Number of guests - Drugs - Executive Office Building [EOB] compared to the White House - Indian Treaty Room - The President's view - Time - Forthcoming meeting with Nihat Erim - Arrival time - Television coverage - Oval Office - Guests - Number - Preachers, blacks - Gridiron dinner - The President's attendance - Rogers - Ziegler - Press - Burger - Call from Rogers - The President's forthcoming trip to Moscow - Possible trip to Poland - Polish Foreign Minister - Walter J. Stoessel, Jr. - The President's forthcoming trip to Iran The President and Haldeman left at 6:30 pm. Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); [Unknown person(s)]; Ziegler, Ronald L.; White House operator; Ehrlichman, John D.; Bull, Stephen B.
- Part of White House Tapes: Sound Recordings of Meetings and Telephone Conversations of the Nixon Administration, Executive Office Building Sound Recordings