Date: October 5, 1972
Time: 9:51 am – 10:20 am
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
Meeting
Office problem
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-Pen
The President’s forthcoming press conference
-Details
-Watergate
-Charges about hiding in the White House
-Presentation of issues
-Charles W. Colson’s memorandum
-Ziegler’s reports
-Ziegler’s recent response
-Possible response
-Congress
-Presidential duties
-George S. McGovern
-Tone
-Vietnam War
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Speculation
-Henry A. Kissinger
-News interest
-Optimism and pessimism
-Soviet-American trade
-Maritime agreement
-Jewish emigration from the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics [USSR]
-Discussion with [William P. Rogers]
-Abraham A. Ribicoff
-Rogers
-Prisoners of war [POWs] and the Vietnam War
-Laos
-Administrations efforts
-POW families
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
-Press coverage
-Negotiations
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Charges of corruption against the President’s administration
-Possible use of Jerome R Waldie quote
-Adolf Hitler analogy
-Vietnam
-Efforts to prevent a communist government
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-Comparison to [Holocaust]
-The President’s trips to the People’s Republic of China [PRC] and Moscow
-Waldie
Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Vietnam
-Questions to Ziegler from Donald Fulsom of United Press International [UPI]
-Fulsom
-Communist government
The President’s residences
-Sump pump-heating system
-San Clemente
-Jack N. Anderson column
-Jim Deakin
-Leak
-Florida
-Secret Service
-Pool at Key Biscayne
-Bulletproofing
-Heating system
-Improvements
-Secret Service comment
-Electrical works
-Surveillance camera
-Deakin
Press relations
-Vietnam
-Negotiations
-US
-PRC
-Cambodia
-Reflection of the President
-Negotiating
-1972 election
-The President’s record for last four years
-Ziegler’s statement to the press
-Past press conferences and press contacts
-Adminstrations position
-John F. Osborne, Time-Life, Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
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-The President’s view
-Possible conversation with Cronkite
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] proposal for interviews
-The President’s instructions
-McGovern [?]
-Debate-type format
-Response
-Telephone calls
-Ziegler’s secretary
-The President’s schedule
-Equal time
-Networks
-1972 election
-California
-Labor Day
McGovern’s charges of corruption
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-Hugh S. Sidey
-William F. Buckley, Jr.
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Response
The President’s schedule
-Radio talk
-Busing
-Explanation for bill vetoes
1972 election
-Debating
-Instructions for Ziegler
-McGovern’s voting record
-Michael J, Mansfield
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Washington and White House press corps
-Double standard
-McGovern
-R. Sargent Shriver
Ziegler left at 10:20 am.
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