Date: October 17, 1972
Time: 8:17 am – 8:34 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
The President’s schedule
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-Possible meeting with [Winston S. Churchill]
-Location
-Washington, DC
-Atlanta
-Recent writing
-Washington Post
-1972 campaign
-Atlanta
-Possible telephone call from Ziegler
-Randolph F.E.S. Churchill, Winston S. Churchill
-Randolph Churchill
-Winston S. Churchill
-Drinking
-Gen. Charles A.J.M. de Gaulle
-Grandson
-Travel with the President to de Gaulle’s funeral
Press and media relations
-Reporting of crowds
-James Perry
-National Observer
-Estimate of the President’s crowd in Atlanta
-Compared to George S. McGovern’s crowd in Boston
-Possible reaction by the Administration
-The President’s recent crowd compared to crowd from 1960 campaign
event
-Washington Post
-Clark MacGregor, Robert J. Dole
-New York Times
-Support for McGovern
-Editorial staffs
-Life magazine
-Time magazine
-Issues
-Watergate
-Vietnam
-The President’s recent meeting with the National League of Families of
American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia
-Television news coverage
-The President’s criticism of the Establishment
-New York Times
-Press reaction to the President’s May 8, 1972 decision
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-Henry A. Kissinger
-Richard Dudman
-St. Louis Post-Dispatch
-Prisoners of war [POWs] wives and families
-Businessmen
-Compared to other groups
-Ethics
-Hard hats
-Labor
-Farmers
-Servicemen
-Academics
-Religious leaders
-Academics
-Cambodia, Laos
-College presidents
-G[eorge] Alexander Heard
-Vanderbilt University
-Religious leaders
-Pacifism
-Establishment
-News commentators, publishers
-New York Times
-Washington Post
-Coverage by media
-The President’s remarks during meeting with POW families
-Amnesty
-POW’s
-Vietnam
-Amnesty
-Network coverage
[Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Disappearance in airplane crash
-Compared to Will Rogers and Wiley Post
-Political situations in Alaska and Louisiana
– [Nicholas J. Begich]
– [Don Young]
The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming radio address
-Ziegler’s possible announcement
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-Timing
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT] II
-Other radio addresses
-Veterans
-Tax reforms
-John D. Ehrlichman
-McGovern’s forthcoming speech on the economy
-Parochial schools
-Possible letter from the President
-McGovern
-Revenue sharing bill signing ceremony
-Philadelphia
-New York
-New York Daily News
Ziegler’s announcements
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Paris
-Saigon
-The President’s forthcoming radio address
-Timing
-Tax reform
-US – Soviet Union trade agreement
-Kissinger
-The President’s forthcoming trip to New York
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Corruption charges
-Watergate
-Campaign sabotage
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-Espionage
The President’s schedule
-Possible meeting with Winston Churchill
Ziegler left at 8:34 am.