Date: October 17, 1972

Time: Unknown between 10:33 am and 11:06 am

Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President’s schedule

-Forthcoming meeting with representatives of the American Dental Association

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[ADA]

-Dr. William O. Chase’s possible participation

H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 10:33 am.

-Haldeman’s view

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:48 am.

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Public relations

-The President’s previous meeting with foreign labor officials

-Haldeman’s schedule

-The President’s remarks on history of US labor movement

-Abraham Lincoln

-National Labor Relations Act

-Possible press reaction

-George P. Shultz

-Ronald L. Ziegler

-Television [TV]

-Richard A. Moore

– [Joseph] Lane Kirkland

-The President’s analysis

-William L. Safire

-Moore

-News value

-Victor Lasky

-Victor Riesel

-Charles W. Colson

-Herbert G. Klein

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-Mailing of the President’s radio speech transcripts to key editors

-Issues

-Taxes

-Federal spending

-Work ethic

-Paternalism [Philosophy of Government]

-Crime

– The President’s previous meeting with the National League of

Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia

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The President’s schedule

-Forthcoming meeting with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

-Announcement

Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:33 am.

The President’s schedule

-Ziegler

-Haig

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:48 am.

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Ziegler entered at 10:48 am.

The President’s previous meeting with foreign labor officials

-Analysis of US labor movement’s history

-Press coverage

-Colson

-Riesel

Haig entered at 10:49 am.

-Positive nature of event

Vietnam negotiations

-Henry A. Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to Saigon

-Announcement

-State Department

-Guidance for Ziegler’s forthcoming press briefing

-Routine nature of trip

-Haig’s previous trip to Saigon

-Status of negotiations

-Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.

-The President’s previous meeting with Abrams

-Nguyen Van Thieu

-Ellsworth F. Bunker

-Timing of decision

-Paris negotiations

-The President’s instructions

-The President’s previous meeting with prisoners of war [POWs]

families

-Previous announcement of Kissinger’s trip to Paris

-Guidance for Ziegler’s forthcoming press briefing

-Thieu

-The President’s support

-US support of South Vietnam

-US resistance to imposition of communist government in South

Vietnam

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-Hypothetical treatment of draft evaders

-The President’s view

Ziegler and Haig left at 10:58 am.

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Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:58 am.

The President’s schedule

-National Advisory Council for Drug Abuse Prevention

-American Dental Association [ADA] representatives

-Chase

-Press photographs

-National Advisory Council for Drug Abuse Prevention

-Cabinet Room

-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.

-Ziegler

The President, Haldeman, and Bull left at an unknown time before 11:06 am.