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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-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.