Date: November 18, 1972
Time: 9:39 and 9:57 am
Location: Camp David Study Table
The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.
[See Conversation No. 226-31]
Ziegler’s recent telephone call to the President
-Cancellation
-Purpose
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Sunday newspapers
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Ziegler’s forthcoming press conference
-The President’s schedule
-Reorganization of plans
-Dictation
-Budget cuts
-Return to Washington, DC
-Timing
-Return to Camp David
-Timing
-Reason
-Clothing
-Dinner for family
-Return to Camp David
-Timing
-Camp David
-Schedule of appointments
-Meeting with Henry A. Kissinger
-Completion
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT] II
-The President’s instructions
-Vietnam negotiations
-The President’s instructions
-Paris
-Communications with Kissinger
-Cable
-Timing
-Telephone
-Paperwork
-SALT II
-Trip to Washington, DC
-Purpose
-Gathering materials
-White House staff matters
-Dinner with family
-Clothes
-SALT II
-Vietnam negotiations
-Location
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-White House
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-Lincoln Sitting Room
-Vietnam negotiations
-Paris
-SALT II negotiations
-November 21, 1972
-Camp David
-White House staff members
-Return to Camp David
-SALT II
-The President’s interest
-Vietnam negotiations
-The President’s interest
-Importance
-The President’s work
-Meetings
-Scheduling
-Published meetings
-Kissinger
-Contacts with the President
-White House staff
-Vietnam negotiations
-Substantive differences
-Technical details
-Importance
-The President’s role
-SALT II
-Meetings
-Scheduling
-Published meetings
-Kissinger
-Contacts with the President
-White House staff
-Vietnam negotiations
-Substantive difference
-Technical details
-Importance
-The President’s role
-Settlement agreement
-The President’s role
-Kissinger’s forthcoming trip to Paris
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Second term reorganization
-Press relations
-November 17, 1972
-Ziegler’s forthcoming press conference
-William P. Rogers’s tenure as Secretary of State
-Ziegler’s conversations
-Haldeman
-Melvin R. Laird
-Resignation
-Changes in staff
-Timing
-Procedures
-The President’s schedule
-Camp David
-Press relations
-Reaction to the President’s actions
-[Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon’s, Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s, Tricia Nixon
Cox’s concern
-1972 election
-[Washington, DC]
-Bureaucracy
-Public
-Bureaucracy
-Washington Post, Washington Star
-Public
-The President’s November 17, 1972 meetings
-Cabinet
-Ziegler’s press conference
-Reorganization plan
-Departments
-Congressional guidelines
-Personnel
-The President’s areas of concentration
-Personnel
-Structure
-Departures
-Charles W. Colson’s tenure
-Colson’s concern
-Herbert G. Klein
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-Robert H. Finch
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Appearance of firing
-Public impact
-White House staff
-Individual considerations
-Announcements
-Timing
-Press relations
-Ziegler’s briefings
-Reaction to the President’s actions
-White House staff
-Reenergizing administration
-The President’s November 17, 1972 meetings
-Order of meetings
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-John B. Connally
-Rogers
-Cabinet
-Announcements
-Timing
-Monday schedule
-Meeting with Cabinet
-Order
-Treasury, Defense Departments
-Availability
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-George W. Romney
-John A. Volpe
-Kleindienst
-Press relations
-The President’s November 17, 1972 meetings
-Retentions
-Impressions
Ziegler’s location
Press relations
-Trailer at Camp David
-The President’s role
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-The President’s trip to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, September 9, 1972
-Function
-Briefing room
-Reaction
-Story