Date: February 26, 1973

Time: 4:50 pm-5:15 pm

Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

George P. Shultz’s appearance

-Ziegler’s evaluation

Shultz’s statement

-Wage settlement [at 5.5 percent inflation]

-John T. Dunlop

-Policies

-Flexibility

-William L. Safire

George Forman

-Championship

-Athletes for Nixon

-Talks with Ziegler

-Ghostwritten article

-Public statements

-Rose Mary Woods

Clark R. Mollenhoff

-John D. Ehrlichman

-Fitzgerald case

-Testimony before Civil Service Committee hearing

-Outcome

-Mollenhoff’s letter to President

-Air Force investigation of Fitzgerald

-Timing

-Testimony before Civil Service Committee

-Executive privilege

-Mollenhoff’s opinion

-Meeting with John W. Dean, III

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-Fitzgerald case

-President’s opinion

-Bryce N. Harlow’s role

-Fitzgerald

-Employment

-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]

Rule case

-Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, Jr.

Mollenhoff

-Meeting with Dean, Harlow, President

-Written statement

-Delay

-Call to President

-Kent Cook’s analysis

-Legal defense

-State Department

-Willard Edwards

-Firing

-Tucker case

-Fitzgerald case

-Dean

-Executive privilege

-Harlow

-Air Force

Press briefing by Ziegler

-Aid to Vietnam

-Food prices

-Dollar

-Wage-price issue

Safire memo

Budget

-Limits

-Increases

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-Statements

-Testimony

Food prices

-Decrease stability

-Shultz’s statement

-Grocery store prices

-Decrease

-Farm prices

-Impact

-Increase supply

-Dunlop

-Breakdown of prices

-Statement

-Press reactions

-Wage settlement

-Arbitrary ceiling

-Publicity

Shield laws

-Responses at press conference

-Press reactions

-End of war

-Prisoners of war [POWs] return

-Anti-Americanism

-Frustration

-Attorney General

-Administration’s position

-State and local courts compared with federal courts

-John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration

-Jimmy Hirsh [?]

-Compared with President’s administration

-Requests by press

-Background materials

-Administration positions

-Press conference

-1972 campaign

-Letter to Freedom of Information Committee

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-Guidelines

-Enacted 1970

-Balance between First Amendment and courts

-Use of shield laws

-Exceptions

-Justice Department’s role

-Dangers

-Criminals as news sources

-Protection of criminals

-Attorney General

-Testimony

-Administration’s position

-Local and state law compared with federal law

-Attorney General

-Freedom of press compared with national security or law enforcement

-Federal shield laws

-Opinion

-Network dominance

-Erosion of free speech

-Perceptions compared with reality

-Press conference

-Question

-President’s position

-Guidelines of administration

-Administration’s position

-Legislative compared with legal solution

Ziegler left at 5:15 pm.