Date: February 22, 1973
Time: 11:28 am – 11:37 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
Henry A. Kissinger’s briefing
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-Time
-Length
-Release of John T. Downey, Robert J. Flynn and Philip E. Smith
-Liaison office
-Questions
-Aid to North Vietnam
-Defense
-Justification
-Laos
-Questions
-Communist victory
-1962 accords
-Middle East
-Visit of Hafiz Ismail
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Communique
-Trip to Hanoi
-Television [TV] and radio coverage
PRC
-Liaison offices
-Washington, Peking
-Associated Press [AP] report
White House Correspondents Association dinner
-Acceptance publicized
Gridiron dinner
-Rejection
-Meeting with Gridiron invitation committee
-Timing
-Reason
-Vice President’s attendance
-William P. Rogers’s attendance
-President’s attendance
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White House Correspondents Association dinner
-Gift
-Inkwell
-Thomas Jefferson quotation
-Entertainment
-Sammy Davis, Jr.
-Evening at the White House
Norman Vincent Peale
-Sunday worship service
Davis
-Call to Ziegler
-Thanksgiving
-Support for President
-Criticism by other blacks
-Letter
White House Correspondents Association dinner
-Sonny and Cher Bono
-Compared to Karen and Richard Carpenter
-Invitation
-White House pressure
-President’s choice
-Awards
-Edgar Allen Poe
-Presentation
-Watergate
-President’s presence
-Scholarship fund
Poe
-Gift to the President
-Eleanor Stegeberg McGovern [?]
-Cuff links [?]
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Ziegler left at 11:37 am.