Date: March 15, 1973
Time: 1:04 pm-1:16 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
President’s press conference
-Need to present the White House view
-Victor Lasky
-Administration dealings
-Alger Hiss case
-Comparison with Watergate
-W. Bruce Weinrod
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-Line for press
-National security issue
-FBI files
-Use
-Disclosure to Congress
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-Use by White House staff
-Watergate
-Executive privilege
-Mood at press conference
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] diplomatic mission to US
-Lack of press interest
PRC
-Diplomatic mission
-Ambassador to France [Huang Zhen]
-Chief of Protocol
-Han Su [?]
Press corps
-Comments of old-timers
-Squire Byrnes, Edgar Allen Poe, J. William Theis, Martin Hayden
-Decline
-PRC story
-Lack of interest
-Significance
-Opening of liaison office
-Taiwan
-Chou En-lai
-India-Pakistan
-Superficial lead
-Hostility to administration
-Courtney Sheldon
-Response of White House
-Liberals
President’s press conference
-Ziegler’s evaluation
-White House response
-Tone
-Toughness
-Liberals
-Drug legislation
-Administration position
-Permissiveness
-Press bias
-Commission report [?]
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-John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-President’s appearances
-Responses to questions
-“No comment”
Watergate
-Executive privilege
-Senate actions
-Possible court test
-Liberals
-Hiss case
-Harry S Truman’s order on executive privilege
Liberal establishment
-Hiss
-Berlin Wall
-Vietnam
-Presidency
-Attitude of country
-Support for George S. McGovern
-Education, social issues
-Joseph W. Alsop
-McGovern
-Radical elements
-Crime
-McGovern
-Democratic convention
-Meeting with radicals
-Loss of support in country
-White House staff reaction
-William P. Rogers
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Leonard Garment
President’s press conference
-Television [TV] broadcast
-Reports on TV
-Public reactions
Ziegler left at 1:16 pm.
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