Date: March 2, 1973

Unknown between 11:51 am and 12:16 pm

Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Press conference

-Questions

-Subjects

-Answers

-Nguyen Van Thieu meeting

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-Devaluation

-United Press International [?]

-Aid to North Vietnam

-Hanoi

-Defense budget

-Tone

Rose Mary Woods entered at 11:52 am.

Press relations

-Woods’s friends

-List

Public relations

-J. Willard (“Bill”) Marriott [?]

-Gift

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Gifts for supporters

-List

-Costs

-Financial contributors, political supporters

-White House staff

-Recipients

-Financial contributors

-High-level political supporters

-Friends

-Campaign workers

-John N. Mitchell, Clark MacGregor

-Maurice H. Stans

-Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Tricia Nixon Cox

-F. Donald Nixon, Edward C. Nixon

-Ryan family

-Appreciation

-Immediate family

-Tricia Nixon Cox and Edward R. F. Cox, Julia Nixon Eisenhower and

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[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II

-Music box

-Edward Nixon, F. Donald Nixon

-Ryan family

-List

-President’s instruction to consult

-Ziegler

-Herbert G. Klein

-Compared to dinner invitations

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White House social affairs

-White House dinner for Golda Meir

-President’s remarks to Meir

-Invitations

-Number

-Friends

-Jewelry

-Types

-Amount

-Taste of invitees

Jews

-Gentiles

-William F. (“Billy”) Graham

-John B. Connally

-Max M. Fisher, Taft Schreiber

-Invitees

-Van Cliburn

-Mother’s invitation to dinner

-Pat McConnell [?]

-Performance

-Compared to performance at inaugural event

-Chou En-lai

-Invitation

-Henry A. Kissinger

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-Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra

-Previous performance at inaugural event

Francis A. (“Frank”) Sinatra

-Maxine Cheshire

-Edward B. Williams

-Reaction to lawsuit

-Washington Post

-Performance at state dinner for Italian Prime Minister [Guilio Andreotti]

-Cheshire

-Compared to Drew Pearson

-Salbury Pot [?]

-Fight with Joseph McCarthy

Press conference

-Clark R. Mollenhoff

-Operation

-Roy Edwards’s party

-Ritz Carlton

-Leslie Stahl

-Question about John W. Dean, III

-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]

Church services

-Invitations

-Congress

-Regrets

-William E. Timmons

-Reasons

-Catholic

-White House tours

-Upstairs

-Evenings at the White House

-Sammy Davis, Jr.

-Freshmen Congressmen

Cliburn

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Gifts

-Special gifts

-1968 convention

-Number left

-Possible recipients

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White House staff

-President’s conversation with the white house barber

-Call to wife

-Letter

George T. Bell

-President’s call

-Nurse

-Illness

-Retirement

William Allen White

-Death

-Cancer

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Gifts

-Foreign diplomats

-Plates

-Stamp

-Ash trays

-Music boxes

-Recipients

-Inscription

-Golda Meir

Golda Meir

-Blair House

-Mrs. Cole

-Eisenhower administration

-Mary Jane [Last name unknown]

-Graciousness

Marriott gift item

-Presidential library

-Executive Office Building [EOB] office

Inscription

-Mary T. Brooks

-Peace

Paul Findley

-Support for President

Woods left 12:11 pm.

Press conference

-Questions

-Southeast Asia

-Laos, Cambodia

-Prisoners of war [POWs]

-Sudan

-John B. Connally

-Rent control

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-Southeast Asia cease-fire

-Aid to North Vietnam

-Source of funding

-Amnesty

-United Press International [UPI] poll

-Congress

-Blacks

Press conference

-Watergate

-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III

-Importance of story

-Senate hearings

-President’s comments

-Cooperation with Ervin Committee

-Conditions

-Hearings

-Focus

-Evenhandedness

-Hearsay evidence

-Dean’s investigation

-Dean’s testimony

-Mitchell

-Mollenhoff’s question

-Charges

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 12:11 pm.

American Heart Association [AHA] representatives

-Meeting with President

-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

-Dr. Paul Yu

The unknown man and Ziegler left at an unknown time before 12:16 pm.

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