326–19

Conversation No. 326-19

Date: March 24, 1972
Time: 1:24 pm - 2:00 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

The President’s forthcoming press conference
-Possible topics
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Northern Ireland
-Press coverage

Public relations
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-John B. Connally’s previous Today appearance
-Donald Rumsfeld’s previous Meet the Press appearance

The President’s forthcoming press conference
-The President’s possible demeanor
-Ziegler’s view
-Connally
-National economy
-Pay Board
-Judiciary Committee
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Vote on Richard G. Kleindienst’s nomination

National news items
-Herbert Stein’s statement
-Ziegler’s view
-Food prices
-Price Commission
-Connally’s statement
-Unknown person [Hubert H. Humphrey?]
-Productivity Commission
-Busing
-Detroit
-Stephen J. Roth
-Moratorium
-Department of Justice
-New York banks’ prime rate
-Unknown bank
-First National Bank

The President talked with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman at an unknown time between 1:24 pm and
1:28 pm.

[Conversation No. 326-19A]

National economy
-New York banks’ prime rate
-Connally

[End of telephone conversation]
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The President’s forthcoming press conference
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Statement in New Orleans
-Vice Presidency
-The President’s view
-Politics
-Primaries
-George C. Wallace
-Campaign spending
-Buchanan’s view
-Wallace
-Section 315 regarding equal time
-Possible debates
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.’s equity amendment

Haldeman talked with the President between 1:28 pm and 1:29 pm.

[Conversation No. 326-19B]

[See Conversation No. 22-16]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President’s forthcoming press conference
-Politics
-Possible debates
-The President’s view
-Timing of political speeches
-Debates
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Press interest
-Itinerary
-Agenda
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
- Trade
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Thomas F. Eagleton’s attack
-Ziegler’s statements
-Richard W. McLaren’s statements
-Chile
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-Statement Department
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Sherman Adams
-Harry S. Truman
-Alger Hiss
-Harry H. Vaughn
-Scandals
-Proof of charges
-Harry S. Truman

Press
-Ziegler’s forthcoming list
-The President’s view
-Television
-Radio
-Nicholas P. Thimmesch
-Frank van der Linden
-Richard (“Dick”) Wilson
-Clark R. Mollenhoff
-Wire services
-Frank Cormier
-Ziegler’s view
-Helen Thomas
-Gaylord Shaw
-Preparation

The President’s forthcoming press conference
-Schedule
-Timing
-Length
-Jim Deakin
-Cormier

Unknown man
-Views of the press
-Busing
-Liberals
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Unknown man [George C. Wallace?]
-Tax reform
-Democratic presidential candidates
-Combined tenure in Senate
-Inactivity

The President’s forthcoming press conference
-National economy
-Price control
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-George Meany
-Leonard Woodcock
-Busing legislation
-South
-School bus accident
-Separate but equal education
-Ziegler’s statement regarding the President’s views
-Brown vs. the Topeka Board of Education
-The President’s view
-Ziegler’s view
-George P. Shultz’s views

The President’s schedule
-Press conferences
-Frequency
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Democratic National Convention
-The President’s view
-Ziegler’s conversation with Haldeman
-Format
-Timing and location
-Democratic National Convention
-Republican National Convention
-San Clemente
-Democratic National Convention
-The President’s view
-Staff schedules
-Youth
-Possible international press conference
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Ziegler’s conversation with Haldeman
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-The President’s demeanor
-Compared to Connally’s demeanor
-Meany
-Charts

Agnew
-Press coverage
-Statements to press
-California
-ITT
-Ziegler’s view
-Defensiveness
-Press coverage

The President’s forthcoming press conference
-National economy
-The President’s program
-Price controls
-Humphrey, Meany
-Food prices
-Price Commission
-Middlemen
-Farmers
-Ziegler’s view
-Pay Board
-Inflation

Ziegler left at 2:00 pm.
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