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Conversation No. 683-3

Date: March 13, 1972
Time: 9:41 am - 10:15 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
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Press stories
-Florida primary
-Bangladesh recognition
-India
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Hearings
-Marlow W. Cook
-Executive session
-Population Commission
-Cambodia
-Lon Nol
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-British diplomatic recognition
-Charge d’affaires

Upcoming press briefing
-Questions
-Busing
-The President’s forthcoming statement
-Timing
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union
-Decision
-Preparation
-Drafting
-Message to Congress
-Timing
-Message to Congress
-Constitutional amendment
-Legislation
-The President’s meeting with John D. Ehrlichman, George P. Shultz
and lawyers
-Drafting
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Leonard Garment
-Shultz
-Ehrlichman
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Busing
-Black caucus comments
-Ehrlichman


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Press stories
-The PRC trip
-News summary
-Clayton Fritchey
-Effect of ITT stories
-ITT
-Paris contact between US and PRC
-Overshadow the PRC trip
-Fritchey
-The PRC trip
-Polls
-Key Biscayne
-Tribune article
-Compared to Lyndon B. Johnson
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-Johnson City, Texas
-Compared to Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Augusta, Georgia
-Press briefings
-Gerald L. Warren
-Florida
-California
-Camp David
-Columns
-Joseph C. Kraft article
-News summary
-Press corps during the PRC trip
-Ziegler
-The President’s relationship with the press
-Press during PRC trip
-Visit to Great Wall of China
-Marvin L. Kalb
-Visit to Forbidden City
-Kraft’s article
-Ziegler’s view
-Press corps
-The PRC trip
-Visit to the Great Wall

The President’s forthcoming press conference
-Timing
-ITT
-Hearings
-Dita D. Beard
-Televised press conference

Press corps
-The President’s exposure to the press
-Wire services
-Woodcutters of America
-Example
-United Press International [UPI]
-Marina von N. Whitman swearing-in ceremony
-Photographs
-First woman on a cabinet committee
-James Keogh’s book [President Nixon and the Press]
-Presidents and the press
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-George Washington
-Warren G. Harding
-The President’s relationship with the press
-The PRC trip
-The President’s forthcoming trip to Soviet Union
-Hawaii
-Kraft article
-Great Wall
-The PRC trip
-Peter Lisagor
-Hugh Sidey
-Magazines
-Television coverage of the PRC trip
-Compared to printed press
-Shanghai Communiqué
-Soviet trip
-Britain’s recognition of the PRC
-Lisagor, Sidey, Fritchey and Kraft
-Kraft
-Ziegler’s view
-Fritchey
-WTOP
-Martin Z. Agronsky
-George Putnam
-Washington, DC
-Ziegler’s view

Stephen B. Bull entered at 10:06 am.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Call to the President

Bull left at 10:06 am.

Press
-Ziegler’s schedule
-Neal Ball
-Warren

Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked with the President between 10:06 am and 10:07 am.

[Conversation No. 683-3A]
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[See Conversation No. 21-48; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

Ziegler’s previous press briefing
-Paris contact between the US and PRC
-Ball

Press corps
-Herbert G. Klein
-Stories
-ITT
-Bombing of aircraft
-US-PRC contact in Paris
-New Hampshire primary
-Florida primary
-ITT
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Contributions
-Anti-trust settlement
-Objective
-Congress
-The Administration
-Alger Hiss case
-Five percenter case

The President’s schedule
-Gridiron dinner
-Women’s movement
-Richard (“Dick”) Wilson
-Ziegler’s talk with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Helen A. Thomas
-Shirley Chisholm
-Bella S. Abzug

Busing
-The President’s forthcoming statement
-Timing
-Typing

Whitman swearing-in ceremony
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-Photograph session

Ziegler left at 10:15 am.