725–24

Conversation No. 725-24

Date: May 16, 1972
Time: 10:23 am - 10:52 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Ziegler's location
-Talk with James J. Kilpatrick
-Soviet trip

Soviet trip
-Richard Wilson
-Ralph deToledano
-Funds
-Victor Lasky
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-Call from Ziegler
-President's instructions
-deToledano and Lasky
-The President’s view
-Reader's Digest
-Seeds of Treason
-Alger Hiss case
-Excerpted in Reader's Digest
-Lewis
-Call from Ziegler
-deToledano and Lasky
-President's confidence
-Knowledge

President's schedule
-John B. Connally
-Resignation
-Announcement
-President's statement on George C. Wallace
-President's previous statement
-Connally, George P. Shultz, Caspar W. Weinberger
-Location
-President's statement on Wallace
-Dr. William M. Lukash
-Dr. Walter R. Tkach
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-Wallace's condition
-Dr. Tkach
-Talk with Mrs. Wallace
-Wallace's future location
-Alabama
-Walter Reed Hospital
-Dr. Tkach
-President's offer of services
-Dr. Tkach
-Position
-Walter Reed compared with Bethesda Hospital
-President's offer of services
-Plane to Alabama
-Conally's appearance
-President's statement on Wallace

Wallace
-Assassination attempt
-President's previous statement
-Tone
-Coverage
-President's appearance
-Comparison with Hubert H. Humphrey and George S.
McGovern statements
-President's tone
-New York Times editorial


President's schedule
-Walk to Treasury Department
-Connally
-Shultz
-Meeting
-Handshaking with White House tourists
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Impression conveyed
-Secret Service
-Public concern about safety
-The President’s view
-Calls to Ziegler
-Need for balance
-Press concerns
-Helen Thomas
-News coverage
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The President talked with Haldeman at an unknown time between
10:23 and 10:30 am.

[Conversation No. 725-24A]

Haldeman
-Meeting with Ziegler

[End of telephone conversation]

President's schedule
-Public concern about safety
-A reception (Blue Room?)
-Persons present

Haldeman entered at 10:30 am.

-Walk to Treasury Department
-Impression conveyed
-Connally
-Shultz
-Pace
-Picture with crowd
-Public concern for the Presidents
-Public impression of safety
-New York Times editorial
-Television appearances
-President's opinion
-Walk to Treasury Department
-Connally
-Shultz
-Meeting White House tourists
-Announcement
-Timing
-Duration
-Meeting with Bangladesh diplomats
-Time
-Cabinet meeting
-Time
-Walk to Treasury Department
-Time
-Press briefing
-Connally
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-Questions
-Timing of resignation
-Questions
-Support for Democratic presidential candidate
-The President’s view
-Soviet trip
-Press arrangements
-Time
-Consultation with Henry A. Kissinger
-Consultation with Constance M. (Cornell) (“Connie”) Stuart
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's plans
-Consequences of delay
-Press list
-Approval
-Schedule
-Camp David
-Arrival day
-Departure day
-Purpose
-Henry A. Kissinger's briefing books
-Peter G. Peterson
-President's Sunday reading
-Duration
-Normal Sunday activities

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Wallace
-Assassination attempt
-President's previous statement
-Ziegler's evaluation
-Television
-Compared with McGovern
-Compared with Humphrey
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-Tone
-Calls to Ziegler
-News coverage
-Tone
-Appearance
-Appropriateness
-Mrs. Nixon's appearance

White House redecoration
-Blue Room
-Calls to Mrs. Nixon
-Evaluations
-Washington Post
-The President’s view
-Mrs. Nixon's response
-New York Times
-Furniture arrangement
-Wallpaper
-Colors
-Other rooms to be redecorated
-Red Room
-Green Room
-State Dining Room
-East Room
-Delay
-State Dining Room
-Needs
-Improvements
-Oval Office
-Response of visitors, President

Vietnam
-Change in past week
-Kissinger
-Position
-The President’s view
-Lot's wife
-Soviet summit
-Change in morale
-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-The President’s view
-American people
-West Point
-USS Albany
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-Compared with American students on college campuses
-The President’s view
-Demonstrations
-North Vietnam
-Effect of blockade
-Cutoff of Cambodia
-Comparison to 1968
-Cutoff of sealanes
-Effect of bombing
-Bridges
-Oil dumps
-A bridge
-News photograph
-Kontum Bridge
-Weaponry needed
-South Vietnam
-Troops
-Morale
-Evalutated
-Press coverage
-Washington Post
-Washington Star
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II [?]
-Washington Post
-Comments on Firebase Bastogne capture
-Martin Z. \"Agronsky and Company\" show
-Effect on Soviet summit
-Participants

Soviet summit
-Press corps
-Peter Lisagor
-deToledano
-Lasky
-Kilpatrick
-George Healy
-Talk with Ziegler
-Friendly press
-Frank van der Linden
-Call from Ziegler
-Texas representation
-Robert Baskin
-Dallas Morning News
-Margaret Mayer
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-Dallas Times Herald
-President's instructions
-Columbus, Ohio representation
-Television
-George Putnam
-The President’s view
-G. Duncan Bauman
-Putnam
-Problems
-Compared to William F. Buckley, Jr. and PRC trip
-Bauman
-St. Louis Globe-Democrat
-John F. Osborne
-Discussions
-The President’s view
-Hugh S. Sidey
-Discussions
-Osborne
-Sidey
-Comments to Ziegler about People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Number in press corps
-Number of press going to Soviet Union
-Sidey
-The President’s view
-Opinion of John F. Kennedy
-Lisagor
-Earl Mazo
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-Freelance work on previous trip to Moscow

President's schedule
-Walk to Treasury

Ziegler left at 10:48 am.

-Shultz
-Duration
-Protection


Trade matters
-President's meeting with Donald Mc. I. Kendall
-President's memorandum
-Maurice H. Stans
-Meeting with Peter G. Peterson and Peter M. Flanigan on Soviet trade
-Kendall's report
-Peterson
-The President’s view
-Kissinger
-Compared to Flanigan
-The President’s view
-Flanigan
-The President’s view



-President's Soviet trip
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-Peterson and Flanigan
-Kissinger
-Knowledge of economics
-Economic negotiations
-Flanigan
-Joint Economic Commission
-Purpose
-Credits
-Duration
-Consumables
-Kissinger's position
-Peterson's role
-Guidance from Stans
-Guidance from Kissinger
-Kissinger's role
-Peterson
-Connally
-Economic advisors

Blue Room redecoration
-Call to Mrs. Nixon
-Rose Mary Woods
-Nellie L. Yates
-Stephen B. Bull
-Reviews


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-Reviews

Haldeman left at 10:52 am.
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