836–5

Conversation No. 836-5

Date: January 9, 1973
Time: 8:56 am - 9:37 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods at 8:56 am.

Dictation machine
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Virtues
-Purpose
-Memoranda not to be transcribed

Unknown person entered at an unknown time after 8:56 am.

Refreshments

Unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:10 am.

Dictation machine
-Dictaphone
-Type of tapes
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Note taking on trips


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-Books

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Walter H. Annenberg
-Telephone call to Woods
-Birthday wishes to the President

Tricia Nixon Cox’s trip to Europe
-Thank you letters
-National Security Council [NSC] staff member
-Recipients
-Annenberg
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Tone
-Sample
-Recipients
-Prague Embassy
-Mrs. Dobrynin
-Moscow
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

The President's birthday
-Roses
-Gifts for the President
-Bernard J. (“Bunny”) Lasker
-French Ambassador
-Fred Schloder [?]
-Frederic V. Malek
-Son [?]
-Wire service
-Washington Post

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 9:08 am.
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Dictation machine
-Operation

Woods left at 9:10 am.

Press coverage of the President's birthday
-New York Times
-Washington Post
-Radio
-Television [TV]
-Lead

Woods entered at an unknown time after 9:10 am.

Roses
-The President's desk

Woods left at an unknown time before 9:37 am.

Press coverage of the President's birthday
-Saul Pett story
-Ages
-Congressmen
-Senators
-Supreme Court judges
-Konrad Adenauer

Press relations
-Accessibility
-Pett
-Interviews
-Complaints
-Associated Press [AP]
-United Press International [UPI]
-Baseball story
-Preparation
-TV
-AP, UPI
-New York Times
-Ziegler's interview
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-Pentagon Papers
-Confidentiality rules
-Robert Semple
-Raymond W. Apple, Jr.
-Drinking
-Attitude toward the President
-President's philosophy on reporting
-Tom Wicker
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-Columns and editorials
Compared to news/reporting
Bias

Herbert G. Klein story
-Internal power struggle
-Ziegler as Press Secretary
-Director of Communications Office
-Carroll Kilpatrick
-The President’s opinion of reporting
-Telephone call to Ziegler
-Reorganization of White House staff
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Ziegler’s staff adjustments
-Viciousness

The President’s birthday story
-Wire services
-Pictures of the President
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-John McCrary
-Washington Post
-Washington Star
-Fran Lewine
-Helen Thomas
-The President’s points
-Congress members, judges

Ground rules for interviews
-Direct quotes
-Honesty
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Vietnam settlement
-Paris story
-Protocol
-Kissinger
-Ambitions

Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT] talks
-Bernard Gwertzman of New York Times
-Progress
-Story regarding Soviet summit
-SALT I
-Clifton V. Daniel
-Credibility

New York Times
-Validity of news stories
-SALT I
-SALT II
-Credibility
-Major events of first-term
-Editorials
-Leaks
-State Department
-Defense Department
-Soviet summit
-Antiballistic missiles [ABM]
-The President's People's Republic of China (PRC) trip
-Taiwan
-Chiang Kai-shek

Wage and price controls
-George P. Shultz
-Format for meeting press
-Vietnam settlement
-Paris
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Press conferences
-Briefing books
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-Second-term reorganization
-Transition period
-Presidential press conferences
-1973 Inauguration
-Vietnam settlement
-Wage and price controls
-Shultz
-Statement
-Radio taping
-Roberto Clemente
-Television [TV]

Press relations
-Plans
-TV
-Press briefings
-Watergate
-Press
-Mood
-Vietnam settlement
-Bombing
-Policy explanation
-Congressional briefing
-B-52 bombers
-Response
-Timing
-Mrs. Nixon's event
-Washington Post
-Klein
-News story
-The President’s opinion

Ronald L. Ziegler left at 9:37 am.