848–4

Conversation No. 848-4

Date: February 5, 1973
Time: 9:03 am - 9:33 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
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Meeting of Pay and Price Board
-Departure of members
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Phase III

Impoundment
-Amount of funds
-Percentage
-Letter to Congressional leaders

Testimony on Capitol Hill
-George P. Shultz
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Roy L. Ash
-William E. Timmons
-Weinberger’s confirmation
-Quality of testimony

White House staff
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Herbert G. Klein
-Trip to Vietnam and People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Job offer
-University of Connecticut
-Consultant role in administration
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Herbert G. Klein
-Trip to Vietnam and PRC
-Press relations
-Foreign press
-Klein
-PRC
-Vietnam
-Klein
-Job offer
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Congress
-Problems
-Cuts
-Ehrlichman
-John V. Lindsay [?]
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-Counterattack
-Briefing

Nolde family
-Press
-Danger of exploitation
-Funeral
-Visit to White House
-Meeting with the President
-Photographs
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Wire services

Press relations
-Chicago Tribune
-Editorials
-News summary
-Bombing
-Concerns over Clay T. (“Tom”) Whitehead's statements
-Front-page story
-Television stations
-Broadcasting legislation
-Public exposure
-Time magazine
-Comments on the President
-Chicago Tribune
-Saul Pett interview for the President's 60th birthday
-Objections
-Play in press
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-Press conferences
-Questions
-Personal relations with journalists
-Effectiveness
-Journalists' reactions
-The President’s views
-Social relations
-Proximity
-Ziegler’s view
-Pett
-Barbara Walters
-Personal stories in the press
-Effectiveness for the administration
-Obviousness
-Pett
-Subtlety
-Past policy
-William L. Safire
-Calls to columnists
-Coordination
-Interviews
-Pett
-Birthday interview

-Edward R. G. Heath's visit
-Press coverage
-Great Britain
-Interest in Heath's visit
-Don Maitland
-Chief Press Secretary
-Wire services
-The President walks with Heath
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew’s trip
-Press coverage
-Tone
-Visit to Laos
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-Security
-Arrival in Vientiane
-Meeting with the President
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Security
-Prerogatives
-United States Secret Service [USSR]
-The President’s 1953 trip
-Publicity
-Goodwill visits
-Vietnam
-Hospital
-Travel
-Meeting with the President
-Whitehead
-Local control of media
-Chicago Tribune
-Amnesty
-Briefing for Ziegler
-Vote
-Haynes B. Johnson's article
-Abraham Lincoln's policy
-Enemy
-Deserters, Southerners
-Attitudes of draft dodgers
-Forgiveness
-US apology
-The President's attitude
-Misconception
-Penalties
-Samuel A. Donaldson
-Congress
-Comment to Dan Rather
-Ziegler's answer to press inquiries
-The President’s use of the word “liberal”
-Individual cases
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-Mercy
-Compared to blanket amnesty
-Agnew
-Publicity with Cabinet
-Ego
-Foreign policy
-Column by Vermont Royster
-News summaries
-Liberal columnist, commentators
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-Washington Post
-Editorial
-Vietnam settlement
-Nguyen van Thieu’s opposition
-Effect
-Opposition to Vietnam cease-fire
-General attitudes
-Working press
-The President’s view
-Columns
-Paul Greenberg
-Adrian Lee
-Social columns
-Betty Beale
-Kandy S. Stroud
-Beale
-Inauguration
-Interview preference

Ziegler left at 9:33 am.
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