Date: October 7, 1972
Time: 10:16 am - 10:28 am
Location: Camp David Study Table
The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.
[See Conversation No. 217-14]
The President's schedule
-Text of radio speech of October 7, 1972
-Release
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Rose Mary Woods
-Spending ceiling
-Buildup
-Tax reform
-Property taxes
Analysis of George S. McGovern charges on corruption
-Effect
-Press
-Philip Potter
-McGovern
-Comments on demagoguery, amnesty
-Chicago
-Reference to the President
-The President’s view
-Forthcoming television advertisements
-Speaking voice
-Tone
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Oct-06)
-WTOP [Washington, DC radio station]
-Time spot
-McGovern's foreign policy speech
-Timing
-McGovern’s style
Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-McGovern
-One-on-one interview
-Schedule
-Format
-Mass conference
-Length
-President’s policy on interviews
-McGovern
-Timing
-Comparison to the President, John F. Kennedy in 1960 campaign
-Format
-The President’s schedule
-Congress
-Excerpts
-Networks
-Other requests
-Networks, wire services, United Press International [UPI]
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Exclusive
-McGovern
-President
-Spacing
-Ziegler’s previous conversation with Cronkite
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-Howard K. Smith
-Post-election
-Timing
-McGovern
-Cronkite
-Memorandum to H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
Television
-The President's conversation with Haldeman and Charles W. Colson
-Live presentation of press conference
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