250–16

Conversation No. 250-16

Date: April 16, 1971
Time: 3:15 pm - 3:27 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler

Preparation for editors’ meeting
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] surveillance
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Questions
-Ziegler’s responses to press
-News conference, April 16, 1971
-”False impression” of FBI as spying on law-abiding citizens
-President’s possible responses
-Richard A. Moore
-Washington Post article
-President’s instructions for Buchanan
-Press irresponsibility
-Surveillance
-Washington Post
-Scare story
-Cameras on White House
-Lafayette Park
-Press corps
-Instructions to Ziegler
-Justice Department
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Wiretapping
-FBI
-[New York Times story of April 16, 1971]
-Allegation of FBI monitoring telephone conversation [involving John
Dowdy]
-Wiretapping
-President
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration: 6s ]


FOREIGN AFFAIRS Conv. No. 250-16 (cont.)


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Preparation for editors’ meeting
-FBI surveillance
-President’s possible responses
-Robert F. (“Bobby”) Kennedy
-Use of wiretapping
-Edmund S. Muskie and Charles H. Percy
-Administration’s policy
-President’s possible responses to press
-Phony issue
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Press
-Peter Lisagor
-New York Times story
-Ziegler’s response to question at news conference
-FBI’s responsibility
-Crimes
-Arrests
-National security
-Press
-Need for firmness

Ziegler left at 3:27 pm
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