573–1

Conversation No. 573-1

Date: September 16, 1971
Time: 4:00 pm - 4:58 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler and members of the press.

Alexander P. Butterfield was present after 4:02 pm

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, Henry A. Kissinger, William L. Safire, Clark MacGregor, Herbert G.
Klein, Stephen B. Bull, and Patrick J. Buchanan were present after 4:03 pm.

[General conversation]

[A transcript of this portion of the conversation appears in Public Papers of the Presidents,
Richard M. Nixon, 1971, pp. 949-959]

Canada

Japan

Mexico

Butterfield left at 4:38 pm.

[General conversation]

Kissinger and the members of the press left at 4:39 pm.

Economic action

Question about Black Vice Presidential candidate
-Blacks, Jews, Catholics
-Buchanan's reaction

Military service draft extension legislation
-US peace initiative in the Vietnam war negotiations
-Reaction of the President's opponents
-Congressional action

-Effect of vote
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-US position in the world
-Supremacy issue
-Congressional statements
-Gordon L. Allott, Howard H. Baker, Jr., Len Jordan, Robert A. Taft, Jr.,
Lawton M. Chiles, Jr. and David H. Gambrell
-Allott's position
-Conference report
-Reasons
-Polls
-Youth
-Military bases

South Vietnam
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Election
-Comparison with other countries
-Greece
-African nations


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The President’s recent press conferences
-Effectiveness
-Vietnam
-Draft
-Attica
-Economy
-Phase II
-Number of news leads
-James B. Reston
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-Chou En-lai interview
-Kissinger

An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 4:39 pm.

Cancel request

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 4:45 pm.

Kissinger entered at 4:45 pm

-The President’s forthcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Timing
-Reston
-Chou En-lai interview
-Kissinger
-Article
-Vietnam
-Ngo Dinh Diem
-Coup
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Communists
-Democracy
-Vietnamese election
-Voting eligibility in US in 1800
-US foreign aid
-Number of countries
-Voting eligibility in US in 1800
-Percentage
-Women
-Property requirements
-Slaves
-United Nations [UN] membership for PRC
-Military service draft
-Votes against draft bill
-Possible consequences
-Effect on negotiations
-Possible press coverage
-Demeanor of reporters
-Length
-Frank Cormier
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-Question on Edmund S. Muskie's statement on the vice presidency
-Muskie
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Action at Attica
-Jewish candidate
-Questions of prejudice
-Edward W. Brooke
-The US public
-Catholic question
-Summary
-Television
-Attica
-Exposure for the President
-Use of television time
-Press conference
-Length of answers
-Detroit Economic Club
-Next press conference
-Reston
-Interview with Chou En-lai
-The President's response to question on summit
-Agreement
-Discussion of issues
-Vietnam policy
-Communist takeover
-Prevention
-Peter Lisagor


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Vietnam
-Book by Marguerite Higgins


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-Higgins
-Diem
-Effect of Diem's death on Vietnam

Press conference
-Use of quotes on television
-Election
-Citation of context and historical context

US foreign aid
-Stae Department
-Contested elections
-Greece
-Number of countries
-The President’s instruction
-Asia
-Malaysia
-Singapore
-Philippines
-India
-South Korea
-Africa
-David D. Newsome
-Senegal
-Democratic process
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-Kenya
-Joseph Mobutu
-Tom Mboya
-Press conference
-Media
-Question to Ziegler

The President's schedule
-Carl B. Albert
-Breakfast meeting
-Pay raise

The President, Ziegler, Safire, MacGregor, Klein, Bull, Buchanan, and Haldeman and Kissinger
left at 4:58 pm.