651–10

Conversation No. 651-10

Date: January 19, 1972
Time: 10:30 am - 11:18 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Raymond K. Price, Jr.
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State of the Union Address
-Changes
-Number of words
-Rose Mary Woods
-Vietnam section

Woods entered at an unknown time after 10:30 am.

Speech draft
-Further revisions
-Final copy

Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II

Woods left at an unknown time before 11:00 am.

State of the Union Address
-Foreign Policy section
-Reference to John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address
-Possible interpretation
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Dulles
-World War II
-Nixon Doctrine
-Possible removal
-Reorganization of text
-Context
-Changes in world
-Edward M. Kennedy’s speech, January 18, 1972
-Professional liberal establishment
-Interventionist views
-Phraseology
-Revisions
-Agriculture section
-Value
-Revisions
-Farm income
-Developing rural America theme

The President’s previous conversation with Nelson A. Rockefeller
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-Rockefeller’s State of the State Address
-Newspaper accounts
-John V. Lindsay


Professional liberals compared to conservatives

State of the Union Address
-Revisions
-American industry
-Productivity compared to technology
-Peter G. Peterson’s view
-Phraseology
-Foreign competition
-Goals
-Subtlety
-Changes
-Delivery to Ronald L. Ziegler

State of the Union Address
-Revisions
-Welfare reform
-Duration before Congress
-John D. Ehrlichman
-New York Harbor
-Congress’s work in political year [1972]
-Americans’ view
-Farmers
-Prosperity
-Farm income
-Circulation
-Woods
-Release
-Timing
-Ziegler
-Press coverage
-Woods

An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 10:30 am.

Request that Ziegler join them
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The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 11:00 am.

Edward Kennedy’s speech
-Text
-Tone
-Authorship
-Speechwriter
-Statesmanship
-Responsibility
-Truthfulness

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 11:00 am.

State of the Union Address
-Release to press
-Timing
-Length of statements
-Submitted address
-Pre-release
-Garnett D. (“Jack”) Horner
-Wire services
-Submitted address compared to delivered address
-Recapping and justification
-Appeal for bipartisanship
-Press interest
-Joint release
-Pre-release to evening press and wires
-Delivered address
-Compared with 1970 and 1971 addresses
-New initiatives
-Tone
-Tax reform
-Technology
-Nonpartisanship
-Release to press
-Pre-release to evening press and wires
-General release
-Newspapers and networks
-Network briefing
-Congress
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-Value
-Ziegler’s previous conversation with Ehrlichman
-Submitted address
-Production changes to submitted address
-Ehrlichman’s briefing
-The President’s expectations of Congressional action
-Revenue sharing
-Welfare reform
-Government reorganization
-Health
-Environment

Foreign policy [State of the World] statement
-Release
-Date

State of the Union Address
-Compared with Edward Kennedy’s speech
-Press coverage
-Democrats’ stand on issues
-Possible consequence
-The President’s policy
-Price’s views
-Content
-Content
-Policies

Edward Kennedy
-Popularity
-Ziegler’s view
-Washington, DC
-Women’s press corps

State of the Union Address
-Changes
-Woods
-Copies

Price left at 11:09 am.

Forthcoming press briefing
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-Expropriation
-Policy statement
-Peterson
-Economic issue
-Deficit
-Paul A. Volcker’s statement
-Context
-Hobart Rowen

West Coast Dock strike
-Administration action
-Timing
-State of the Union Address
-Florida

Ziegler’s schedule

Amnesty
-News summary
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s statement
-Prison

Jack N. Anderson Papers
-Patrick J. Buchanan’s concern
-Administration handling
-Compared with Pentagon Papers
-Public reaction
-Henry A. Kissinger
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Kissinger
-Possible press conference
-Administration credibility
-Foreign policy
-India
-Use of United States aid
-Kissinger
-Meetings and conversations with the President
-Tone
-Options for the President
-Ziegler’s briefings
-India
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-US policy
-Ziegler’s briefing in Florida
-The President’s conversations with Kissinger
-Reports in columns
-Administration credibility
-Critics
-Secrecy in government
-Kissinger
-Mood
-J. William Fulbright and associates
-Policy-making role
-The President’s role as policy-maker
-Backgrounder on India
-Plane
-Press room
-US policy
-Kissinger’s representation
-Ziegler’s remarks to Kissinger
-Effect
-Purposes
-Press views
-Buchanan’s view
-Kissinger’s further remarks
-Administration credibility
-Critics
-Public view
-Secret negotiations
-Future disclosures by administration
-Public’s possible reaction
-Public’s view
-Policy formulation
-Credibility
-Leaks
-Timing

State of the Union Address
-Release and distribution
-Friends of administration

Ziegler left at 11:18 am.
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