714–13

Conversation No. 714-13

Date: April 20, 1972
Time: 12:06 pm - 12:29 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Ziegler's schedule
-Meeting with Clarence Walton’s commission

Democrats in House of Representatives

Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked with the President between 12:07 and 12:08 pm.

[Conversation No. 714-13A]

[See Conversation No. 23-49]
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[End of telephone conversation]

Vietnam
-Bombing
-Vote of House Democrats
-Floor vote
-Condemnation of North Vietnam
-Democratic caucus
-Alternatives
-Administration rebuttal
-Rebuff to North Vietnamese invasion
-Break-down of vote
-Previous votes
-Opposition to resolution
-Haig
-Meeting with press
-Robert J. McCloskey
-Observations on Vietnam
-North Vietnam
-State and Defense Departments
-Term to be used
-Instructions to Ziegler, McCloskey and Daniel Z. Henkin
-Negotiations
-North Vietnamese note
-US response
-Current status
-Briefing
-[Gerald L. Warren]
-Ziegler
-Warren
-North Vietnamese invasion
-Democratic resolution
-Response
-Contradictions
-Ineffectiveness against weapons
-Soviets
-College professors' protests
-Washington Post story
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Attack on Democrats
-Speech at American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE] event

Press
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-Coverage of panda presentation to National Zoo
-Coverage of table tennis event
-Chinese

John D. Ehrlichman's schedule
-Briefings
-Benefits

The President's schedule
-Press conference
-Scheduling
-War situation
-Pennsylvania primary
-Press coverage
-Length
-Conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Troop announcement
-Foreign policy questions

International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Committee action
-Decision
-Schedule
-Handling
-Peter M. Flanigan testimony

Henry A. Kissinger's Moscow trip
-Ziegler's knowledge
-Warren
-Receipt of telephone calls
-Return from Camp David
-Inquiries
-Kissinger’s location
-Answers
-Referral to Haig
-Telephone calls
-National Security Council [NSC] office
-Camp David
-Ziegler's statement
-Staff meeting
-Make-up of group
-Kissinger, Ehrlichman and Haldeman
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-Kissinger's presence
-The President's plans
-ASNE
-Senior staff members
-Kissinger, Ehrlichman and Haldeman
-Kissinger's location
-The President's schedule
-Sunday stories
-Build-up
-The President's article for U.S. News and World Report
-Foreign policy
-Taxes
-Legislation

Taxes
-Non-public schools
-Credits
-Commitments
-Clarence Walton
-Constitutionality
-Passage by Congress
-Opposition
-Commitments
-Current studies
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW] and Treasury
Department
-Major questions
-Administration's support for credits

The President's schedule
-Haldeman’s schedule
-Camp David
-Meeting with Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
-White House Photographers Dinner
-Rehearsal
-Arrangements
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-Hope
-Dinners
-The President's attendance
-Ziegler’s talk with Haldeman
-White House Photographers
-George Tames
-Hope
-Gridiron
-White House Correspondents Association
-Women's Press Association
-Value
-White House Photographers
-Correspondents Association
-Gridiron
-Women's Press Association

ASNE Dinner
-Ziegler's evaluation
-Women's Press Club
-Reuben O. Askew
-Robert C. Wilson
-Voice
-Slide presentation
-John B. Connally
-Speech
-Jack B. Krueger
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ASNE White House reception
-Ziegler's attendance
-Cabinet members' attendance
-Arrangement
-Haldeman
-Tour of White House second floor
-California editors
-Meeting with Ziegler and Herbert G. Klein
-Blair House
-Meeting with the President
-Question and answer session

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Haig
-Instructions to Herbert L. Porter

Ziegler left at 12:29 pm.