744–16

Conversation No. 744-16

Date: June 30, 1972
Time: 11:38-11:50 am.
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Clifford Evans and Ronald L. Ziegler.

The President’s schedule
-Tailor

The President's article on baseball greats
-Stan Musial
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Feb-02)
Conv. No. 744-15 (cont.)

-Evans's question
-The President's methodology
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-The President's interest in sports
-Team concept
-Most courageous baseball players
-Lou Gehrig
-Movie [The Pride of the Yankees]
-Mrs. Gehrig's letter to the President
-Vietnam
-Red Schoendienst
-The President's late brother [Harold Nixon]
-Greatest event
-Bill Mazeroski's home run in 1960 World Series
-The President's conversation with Pittsburgh Pirates' owner
-Pie Traynor
-Bobby Thompson's home run in 1951
-Sandy Koufax's strike-out record

Floyd Patterson
-Memories of conversation with the President
-Funeral of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
-Wilt Chamberlain

Ziegler and Evans left at 11:50 am.