793–9

Conversation No. 793-9

Date: October 6, 1972
Time: 10:06 am - 10:36 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Greetings

[Pause]

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:06 am and
10:10 am.

[Conversation No. 793-9A]

[See Conversation No. 31-8]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's schedule
-Radio address on Federal spending
-Timing
-Distribution
-US News & World Report
-The President’s October 5, 1972 press conference
-Press and media coverage

President’s recent press conference
-Media coverage
-Tax increase in 1973
-Second term
-Government spending limit
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-Appropriations Authorization programs
-Water bill
-Congressional spending
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Involvement
-Patrick J. Buchanan’s news analysis
-Press

Charles W. Colson entered at 10:10 am.

-Lyndon K. (\"Mort\") Allin
-Previous conversation with Colson
-Buchanan
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-Allin
-Lead story on all major television [TV] networks
-President's points
-Corruption charges
-Jerome R. Waldie
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
-Voice over

The President talked with Allan Shivers between 10:14 and 10:16 a.m.

[Conversation No. 793-9B]

[See Conversation No. 31-9]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President’s recent press conference
-Press standards
-Double standard
-Carroll Kilpatrick
-Story
-Media coverage
-Press and wire services
-Points
-Tax reform
-Corruption
-Networks
-Buchanan’s news analysis
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-George S. McGovern
-October 5, 1972 foreign policy speech
-1972 campaign
-Response
-McGovern’s recent foreign policy speech
-Frank Reynolds

Haldeman entered at 10:26 am.

Ziegler's schedule
-Richard G. Valeriani

Valeriani
-Reporting on McGovern
-Tone
-Edward M. Kennedy’s trip to Chicago

The President’s recent press conference
-News summary
-Mailing

1972 campaign
-Attack mode
-Issues
-Foreign policy, amnesty, welfare, permissiveness
-Melvin R. Laird
-Face the Nation
-William P. Rogers forthcoming press conference
-McGovern's recent foreign policy speech in Cleveland
-Timing
-McGovern’s forthcoming TV appearance
-McGovern’s recent foreign policy speech
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Regional security
-Indians
-Chinese
-Japanese
-Koreans
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-Thailand, Cambodia, Laos
-Rogers
-Views of McGovern
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-Europe
-Vietnam
-Laird
-Rogers
-Tone
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-South Dakota, Hanoi
-Rogers
-Rogers’s forthcoming press conference
-Schedule
-State Department


Press conferences
-Frequency
-Post-1972 election
-October 5, 1972
-Newsworthiness of comments
-Network coverage
-Lead slot for reporting
-Points on taxes, elderly, communist takeover in South Vietnam
-Allin
-Clawson
-John A. Scali
-Allin
-Jews

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 10:26 am.

The President's schedule

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:36 am.

Network coverage
-Colson’s view
-The President’s recent press conference
-Political context
-Politcal context
-Viewing the President as candidate, not President
-Strategic Arms Limitation treaty [SALT] agreement signing
-J. William Fulbright
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
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-Comparison with 1968
-Edith Efron's analysis [The News Twisters]
-Haldeman's view of in-office press conferences
-East Room
-Equal time for McGovern
-Audience
-Debate
-Television [TV]
-Ceremonial events
-SALT signing
-Film clips
-In-office press conference
-Impact
-President’s recent press conference
-Buchanan's analysis
-Efron
-Press relations
-Tone
-1972 compared to 1968
-McGovern
-President’s recent press conference
-Press reaction
-Questions
-Ziegler’s conversation with Diane Sawyer
-Press relations
-Tone
-Press conferences
-East Room
-Tone
-In-office
-TV

Ziegler, Colson and Haldeman left at 10:36 am.