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Conversation No. 794-12

Date: October 9, 1972
Time: unknown after 3:10 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Samuel I. Newhouse and Herbert G. Klein; the meeting began in
progress.

[Photograph session]
-The President’s previous meeting with Newhouse
-1960

Newhouse Newspapers
-List
-Klein
-Mississippi
-Pascagoula
-Mississippi Press Register
-Mobile, Alabama
-New Orleans
-Coverage
-Mississippi, Alabama, New Jersey, New York
-Portland, Oregon
-St. Louis, Missouri
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-Springfield, Massachusetts
-The President’s visit as Congressman

Refreshment

Newhouse Newspapers
-Newark, New Jersey
-Newark Star-Ledger
-Previous prosperity
-Unions
-Newark News
-Effect of endorsement on state
-Cleveland Plain Dealer
-Thomas Vail
-Property
-Circulation numbers
-Compared to Cleveland Press
-California
-Los Angeles Chronicle
-Family ownership
-Los Angeles Examiner
-Newhouse’s attempt to buy
-Dennis McElroy
-Marriage
-Television
-San Diego
-Los Angeles
-San Jose
-Ridder Publications
-Sacramento Union
-John Copley
-Stock ownership
-Copley’s health
-Gift for Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Mitzi (Epstein) Newhouse
-Vogue interview
-Vogue, House and Garden
-Newhouse ownership
-Mitzi Newhouse
-Possible letter from Mrs. Nixon
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-Mrs. Nixon’s location
-New York
-Chicago
-Columbus Day


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Newspapers ownership
-Department of Justice
-Stock ownership
-New York Stock Exchange
-Potential problems with bureaucracy
-Group ownership
-Los Angeles Times, William Randolph Hearst

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:10 pm.

Schedule
-John E. Ehrlichman
-John W. Dean, III
-Position
-Hair length

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:23 pm.

Television-newspaper ownership
-Public interest groups
-Possible attacks on Newhouse
-Klein
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-The President’s view
-New York Daily News
-WPIX
-Jack Quinn
-Chicago Tribune
-Anti-business establishment
-The President’s view
-Anti-trust enforcement
-US competitiveness
-Europe
-Soviet Union
-John B. Connally
-Interest in subject
-The President’s interest

Dean entered at 3:23 pm.

Introduction
-Dean’s background
-Department of Justice

Philosophy toward television-newspaper ownership
-Newhouse Newspapers and stock ownership
-Copley
-Vogue
-Congress
-Department of Justice
-Federal Communications Commission [FCC]
-Administration standard
-Anti-trust justifications
-Ecology, equal rights
-Money
-Counter advertisement
-Serving the public interest and objections
-Buffalo
-Syracuse
-Possible changes
-Newhouse’s desire to remain in newspapers, magazines
-Lawsuit
-Arthur Goldberg
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-Abner J. Mikva
-Possible case
-Department of Justice anti-trust division
-Thomas Kauper
-Big business
-White House
-Dean
-Bureaucracy
-Control
-Department of Justice anti-trust division
-Attitude toward business
-Compared with the attitude in the White House
-Running of newspapers
-Editorial policy
-Newspaper Guild, Unions
-Washington Daily News
-New York
-Number of papers
-Portland, Oregon
-Editors and publishers
-Vail
-Franchises
-Harlan Sanders [Kentucky Fried Chicken]

1972 campaign
-Klein’s recent meeting with Newhouse in New York
-Blacks
-Number of newspapers in Alabama
-John J. Sparkman
-Winton M. (“Red”) Blount
-Cleveland Plain Dealer
-Oregonian, Oregan Journal
-St. Louis Globe-Democrat [?]
-Bill Nickels
-St. Louis

Presidential gift giving
-Letter from Mrs. Nixon

Bull entered, left, and reentered at an unknown time before 3:34 pm.
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-Cuff links
-Presidential seal
-Pin
-Presidential seal
-Mrs. Newhouse

Newhouse, Klein, and Dean left at 3:34 pm.