Conversation No. 805-4
Date: October 19, 1972
Time: 10:55 am - 11:02 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
Ziegler's press briefing
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] II announcement
-Legislative programs
-Congress
-Revenue sharing
-Welfare reform
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Forthcoming meeting
-Handling in briefing
-Timing
-Revenue sharing
-Administration's goals
-Congressional action
-Environmental issues
-Ehrlichman
-Number of bills
-Health
-Baseball analogy
-Wire service lead on story
-Non-partisan nature of comments in briefing
-Rating on issues other than revenue sharing
-The President’s 1972 State of the Union message
-Possible debate between the President and George S. McGovern
-1964 campaign
-McGovern’s position
-Associated Press [AP], Aldo B. (“Elbow”) Beckman
-Statements by Clark MacGregor, Robert J. Dole
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