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Conversation No. 840-3

Date: February 3, 1973
Time: Unknown between 9:10 am and 10:29 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Ronald L. Ziegler’s location

Henry A. Kissinger's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:29 am.

Ziegler entered at 9:55 am.

United Press International [UPI] story
-Inaccuracies in story
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-White House car
-Corrections
-Type of car
-Plymouth, Chrysler
-Impression of story
-Limousine

Kissinger's trip to Hanoi
-Press relations
-Press participation in trip
-Resolution by National Press Club

Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:55 am.

Moving
-Unknown person

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:29 am.
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Kissinger's trip to Hanoi
-Press contact with Democratic Republic of Vietnam [DRV]
-Press to accompany Kissinger
-Negotiations
-Press in Hanoi
-Reasons for going
-Protests

Prisoner exchange
-Press relations
-Exploitation of Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Condition of POWs
-George E. Allen
-Woody Hayes
-Press relations
-Protection from individual
-Press attacks on the President
-Lester Markel
-Article in New York Times
-Faults of press
-Self-evaluation
-Press to go to Hanoi
-Resolution by National Press Club
-Emotions

The President's press conference
-Commentaries by Dan Rather
-The President’s anger
-1962 campaign
-Ziegler’s views
-Press reaction
-Courtney R. Sheldon
-Rather as representative of the press
-Jules J. Witcover
-Vermont Royster
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-Mixed opinions
-Rather’s comments
-Television [TV] coverage
-Charles W. Colson
-Rather's style
-White House letter
-Columbia Broadcast System [CBS]
-Rather

Ziegler's relations with press
-Attention to Rather
-Factual errors
-Opinion
-Marvin Kalb
-James McManus
-Westinghouse Corporation
-Question to Ziegler
-Ziegler’s response

-Press bias
-TV reaction to the President's conference
-Clips

Kalb
-Robert Pierpoint
-Call to Ziegler
-Questions to Kissinger in TV interview
-Kissinger's answers
-Dull questions
-Attacks on Kissinger
-Ziegler’s view of interview

Ziegler's announcement on Beijing
-Barbara Walters
-Telephone call
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Ziegler attempted to reach the White House operator but was unsuccessful.

White House operator

The President's press conference
-Rather
-Impact on journalists
-Conflict
-Witcover’s article
-TV coverage
-Prime time
-Format
-Future press conferences
-Executive Office Building [EOB] briefing room
-Number
-Setting
-TV setting
- East Room
-Impression
-Number of journalists
-East Room

POWs
-Press relations
-Privacy
-Exploitation
-Meeting with journalists

Barbara Walters talked with Ziegler at an unknown time between 9:55 am and 10:29 am.

[Conversation No. 840-3A]

[See Conversation No. 43-16]

The President talked with Walters at an unknown time before 10:29 am.
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The President conferred with Ziegler at an unknown time before 10:29 am.

Instructions to Ziegler
-Exclusive for Walters upon Kissinger’s return

Kissinger's schedule


[End of telephone conversation]

Kissinger's return to US
-Press coverage

Press relations
-1973 Inauguration
-January 23, 1973 announcement
-Lyndon B. Johnson's funeral
-Radio speech
-Budget
-Accessibility
-Mood

Trip to California
-Cancellation
-Florida

Press conference at Western White House
-Arrangements
-Live TV
-Tent
-Background
-Local press
-Setting
-Facilities
-Tent
-Compared to hotel or high school gym
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Conversation No. 840-3 (cont’d)



-Acoustics
-Tent
-Ziegler’s experience

UPI story
-Limousine
-Impression
-Aristocracy

Kissinger's schedule
-Meeting with the President
-POWs

Ziegler left at an unknown time before 10:29 am.