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Conversation No. 866-19

Date: March 1, 1973
Time: 3:06-3:30 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Robert Roth, Walter T. Ridder, Richard L. Wilson, John L. Steele,
Lucian C. Warren, Jerald F. terHorst and Ronald L. Ziegler.The White House Photographer was
present at the beginning of the meeting.

Introductions

Photographs

Press passes [?]

Gridiron Club
-[Unintelligible name]
-Associate member

Seating arrangements
-Visiting heads of state

Edward R. G. Cox
-Attendance at Gridiron Club dinner
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Navy

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:06 pm.

Refreshment
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-George P. Shultz’s drink

Manolo Sanchez left at an unknown time after 3:26 pm.

Invitation to Gridiron dinner
-President's inability to attend
-Other meetings
-White House Correspondents
-Radio and Television Correspondents
-White House Photographers
-Women reporters
-President's attendance
-1974, 1975, 1976

Gridiron Club
-Presidents
-1976 Woody Hoffman
-Admission of women

Gridiron dinner
-William P. Rogers
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Rogers
-Vietnam settlement
-Prisoners of War [POWs] issue
-List of names
-Clark Air Force base
-President's contributions
-Checkers
-Duet skit
-Agnew
-Guests
-President’s toast
-President’s schedule
-White House Correspondents
-Radio and Television Correspondents
-Conflict
-State dinner
-Skits
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-Duet
-Milton S. Eisenhower
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Nikita S. Khrushchev take-off
-William B. Thompson
-Foreign visitors
-Head of state
-Reactions
-Invitation
-Planning
-Golda Meir
-Edward R. G. Heath
-Reaction
-Possibility
-Annual visit
-Maxine Chesire, Francis A. (“Frank”) Sinatra
-Appearance
-Hair
-Resident's contribution to current dinner
-Agnew

Gridiron Club
-Traditions
-Pressure from women
-POW appearance
-Social events
-Air Force colonel
-Robinson Risner
-Virginia
-Sergeant
-[First name unknown] Flagg
-Doug Ramsey
-Adm. John S. McCain, Jr.
-Capt. Jeremiah A. Denton, Jr., Risner
-John S. McCain, III
-Captivity
-President's meeting with wife of sailor
-U.S.S. Saratoga
-POW bracelet
-Jack S. McCain, III
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-Past dinner
-Judge
-Publishers

Gridiron dinner
-Invitation to Heath
-Kissinger
-Great Britain
-Alliance
-Skit
-Speech
-Possibility
-Heath’s wit
-Leonid I Brezhnev
-Invitation
-Chou En-lai
-Invitation
-Skits
-Kissinger
-Gifts
-Cufflinks
-Heath
-[Shah of Iran] Mohammed Reza Pahlevi

Gifts
-Photographs

President's speech on impoundment

Roth et al. left at 3:26 pm. Ronald L. Ziegler remained.

Gridiron dinner
-Heath
-Foreign visitor
-Demeanor of Gridiron dinner

Church services
-Gridiron Club officers
-List
-Rose Mary Woods
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-New York Times
-Washington Post
-Baltimore Sun-Times
-Detroit News
-Hearst newspapers
-Mike Cole
-Wilson
-Criticism of editorial policy of paper
-TerHorst
-Ridder
-Alcoholism
-Roth
-Liberalism
-Lucian Warren

Gridiron dinners
-Year to attend
-1974
-1973
-Reasons for not attending
-George S. McGovern
-Roth, Ziegler, Wilson
-Refusal to attend 1973 inauguration
-Press comments

President’s schedule
-Woods

Ronald Ziegler left at 3:30 pm.