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Conversation No. 279-3

Date: September 22, 1971
Time: Unknown between 10:53 am and 11:14 am
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Ziegler's press briefing
-The President's statement about the departure of the
Washington Senators baseball team
-Home team
-Opening day tradition of the President throwing out the first ball
-Baltimore Orioles baseball team
-Nation's capital
-Lack of baseball team
-Orioles
-Major leagues
-Game in Washington, DC
-Orioles
-California Angels baseball team
-Throwing the first ball
-Home team
-Senators
-Announcement of meeting between the President and Andrei A. Gromyko
-Date

Question and answer [Q&A] session at Detroit Economic Club, September 23, 1971
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Tape Subject Log
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-Television cameras
-Mark I. Goode
-Arrangements for telecast
-Goode
-Arrangements for telecast
-Detroit Economic Club
-Audience position
-Position of aisles
-The President's position
-Cameras
-Television coverage of session
-Number of cameras
-Quality of coverage
-Goode
-Location of cameras
-The People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Speculation about internal conditions
-Arrangements for telecast
-Cameras
-White House press corps
-Number participating in Q&A session
-Members of panel
-White House reporters
-Questions
-Local press
-White House press corps
-Participation in the session

News story about the President's September 21, 1971 meeting with race car drivers
-Release date
-Television
-Coverage
-Sports magazines
-Sports pages of newspapers
-Pictures
-Magazines

Ziegler's press briefing
-Foreign policy issues during news conference
-The President's press conference
-Volunteer army
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 279-3 (cont.)


-Maintaining defense
-Foreign policy
-The President's long term commitment to a volunteer army
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Catch-up period
-Figures
-Adjustment of points
-Interest in consumer issues
-The press
-Prices
-Agriculture
-Coverage of the President's meeting with special interest groups
-Governors
-Meetings with Senators and Congressmen
-Consumers
-Agriculture
-Labor
-Consumers
-The press
-Issue
-Consumers
-Possible economic issues
-Tax programs
-Ways and Means Committee
-Actions of the Committee
-Administration program
-The President's previous statement
-Vote on tax program
-Senate
-Tax action
-Speed
-Stimulation of jobs
-Congress
-Tax action

Q&A session in Detroit
-Television coverage
-Cameras
-Electronic camera
-The press corps
-Future meetings
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 279-3 (cont.)


-Size of press corps
-Television image
-Audience
-Speakers
-Typewriters
-Location of press corps
-Audience
-Monitors

White House correspondents
-Douglas B. Cornell
-Reception
-Years as White House reporter
-Herbert C. Hoover
-Wire service reporter
-Retirement
-Age
-Reception
-Attendance by wives
-Helen Thomas
-Stag
-Working press corps
-White House
-Capitol Hill
-Wire services
-Associated Press [AP]
-United Press International [UPI]
-Number of guests
-AP
-Wire services
-Marvin L. Arrowsmith
-Reporter

Ziegler’s press briefing
-Attica state prison riot
-Questions about situation
-The President's previous press conference
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Questions on Vietnam
-Answers by Military Assistance Command, Vietnam [MACV] and the
Department of Defense
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 279-3 (cont.)


-Buildup in the demilitarized zone [DMZ]
-US troops
-Air strikes
-Weather
-DMZ
-Military build-up

Ziegler left at an unknown time before 11:14 am.