835–6

Conversation No. 835-6

Date: January 8, 1973
Time: Between 9:35 and 10:43 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler at 9:35 am.

Weather

Henry A. Kissinger
-Public relations man
-Paris
-Delegation press man
-Ziegler’s conversation with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Reaction

News from Paris
-No comment
-Vietnam negotiations
-Gerald L. Warren

SALT negotiations
-U. Alexis Johnson as new negotiator
-Gerald E. Smith
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-Roy L. Ash
-Washington Post

Watergate
-Press office
-Handling of comments
-Department of Justice

President's 60th birthday
-Warren
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Party
-Rose Mary Woods
- Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo

Tricia Nixon Cox and Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-“Leningrad” flu

President's 60th birthday
-Frances Lewine
-Helen A. Thomas
-Comment

Press relations
-Saul Pett
-Press pool
-Television [TV]
-Wire services
-Forrest Boyd
-Magazines
-Radio
-Networks
-East Room affair
-Gregory Peck
-Preparation
-White House Press Club
-Oval Office
-TV
-Mini-cameras
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-Quality
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Richard A. Moore
-Washington Press Corps
-Washington Post
-Frank van der Linden
-Jerald C. (“Jerry”) terHorst
-Boyd
-Press conferences
-East Room
-Timing
-Networks
-Oval Office
-Time of day
-Impact
-Radio
-Outside office
-Handling sensitive international issues
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Herbert G. Klein's statement
-Vietnam negotiations
-No comment
-Positive effect on foreign policy
-Effectiveness

-Social events
-Haldeman


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-Type of press coverage
-Mrs. Nixon
-Activities with President's participation
-Press women
-Other guests
-Press pool
-Entertainment
-Mrs. Nixon
-Church service
-Washington Post
-Washington Star
-Evenings at the White Hose
-Coverage
-Mrs. Nixon
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Compared to social events
-Press
-Invitations
-Mingling with guests
-Aggressiveness
-Press at church service
-Washington Post and Washington Star
-Press pool
-Influence
-Newsweek
-Network in Washington DC
-Mrs. Nixon
-Social events
-Influence
-Edward R. G. Heath visit
- Washington Post
-Los Angeles Times
-Baltimore Sun
-Washington Star
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-Rotation of papers
-Church service
-Washington Star
-Washington Post
-Golda Meir visit
-Dinner

Goal of second term
-Build new establishment
-Saul Pett
-Garnett D. (“Jack”) Horner
-Washington Post
-Mrs. Nixon
-Clay T. Whitehead speech
-Buchanan
-Networks
-Second term
-Eastern establishment

President's travels in US since election
-New York
-Harry S Truman funeral
-The press
-Camp David
-John F. Kennedy

Press relations
-Social events
-Pool basis
-Rotation basis
-Washington Post
-Washington Star
-Newsweek
-Whitehead
-Charles Crutchfield
-South Carolina
-Ziegler
-Affiliated Los Angeles TV station
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-Washington Post
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-Whitehead’s speech
-Pool rotation
-Mrs. Nixon
-Second term objectives
-Eastern establishment

President's TV appearances
-Commentator
-Dan Rather
-Howard K. Smith
-Networks
-Question and answer session
-Horner
-Pett

The President's 60th birthday celebration
-Inauguration
-Vietnam negotiations
-Age
-World leaders
-Decades
-Congress
-Senate
-Supreme Court Judges
-Timing
-Parade Magazine article
-Human interest story
-Congress

TV Networks
-Fear
-Ziegler's conversation with James C. Hagerty
-Subtlety
-Tone of administration
-Whitehead's speech
-Cable TV
-Public opinion
-TV management
-FCC license
-Programming
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-Congress
-Harley O. Staggers

Press relations
-Thomas
-Cormier

Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-Watergate
-Edward M. Kennedy

Press relations
-Richard (“Dick”) Wilson
-Smith
-President's friends in press

President's competition with Georgetown social groups
-Parties
-Blair House
-Kennedys
-Barbara Howar
-Buchanan
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Haldeman
-Ziegler
-Anne L. Armstrong
-Roy L. Ash
-Carl T. Rowan
-Benjamin C. Bradlee
-Katherine L. Graham
-Thomas W. Braden
-Kissinger

Kissinger's press relations
-Joseph C. Kraft's article
-Phone call from Kissinger
-Zieglers’ meeting with Kissinger
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-James B (“Scotty”) Reston
-Support of President's Vietnam policies
-Eastern establishment

Clifton Daniel
-New York Times
-Max Frankel
-Washington Post
-Ziegler's schedule
- Philippine Foreign Minister Carlos Romulo
-New York Times
-George S. McGovern
-President's feelings toward an independent press
-Advocacy journalism
-Thomas Grey (“Tom”) Wicker
-Reston
-New York Times endorsement
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Washington Post

New York Times
-Robert B. Semple, Jr.
-Linda Charlton
-Raymond W. (Johnny”) Apple
-Lack of support for the President

Washington Post
-White House relations
-Ziegler’s opinion
-Carroll Kilpatrick

Administration relations with magazines
-Newsweek
-Hugh S. Sidey
-Time-Life
-Hedley W. Donovan
-January 30th dinner
-Location
-Ehrlichman
-Haldeman
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-Ziegler
-Kissinger
-Cabinet members
-Newsweek
-Washington Star
-David Kraslow
-Newbold (“Newby”) Noyes, Jr.
-Washington Post

60th Birthday celebration
-Pictures

Ziegler left at 10:43 am.