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Conversation No. 859-9

Date: February 21, 1973
Time: 9:44 am - 9:55 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Gridiron dinner
-Date

White House Correspondents Association Dinner
-Date
-Edgar Allen Poe
-President of Gridiron
-President of White House Correspondents Association
-Robert Roth
-Meeting with President
-President’s invitation

Nguyen Van Thieu visit
-Date
-Other meetings
-Gridiron
-White House Correspondents Association dinner
-Change of dates
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov.-09)
Conversation No. 859-9 (cont’d)



-Press coverage of Thieu visit

White House Correspondents dinner
-Invitation Committee visits
-Gridiron
-Statement

Gridiron dinner
-Disadvantages
-George S. McGovern’s attendance
-Watergate references
-Criticism of President
-President’s and Dwight David Eisenhower’s experience
-Attendance

White House Correspondents Association dinner
-President's attendance
-Public statement
-Poe

White House Photographers awards dinner
-Date
-President's attendance
-California trip
-Press coverage of Thieu visit

Radio and Television Correspondents dinner
-Bob Clark, president of American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-Letter
-Scheduling
-Dates
-White House Correspondents dinner
-Thieu visit
-Best date
-60-day troop withdrawal
-Advantages
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov.-09)
Conversation No. 859-9 (cont’d)



-Speech
-National forum
-Timing
-Problems
-Invitation to President
-In person
-Clark
-Pictures
-Wire service

Invitations
-Meeting with the President
- Poe
-Jack Horner
-Clark
-Acceptances

Gridiron dinner
-President’s schedule
-Church service

[Telephone rings]

-New York
-Dinner
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-Avoidance
-Excused compared with unexcused absence