867–8

Conversation No. 867-8

Date: March 2, 1973
Unknown between 11:51 am and 12:16 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Press conference
-Questions
-Subjects
-Answers
-Nguyen Van Thieu meeting
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-Devaluation
-United Press International [?]
-Aid to North Vietnam
-Hanoi
-Defense budget
-Tone

Rose Mary Woods entered at 11:52 am.

Press relations
-Woods’s friends
-List

Public relations
-J. Willard (“Bill”) Marriott [?]
-Gift


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Gifts for supporters
-List
-Costs
-Financial contributors, political supporters
-White House staff
-Recipients
-Financial contributors
-High-level political supporters
-Friends
-Campaign workers
-John N. Mitchell, Clark MacGregor
-Maurice H. Stans
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Tricia Nixon Cox
-F. Donald Nixon, Edward C. Nixon
-Ryan family
-Appreciation
-Immediate family
-Tricia Nixon Cox and Edward R. F. Cox, Julia Nixon Eisenhower and
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[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Music box
-Edward Nixon, F. Donald Nixon
-Ryan family
-List
-President’s instruction to consult
-Ziegler
-Herbert G. Klein
-Compared to dinner invitations

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White House social affairs
-White House dinner for Golda Meir
-President’s remarks to Meir
-Invitations
-Number
-Friends
-Jewelry
-Types
-Amount
-Taste of invitees
Jews
-Gentiles
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-John B. Connally
-Max M. Fisher, Taft Schreiber
-Invitees
-Van Cliburn
-Mother’s invitation to dinner
-Pat McConnell [?]
-Performance
-Compared to performance at inaugural event

-Chou En-lai
-Invitation
-Henry A. Kissinger
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-Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra
-Previous performance at inaugural event

Francis A. (“Frank”) Sinatra
-Maxine Cheshire
-Edward B. Williams
-Reaction to lawsuit
-Washington Post
-Performance at state dinner for Italian Prime Minister [Guilio Andreotti]
-Cheshire
-Compared to Drew Pearson
-Salbury Pot [?]
-Fight with Joseph McCarthy

Press conference
-Clark R. Mollenhoff
-Operation
-Roy Edwards's party
-Ritz Carlton
-Leslie Stahl
-Question about John W. Dean, III
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]

Church services
-Invitations
-Congress
-Regrets
-William E. Timmons
-Reasons
-Catholic
-White House tours
-Upstairs
-Evenings at the White House
-Sammy Davis, Jr.
-Freshmen Congressmen

Cliburn
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Gifts
-Special gifts
-1968 convention
-Number left
-Possible recipients

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White House staff
-President's conversation with the white house barber
-Call to wife
-Letter

George T. Bell
-President's call
-Nurse
-Illness
-Retirement

William Allen White
-Death
-Cancer
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Gifts
-Foreign diplomats
-Plates
-Stamp
-Ash trays
-Music boxes
-Recipients
-Inscription
-Golda Meir

Golda Meir
-Blair House
-Mrs. Cole
-Eisenhower administration
-Mary Jane [Last name unknown]
-Graciousness

Marriott gift item
-Presidential library
-Executive Office Building [EOB] office

Inscription
-Mary T. Brooks
-Peace

Paul Findley
-Support for President

Woods left 12:11 pm.

Press conference
-Questions
-Southeast Asia
-Laos, Cambodia
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Sudan
-John B. Connally
-Rent control
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-Southeast Asia cease-fire
-Aid to North Vietnam
-Source of funding
-Amnesty
-United Press International [UPI] poll
-Congress
-Blacks

Press conference
-Watergate
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Importance of story
-Senate hearings
-President's comments
-Cooperation with Ervin Committee
-Conditions
-Hearings
-Focus
-Evenhandedness
-Hearsay evidence
-Dean's investigation
-Dean's testimony
-Mitchell
-Mollenhoff's question
-Charges

An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 12:11 pm.

American Heart Association [AHA] representatives
-Meeting with President
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Dr. Paul Yu

The unknown man and Ziegler left at an unknown time before 12:16 pm.
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