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Conversation: 279-003

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Start Date: 22-Sep-1971 10:53 AM

End Date: 22-Sep-1971 11:14 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Ziegler, Ronald L.

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:00:20

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:18:01

279a.mp3

279b.mp3

279c.mp3

NARA Description:

On September 22, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 10:53 am and 11:14 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 279-003 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

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
                                          16

                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                 Tape Subject Log
                                   (rev. 10/06)



     -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
                                          17

                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                 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
                                            18

                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                 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
                                              19

                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      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.