Conversation No. 801-3

Date: October 17, 1972
Time: 8:17 am - 8:34 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

        The President's schedule
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    -Possible meeting with [Winston S. Churchill]
        -Location
             -Washington, DC
        -Atlanta
        -Recent writing
             -Washington Post
             -1972 campaign
        -Atlanta
        -Possible telephone call from Ziegler
        -Randolph F.E.S. Churchill, Winston S. Churchill
        -Randolph Churchill
             -Winston S. Churchill
             -Drinking
        -Gen. Charles A.J.M. de Gaulle
             -Grandson
                 -Travel with the President to de Gaulle’s funeral

Press and media relations
    -Reporting of crowds
         -James Perry
             -National Observer
             -Estimate of the President’s crowd in Atlanta
                  -Compared to George S. McGovern’s crowd in Boston
             -Possible reaction by the Administration
             -The President’s recent crowd compared to crowd from 1960 campaign
               event
    -Washington Post
         -Clark MacGregor, Robert J. Dole
    -New York Times
    -Support for McGovern
         -Editorial staffs
             -Life magazine
             -Time magazine
    -Issues
         -Watergate
         -Vietnam
             -The President's recent meeting with the National League of Families of
             American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia
                  -Television news coverage
                  -The President’s criticism of the Establishment
                        -New York Times
             -Press reaction to the President’s May 8, 1972 decision
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                 -Henry A. Kissinger
                 -Richard Dudman
                     -St. Louis Post-Dispatch
            -Prisoners of war [POWs] wives and families
            -Businessmen
                 -Compared to other groups
                     -Ethics
                     -Hard hats
                     -Labor
                     -Farmers
                     -Servicemen
            -Academics
            -Religious leaders
            -Academics
                 -Cambodia, Laos
                     -College presidents
                          -G[eorge] Alexander Heard
                              -Vanderbilt University
            -Religious leaders
                 -Pacifism
            -Establishment
            -News commentators, publishers
                 -New York Times
                 -Washington Post
    -Coverage by media
        -The President’s remarks during meeting with POW families
            -Amnesty
            -POW’s
            -Vietnam
            -Amnesty
                 -Network coverage

[Thomas] Hale Boggs
    -Disappearance in airplane crash
        -Compared to Will Rogers and Wiley Post
    -Political situations in Alaska and Louisiana
        - [Nicholas J. Begich]
              - [Don Young]

The President's schedule
    -Forthcoming radio address
        -Ziegler’s possible announcement
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               -Timing
                   -H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
                   -Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT] II
                   -Other radio addresses
                        -Veterans
                        -Tax reforms
                             -John D. Ehrlichman
                             -McGovern’s forthcoming speech on the economy
                        -Parochial schools
                             -Possible letter from the President
                             -McGovern
           -Revenue sharing bill signing ceremony
               -Philadelphia
           -New York
               -New York Daily News

       Ziegler's announcements
           -Kissinger's schedule
                 -Paris
                 -Saigon
           -The President's forthcoming radio address
                 -Timing
                     -Tax reform
           -US - Soviet Union trade agreement
           -Kissinger
           -The President’s forthcoming trip to New York

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       Corruption charges
           -Watergate
           -Campaign sabotage
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              -Espionage

         The President’s schedule
             -Possible meeting with Winston Churchill

Ziegler left at 8:34 am.