Conversation No. 465-8

Date: March 10, 1971
Time: 10:42 am - 1:15 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

     President’s schedule
          -George P. Shultz

     President’s interview with Cyrus L. (“Cy”) Sulzberger
          -William P. Rogers’ calls to President and Haldeman

     A National Security Council [NSC] meeting, March 10, 1971
         -Cancellation
         -Henry A. Kissinger
         -Rogers
         -Kissinger

Raymond K. Price, Jr. and Noel C. Koch entered at 10:43 am

     Greetings

     President’s schedule
          -April 22 event
          -Josip Broz Tito
                -Forthcoming Head of State visit
          -General Nguyen Van Thieu

     President’s forthcoming speech in Newport, Rhode Island
          -Graduation exercises for Naval Officer Candidate School
                -[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
          -Revisions
                -Vietnam War
          -Length
          -Subject
                -Graduating class
                      -Eisenhower’s class standing

     President’s forthcoming speech in Newport, Rhode Island
          -Attitudes toward military service
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           -Navy
           -Vietnam War
                 -Military situation
                       -Effect on attitudes
                       -Vietnamization
                             -Naval situation
           -President’s recollections
                 -Value
     -President’s comments
           -Years of service
                 -Wording
                       -Value
     -Revisions
           -Vietnam War
                 -President’s policy
     -Audience
           -Graduating class at Newport compared with the country at large
                 -Effect on speech content
     -Youth’s attitude toward military
           -Value
     -Audience
           -Graduating class at Newport compared with draftees and enlistees
                 -Volunteer army

Military
      -Value to graduating class at Newport
           -Compared with President’s military unit
           -Compared with enlisted men
      -Value to blacks, poor whites

President’s forthcoming speech in Newport, Rhode Island
     -Next draft
           -Revisions
     -Audience
           -Country
           -Graduating class
     -Similarity to Sulzberger interview
           -Distribution
           -Accuracy
     -Audience
     -Similarity to Sulzberger interview
           -Audience
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     -Dissemination
     -Length
     -Tone
     -Biblical quotations
           -William F. (“Billy”) Graham
           -President
     -Wording
     -Another draft                                             Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)

President’s schedule
     -Williamsburg
     -Delivery of Newport speech

President’s forthcoming speech in Newport, Rhode Island
     -Revisions
           -Vietnam War
           -Military service
                 -Sacrifices of young Americans
                 -President’s view
           -US foreign policy
                 -Military action
           -US defense capacity
                 -Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
                 -Wording
                 -Administration policy
     -Tone
     -Expected response
           -Compared with President’s Williamsburg speech
                 -Judicial system reform
           -Vietnam War
                 -Rogers’ previous comments to Veterans of Foreign Wars
           -Headlines
           -Possible television coverage

Price’s office
      -Workload
      -Foreign policy
            -State Department
                  -Letters to heads of state
                        -Kissinger’s office’s work
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     Correspondence
          -Importance
          -Difficulty
          -Administration handling
                -State Department

Price and Koch left at 11:05 am
                                                                      Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
     President’s forthcoming speech in Newport, Rhode Island
          -Sulzberger interview
                -Koch

     New York Times
         -Sulzberger’s story
               -Press
         -Influence
               -Ronald L. Ziegler
               -Herbert G. Klein
               -News people

     President’s forthcoming speech in Newport, Rhode Island
          -Coverage
                -Compared with Sulzberger interview

     Kissinger and Rogers
          -Relations

     James C. Fletcher story
          -Daniel L. Schorr’s story
          -President’s meeting with Peter M. Flanigan
          -Meeting with President
          -President’s position on Anti-ballistic Missiles [ABM]
          -Ziegler
          -Attendance at a luncheon
                -Schorr
                -Date
          -Schorr
                -Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
                      -Robert H. Finch

     President’s appearance in Des Moines, March 1, 1971
          -Republican Congressional leadership meeting
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     -President’s reception
           -Demonstrations
     -Republican Congressional leadership meeting
     -News coverage
           -Washington Post and news magazines
           -Statements from a White House staffer

President’s trip to Williamsburg                                 Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
     -Ziegler
     -Logistics
           -Airport, helipad, Williamsburg Inn and Conference Center
     -Possible demonstration at the College of William and Mary

President’s public appearances
     -Demonstrators
           -Laos (Lam Son) issue
           -Forthcoming Presidential election
           -Texas
           -Albuquerque
           -Utah
           -Nevada
           -California
           -North Dakota
           -Reason
           -Lyndon B. Johnson’s experience
           -Ziegler and Jeb Stuart Magruder
     -Des Moines
           -Demonstrations
                 -Press coverage
           -Cabinet dinner
                 -Jack R. Miller
                 -Clifford M. Hardin
           -Des Moines Register
                 -White House responses
                       -Miller
                       -News magazines
     -Counter-demonstrations
           -Williamsburg
           -Newport, Rhode Island
     -President’s popularity
           -John B. Connally’s statement
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                 -Polls
                       -Percentages

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    Press
            -Newsweek story
                  -President’s demeanor at previous press conference
                        -Possible White House response
                             -Letters
                        -Ziegler
                        -Donald Oberdorfer, Jr.
            -News magazines
                  -Laos operation (Lam Son) coverage
            -President’s possible future television appearances
                  -A film
                  -March 22, 1971
                        -”One-on-one” interview
                  -Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
                  -Barbara Walters
                        -”Today” show taping, March 11, 1971
                             -Distribution
                                   -Timing
                        -Conditions
                             -Length
                             -Editing
                             -Length
                        -Schedule
            -Ladies of the press interview
                  -Yellow Oval Room and Red Room
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           -Walters
                 -”Today” show taping
                       -Conditions
                             -Questions
                             -Kissinger
                       -Interview subjects
                 -Schedule
                 -”Today” show                                          Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
           -Interview with ladies of the press
                 -Distribution
                 -Content
                 -Time
                       -Walters
           -Walters’ interview
                 -Length
                 -Content
           -Howard K. Smith interview
                 -Compared with Walters’ interview
                 -Time
           -Walters’ interview
                 -Content
                       -Role of women
                             -Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon, daughters
           -Haldeman’s interview for Washington Monthly magazine
                 -A letter from Matt Storm [?]
                       -Possible action
                 -Magazine
           -Price’s attitude
                 -Experience with press
                 -Editorial writers
                 -Work at White House
           -Relations with administration
                 -Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
                 -James Keogh
                 -Moynihan
                 -Newsweek

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 11:20 am

     Camp David
         -Cabinet requests
         -President’s schedule
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-Cabinet requests
      -John A. Volpe
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
      -Call from Butterfield
      -Gridiron Dinner
      -Grandchildren
-White House staff
-Cabinet members                                      Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
      -Volpe
-Calls by Butterfield
-Richard M. Helms
-Facilities
-Volpe
      -Senior staff at Department of Transportation
-Use
-President’s use
-Staff
-Commerce Department picnic
-File on use
-Agnew
-John N. and Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-File on use
      -Major General James D. (“Don”) Hughes
      -Butterfield’s Cabinet list
-Volpe
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Volpe
      -Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Use
      -President
      -Others
      -Florida
-Offer
      -Volpe
      -Gridiron dinner
-Connally
-Agnew
-Use during week
      -Departmental conferences
-Agnew
      -Butterfield’s call
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     President’s schedule
          -Florida

The President left at an unknown time after 11:20 am

     Volpe
          -A dinner, March 9, 1971
          -Camp David                                               Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
          -A dinner
               -Calls
          -Camp David

The President entered at an unknown time before 11:36 am

     President’s schedule
          -Kissinger

Butterfield left at 11:36 am

     Volpe

     President’s dinner, March 9, 1971
          -Agnew’s demeanor


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     Volpe
          -Possible meeting with President
          -John D. Ehrlichman
          -Possible meeting with President
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    President’s dinner, March 9, 1971


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    President’s schedule
         -Meetings with Cabinet officers
         -Connally
               -Approach to textiles
                     -Shultz


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    Connally’s [?] schedule
        -Gridiron Dinner
        -Camp David
        -Gridiron Dinner
              -President’s possible attendance
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    President’s appearances since 1970 elections
         -Press conferences, interviews, State of the Union address, speeches
         -Public relations
         -President’s popularity
               -News summary reports
                     -Financial editors
                           -Paul W. McCracken
                           -Arthur F. Burns
               -Stock market, March 9, 1971
                     -Gains
                     -Bernard J. (“Bunny”) Lasker
               -Polls
                     -Televised interviews with the President
                           -Timing
                           -George H. Gallup results
                           -White House polls
                                 -Youth in sample
               -1970 polls
                     -Presidential approval ratings
                     -Economic factors
                     -Vietnam War
                           -Laotian operation (Lam Son)
                           -Cambodian operation
               -Compared with third year of John F. Kennedy’s administration
                     -Polls
               -Use of President’s time
                     -Public relations
                     -Patrick J. Buchanan
                     -Magruder
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    White House staff
         -Connally’s view
              -Role
                     -Responsibilities
                           -Workload
         -Background
         -Public relations concerns
              -Moynihan and Connally                             Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
              -Finch and Rumsfeld
         -Connally and Moynihan
         -Finch and Rumsfeld

    An article in Fortune
         -Administration cycles
                -Nixon administration compared with [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
                      administration
                -Franklin D. Roosevelt administration
                -Abraham Lincoln administration
                -Nixon and Wilson administrations
                -Social welfare cycle
                      -Roosevelt
                -Nixon and Wilson administrations
         -New cycle
                -Democratic Party
                -Republican Party
                -Coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats
         -Author [Forename unknown] Wrightley [?]
         -Catalyst
                -Liberal Republicans
                      -Ripon Society
         -Rumsfeld
                -Peer judgement


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     Volpe and Agnew
          -Personnel

     Public relations
          -White House staff
          -Importance
          -President’s Des Moines appearance, March 1, 1971         Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
                 -Press coverage
                      -White House Press Office response
                            -Ziegler
                      -Effect
                 -Washington Post’s reporting
                      -Demonstrators
                      -Hardhats, farmers, and students
                 -Press coverage
                      -Possible results
          -Opposition to President
                 -Farming states
                      -Need for White House response
                 -1964 election
                      -Barry M. Goldwater
                 -Sources
          -Supporters
                 -Farmers, property owners, suburbanites, blacks
          -Ziegler
                 -Oberdorfer, Washington Post, and Newsweek
                      -Influence
                      -John F. Osborne comparison
          -President’s forthcoming interview with Walters
                 -Question on Mrs. Nixon and daughters
                      -President’s responses
                      -Richard A. Moore
                      -[Forename unknown] Jesselman’s [?] article
                      -Delivery of information
                            -President’s return from Williamsburg

     President’s forthcoming speech in Newport, Rhode Island
          -Work with Price

Kissinger entered at 12:00 pm
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     President’s interview with Sulzberger in New York Times
          -Joseph W. Alsop’s call to Kissinger

     President’s previous meeting with Price
          -Influence of New York Times

     President’s forthcoming speech in Newport, Rhode Island        Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
          -Kissinger’s review
          -Tone
          -Similarity to Sulzberger interview
          -Meeting with Price and Koch
          -President’s March 7, 1971 call to Koch

An unknown man [Stephen B. Bull?] entered at an unknown time after 12:00 pm

     Request for Ziegler

The unknown man [Bull?] left at an unknown time before 12:05 pm

     President’s forthcoming speech in Newport, Rhode Island
          -Koch’s draft
          -Similarity to Sulzberger interview in New York Times
                -New York Times influence
                      -Price
          -Audience
                -Television and newspaper representatives

Ziegler entered at 12:05 pm

     ABM
        -Fletcher story
              -White House response
              -Influence on nomination as National Aeronautics and Space Administration
                    [NASA] director
              -White House response
                    -Ziegler’s previous press briefing
                    -CBS
              -Meeting with President
              -Ziegler’s meeting with Fletcher
        -President’s position
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     -Fletcher
           -Meeting with Ziegler
                 -Meeting with President
           -Position on ABM
           -Confirmation testimony
                 -Position on ABM
           -Nomination
     -Schorr                                              Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
     -White House response to Fletcher story
           -Williamsburg
           -Ziegler’s handling
     -Importance
           -Soviet Union
           -Congress
     -Soviet weaponry
           -Capability
     -Fletcher story
           -Importance
           -Ziegler’s meeting with Fletcher
           -Charles W. Colson
           -Ziegler’s handling at press briefing
     -White House response to Fletcher story
           -Call to CBS
           -President’s meeting with Fletcher
           -President’s position

President’s interviews
     -Sulzberger
           -Use
     -Stewart J. O. Alsop
     -Richard (“Dick”) Wilson
     -Sulzberger
           -Use
           -Possible review by President
           -Use
           -Possible reading by President
           -Possible comment by White House
           -Use
     -Nature
     -President’s policies of review and comment
     -Use
     -President’s policies of review
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     Fletcher story
          -Ziegler’s response to CBS
          -Importance
          -Ziegler’s and Fletcher’s response
                 -Flanigan
          -Fletcher
          -Accuracy                                              Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
                 -Meeting with President
          -Importance
          -White House response
                 -Meeting with President

Ziegler left at 12:18 pm
            -Basis
            -Scientists

     J. W. Alsop

     Ziegler
          -Work
          -Response to Fletcher story

Haldeman left at 12:22 pm

     President’s interview with Sulzberger
          -Possible J. W. Alsop column
                -Staff assistance
                      -Kissinger and Ziegler
          -Content
          -J. W. Alsop’s view
          -Possible S. J. O. Alsop column
          -Other attendees
                -Compared with J. W. Alsop interview(s)
          -Content
                -Compared with other Presidents
          -J. W. Alsop
          -President’s reading
          -President’s purpose
                -New York Times coverage
                      -John B. Oakes
                      -James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
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Forthcoming book by Rowland Evans and Robert D. Novak
     -Tone

Robert S. McNamara
    -Form of address
    -Possible postscript
    -Meetings with Kissinger                              Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
           -Importance
                -Support for Administration policy
                      -Vietnam War
           -A dinner at Alsop’s house
                -Laos operation (Lam Son)

John [Surname unintelligible]

Rogers
    -Kissinger’s previous conversation
          -Cancellation of NSC meeting
    -Israel
    -Egypt
    -Soviet Union
    -A March 9, 1971 meeting
          -Helms
    -Position on Middle East
          -Suez Canal

Letters to heads of state
      -Postscripts
            -Indira Gandhi
      -Morocco

McNamara
   -Position at World Bank
         -Continued work
         -News reports
               -David M. Kennedy
   -Work
         -Term of service
               -Possible re-appointment
         -Support for Administration
         -[Forename unknown] Freeman
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     -President’s letter

Freeman
     -Head of a British television channel
     -Message for President

President’s previous interview with Sulzberger
     -Reasons                                              Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
     -Sulzberger
     -Sulzberger’s position at New York Times
           -Oakes
     -President’s purpose
           -Reston
     -Content
           -President’s foreign policy
     -J. W. Alsop’s response
           -Southeast Asia
           -Golda Meir
     -Kissinger’s view

Forthcoming Evans and Novak book
     -Kissinger’s interview, March 9, 1971
           -President’s foreign policy
                 -Consistency
     -President’s foreign policy report
     -Foreign Affairs article
     -Guam conference
     -Ireland
     -Kissinger’s interview
           -President’s trips
           -Meetings with heads of state
                 -Romania
                 -China policy
           -Foreign policy compared with domestic policy
           -Length
     -Publication date

Laos operation (Lam Son)
     -Withdrawal
          -South Vietnamese position
          -Timing
          -Ellsworth F. Bunker
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      -General Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
      -Kissinger’s view
            -North Vietnamese
            -Military situation
                  -Casualties
                  -North Vietnamese supply routes
      -Reasoning
            -Thieu                                  Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
      -Possible US position
-Abrams
      -Admiral Thomas H. Moorer
      -State Department
      -Melvin R. Laird
      -Moorer
-Military situation
      -Possible results
            -Effect on future supplies
-Laird
-Military situation
-Thieu
      -Forthcoming presidential election
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN]
      -Capability
            -General Do Cao Tri’s death
            -Effectiveness
      -Compared with Austrian army in 1915
-North Vietnamese forces
      -Compared with Germans
-US support
-Negotiations with North Vietnam
-Possible meeting with the President
      -Moorer
      -Abrams’ assessment of situation
      -Laird
      -Abrams
-Thieu’s position
      -Withdrawal of ARVN forces
-Military situation
      -Tchepone
-Moorer and Abrams
-North Vietnamese
-Withdrawal
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          -South Vietnamese
          -Press coverage
          -Thieu
          -South Vietnamese forces
          -President’s position
                -Possible effect on 1972 elections
          -US forces
          -Abrams’ assessment                            Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)

Vietnam
     -Air strikes
           -Results
           -Weather
                 -Effect
     -Laos operation
           -Abrams
           -President’s position
           -Possible results
           -Timing of operation
           -Abrams
           -Timing of withdrawal
           -Abrams’ forthcoming report
           -Moorer
           -Laird
                 -General Robert E. Pursley
                       -Statements
     -ARVN
           -Capability
     -US military plans
           -General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
           -Laird
           -Abrams
           -Haig
     -Cambodia
           -Fred Ladd [?]
           -Importance
     -Laos operation
           -Importance
           -Possible results
                 -Scenario
           -Possible withdrawal announcement
     -Negotiations in Paris
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          -Le Duc Tho
          -Possible US position
                -US troop withdrawal
                -Prisoners of War and Missing in Action (POW/MIA)
                -Cease fire
     -US military plans
          -Withdrawal
          -American public opinion                            Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
                -Compared to Korean War
                -Possible effect on 1972 election
          -Withdrawal of US forces
                -Residual force
     -Negotiations
          -Effect
          -US military plans

People’s Republic of China [PRC]
     -A picture of Chou En-lai
          -Soviet Union
     -A speech by Chou En-lai on Vietnam War
          -Kissinger’s analysis
     -North Vietnam relations

Vietnam
     -US military plans
          -Air strikes
                -Laird
                -Effects
     -Laos operation (Lam Son)
          -Military situation
                -North Vietnamese forces
                      -Troop locations
                -Tchepone
                      -Casualties
                      -Military supplies
          -Air strikes
                -Effects
                      -North Vietnamese supplies
          -Current ground location
     -Negotiations
          -President’s meeting with Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield, March 10, 1971
                -US position
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               -Thieu
                    -South Vietnamese election
          -Laos Operation (Lam Son)
               -Possible effects
               -ARVN
               -Abrams
               -US influence
               -ARVN                                                    Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
               -Effects
                    -Public statements
                          -Success of operations
          -Thieu
               -Forthcoming South Vietnamese elections

     Soviet Union
          -Possible summit
                -Soviet Union’s reply
                     -Kissinger’s view
          -Foreign policy stance
          -Possible summit
                -US strategy
                     -Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
                     -Letter from the President to Aleksei N. Kosygin
                           -Public statement
          -Party congress
                -Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
                -Leonid I. Brezhnev
                -Effect on possible summit
                     -Timing of Party congress

Ziegler entered at 12:49 pm

                -Possible public statement by US

     ABM
        -CBS story on Fletcher
            -Schorr
            -Retraction
            -President’s contact with Fletcher

     Laos operation (Lam Son)
          -Moorer
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     Soviet Union
          -Dobrynin’s conversations with Kissinger
                -President’s position
                      -Possible summit
          -Party congress
                -President’s previous conversation with Mansfield
          -Vienna negotiations
                -SALT                                                      Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)

Kissinger left at 12:51 pm
     ABM
           -CBS story
                  -Importance of clarification
                  -Ziegler’s statement
                        -President’s position on ABM and SAFEGUARD
                        -President’s meeting with Fletcher
                  -President’s conversations
                        -Fletcher
                        -Others
                        -President’s meeting with Fletcher in receiving line
                  -White House response

The President left and Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 12:51 pm

     A message for the President

Butterfield left and the President entered at an unknown time before 1:15 pm

     ABM
        -CBS story
              -Schorr
              -Fletcher
        -Fletcher’s position
              -Forthcoming press briefing

     Haldeman’s location
          -Maurice H. Stans

     Press
             -White House relations
                  -Ziegler’s briefings
                  -Retraction of Fletcher story
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      -David Lawrence
      -Ziegler’s retraction of Fletcher story
            -President’s view
      -Lawrence’s column on critics
      -Connally’s position
      -Agnew
      -CBS story on Fletcher
      -President’s March 9, 1971 meeting with CBS executivesConv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
-Coverage of President’s trip to Des Moines, March 1, 1971
      -Cabinet dinner
      -Washington Post
      -Hardin
      -Agnew
      -Des Moines Register
            -Time, Newsweek, Washington Post, and networks
-President’s conversation with Haldeman regarding demonstrations
      -Need for a response
      -President’s public appearances
            -Williamsburg
                  -College of William and Mary student demonstrators
                  -1968 campaign appearance
            -President’s attitude toward demonstrators
            -President’s upcoming speeches
                  -Ziegler’s conversation with Price
-Coverage of President’s trip to Des Moines
      -Effect
            -Possible White House response
      -Newsweek, Time
      -Possible response
            -Congressmen
      -Networks
            -Herbert E. Kaplow
            -Dan Rather
-Haldeman’s staff meeting
      -Connally’s remarks
            -Connally
      -Ziegler’s remarks
            -Hardin, other Cabinet members
-White House handling of press
      -CBS story on Fletcher
      -President’s demeanor at previous press conference
            -Newsweek’s coverage
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           -Ziegler’s view
      -Connally’s remarks at Haldeman’s staff meeting
           -President
                  -Public relations efforts
      -Johnson
           -Treatment of press
           -Compared with President’s demeanor
-Next press conference                                         Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
      -Camera location in Oval Office
-President’s interviews
      -Sulzberger
           -Reasons for interview
                  -Support for Administration
                        -Foreign policy
           -Questions at Ziegler’s briefing
           -Acquaintance with President
           -Philosophy at New York Times regarding Vietnam
                  -Oakes
                  -Reston
           -Previous meetings with the President
                  -London
                  -Paris
                  -Vice Presidential years
           -Purpose
           -Influence of New York Times
           -Effect
                  -Oakes and Reston
      -Conditions
           -President’s review of transcripts
           -A 1968 post-election interview with James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.
           -Ziegler’s press briefing
                  -Sulzberger
      -Sulzberger
           -Note-taking
           -Ziegler’s press briefing
                  -President’s statements regarding foreign policy
                        -Vietnam War
                  -US, Asia, Africa, Latin America
           -Effect at New York Times
                  -Oakes and Reston
-President’s acquaintance
      -Sulzberger
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                 -J. W. Alsop
                 -Wilson
                 -Sulzberger
                 -Roscoe Drummond
           -President’s interviews
                 -Use of quotes
                 -Backgrounders
           -Contacts with President                                Conv. No. 465-8 (cont.)
                 -Previous week’s press conference
                 -Sulzberger interview
                 -Upcoming Oval Office press conference
                      -American Broadcasting Company [ABC] interview
                 -Walters’ interview
           -Moore’s philosophy
                 -Schorr’s story regarding Fletcher
                      -Possible call from Ziegler
                             -Richard S. Salant of CBS
           -Supersonic transport [SST] story

Ziegler left at 1:15 pm