Date: October 5, 1972

Time: 7:40 pm – 7:48 pm

Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.

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Ziegler’s voter registration

The President conferred with an unknown person at an unknown time between 7:40 pm and 7:48

pm.

Status of unknown object

[End of conferral]

Ziegler’s voter registration

-California, Virginia

Televised press conferences

-The President’s press conference, October 5, 1972

-Press coverage

-Style and content of press conference

-Washington Star

-Television coverage

-George S. McGovern’s foreign policy speech

-Relation to 1972 campaign

-Television coverage compared with written coverage

-Future appearances

-The President’s forthcoming schedule

-Radio speech

-Atlanta appearance

-Press coverage

-Speeches compared with press conferences

-Television exposure

-The President’s view

-John A. Scali

-Ziegler’s forthcoming conversation with Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.

Television coverage of the President

-Compared with written coverage

-Dan Rather, Tom Jarriel

-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]

-Ziegler’s forthcoming conversation with Richard G. Valeriani

-Ziegler’s forthcoming conversation with John W. Chancellor

-Ziegler’s view

-Compared with Rather and Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]

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-Effect on White House relationship with Cronkite

-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]

-William A. Gil, Jr.

-Jarriel

-NBC

-White house pressure

-Chancellor

-Ziegler’s forthcoming conversation with Cronkite