Date: July 24, 1972
Time: 3:44 pm – 4:13 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Patrick J. Buchanan, Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin, Sandra I. Kiely, Jon D.
Hoornstra, Lotus Anne Wagner, W. Bruce Weinrod. Stephen B. Bull and the White House
photographer were present at the beginning of the meeting.
Introductions
-News summary
-Allin’s weight
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Seating arrangements for photograph session
White House news summary
-Importance
-Distribution
-Congress
-American Enterprise Institute [AEI]
-Alternative to Washington Post, New York Times, Washington Star
-Television news
-Local newspapers
-Balanced reporting
Washington Post reporting
-Youth
-George H. Gallup Poll
-George S. McGovern
White House News Summary staff
-Working hours
-Workload
-1972 election
-Instructions for Buchanan and Allin
-Additional staff
-Edith Efron analysis of media fairness
-Networks
-McGovern, the President
-1968 campaign
-Word counting
-September 1972
-American Institute of Political Communications survey
-McGovern
-Ed Barrett
-Sig Mickelson
-Resignation
1972 campaign
-McGovern
-White House response
White House News Summary staff
-Workload
-Analysis of media coverage
-New York Times, Washington Post
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-Wire services
-Columnists
-Effect on opinion makers
-Mary McGrory
-William S. White
-Effect on voters
-Distribution
-Charles W. Colson, H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Secrecy
-Importance
Bull entered and left at an unknown time before 4:13 pm.
The President’s schedule
Media relations
-1968 and 1960 elections
Newspaper Guild
-Endorsement of McGovern
-New York
-New York Daily News, Washington Post
-Significance
1972 campaign
-McGovern
-Comments
-News summary
-Support for the President
-Frank E. Fitzsimmons, Peter J. Brennan, Thomas W. (“Teddy”) Gleason
White House News Summary staff
-Workload
-Analysis of media coverage
-McGovern
John B. Connally
-Washington Post editorial
-Forced labor
White House News Summary staff
-Workload
-Analysis of media coverage
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-Polls
-Networks, columnists, wire services
-Chicago Tribune
-News magazines
-New Republic
-Human Events
-Life
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Daily appraisals
-Harry Reasoner’s statement
-McGovern, George Meany
-Newspaper Guild
-Endorsement
-Reaction
-1968 campaign
-Efron’s book [The News Twisters]
-Television
1972 campaign
-McGovern
-Network correspondents
-David Schoumacher, Jack Perkins
Perkins
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-Coverage of Ronald W. Reagan in 1970
-Student riots
-Compared to advertisement
Washington Post
-McGovern
Channel 9
-Reporting of labor
-Camp David
-Leaders
-View of administration
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White House News Summary staff
-Workload
-Analysis of media coverage
-Networks
-Radio
-Wire services
-McGovern
-John V. Lindsay, [Forename unknown] Rosenthal
-Associated Press [AP] story
Labor story
-Daniel L. Schorr, Douglas Kiker, Roger H. Mudd
-Quality of reporting
-McGovern
-The President and Meany
-[American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations
[AFL-CIO] convention, Bal Harbour, Florida, November 1971
Newspaper Guild endorsement
-Publicity
-Barry M. Goldwater’s comment
-Distribution by Colson
-Networks
-New York Times
-Compared to Efron’s book
-Efron’s testimony
1972 campaign
-Press coverage
-Media flap
-The President’s meeting with Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Time, Newsweek, New York Times, Washington Post
-Wire services
-Effect on local news, radio
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White House News Summary staff
-Workload
-Analysis of media coverage
-Republican National Convention
-Washington Star
Unknown man
-Book
-Experience in Cambodia
-Book
-Quotation
-Karl E. Mundt
-Reviews
-The President’s instruction
Presentation of gifts by the President
-Pins, cufflinks
White House News Summary
-Importance
Washington area residents
-New York Times, Washington Post
Buchanan et al. left at 4:13 pm.