Date: September 21, 1972

Time: Unknown between 11:06 am and 11:28 am

Location: Oval Office

The President met with Frank van der Linden and Kenneth W. Clawson.

Greetings

Presentation of book to the President

-Nixon’s Quest for Peace

-Previous interview

-Binding

-Henry Luce Company

-The President’s library

-Inscription

-Additional copy

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[Duration: 2m 9s ]

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Press relations

-Columnists and commentators compared to reporters

-The President’s press conference after 1962 election

-Six Crises

-Bert Andrews

-Pulitzer Prize

-State Department

-“Pumpkin Papers”

-Comments on State Department personnel

-Loyalty investigations

-Alger Hiss

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-Reporters point of view

-State Department

-Peter Lisagor

-Reporting compared to editorializing

-Sports writing

-Hockey

-Wilt Chamberlain

-Raymond J. McHugh of Copley papers

-Review

-1972 campaign

Contributions to van der Linden’s book

-The President

-William P. Rogers

-Henry A. Kissinger

-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Books about the President

-Reviews

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[Duration: 2m 38s ]

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Alcohol abuse

-Chou En-lai

-Chiang Kai-shek

-Eisaku Sato

-Nobosuke Kishi

-Irish

-Germans

-Semitic peoples

-Edward M. Kennedy

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-William F. Buckley, Jr.

-John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy

-Effects

-Conduct

-Physical appearance

-Press

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 11:28 am.