Date: October 9, 1972

Time: unknown after 3:10 pm

Location: Oval Office

The President met with Samuel I. Newhouse and Herbert G. Klein; the meeting began in

progress.

[Photograph session]

-The President’s previous meeting with Newhouse

-1960

Newhouse Newspapers

-List

-Klein

-Mississippi

-Pascagoula

-Mississippi Press Register

-Mobile, Alabama

-New Orleans

-Coverage

-Mississippi, Alabama, New Jersey, New York

-Portland, Oregon

-St. Louis, Missouri

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-Springfield, Massachusetts

-The President’s visit as Congressman

Refreshment

Newhouse Newspapers

-Newark, New Jersey

-Newark Star-Ledger

-Previous prosperity

-Unions

-Newark News

-Effect of endorsement on state

-Cleveland Plain Dealer

-Thomas Vail

-Property

-Circulation numbers

-Compared to Cleveland Press

-California

-Los Angeles Chronicle

-Family ownership

-Los Angeles Examiner

-Newhouse’s attempt to buy

-Dennis McElroy

-Marriage

-Television

-San Diego

-Los Angeles

-San Jose

-Ridder Publications

-Sacramento Union

-John Copley

-Stock ownership

-Copley’s health

-Gift for Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

-Mitzi (Epstein) Newhouse

-Vogue interview

-Vogue, House and Garden

-Newhouse ownership

-Mitzi Newhouse

-Possible letter from Mrs. Nixon

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-Mrs. Nixon’s location

-New York

-Chicago

-Columbus Day

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Newspapers ownership

-Department of Justice

-Stock ownership

-New York Stock Exchange

-Potential problems with bureaucracy

-Group ownership

-Los Angeles Times, William Randolph Hearst

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:10 pm.

Schedule

-John E. Ehrlichman

-John W. Dean, III

-Position

-Hair length

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:23 pm.

Television-newspaper ownership

-Public interest groups

-Possible attacks on Newhouse

-Klein

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-The President’s view

-New York Daily News

-WPIX

-Jack Quinn

-Chicago Tribune

-Anti-business establishment

-The President’s view

-Anti-trust enforcement

-US competitiveness

-Europe

-Soviet Union

-John B. Connally

-Interest in subject

-The President’s interest

Dean entered at 3:23 pm.

Introduction

-Dean’s background

-Department of Justice

Philosophy toward television-newspaper ownership

-Newhouse Newspapers and stock ownership

-Copley

-Vogue

-Congress

-Department of Justice

-Federal Communications Commission [FCC]

-Administration standard

-Anti-trust justifications

-Ecology, equal rights

-Money

-Counter advertisement

-Serving the public interest and objections

-Buffalo

-Syracuse

-Possible changes

-Newhouse’s desire to remain in newspapers, magazines

-Lawsuit

-Arthur Goldberg

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-Abner J. Mikva

-Possible case

-Department of Justice anti-trust division

-Thomas Kauper

-Big business

-White House

-Dean

-Bureaucracy

-Control

-Department of Justice anti-trust division

-Attitude toward business

-Compared with the attitude in the White House

-Running of newspapers

-Editorial policy

-Newspaper Guild, Unions

-Washington Daily News

-New York

-Number of papers

-Portland, Oregon

-Editors and publishers

-Vail

-Franchises

-Harlan Sanders [Kentucky Fried Chicken]

1972 campaign

-Klein’s recent meeting with Newhouse in New York

-Blacks

-Number of newspapers in Alabama

-John J. Sparkman

-Winton M. (“Red”) Blount

-Cleveland Plain Dealer

-Oregonian, Oregan Journal

-St. Louis Globe-Democrat [?]

-Bill Nickels

-St. Louis

Presidential gift giving

-Letter from Mrs. Nixon

Bull entered, left, and reentered at an unknown time before 3:34 pm.

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-Cuff links

-Presidential seal

-Pin

-Presidential seal

-Mrs. Newhouse

Newhouse, Klein, and Dean left at 3:34 pm.