Date: October 9, 1972

Time: Unknown between 5:11 pm and 6:08 pm

Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Vietnam negotiations

-Henry A. Kissinger’s meeting

-Washington Star

Ziegler’s press briefing

-Republican candidates

-James Eastland’s meeting with the President

-Winton M. (“Red”) Blount

-John J. Sparkman

-John L. McClellan

-Eastland

-Gilbert Carmichael

-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

-The President’s instructions to Ziegler

-Campaigning

-The President’s schedule

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H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 5:13 pm.

Candidates

-Supporters of the President

-Donald W. Riegle, Jr.

-Carmichael

-Individual races

-Campaigning

-Endorsement letters

-Support for the President’s foreign and defense policies

-Democrats in Congress

-Blount

-Carmichael

-Eastland

-McClellan

-Eastland

-Agnew, Tricia Nixon Cox

-The President’s participation in Campaigns

Ziegler left at 5:18 pm.

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[This conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 6:08 pm].