Date: October 19, 1972

Time: 10:55 am – 11:02 am

Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Ziegler’s press briefing

-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] II announcement

-Legislative programs

-Congress

-Revenue sharing

-Welfare reform

-John D. Ehrlichman

-Forthcoming meeting

-Handling in briefing

-Timing

-Revenue sharing

-Administration’s goals

-Congressional action

-Environmental issues

-Ehrlichman

-Number of bills

-Health

-Baseball analogy

-Wire service lead on story

-Non-partisan nature of comments in briefing

-Rating on issues other than revenue sharing

-The President’s 1972 State of the Union message

-Possible debate between the President and George S. McGovern

-1964 campaign

-McGovern’s position

-Associated Press [AP], Aldo B. (“Elbow”) Beckman

-Statements by Clark MacGregor, Robert J. Dole

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Ziegler left at 11:02 am.