Date: December 20, 1972

Time: 2:47 pm – 2:55 pm

Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

The President’s schedule

-Meeting with Saul Pett

-Rose Mary Woods

-The President’s conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

-Background information

-Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman

-Possible meeting with Pett

-The President’s possible role

-The President’s conversation with Woods

-Gerald L. Warren

-Ziegler’s conversation with Woods

-Duration

-Tour

-Executive Office Building [EOB] office, Lincoln Sitting Room

-Photograph session

-Purpose

-Pett’s previous article

-Mood, color

-Presidential decisions

-1972 election

-Reception for administration officials from California

-The President’s comments

-Blair House

-Length of meeting

-Photograph session

-Meeting with George P. Shultz

-Henry A. Kissinger

-Woods’s possible meeting with Pett

-Ziegler’s conversation with Woods

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-Photograph session

-Henry Burroughs

-The President’s departure

-Helicopter

-Associated Press [AP]

-Compared to Life

Press relations

-Ziegler’s press conference

-The President’s relationship with Kissinger

-William H. Sullivan’s briefing

-Ziegler’s conversation with Sullivan

-Prisoners of War [POW] issue

-Vietnam negotiations

Vietnam War

-US bombing north of 20 Parallel

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-Aircraft losses

-The President’s conversation with Kissinger

-Press relations

-Public relations [PR]

-Cambodia

-Invasion

-The President’s May 8, 1972 decision

-US-Soviet Union summit

-Lack of a Presidential announcement

-Kissinger’s advice

-Vietnam negotiations

-Laos

-Defeat

-Vietnam negotiations

-Pace of bombing

-Vietnam negotiations

-Settlement agreement

-Charles W. Colson

-Ziegler

-The President’s May 8, 1972 decision

The President’s schedule

-Meeting with Pett

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-Woods

Ziegler left at 2:55 pm.