Date: December 20, 1972
Time: 3:05 pm – 3:49 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Saul Pett
-Ziegler’s schedule
Pett and Henry Burroughs entered at 3:05 pm. Members of the press and the White House
photographer were present at the beginning of this meeting.
Greetings
Photograph session
The President’s schedule
New York
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Pett’s attire
-Mrs. Pett
[Photograph session]
-[General conversation]
-James W. Gallagher
-The President’s relationship with John L. Lewis
-Saul Pett’s article
-The President’s health
-First term
Ziegler left at 3:06 pm.
Zosimo T. Monson was present at an unknown time after 3:06 pm.
Refreshment
-Coffee
-Saul Pett’s previous trip to White House
-“Little office”
-Lyndon B. Johnson [?]
Monson left at an unknown time before 3:49 pm.
The President’s health
-Physical examination
-First term
-Lack of a sick day
-Harry S. Truman
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Age
-Lack of exercise, recreation
-Doctors
-The President’s experience as Vice President
-Golf, tennis
-Physical makeup
-Inheritance
-Spartan background
-Lack of headaches, stomach problems
-Medical television [TV] shows
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-Marcus Welby, M.D.
Presidency
-Battle metaphor
-Campaigning
-The President’s schedule
-Trips to Florida
-Spartan lifestyle
-Eating, drinking
-Moderation
-Socrates
-Campaigning
-Discipline
-Physical, mental, emotional aspects
-Oval Office
-Cleanliness
-Johnson
-Johnson
-TVs, ticker
-George Christian’s press conferences
-TVs
-Bedroom
-TV
-Trips to Florida
-Football games
-Decision making
-Crises
-Personal qualities
-Balance, objectivity
-Coolness, decisiveness
-Vietnam War
-Cambodia invasion
-May 8, 1972
-US mining, bombing north of 20 Parallel
th
-Coolness, objectivity
-Press relations
-TV commentators
-Newspapers
-The President’s reading
-News summaries
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-Contents
-New York, Washington, DC, Rapid City, Los Angeles, San
Antonio
-New Republic, National Review
-TV
-Commentators
-The President’s viewing
-White House staff
-Politics
-Frank Cormier
-Helen Thomas
-Associated Press [AP]
-Peter Lisagor
-Detachment
-The President’s experience as Congressman
-Herbert L. Block cartoons
-News summary
-Criticism
-Issues
-Vietnam War
-Welfare
-Congressional relations
-House of Representatives, Senate
-J. William Fulbright
-Relations with the President
-Leadership meetings
-Emotion
-Criticism
-Arrogance
-Elections
-Second term
-Press relations
Vietnam negotiations
-Settlement agreement
-Problems
-October 8, October 26, November 20, 1972
-Prospects
-US military policies
-May 8, 1972
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-Settlement agreement
-Peace
-Basis of the President’s decisions
-Christmas, 1973 Inauguration
-Continuation of war
Presidency
-Perspective
-The President’s reading
-TV
-Sports
-History, biography
-The President’s conversations with Henry A. Kissinger
-Press and media relations
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-Unknown person
-Richard (“Dick”) Wilson
-Howard K. Smith
-Decision making
-Effect of public opinion
-Demonstrations
-Media relations
-Mining of Haiphong
-World War III
-Joseph C. Kraft
-Second term
-First term
-Crises
-Subjectivity
-Compared to objectivity
The President’s health
-Physical examination
-Eating, drinking
-Excessiveness
-Press relations
-Relaxation
-Public appearances
-Speeches, press conferences, conversations with newsmen
-Washington Redskins
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-Dallas Cowboys
-Balance
-The President’s law school experience
Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 3:06 pm.
The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Pett
-Duration
Ziegler left at an unknown time before 3:49 pm.
The President’s health
-Relaxation
-The President’s law school experience
-Press conferences
Presidency
-The President’s experience
-1969
-Defeats
-“Wilderness”
-Gen. Charles A. J. M. DeGaulle, Winston S. Churchill
-Money making
-Unflappability
-Politics
-Difficulty
-Combat
-1960 election
-The President’s age
-Work habits
-Hours
-Quality of work
-Delegation
-Details
-Grover Cleveland
-Bill reading
-Decision making
-Domestic and foreign
-Reaction
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-The President’s schedule
-Appointments, mail, meetings, speeches
1972 election
-The President’s reflections
-Reaction of young people
-Voters
-Tricia Nixon Cox, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-1960 and 1962 election
-Women
-1968 election
-1968 election
-Circumstances
-Third party
-Victory margin
-Vote counting
-Mandate question
-Social unrest
-Vietnam War
-The President’s popularity
-Press relations
-Hostility
-Washington, DC
-Commentary
-The President’s victory
-Margin
-First Family
-Tricia Nixon Cox, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Mrs. Nixon
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Politics
-Edward R. F. Cox
-Results
-Lincoln Sitting Room
-Telephone calls
-Statement
-The President’s schedule
-Shoreham Hotel
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Results
-California
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-Reaction
-Emotional drainage
-Vacation
-Trip to Florida
-Elections
-Presidency, Senate, House of Representatives
-“Let down”
Presidency
-Learning
-White House staff
-Second term reorganization
-Departures
-Retentions
-The President’s conversations with Cabinet, White House staff
-Landslide victory
-Effect
-Cabinet
-William P. Rogers
-Power
-Reelection
-Restraints
-Doing great things
-Second term
-Personnel
-Cabinet
-Leadership
-Football metaphor
Politics
-The President’s future
-Campaigning
-Congressmen, administration
-Caution
-Polls
-Presidency
-Congressmen, Senators, Cabinet, White House staff
-Statemanship
-The President’s future
-Responsibility
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-Republican Party
-Campaigning
-Decision making
-Elections
-Parties, ideas
-Details
-Airports
-Appointments
-1972 election
-Massachusetts
-District of Columbia
-Massachusetts
-Harvard University
-Administration
-Compared to Johnson’s [1964] victory
-National results
-New York, California
-South
-The President’s future
-Leadership
-Travels to the country
-Policies
-Congressional relations
-[Democrats]
-1972 election
Regards to Mrs. Nixon
-The President’s trip to the Soviet Union
-Moscow
-Gosudarstvennyi Universal’nyi Magazin [GUM]
-Ice cream
Saul Pett’s gratitude
The President’s schedule
-Meeting with George P. Shultz
-Federal spending
-Inflation
-Budget ceiling
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Photograph session
-Window
-Contemplation
[Photograph session]
-Decision making
-Past and future
-Press relations
-TV
Saul Pett and Burroughs left at 3:49 pm.