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

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-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.