Date: February 21, 1973

Time: 9:44 am – 9:55 am

Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Gridiron dinner

-Date

White House Correspondents Association Dinner

-Date

-Edgar Allen Poe

-President of Gridiron

-President of White House Correspondents Association

-Robert Roth

-Meeting with President

-President’s invitation

Nguyen Van Thieu visit

-Date

-Other meetings

-Gridiron

-White House Correspondents Association dinner

-Change of dates

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log

(rev. Nov.-09)

-Press coverage of Thieu visit

White House Correspondents dinner

-Invitation Committee visits

-Gridiron

-Statement

Gridiron dinner

-Disadvantages

-George S. McGovern’s attendance

-Watergate references

-Criticism of President

-President’s and Dwight David Eisenhower’s experience

-Attendance

White House Correspondents Association dinner

-President’s attendance

-Public statement

-Poe

White House Photographers awards dinner

-Date

-President’s attendance

-California trip

-Press coverage of Thieu visit

Radio and Television Correspondents dinner

-Bob Clark, president of American Broadcasting Company [ABC]

-Letter

-Scheduling

-Dates

-White House Correspondents dinner

-Thieu visit

-Best date

-60-day troop withdrawal

-Advantages

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

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(rev. Nov.-09)

-Speech

-National forum

-Timing

-Problems

-Invitation to President

-In person

-Clark

-Pictures

-Wire service

Invitations

-Meeting with the President

– Poe

-Jack Horner

-Clark

-Acceptances

Gridiron dinner

-President’s schedule

-Church service

[Telephone rings]

-New York

-Dinner

-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis

-Avoidance

-Excused compared with unexcused absence