Date: February 22, 1973

Time: 11:28 am – 11:37 am

Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Henry A. Kissinger’s briefing

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-Time

-Length

-Release of John T. Downey, Robert J. Flynn and Philip E. Smith

-Liaison office

-Questions

-Aid to North Vietnam

-Defense

-Justification

-Laos

-Questions

-Communist victory

-1962 accords

-Middle East

-Visit of Hafiz Ismail

-People’s Republic of China [PRC]

-Communique

-Trip to Hanoi

-Television [TV] and radio coverage

PRC

-Liaison offices

-Washington, Peking

-Associated Press [AP] report

White House Correspondents Association dinner

-Acceptance publicized

Gridiron dinner

-Rejection

-Meeting with Gridiron invitation committee

-Timing

-Reason

-Vice President’s attendance

-William P. Rogers’s attendance

-President’s attendance

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White House Correspondents Association dinner

-Gift

-Inkwell

-Thomas Jefferson quotation

-Entertainment

-Sammy Davis, Jr.

-Evening at the White House

Norman Vincent Peale

-Sunday worship service

Davis

-Call to Ziegler

-Thanksgiving

-Support for President

-Criticism by other blacks

-Letter

White House Correspondents Association dinner

-Sonny and Cher Bono

-Compared to Karen and Richard Carpenter

-Invitation

-White House pressure

-President’s choice

-Awards

-Edgar Allen Poe

-Presentation

-Watergate

-President’s presence

-Scholarship fund

Poe

-Gift to the President

-Eleanor Stegeberg McGovern [?]

-Cuff links [?]

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Ziegler left at 11:37 am.