880–6

Conversation No. 880-6

Date: March 15, 1973
Time: 12:11 pm-12:25 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger.

President's press conference
-Vietnam
-Questions
-President's handling

The President talked with Ralph H. Cake between 12:11 pm and 12:12 pm.

[Conversation No. 880-6A]

[See Conversation No. 37-118]
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[End of telephone conversation]

Ralph H. Cake
-Illness

President’s Press conference
-Watergate
-Questions on Donald H. Segretti
-President's handling of questions
-Dwight L. Chapin
-President's demeanor
-Watergate
-Ed Kempler's question
-Press double standard
-Alger Hiss case
-Harry S Truman
-Hiss case
-President's involvement
-Reasons
-John N. Mitchell
-Committee to Re-elect the President
-Involvement
-Mitchell's involvement
-Kissinger's view
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-People's Republic of China [PRC] liaison office announcement

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 12:15 pm.

Greetings

Press statements
-North Vietnam
-India
-Pakistan

India
-US aid
-Suspension
-Commitments
-Lyndon B. Johnson
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-Sales
-Policy
-State Department
-Tanks
-Johnson
-Personnel carriers
-Lethality
-PRC
-Military expenditures
-Indira Gandhi's comments to Daniel P. Moynihan [?]
-Arms race
-Poverty
-Comparison with Pakistan
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Arms production

President's trips
-Plans
-Africa
-Latin America
-Latin America
-Value
-William P. Rogers
-Requests
-Commitments
-Japan

Vietnam

Dr. David K. E. Bruce
-US liaison office to PRC
-Lead story
-Alfred L. Jenkins
-John H. Holdridge

Kissinger left at 12:18 pm.

Press relations
-Vietnam
-Watergate
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Watergate
-L. Patrick Gray, III
-Testimony before committee
-News reports
-John W. Dean, III's testimony
-Restrictions
-Executive privilege
-Court challenge
-Mitchell, Maurice H. Stans
-News

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 12:18 pm.

President’s schedule
-President's meeting with James M. Collins
-John G. Tower

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:25 pm.

Watergate
-Press conference
-Richard A. Moore's, Patrick J. Buchanan's and Dean's opinion
-Moore's opinion
-Ziegler's comments
-Ervin hearings
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] raw files
-White House viewing
-Disclosure to Ervin Committee
-Dealings with press
-J. Edgar Hoover's practices
-Press
-Frustrations

President’s press conference
-Length
-Sarah McClendon
-Frances L. Lewine
-Cut-off of press conference
-Clark R. Mollenhoff
-President's handling of questions
-Martin K (“Ken”) Worthy
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-[Unintelligible name]
-Timing
-Advantages
-Moore's view
-Press hostility
-Watergate
-Comments
-Future press conference responses
-Tone
-Kissinger

Watergate
-Executive privilege
-President's experiences as congressman
-Cooperation with committee of Congress
-Administration's record

President's schedule
-Meeting with Debbie Ploch
-\"1973 Maid of Cotton\"
-Photographer
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Distribution of photograph
-Texas

Ziegler left at 12:25 pm.