"Secrecy, the Government, and the Media": The paper readers are John Kincaid and Mark Rozell. Kincaid
makes a presentation on the Pentagon Papers case; Rozell delivers a paper on Nixon's concept of executive
privilege. Commentators are Gerald Warren, Tom Brokaw, Ron Ziegler, and Howard Simons. Warren
comments on the Pentagon Papers case, leaks in the administration, and secrets in the Nixon
administration. Brokaw comments on the withholding of information by government and the press,
classification of documents, the Pentagon Papers case, executive privilege, leaks to the press, and the
conduct of the press during the Watergate investigation. Ron Ziegler follows with comments concerning
prosecution of disclosers of classified documents, executive privilege, and Nixon's personality. Howard
Simons offers remarks on the Pentagon papers, classification of documents, leakage of secrets, and the
Watergate scandal. The session concludes with questions from the audience. "Evolution of the Nixon
Legacy": Paper readers are Barry Riccio and Sherri Cavan. Riccio's paper is titled "Richard Nixon
Reconsidered: The Conservative As Liberal." Cavan's paper, which supplies sociological theories of
rehabilitation to Nixon, compares "the old Nixon" with "the new Nixon" and suggests techniques used by
Nixon to create a favorable public image. The succeeding speakers are John Ehrlichman, H.R. Haldeman,
Robert Finch, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.; and Cyrus Leo Sulzberger . Ehrlichman discourses on the difficulties
of categorizing and characterizing Nixon before discussing Nixon's domestic program. H.R. Haldeman offers
guidelines for writing the history of the Nixon administration and a critique of the literature on the subject.
Robert Finch comments on re-organization of the executive branch, the "New Federalism" and health care.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. delivers a presentation on three aspects of the Nixon legacy: foreign policy,
domestic economic policy, and the Nixon presidency's impact on the Constitution. C.L. Sulzberger, the final
speaker, discusses foreign policy.
Participants: "Secrecy, the Government, and the Media"--Victor Navasky (editor, The Nation), Gerald Warren (editor, San Diego
Union), John Kincaid (Dir. Of Research, Advisory Commission on intergovernmental Affairs), Mark Rozell (Political Science Professor,
Mary Washington College), Tom Brokaw (NBC News), Ronald Ziegler (President, National Association of Truck Stop Operators),
Howard Simons (Curator, Nieman Fellowships Program). "Evolution of the Nixon Legacy"--Barry Riccio (history professor), Sherri
Cavan (Dept. of Sociology, San Francisco State University), John Ehrlichman (Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs), H.R.
Haldeman (Nixon's chief of staff), Robert Finch (Nixon HEW secretary), Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (historian), C.L. Sulzberger (former
New York Times columnist).