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467–41
- President Richard M. Nixon
- H. R. Haldeman
- Ronald L. Ziegler
- Rose Mary Woods
- John D. Ehrlichman
- White House operator
March 17, 1971
Conversation No. 467-41
Date: March 17, 1971
Time: Unknown between 3:58 pm and 5:52 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
President’s image with press
-President’s call to William L. Safire
-Hugh S. Sidey
-John F. Osborne
-President’s accessibility
-President’s Quaker background
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-President’s campaign speeches
-President’s interviews
-Ronald L. Ziegler’s office
-Sidey
-Richard L. Wilson
-Distribution of list
-President’s instructions
-Haldeman’s role Conv. No. 467-40 (cont.)
-Safire
-Peregrine Worsthorne
-Cyrus L. (“Cy”) Sulzberger
-Worsthorne
-Background of interview
-Haldeman
-Cambodia
-Ziegler
-Sulzberger
-Background of interview
-Safire’s knowledge
-Barbara Walters
-Background of interview
-Edward VIII’s [Duke of Windsor] visit
-Interview with Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Tricia Nixon
-Safire
-Theory of new image
-Public relations
-President’s interview with Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], August 1970
-Ziegler
-Frequency of interviews
-Meaning
-President’s interview with three networks
-President’s interview with representatives of women’s press corps
-Background
-President’s interview with Walters
-President’s call to Safire
-President’s Quaker background
-President’s speech at [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars
-Safire
-President’s meetings with mayors
-President’s interviews
-List
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
[Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 3:58 pm and 4:15 pm]
[Conversation No. 467-41A]
-Delivery
[End of telephone conversation]
Conv. No. 467-41 (cont.)
-Safire
-Interest
-White House responsibilities
-White House efforts
-President’s appearances
-Safire
-State of the Union address
-Changes
Whitney M. Young, Jr. funeral
-White House attendees
-Press coverage
-White House staff efforts
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Leonard Garment
-Press coverage
-Ziegler
-Rumsfeld
-Press coverage
-White House staff efforts
-Live television
-Evening news
-Haldeman’s viewing
-President’s eulogy
-Interviews
-John Conyers, Jr.
-An unidentified CBS reporter in New York
-Publicity
-Thurgood Marshall’s comments
-Coverage
-Importance
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-White House staff
-Role
-Public relations
-President’s eulogy
-Preparation and delivery
-John Marshall reference
-Compared with toasts and arrival ceremonies
-Importance Conv. No. 467-41 (cont.)
-Unknown Congressmen
-Compared with Martin Luther King, Jr.’s funeral
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Johnson’s attendance
-Date
-Johnson
-President’s attendance
-Robert F. (“Bobby”) Kennedy’s attendance
-President’s eulogy
-Importance
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.’s staff’s work
-Delivery
-Importance
-Other participants
-[Name unintelligible]
-A black minister
-Teacher at Young’s school
-Margaret (Birchner) Young
-Background
Ziegler entered at 4:15 pm
William Proxmire
-Supersonic transport [SST] story
-White House influence on Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
[HEW]
-Ziegler’s response
-White House response
-William M. Magruder
-John B. Connally
-Charges
-Proxmire’s comments to press
-National Institutes of Health [NIH] scientist
-White House response
33
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
W. M. Young funeral
-Possible publicity
-Network coverage
-Wire service coverage
-Gerald L. Warren
Ziegler left at 4:18 pm
Conv. No. 467-41 (cont.)
President’s schedule of meetings with press
-CBS
-Sidey
-R. L. Wilson
-William S. White
-William Raspberry
-Carroll Kilpatrick
-Sulzberger
-Frequency
-Numbers
-Frequency
-Compared with President’s phone calls to press
-Change in 1971
-Background interviews
-Television interviews
-Safire
-Forthcoming call from Haldeman
-List of interviews
-Frequency
-White House response
-Numbers
-Frequency
-Compared with previous years
-Sulzberger and Worsthorne interviews
-Walters
-Background of interview
-Previous breakfast interview
-Herbert E. Kaplow
-Nancy (Hanschman) Dickerson
-CBS interview with Bernard Kalb and John Hart
-Henry Brandon
-Need for White House response
-Formats
-One-on-one interviews
34
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Post-1970 election
-Women’s press representatives
-New Year’s Eve [1970?]
-Entry in log
-November and December 1970 meetings
-Women’s press representatives
-Importance
-Need for public relations efforts Conv. No. 467-41 (cont.)
-Effect of Cambodian and Laotian operations
-Importance of columnists
-Safire
-Sidey
-Osborne
-Influence
-Sidey
-Osborne
-Future contacts with Safire
-Sidey
Safire
-Work
-Public relations efforts
-President’s view
-Haldeman’s view
-Compared with other speechwriters
-Anecdotes
President’s speeches
-Garment
-Delivery of W. M. Young eulogy
-Speechwriters
-Fuller quote
-Safire
-Price
W. M. Young funeral
-President’s delivery of eulogy
-Press coverage
-Television
-Camera angle
-W. M. Young’s daughter and wife
-The President
35
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-White House role
-Vernon C. Coffey, Jr. and Ronald H. Walker
-Order of service
-Coffey
-Bugler
-M. Young
-Coffey
-Bugler Conv. No. 467-41 (cont.)
-President’s exit
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon
-M. Young’s exit
-”Taps”
-President’s role
-Compared with New York service
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-John V. Lindsay
-Jacob K. Javits
Thomas E. Dewey funeral
-President’s possible role
-Eulogy
-Compared with [Forename unknown] Lipscomb, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and
Everett M. Dirksen funerals
Catholic and Protestant funeral customs
-Kennedy funeral
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy’s role
-President’s attendance
President’s image with press
-Safire’s role
-President’s interviews
-Worsthorne
-Background
-Sulzberger
-Andre L. Fontaine
-Le Monde
-Brandon
-Times of London
-Frank Giles
-Sulzberger
-Previous interviews
36
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Background of interview
-Press story
-President’s interview with Sulzberger
-Frequency
-Ziegler
-Safire’s role
-Purpose of President’s press conferences
-Purpose of President’s interviews Conv. No. 467-41 (cont.)
-President’s Quaker background
-Safire
-Price
-President’s mother’s views on war
-1968 acceptance speech
-Safire’s knowledge
-Columns by Nicholas P. Thimmesch
-References to Haldeman
-Charles W. Colson
-President as sports fan
-Sports Illustrated interview, March 27, 1969
-Effect of Eisenhower’s death on story
W. M. Young funeral
-President’s eulogy
-A quote from Fuller Stors lecture
-Lawyers
-Rose Mary Woods
-Yale Law School
-Reference to morality
-Compared with John F. Kennedy, R. F. Kennedy, and E. M. Kennedy press coverage
-Press coverage
-Compared with President’s speech at T. W. Wilson Center
-White House efforts
-Compared with President’s other events
- T. W. Wilson International Center for Scholars
-John Quincy Adams portrait ceremony
-President’s trip to Nebraska
-White House efforts
-Garment
James Farmer
-Importance
-Future with Urban League
37
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
Woods entered at an unknown time after 4:18 pm
President’s eulogy for W. M. Young
-Stors lecture
-President’s remarks
-Press release
-Call to Garment
Conv. No. 467-41 (cont.)
Woods left at an unknown time before 5:17 pm
President’s image with press
-President’s call to Safire
-Methods of improvement
-Connally
-Cabinet officers
-White House staff efforts
Public relations
-”Open Door”
Head of State visits
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Gifts from the President
-Forthcoming Visit of King [Moulay] Hassan II
-Gifts for the President
-Gifts
-Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.
-Disposition
-Butterfield
Louie B. Nunn
-Proposal to name a school for W. M. Young
-Funding
-Relations with W. M. Young
-President and Nunn’s attendance at W. M. Young funeral
-Haldeman’s contacts
-Public relations efforts
Public relations
-March 22, 1971
-President’s call to an unidentified policeman’s wife
-Press coverage
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
Dewey’s funeral
-Attendees
-William P. Rogers
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Rogers
-President’s role
-President’s schedule Conv. No. 467-41 (cont.)
-Other guests of the President
-Javits
-James L. Buckley
-Compared with Kentucky trip
-Javits and Buckley
-Rogers
-Flanigan
W. M. Young funeral
-Demonstrators
-Attendees
President’s appearances
-W. M. Young funeral
-Working the fenceline
-Naval base at Quonset Point
-Charles R. Larson
-Logistical problems
-Working the fencelines
-President’s position
-Extent
White House social evenings
-Receiving lines
-Mrs. Nixon
-Alternative
-Diplomatic reception
-White House military staff
-Compared with State Department staff
-William B. Macomber, Jr.
-Financial people
-State Department protocol staff
-Military aides
39
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Receiving line, March 16, 1971
-President’s schedule
-Length
-Mrs. Nixon
-Alternatives to receiving lines
-Christmas party
-Compared to “working the fences”
-Experience with royalty in 1953 Conv. No. 467-41 (cont.)
-Mohammed Reza Pahlavi [Shah of Iran]
-Public opinion
Public relations efforts
-Package on Nixon Administration reforms
-White House staff assignment
-Content
-Safire
-Package on crime problem
-White House staff assignment
-Administration trademark
-Congress
-”Generation of peace”
-John M. (“Jack”) Lynch’s arrival ceremony
Boxing match
-Remark by [Name unintelligible]
-Effect
-Madison Square Garden
-Coverage
-Compared to Super Bowl
-Compared to first lunar landing
-Cost for seat
-Patrick J. Buchanan and family
President’s schedule
-West Point Commencement ceremony
-Naval Academy
-Options
-Commencement
-Parade
-Convocation
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
Mailings
-President’s speech at Newport, Rhode Island
-Further distribution
-Press coverage
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Agriculture
-President’s speech at T. W. Wilson International Center for Scholars
Conv. No.event
467-41 (cont.)
-President’s speech in Nebraska
-Use
-Importance
Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-Haldeman’s forthcoming conversation with Moynihan
-Future
-Flanigan
-Maurice H. Stans
Speechwriters
-Assistance to the President
-Speech material
-Adams and T. W. Wilson events’ speeches
-Work
[The President talked with Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 4:18 pm and 5:17 pm]
[Conversation No. 467-41B]
President’s schedule
-Possible March 18, 1971 meeting
-Ehrlichman and George P. Shultz
Public relations
-Possible statement
-Haldeman and John N. Mitchell
-The President’s view
-Connally
-Role
-Position on an unknown issue
-Ehrlichman’s view
President’s work on trip from Kentucky
President’s forthcoming call to Shultz
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
[End of telephone conversation]
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[Personal Returnable] Conv. No. 467-41 (cont.)
[Duration: 1m 42s ]
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President’s schedule
-Departure time
[Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:18 pm and 5:17
pm]
[Conversation No. 467-41C]
Call to Dwight L. Chapin
[End of telephone conversation]
W. M. Young funeral
-President’s eulogy
-Method of delivery
-Publicity
-Garment
-Safire
[Haldeman talked with Chapin [?] at an unknown time between 4:18 pm and 5:17 pm]
[Conversation No. 467-41D]
President’s schedule
-Hugh Scott
-Meeting with the President
-Purpose
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Time
-Mitchell’s participation
-Haldeman
[End of telephone conversation]
-Signing ceremonies
Conv. No. 467-41 (cont.)
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 17s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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-Signing ceremonies
-House Resolution [HR] 16
-Possible March 19, 1971 ceremony
-Timing
-Prisoners of War [POW] and Missing In Action [MIA] week
-Possible White House ceremony
-Attendees
-Congressmen
-Frank Borman
-Representatives from the families
-Publicity
-Use
-Benefit
-A Michigan high school choir
-Gerald R. Ford
-Possible appearance in Rose Garden
-Possible demonstrators
-Previous appearance in Grand Rapids
-Tour of White House
-Presidential participation
-Future appointments for this type of group
-”Open Hour”
43
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:18 pm and
5:17 pm]
[Conversation No. 467-41E]
Call to Rogers
Conv. No. 467-41 (cont.)
[End of telephone conversation]
President’s schedule
-National Association of Newspapers
-Ziegler
-A workshop
-Date
[The President talked with Rogers between 5:17 pm and 5:24 pm]
[Conversation No. 467-41F]
-Dewey’s funeral
-Time of departure
-Rogers’ possible attendance
-President’s forthcoming press conference
-Domestic policy
-March 16, 1971 dinner
-Announcement of Tricia Nixon’s engagement
-Jazz concert
-Edward R. F. Cox and Harvard law students’ response
-Dennis Day
-Fred MacMurray
-Length
Dewey
-Dwayne O. Andreas
-Plans to attend President’s March 16, 1971 dinner
-President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board [PFIAB]
-Connally replacement
-Dewey’s possible appointment
-President’s view
44
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 30s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4 Conv. No. 467-41 (cont.)
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President’s March 16, 1971 Head of State dinner
-Lynch
-Comments
-Toasts
-Publicity
Dewey funeral
[End of telephone conversation]
-Rogers’ attendance
-Wives’ attendance
-Mrs. Nixon
-Hotel Pierre in New York City
-Proximity to church
-Adele (Langston) Rogers and other wives
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 10s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
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-[Name unintelligible] attendance
45
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Possible meeting en route with President
-President’s guests
-New York Congressional delegation
-Scott
-Position in 1948 campaign
President’s schedule
-Possible press conference Conv. No. 467-41 (cont.)
-Questions
-”Today” show appearance
-Possible press conference
-Possible television coverage
-April 8, 1971 speech
The President left at an unknown time before 5:52 pm
Date: March 17, 1971
Time: Unknown between 3:58 pm and 5:52 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
President’s image with press
-President’s call to William L. Safire
-Hugh S. Sidey
-John F. Osborne
-President’s accessibility
-President’s Quaker background
30
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-President’s campaign speeches
-President’s interviews
-Ronald L. Ziegler’s office
-Sidey
-Richard L. Wilson
-Distribution of list
-President’s instructions
-Haldeman’s role Conv. No. 467-40 (cont.)
-Safire
-Peregrine Worsthorne
-Cyrus L. (“Cy”) Sulzberger
-Worsthorne
-Background of interview
-Haldeman
-Cambodia
-Ziegler
-Sulzberger
-Background of interview
-Safire’s knowledge
-Barbara Walters
-Background of interview
-Edward VIII’s [Duke of Windsor] visit
-Interview with Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Tricia Nixon
-Safire
-Theory of new image
-Public relations
-President’s interview with Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], August 1970
-Ziegler
-Frequency of interviews
-Meaning
-President’s interview with three networks
-President’s interview with representatives of women’s press corps
-Background
-President’s interview with Walters
-President’s call to Safire
-President’s Quaker background
-President’s speech at [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars
-Safire
-President’s meetings with mayors
-President’s interviews
-List
31
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
[Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 3:58 pm and 4:15 pm]
[Conversation No. 467-41A]
-Delivery
[End of telephone conversation]
Conv. No. 467-41 (cont.)
-Safire
-Interest
-White House responsibilities
-White House efforts
-President’s appearances
-Safire
-State of the Union address
-Changes
Whitney M. Young, Jr. funeral
-White House attendees
-Press coverage
-White House staff efforts
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Leonard Garment
-Press coverage
-Ziegler
-Rumsfeld
-Press coverage
-White House staff efforts
-Live television
-Evening news
-Haldeman’s viewing
-President’s eulogy
-Interviews
-John Conyers, Jr.
-An unidentified CBS reporter in New York
-Publicity
-Thurgood Marshall’s comments
-Coverage
-Importance
32
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-White House staff
-Role
-Public relations
-President’s eulogy
-Preparation and delivery
-John Marshall reference
-Compared with toasts and arrival ceremonies
-Importance Conv. No. 467-41 (cont.)
-Unknown Congressmen
-Compared with Martin Luther King, Jr.’s funeral
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Johnson’s attendance
-Date
-Johnson
-President’s attendance
-Robert F. (“Bobby”) Kennedy’s attendance
-President’s eulogy
-Importance
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.’s staff’s work
-Delivery
-Importance
-Other participants
-[Name unintelligible]
-A black minister
-Teacher at Young’s school
-Margaret (Birchner) Young
-Background
Ziegler entered at 4:15 pm
William Proxmire
-Supersonic transport [SST] story
-White House influence on Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
[HEW]
-Ziegler’s response
-White House response
-William M. Magruder
-John B. Connally
-Charges
-Proxmire’s comments to press
-National Institutes of Health [NIH] scientist
-White House response
33
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
W. M. Young funeral
-Possible publicity
-Network coverage
-Wire service coverage
-Gerald L. Warren
Ziegler left at 4:18 pm
Conv. No. 467-41 (cont.)
President’s schedule of meetings with press
-CBS
-Sidey
-R. L. Wilson
-William S. White
-William Raspberry
-Carroll Kilpatrick
-Sulzberger
-Frequency
-Numbers
-Frequency
-Compared with President’s phone calls to press
-Change in 1971
-Background interviews
-Television interviews
-Safire
-Forthcoming call from Haldeman
-List of interviews
-Frequency
-White House response
-Numbers
-Frequency
-Compared with previous years
-Sulzberger and Worsthorne interviews
-Walters
-Background of interview
-Previous breakfast interview
-Herbert E. Kaplow
-Nancy (Hanschman) Dickerson
-CBS interview with Bernard Kalb and John Hart
-Henry Brandon
-Need for White House response
-Formats
-One-on-one interviews
34
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Post-1970 election
-Women’s press representatives
-New Year’s Eve [1970?]
-Entry in log
-November and December 1970 meetings
-Women’s press representatives
-Importance
-Need for public relations efforts Conv. No. 467-41 (cont.)
-Effect of Cambodian and Laotian operations
-Importance of columnists
-Safire
-Sidey
-Osborne
-Influence
-Sidey
-Osborne
-Future contacts with Safire
-Sidey
Safire
-Work
-Public relations efforts
-President’s view
-Haldeman’s view
-Compared with other speechwriters
-Anecdotes
President’s speeches
-Garment
-Delivery of W. M. Young eulogy
-Speechwriters
-Fuller quote
-Safire
-Price
W. M. Young funeral
-President’s delivery of eulogy
-Press coverage
-Television
-Camera angle
-W. M. Young’s daughter and wife
-The President
35
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-White House role
-Vernon C. Coffey, Jr. and Ronald H. Walker
-Order of service
-Coffey
-Bugler
-M. Young
-Coffey
-Bugler Conv. No. 467-41 (cont.)
-President’s exit
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon
-M. Young’s exit
-”Taps”
-President’s role
-Compared with New York service
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-John V. Lindsay
-Jacob K. Javits
Thomas E. Dewey funeral
-President’s possible role
-Eulogy
-Compared with [Forename unknown] Lipscomb, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and
Everett M. Dirksen funerals
Catholic and Protestant funeral customs
-Kennedy funeral
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy’s role
-President’s attendance
President’s image with press
-Safire’s role
-President’s interviews
-Worsthorne
-Background
-Sulzberger
-Andre L. Fontaine
-Le Monde
-Brandon
-Times of London
-Frank Giles
-Sulzberger
-Previous interviews
36
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Background of interview
-Press story
-President’s interview with Sulzberger
-Frequency
-Ziegler
-Safire’s role
-Purpose of President’s press conferences
-Purpose of President’s interviews Conv. No. 467-41 (cont.)
-President’s Quaker background
-Safire
-Price
-President’s mother’s views on war
-1968 acceptance speech
-Safire’s knowledge
-Columns by Nicholas P. Thimmesch
-References to Haldeman
-Charles W. Colson
-President as sports fan
-Sports Illustrated interview, March 27, 1969
-Effect of Eisenhower’s death on story
W. M. Young funeral
-President’s eulogy
-A quote from Fuller Stors lecture
-Lawyers
-Rose Mary Woods
-Yale Law School
-Reference to morality
-Compared with John F. Kennedy, R. F. Kennedy, and E. M. Kennedy press coverage
-Press coverage
-Compared with President’s speech at T. W. Wilson Center
-White House efforts
-Compared with President’s other events
- T. W. Wilson International Center for Scholars
-John Quincy Adams portrait ceremony
-President’s trip to Nebraska
-White House efforts
-Garment
James Farmer
-Importance
-Future with Urban League
37
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
Woods entered at an unknown time after 4:18 pm
President’s eulogy for W. M. Young
-Stors lecture
-President’s remarks
-Press release
-Call to Garment
Conv. No. 467-41 (cont.)
Woods left at an unknown time before 5:17 pm
President’s image with press
-President’s call to Safire
-Methods of improvement
-Connally
-Cabinet officers
-White House staff efforts
Public relations
-”Open Door”
Head of State visits
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Gifts from the President
-Forthcoming Visit of King [Moulay] Hassan II
-Gifts for the President
-Gifts
-Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.
-Disposition
-Butterfield
Louie B. Nunn
-Proposal to name a school for W. M. Young
-Funding
-Relations with W. M. Young
-President and Nunn’s attendance at W. M. Young funeral
-Haldeman’s contacts
-Public relations efforts
Public relations
-March 22, 1971
-President’s call to an unidentified policeman’s wife
-Press coverage
38
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
Dewey’s funeral
-Attendees
-William P. Rogers
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Rogers
-President’s role
-President’s schedule Conv. No. 467-41 (cont.)
-Other guests of the President
-Javits
-James L. Buckley
-Compared with Kentucky trip
-Javits and Buckley
-Rogers
-Flanigan
W. M. Young funeral
-Demonstrators
-Attendees
President’s appearances
-W. M. Young funeral
-Working the fenceline
-Naval base at Quonset Point
-Charles R. Larson
-Logistical problems
-Working the fencelines
-President’s position
-Extent
White House social evenings
-Receiving lines
-Mrs. Nixon
-Alternative
-Diplomatic reception
-White House military staff
-Compared with State Department staff
-William B. Macomber, Jr.
-Financial people
-State Department protocol staff
-Military aides
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-Receiving line, March 16, 1971
-President’s schedule
-Length
-Mrs. Nixon
-Alternatives to receiving lines
-Christmas party
-Compared to “working the fences”
-Experience with royalty in 1953 Conv. No. 467-41 (cont.)
-Mohammed Reza Pahlavi [Shah of Iran]
-Public opinion
Public relations efforts
-Package on Nixon Administration reforms
-White House staff assignment
-Content
-Safire
-Package on crime problem
-White House staff assignment
-Administration trademark
-Congress
-”Generation of peace”
-John M. (“Jack”) Lynch’s arrival ceremony
Boxing match
-Remark by [Name unintelligible]
-Effect
-Madison Square Garden
-Coverage
-Compared to Super Bowl
-Compared to first lunar landing
-Cost for seat
-Patrick J. Buchanan and family
President’s schedule
-West Point Commencement ceremony
-Naval Academy
-Options
-Commencement
-Parade
-Convocation
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Mailings
-President’s speech at Newport, Rhode Island
-Further distribution
-Press coverage
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Agriculture
-President’s speech at T. W. Wilson International Center for Scholars
Conv. No.event
467-41 (cont.)
-President’s speech in Nebraska
-Use
-Importance
Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-Haldeman’s forthcoming conversation with Moynihan
-Future
-Flanigan
-Maurice H. Stans
Speechwriters
-Assistance to the President
-Speech material
-Adams and T. W. Wilson events’ speeches
-Work
[The President talked with Ehrlichman at an unknown time between 4:18 pm and 5:17 pm]
[Conversation No. 467-41B]
President’s schedule
-Possible March 18, 1971 meeting
-Ehrlichman and George P. Shultz
Public relations
-Possible statement
-Haldeman and John N. Mitchell
-The President’s view
-Connally
-Role
-Position on an unknown issue
-Ehrlichman’s view
President’s work on trip from Kentucky
President’s forthcoming call to Shultz
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[End of telephone conversation]
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal Returnable] Conv. No. 467-41 (cont.)
[Duration: 1m 42s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
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President’s schedule
-Departure time
[Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:18 pm and 5:17
pm]
[Conversation No. 467-41C]
Call to Dwight L. Chapin
[End of telephone conversation]
W. M. Young funeral
-President’s eulogy
-Method of delivery
-Publicity
-Garment
-Safire
[Haldeman talked with Chapin [?] at an unknown time between 4:18 pm and 5:17 pm]
[Conversation No. 467-41D]
President’s schedule
-Hugh Scott
-Meeting with the President
-Purpose
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-Time
-Mitchell’s participation
-Haldeman
[End of telephone conversation]
-Signing ceremonies
Conv. No. 467-41 (cont.)
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 17s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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-Signing ceremonies
-House Resolution [HR] 16
-Possible March 19, 1971 ceremony
-Timing
-Prisoners of War [POW] and Missing In Action [MIA] week
-Possible White House ceremony
-Attendees
-Congressmen
-Frank Borman
-Representatives from the families
-Publicity
-Use
-Benefit
-A Michigan high school choir
-Gerald R. Ford
-Possible appearance in Rose Garden
-Possible demonstrators
-Previous appearance in Grand Rapids
-Tour of White House
-Presidential participation
-Future appointments for this type of group
-”Open Hour”
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[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:18 pm and
5:17 pm]
[Conversation No. 467-41E]
Call to Rogers
Conv. No. 467-41 (cont.)
[End of telephone conversation]
President’s schedule
-National Association of Newspapers
-Ziegler
-A workshop
-Date
[The President talked with Rogers between 5:17 pm and 5:24 pm]
[Conversation No. 467-41F]
-Dewey’s funeral
-Time of departure
-Rogers’ possible attendance
-President’s forthcoming press conference
-Domestic policy
-March 16, 1971 dinner
-Announcement of Tricia Nixon’s engagement
-Jazz concert
-Edward R. F. Cox and Harvard law students’ response
-Dennis Day
-Fred MacMurray
-Length
Dewey
-Dwayne O. Andreas
-Plans to attend President’s March 16, 1971 dinner
-President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board [PFIAB]
-Connally replacement
-Dewey’s possible appointment
-President’s view
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 30s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4 Conv. No. 467-41 (cont.)
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President’s March 16, 1971 Head of State dinner
-Lynch
-Comments
-Toasts
-Publicity
Dewey funeral
[End of telephone conversation]
-Rogers’ attendance
-Wives’ attendance
-Mrs. Nixon
-Hotel Pierre in New York City
-Proximity to church
-Adele (Langston) Rogers and other wives
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 10s ]
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-[Name unintelligible] attendance
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-Possible meeting en route with President
-President’s guests
-New York Congressional delegation
-Scott
-Position in 1948 campaign
President’s schedule
-Possible press conference Conv. No. 467-41 (cont.)
-Questions
-”Today” show appearance
-Possible press conference
-Possible television coverage
-April 8, 1971 speech
The President left at an unknown time before 5:52 pm