596–17

Conversation No. 596-17

Date: October 19, 1971
Time: 12:56 pm - 1:26 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

Media
-Press leaks
-Nominees to Supreme Court
-Influence the President's decision

Charles W. Colson entered at 12:57 pm.

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts board members
-William D. Blair, Jr.
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-Lyndon B. Johnson's appointees
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Haldeman
-Roger L. Stephens
-Actions
-Previous executive committee meeting
-Haldeman
-Kennedy sisters
-Possible White House use of Kennedy Center
-Blair
-Use of Kennedy Center
-Black Panthers
-Unknown priest
-Robert B. Anderson
-Renaming of Kennedy Center theatres
-Eisenhower
-Johnson
-Nixon
-Blair
-The President’s view
-Haldeman’s view
-Comments to the press
-Stephens

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:56 pm.

Misplaced document

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:26 pm.

Supreme Court appointments
-Congressional opposition
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Birch E. Bayh, Jr.
-Media
-Hugh Scott, Edward J. Gurney
-Support for the President
-Time, Newsweek, New York Times, Edward M. Kennedy, Bayh
-Administration's counter-attack
-Gurney and Scott
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Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:56 pm.

Location of missing document

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:26 pm.

Edward Kennedy
-Nomination to federal bench
-Francis Morrissey
-John F. Kennedy

Common Cause
-Mailings
-John W. Gardner
-Administrations response
-Cut off contributions
-Gerald R. Ford, Robert P. Griffin, Scott
-Supporters
-Chuck Healy [?]
-John A. McCone
-Republican National Committee
-Supersonic Transport [SST]
-Michael J. Mansfield amendment
-American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars
-Gardner
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS] investigation
-Enemies List
-White House dinner
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Funding
-Direct mail
-Contributors

Administration's activities
-Congressional hearings
-Edith Efron's book
-William L. Springer
-Dean Burch
-Springer
-Networks
-Publishers
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-Book stores
-Neal B. Freeman
-Human Events magazine
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr. hearings
-Strom Thurmond
-Springer

Art
-The President’s view
-Public relations benefits
-The President's schedule
-Supporters
-Gardner
-Anderson
-The President's previous visit to Kennedy Center
-Value
-Administration's activities
-Women
-Businessmen
-Nancy Hanks
-Virginia H. Knauer
-Blair
-Kennedy Center image

Lyndon B. Johnson
-Vietnam
-Pentagon Papers
-John F. Kennedy
-William V. Shannon
-New York Times
-Book [The Vantage Point]
-Jack J. Valenti's comments
-Review by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
-Los Angeles Times
-Valenti
-Robert F. Kennedy
-1960 Vice Presidential nomination
-Ngo Dinh Diem
-Administration actions
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Report of conversation
-David E. Bradshaw
-Richard J. Daley’s previous meeting with Edward Kennedy
-Jay Lovestone


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Housing
-Statistics
-Increase of 47% per annum

Stock market
-Dow Jones decrease
-Wall Street
-Arthur F. Burns
-Inflation
-August 15th
-Volume of trade

The President's schedule
-John N. Mitchell
-Donald H. Rumsfeld

Haldeman and Colson left at 1:26 pm.
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