275–15

Conversation No. 275-15

Date: September 7, 1971
Time: 3:55 pm - 4:55 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

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

Stock market
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 275-14 (cont.)


-Status at close of trading
-17 million shares
-Dow Jones average
-Friday's rise in market
-Anticipation of presidential announcement
-Labor Day's speech

George P. Shultz
-Views
-Profits

Public
-Labor Day weekend
-Television programs
-Advertisement
-Effect

Press
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Pictures of trip
-Robert Dole
-Letter
-Publicity
-Time magazine article
-Evaluation of the President's actions
-White House staff
-Frank Leonard
-New ideas
-New prosperity
-Generation of peace
-Media
-Congressmen
-Approval for Presidential actions
-The President's trips
-24 cities
-15 states
-National trust
-Summer of 1971
-Writing
-Parochial schools
-Senior citizens
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 275-15 (cont.)


-Parks
-International drug traffic
-War on crime
-Bureaucracy
-Workfare
-Human dignity
-Peacetime prosperity
-Environment
-26th Amendment
-Signing
-Dynamic balance between farms and cities
-Equal rights laws
-Alliance of generations
-Veterans
-Redemption of national spirit
-Effect on public
-Speakers
-Copies of Time article
-Distribution
-Clark MacGregor
-Congress
-Source
-Dole
-Cabinet members
-Administration spokesmen
-Pictures of the President
-Quotes
-Washington Post
-New York Times
-Time magazine
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Michael J. Mansfield
-July
-Economy
-August
-Quote
-Author
-Franklyn C. (“Lyn”) Nofziger
-American people
-Spending
-Pictures
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 275-15 (cont.)


-Quality
-First Monday distribution

The President's schedule
-Mrs. Nixon
-Far West trip
-John N. Mitchell's advice
-Flight time
-San Francisco
-Oregon
-Early arrival
-Morning
-San Francisco
-Night arrival
-Problems
-Organization
-San Jose
-Logistics
-Briefing
-Public expectations
-Schedule
-Monday
-Japanese visit

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:55 pm.

The President's calendar
-Location

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:55 pm.

The President's schedule
-Far West trip
-Site of media briefing
-Montana
-Weather
-Delaware

An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 3:55 pm.

Draft of economic speech
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 275-15 (cont.)


-Numbering

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 4:55 pm.

Speech writing
-The President's meeting with Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-The President's role
-Haldeman's copy
-Fifth draft
-Delivery of drafts
-First draft
-Compared with other drafts
-Quality
-Congressional leaders meeting
-Price
-William L. Safire

Economic briefing
-Women in government
-Cabinet wives
-John B. Connally
-Anecdote
-Paul W. McCracken

Julie Nixon Eisenhower's schedule

High school event
-List of possibilities

Book
-Price
-Dorothy L. Sayers, Creed or Chaos?
-Bookstores
-Photostatic copy

Policy

Jonathan C. Rose
-California memorandum follow-up
-100,000 jobs
-Caspar W. (Cap”) Weinberger
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 275-15 (cont.)



Julie Eisenhower
-Letters

Peter Drucker

Thomas R. Shepard, Jr.
-Speeches
-Claremont College
-Speechwriter

Issues
-Drugs and crime

President’s schedule
-Visit by astronauts to Camp David
-Date of visit
-Florida
-Dinner for astronauts
-Dates
-Florida
-California
-Working weekend
-Astronauts' schedule
-The President's trip to Camp David
-Date

Forthcoming Head of State Visits
-Indira Gandhi
-Possible visit to Camp David
-Josip Broz Tito
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Nature of visits
-State dinner

The President's schedule
-Florida
-Camp David
-Airport
-Time of arrival
-The President's schedule
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Tape Subject Log
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-California
-Possible changes in trip's schedule
-Detroit
-California
-Dinner
-New York
-Chicago
-West Coast
-Time difference
-Length
-Telecast
-Live broadcast
-Time difference
-New York people
-Receptions
-Telecast
-Dinner organizers
-Reasons
-Simultaneous telecast
-Chicago
-Los Angeles
-Chicago
-New York
-Dinner
-The President's speech
-Timing
-New York
-Chicago

Ford Foundation
-Connection with Brookings Institute
-Problems
-William D. Ruckelshaus
-Two unknown men
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Vice President's proposed speech
-Establishment

Young Americans for Freedom [YAF]
-William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Tape Subject Log
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-Ronald W. Reagan
-Telephone
-Publicity
-Agnew
-Letter

[Peter G. Peterson]
-Economic presentation
-College circuit

President’s schedule
-Opening of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
-Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
-Media
-The President's action concerning the Presidential box
-Kennedy family
-Attendance at opening concert
-Symphony orchestra
-Good public relations
-Leonard Bernstein’s Mass
-Review
-Criticism
-Effect on the President's actions
-Attendance
-Haldeman
-White House staff
-Cabinet
-Preview performance
-General public
-Congressional preview
-Opening performance
-Previous night's performance
-Audience's reaction
-Bernstein's reaction
-Joan [Mrs. Edward M.] Kennedy's action
-Review
-Criticism
-Architecture
-Cost
-Delays in construction
-Kennedy family
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 275-15 (cont.)


-Government contribution
-Private subscription
-Bernstein’s Mass
-The President’s attendance
-Reaction
-Official opening
-Review
-Symphony
-Opera House
-Alberto Ginastera
-Ballet
-Bernstein's Mass
-The President's attendance
-Type
-Completion
-Prelude
-Endings
-Kennedy family
-Parts
-Ballet company
-Boys' choir
-Two choruses
-Chorale
-Symphony orchestra
-Percussion section
-Latin
-Hebrew
-Forms of music
-Classical
-Liturgical
-Rock
-Pop
-Country
-First of its kind in Washington, DC
-Cultural importance
-Comparison with University of California, Los Angeles [UCLA] Music Center
-Public reaction
-Architecture
-Edward Durrell Stone
-Airline terminal
-Magazine article
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 275-15 (cont.)


-Lyndon B. Johnson Library comparison
-Evaluation of Kennedy Center, Johnson Library
-Monuments
-History
-Architecture
-Bernstein’s Mass
-The President’s attendance
-Dedication of John F. Kennedy's bust
-The President’s attendance
-John Kennedy
-Arts
-The President's support for the Kennedy Center
-Public opinion on the President
-Comparison with opinion of Kennedy
-Mass
-Bernstein
-Kennedy family
-Jacqueline Onassis
-Media
-Newsweek
-The President's action
-Jacqueline Onassis
-Attendance
-Difficulties
-Kissinger
-Views
-Gregory Peck
-Kennedy Center
-Roger L. Stevens’ invitation
-Reception
-Kennedy people
-The President's attendance
-The President's reception
-Intermission
-Financial aspects
-Stevens
-Sell-out performances
-Number required
-Opera
-Ballet
-Big names
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 275-15 (cont.)


-Private subscription
-Comparison with other performing centers
-UCLA [?]
-Financial situation
-Tickets
-Price

Haldeman left at 4:55 pm.