Secret White House Tapes

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  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Steven Baker
  • Walter Byrd
  • Eileen Friars
  • Stanley Grimm
  • Jay Sternoff
  • Robert H. Finch
March 25, 1971
Conversation No. 473-5

Date: March 25, 1971
Time: 9:50 am - 10:12 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Steven Baker, Walter Byrd, Eileen Friars, Stanley Grimm, Jay Sternoff,
and Robert H. Finch

Introduction

Seating arrangements

A photographer

Finch’s paper on youth
-President’s meeting with Edwin D. Etherington
-Public relations efforts
-Administration policies

Issues of concern to students
-Military service draft
-Deferments
-Student loans
-Need for communications
-Military service draft, loans, internships
-Administration speakers and counselors
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)



-Summer internship in government
-Number
-Capitol Hill
-One Senator’s experience
-Numbers
-Congress
-White House assignments
-Departmental assignments Conv. No. 473-5 (cont.)
-State and local governments
-New York
-California

Student leaders’ conference
-Student leaders
-Credibility
-Meeting with Finch
-Student legislation
-Policy position
-Credibility
-Subsidies
-Legislation
-Student views
-Resolutions
-Credibility of student leaders
-Accessibility to government leaders

Issues
-Marijuana
-Eighteen-year-old vote

Students and government
-Communications
-Importance
-A previous conference
-Effect
-Memorandum from the students to the President
-Relationship
-President’s view
-Draft
-Employment
-Fields of study
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)



-White House and Cabinet officers
-Internships
-Congressmen and Senators
-Need for government action
-Volunteers in Service to America [VISTA]
-Peace Corps
-Teachers’ Corps reorganization
-Joseph H. Blatchford Conv. No. 473-5 (cont.)
-Blatchford’s role
-National Center for Voluntary Action
-Administration policies
-State and local government level
-Revenue sharing policy
-Effect
-President’s position
-Bellevue, Washington
-Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD]
-Urban renewal
-Model Cities programs
-Effect of President’s programs
-Communications
-Student government
-President’s student government career
-Role of student leaders
-Administration speakers
-Revenue sharing
-Vietnam
-Administration speakers
-Appearances at clubs, campuses
-Cabinet and department officers
-Compared to professors
-President’s professors
-Effect
-Possible invitations
-Reception on campus
-Congressional speakers
-1961 to 1970 period
-World and national events
-Importance of communication
-President’s possible appearance
-Secret Service
-Finch’s experiences
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)



-Baker’s perception
-Attitude toward President’s reelection
-Possible meetings with President
-Baker’s attitude toward President
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-President’s support among student in 1972
-Attitude toward administration
-Administration’s view of youth Conv. No. 473-5 (cont.)
-Importance of dialogue
-Possible invitation to speakers
-Peter Teague
-Perception of President
-Communications

President’s schedule
-National Security Council [NSC] meeting

Oval Office
-Tour by Finch
-George Washington portrait
-Head of State gifts

The President left at 10:12 am

-A gift from Boy Scouts

Recording was cut off at 10:12 am
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