482–11

Conversation No. 482-11

Date: April 19, 1971
Time: 1:30 pm - 2:40 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

President's visit to Republican Governors' Conference, Williamsburg, April 19, 1971
-Robert J. Dole
-Schedule
-Gerald R. Ford

President's schedule
-Meeting with Ford, Leslie C. Arends and “bomb throwers” [Congressmen]

Invitations to Tricia Nixon's wedding
-Ronald L. Ziegler
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-Number
-Maj. Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes
-John S. Davies
-[Unintelligible name]
-Dean Burch
-Herbert G. Klein
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-William L. Safire Conv. No. 482-10 (cont.)
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Price
-Shelley A. (Scarney) Buchanan
-Hughes
-Davies
-Peter G. Peterson
-Clark MacGregor
-Congressmen and Senators
-Leonard Garment
-Bill [Unintelligible surname]

Demonstrations
-Ziegler

Donald E. McLarnan
-Reorganization of Small Business Administration [SBA]
-Thomas S. Kleppe
-Removal
-Democrats
-George P. Shultz
-Removal
-Shultz
-Reasons for removal
-Publicity

President's visit to Republican Governors' Conference
-Schedule
-Golf
-Government
-Business
-American Association of Advertising Agencies
-Haldeman's past attendance
-Pebble Beach
-Informal exchanges
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Press briefings
-Ziegler
-Performance
-Pattern
-President's schedule
-Stories
-George S. McGovern Conv. No. 482-11 (cont.)
-Possible technique
-Appointments
-Questions
-Events
-Press
-Choice of questions
-Vietnam
-Haldeman's possible conversation with Ziegler

President's visit to Republican Governors' Conference
-Television coverage
-Networks
-Advantages for President

Press coverage of President
-President's meeting with American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE]
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]/Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Dan Rather
-Earth Day crowd

Earth Day
-Haldeman’s conversation with Rather
-Crowd size
-David S. Broder
-Picture in newspaper
-Networks

President's meeting with ASNE
-Television coverage
-Applause

President's visit to Republican Governors' Conference
-Williamsburg
-Reception
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[Transcript #1: A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under
court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access 8, Ronald V. Dellums,
et al. v. James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271. The National Archives and Records
Administration produced this transcript. The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]
Conv. No. 482-11 (cont.)
-Anti-war protestors
President's meeting with Rio Grande High School students
-Rather
-Story
-Hard work
-Welfare recipients


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Welfare recipients
-Children
-Men
-Work
-Do-gooders

Pictures of Edward C. Nixon's family
-Ziegler
-Children
-Dresses
-Tricia Nixon and Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Possible release to press
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon
-Press
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-Magazines
-Seventeen
-Youth
-Tricia Nixon and Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Gowns
-Ziegler
-Constance M. (“Connie”) Stuart
-Family Circle Conv. No. 482-11 (cont.)
-Magazines
-Readers Digest
-Family Circle
-Parade

President’s visit to Republican Governors Conference
-Speech
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Welfare system

Earth Day
-Environment
-Picture in New York Times
-Participants
-Appearance
-George Washington University
-[Dwight] David, II and Julie Eisenhower
-Comments on styles

President's visit to Republican Governors' Conference
-Governors’ intentions
-Forum
-President's role
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Thomas W. Evans

President's speeches
-Possible speech before Congress
-Preparation
-Daughters of the American Revolution [DAR]

President's forthcoming speech at DAR session
-Significance
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
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-John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
-Significance

President’s forthcoming speech before US Chamber of Commerce, April 26, 1971
-Media coverage
-Television

President's speeches Conv. No. 482-11 (cont.)
-Reading
-Frequency
-Chamber of Commerce
-Length
-Press
-Live audience
-Advance text
-Republican Governors' Conference
-DAR
-Story about little old lady [Mrs. Paul W. Heatwole]
-Flag
-Seal in President's office

Personnel
-John S. Davies
-Plans to resign
-Mrs. Nixon
-Hawaii


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-Michael J. Farrell
-Qualifications
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-Staff
-Qualifications
-1968 campaign
-Davies
-Job performance
-Selection of assistants
-Kennedy staff
-Plans Conv. No. 482-11 (cont.)

President's schedule
-Meeting with Nguyen Van Thieu
-Midway
-Davies
-Trip to Hawaii

Tricia Nixon's wedding
-Flowers
-Media coverage
-Photos
-Cameras
-Mrs. Nixon


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-Rules
-Congressmen and Senators
-House assistants
-James T. Lynn

Price
-Assistants
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-Speech writing

Haldeman left at 2:04 pm.




Conversation
Conv. No. 482-11
No. 482-12
(cont.)

Date: April 19, 1971
Time: Unknown between 2:04 pm and 2:25 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man.

Request

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 2:25 pm.