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484–10

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484–10
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Richard A. Moore
  • Antonina Uccello
  • Mary Lou Grier
  • Ronald L. Ziegler
April 21, 1971
Conversation No. 484-10

Date: April 21, 1971
Time: 12:35 pm - 12:46 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Richard A. Moore, Antonina P. Uccello, and Mary Lou Grier; the White
House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

Moore's health

The President's speeches
-Welfare speech [at Republican Governor Conference, Williamsburg, Virginia, April
19, 1971]
-Meeting with American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE], April 16, 1971
-Reaction
-Charles W. Colson
-Television
-Timing

Greetings

Photographs
-Moore

Presentation of plate commemorating the President’s last visit to Hartford, Connecticut

Statue of Admiral David G. Farragut
-Majorca
-Parents
-Madrid Navy League
-Farragut’s background
-Farragut’s quotation, “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead”

Presentation of gifts by the President
-Presidential bow pins and paper weights

Rose Garden

George H.W. Bush

Ucello and Grier left at 12:41 pm.
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Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 12:35 pm

Schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Meeting with the President

The President's previous meeting with Graham B. Steenhoven
-\"Meet the Press\"
-Ziegler's forthcoming press briefing with Steenhoven
-Proposed comments about meeting with President
-Steenhoven’s impressions of table team visit to People’s Republic of
China [PRC]
-Appreciation for role of ping-pong team in opening contacts
-Conduct of team
-Return visit of People's Republic of China [PRC] table tennis team
-Contacts with PRC
-Personal impressions of Steenhoven
-Private contact with PRC

Ziegler left at an unknown time before 12:46 pm

The President's meeting with ASNE, April 16, 1971
-Television coverage
-Fear of overexposure
-Networks
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Moore’s opinion
-Colson
-Administration spokesmen
-William P. Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Overexposure
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Facts
-Radio coverage
-California
-Soft tone
-President's approach
-President's tone

The President's speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
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-Tone

The President's meeting with ASNE
-Significance
-Audience

The President's speeches
-Pre-1971 appearance before ASNE [Date unknown] Conv.No. 484-10 (cont.)
-Moore's conversation with unknown person
-Questions and answers
-Reaction
-Television
-David Rockefeller
-Radio

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Judgement
-Statement on PRC
-National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-United Nations [UN] representation
-Trade
-President's support of Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Relations with the press
-Agnew’s statement on PRC
-President's PRC initiative
-State Department
-Prospects
-Anew’s support
-Visit of US ping-pong team
-People-to-people exchange

Schedule

Moore left at 12:46 pm
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