490–2

Conversation No. 490-2

Date: April 29, 1971
Time: 12:04 pm - 12:42 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Valerija B. Raulinaitis, Robert E. Hampton, Barbara H. Franklin, Vicki
L. Keller, Jayne B. Spain, Sallyanne Payton, Frederic V. Malek, and Stephen B. Bull; the White
House photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Introductions

[General conversation]

-Spain’s education
-University of California, Berkeley

Photo session
-Location
-Unknown Prime Minister

[Camera noise]
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-Secretary of Defense
-Melvin R. Laird
-Congress
-Spain's background
-Civil Service Commission

[Camera noise]
Conv. No. 490-2 (cont.)
[General conversation]

-Movies
-“Love Story”

Bull and members of the press left at an unknown time before 12:23 pm.

-President's forthcoming press conference
-California

Tricia Nixon
-Look magazine

President's schedule
-Trip to California
-Photos
-Look magazine
-Photographer
-Cotter [Howell Conant]
-National Broadcasting System [NBC]
-California
-Atomic reactor
-Sea life
-Crabs
-Fish
-Catalina sand dab
-Grunion
-Tuna
-Florida Fighting Fish
-Red snapper
-Dollar [?]
-Yellowtail
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-Filet
-Catholics
-Catalina sand dab
-Fresh water
-Press corps

Administration appointments
-Women Conv. No. 490-2 (cont.)
-Viewpoint
-White House staff
-Robert J. Brown
-Views
-Concerns
-Assistant Secretary of Navy
-James E. Johnson
-Minorities
-Views
-Women
-Role
-Women's liberation
-Advantages over men
-Swearing
-Qualities
-Sensitivity
-Intuition
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Reaction to events
-Pragmatism
-Emotionalism
-Pressure
-Men
-Idealism
-Young people
-Idealism
-New appointees’ possible role
-Speaking up
-Money
-Professionalism
-Clothes
-Materialism
-Interest in work
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Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:04 pm.
President’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:23 pm.

Spain's schedule
-Upcoming speech in Chicago, April 30, 1971
-Investors of America Conv. No. 490-2 (cont.)
-Attendees
-Equal opportunity
-Role of woman

Equal opportunity
-Women
-Jobs
-Song, “Why Can’t a Woman Be a Like a Man?”
-Treatment
-Respect
-Special qualifications
-Intelligence
-Creativity
-Reaction
-Discrimination
-Women's liberation movement
-Treatment

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 12:23 pm.

Administration appointments
-Women
-Responsibilities
-Talent search
-Spain's upcoming speech in Chicago
-Unemployment
-Economy
-Recent study
-Education
-“Exceptional class”
-”Genius class”
-Minorities and women
-Use by nation
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Presentation of gifts
-Presidential seal
-Women
-Paper weights
-Bow pins

Hampton's performance
Conv. No. 490-2 (cont.)
Raulinaitis, et al., left at 12:29 pm.

Look magazine
-Pictures
-Conant
-Cover photograph
-Tricia Nixon

Stephen B. Bull entered at 12:30 pm.

-Tricia Nixon's schedule

Tricia Nixon entered and Bull left at 12:30 pm.

-Cover photograph
-California
-Deadline
-Timing
-Picture
-The President’s schedule
-April 30, 1971
-California trip
-April 30, 1971
-Photographer
-Conant
-Location
-President's schedule
-Meeting

Ziegler left at 12:33 pm.

-Pictures
-Trip to California
-Ziegler
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-Pictures
-Press photos
-Carl M. Yastrzemski
-Award

[The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 12:33 pm and 12:42
pm]
Conv. No. 490-2 (cont.)
[Conversation No. 490-2A]

William P. Rogers
-United Nations [UN]
-Memorandum
-State Department
-George H.W. Bush

Vietnam
-Developments
-Negotiations
-Withdrawal deadline

Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 12:33 pm.

President's schedule
-Photos with Tricia Nixon

The President, Tricia Nixon, and Ziegler left at 12:42 pm.