Date: May 28, 1971
Time: 11:19 am - 11:32 am
Location: Oval Office Conv. No. 505-19 (cont.)
The President met with Stephen Hess, Dr. Edward Zigler, and Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.; the
conversation is in progress when the recording begins; the White House photographer was
present at the beginning of the meeting.
Photo session
-Arrangements
White House Conference on Children
-Report
Photograph
-Distribution
-Copies
The White House photographer left at an unknown time before 11:32 am.
Presentation to the President
-Portrait of President by high school student
-Thank you note
Children’s conference
-Read
-Anecdotes
-Arthur G. (“Art”) Linkletter
-Children's letters to the President
-Dr. Zigler
-White House Conference
-National Child Advocacy Center
-Office of Child Development
-Function
White House correspondence on children
-Establishment of Children's Concern Center
Linkletter
-Book
-Letters from kids
Report
-Answering childrens' concerns
Responsiveness of government
-Source of ideas for government
-States
-Government
-Size
President's experience in House of Representatives
-Letters
-Visits
-Value
Importance of public opinion mail
-Ideas
-Compared with government papers
-White House staff opinion
-Process
The President's appointments
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Value
Cancer program proposal
-Funds
-Use
Children's concerns
-Amount of attention Conv. No. 505-20 (cont.)
-Rhetoric
-Television
-The President's remarks on first five years of life
-Response
-Unknown person
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Follow-up
-The right to read
-Publicity
-Educational funds
-National Science Foundation [NSF]
Follow-up
-Moynihan
-Hess
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Hess
Presentation of gifts by the President
-Golf balls
-Paperweight
-Cuff-links
-Wives
-Secretaries
Children's concerns
-Compared with Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT], Middle East, Vietnam
-Henry A. Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-White House policy