Secret White House Tapes

505–20

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505–20
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Edwar Zigler
  • Kenneth R. Cole
  • White House photographer
May 28, 1971
Conversation No. 505-20

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


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Presidential library
-President’s signature

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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-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

Hess, et. al., left at 11:32 am.
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505–20

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