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  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Stephen B. Bull
  • Harry S. Dent
  • William F. "Billy" Graham
  • Roy Gustafson
  • Arthur Smith
  • Fred Rhodes
  • Nelson Bell
  • George Rideout
  • Porter Routh
  • Tom Phillips
  • Robert Van Kampen
  • Charles Crutchfield
  • Bill Mead
  • Stan Mooneyham
  • Tom Lake
  • W. A. Criswell
  • Theodore Epp
  • Pat Zondervan
  • Alan Emory
  • Robert Denny
  • James Jeffrey
  • T. W. Wilson
  • Harold Lindsell
  • Don Gaeblein
  • White House photographer
  • Rose Mary Woods
August 10, 1971
Conversation No. 560-3

Date: August 10, 1971
Time: 5:20 pm - 5:45 pm
Location: Oval Office

Stephen B. Bull met with Harry S. Dent and William F. (“Billy”) Graham.

General conversation

The President entered at 5:21 pm.

Arrangements for meeting

Roy Gustafson, Arthur Smith, Fred Rhodes, Paul Harvey, David McConnell, Nelson Bell,
George Rideout, Porter Routh, Tom Phillips, Robert Van Kampen, Charles Crutchfield, Bill
Mead, Ben Hayden, Ed Johnson, Stan Mooneyham, Tom Lake, Alan Bell, W. A. Criswell,
Theodore Epp, Pat Zondervan, Alan Emory, Bill Walton, Maxy Jarman, Bill Bright, Robert
Denny, James Jefferey, T.W. Wilson, Harold Lindsell, and Don Gaeblein entered at 5:22 pm; the
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 560-3 (cont.)


White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Bull left at 5:22 pm.

Introductions and general conversation
-Bible
-Hannah Milhous Nixon
-Criswell
-First Baptist Church of Dallas
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-Baptists
-Walton
-Holiday Inn
-President’s visit
-Signs
-Kansas City
-Manchester
-Jeffery
-Fellowship of Christian Athletics
-Dallas Cowboys
-Lake
-Lilly Company
-Indianapolis
-President’s visit
-Mayor Richard G. Lugar

Baptists

President’s schedule
-Forthcoming helicopter ride

Photograph

Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:22 pm.

President's schedule
-Peter M. Flanigan

Dent, et al. except Graham, left at 5:38 pm.

Foreign policy briefing
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 560-3 (cont.)


-Henry A. Kissinger
-Harvey

White House briefings
-Labor, business, professors, Congress
-Foreign policy briefing
-Baptist leaders
-Influence
-Criswell’s conversation with Graham
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] policy
-Criswell's conversation with Graham

Dr. Nelson Bell
-Health

President's schedule
-Kissinger
-Sequoia
-White House church service
-Invitation
-Graham's mother [Mrs. W.F. Graham]
-Health
-President’s visit
-Lucy A. Winchester

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods at an unknown time between 5:38 pm and 5:45 pm.

[Conversation No. 560-3A]

President's schedule
-White House church service
-Timing
-California
-Invitation
-Mrs. Graham and companions

Photograph of President

[End of telephone conversation]

Foreign policy briefing
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 560-3 (cont.)


-Location
-Cabinet Room
-Purpose
-Lindsell
-Editorial
-J. Howard Pew
-Pew
-Bell
-Health

Dorothy Sayers
-President’s recent trip to Maine
-Background
-British
-Unknown book
-1941
-Relevance
-Background
-Conservatism
-British
-World Council of Churches
-Unknown book
-Harcourt, Brace publishing company
-Lectures
-Age
-Meeting with Graham
-Book
-Lectures
-World War II

President's schedule
-Flanigan

Graham left at 5:45 pm.
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