563–11

Conversation No. 563-11

Date: August 13, 1971
Time: 1:54 pm - 2:10 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

President’s conversation with Charles W. Colson


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Media book [by Edith Efron]
-Publication information
-Haldeman’s view
-Methodology
-Media bias
-New York Times, US News and World Report
-Compared to accuracy issue
- US News and World Report, Newsweek
-Human Events, New Republic
-Media's decision-making

Media
-Coverage of John V. Lindsay, busing
-Look article about Haldeman
-Wire services' coverage
-Press view of the President
-Press
-Television network news
-President's news summary
-Decision making
-Selectivity
-Theodore H. (“Teddy”) White's views concerning television news
-Look article
-Political biases of newsmen
-Efron’s book

James Keogh's book
-Status

Allen S. Drury
-Forthcoming book on the President
-Content
-Photographs
-Fred Maroon
-Text
-Distribution
-Conservative Book Club
-Look magazine

Look
-Coverage of administration
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-[Tricia Nixon’s and Edward R.F. Cox’s] wedding
-Haldeman story
-Richard (“Dick”) Wilson
-Drury book

Jeffrey Hart
-Book on President
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis's views
-Position
-National Review

Book reviewers

Forthcoming books concerning President's administration
-Timing
-Speeches
-Church services
-Frank van der Linden
-Books concerning Kennedy family

President's foreign policy
-Publicity
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republic [USSR]
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Vietnam
-PRC
-PRC trip
-Announcement
-Timing
-USSR trip
-Announcement
-Berlin
-Kissinger
-Press reports
-Publicity
-President’s forthcoming economic program

Public relations
-Administration’s program
-Public confidence
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Media
-Posture toward Administration
-William A. Gill
-[New Hampshire story]
-Ronald L. Ziegler's conversation with James C. Hagerty
-Reporting of administration
-John A. Scali's comments
-Avram R. (“Av”) Westin
-Norris Cotton
-Reporting of administration
-White House response
-Scali and Ziegler

Vietnam
-Administration’s handling
-Summer

President's schedule
-Wolf Trap Farm
-Attendees
-Opera
-Programs
-“No, No, Nanette”
-“The Merry Widow”
-President's visit
-Arrival at events
-Ford's Theater
-Abraham Lincoln
-Entrance
-Timing
-“Ruffles and Flourishes” and “Hail to the Chief”
-Baseball games
-Theater
-\"No, No, Nanette\"
-Kennedy Center
-“Ruffle and Flourishes”
-President’s box
-Anteroom
-Announcement
-Dress for forthcoming event at Kennedy Center
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-Black tie compared to white tie
-Antal Dorati
-President’s possible action
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Schedule
-Kennedy Center board
-Forthcoming call from Haldeman
-Forthcoming Camp David meeting
-Arthur F. Burns
-Peter G. Peterson
-Burns
-George P. Shultz
-Duration
-Possible leaks

Critics
-Administration’s response


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-President's role
-Television broadcast
-Gill

Book

President's schedule
-Unknown man

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 1:54 pm.
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President's briefcase
-Executive Office Building [EOB]

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:10 pm.

President's schedule
-New York
-Stock exchange
-Fortune, Wall Street Journal, Business Week
-Breakfast
-Dallas
-Illinois
-State Fair
-Lincoln
-Bill-signing
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Yorba Linda
-Kissinger
-Briefing
-Richard J. Daley
-Kissinger
-Briefing

Busing
-Shultz's view

Haldeman left at 2:10 pm.