683–7

Conversation No. 683-7

Date: March 13, 1972
Time: 12:18 pm - 1:07 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald S. Berman and Leonard Garment; the White House photographer
was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Photographs
-The President and Berman

Garment
-Public relations

National Endowment for the Humanities [NEH]
-Berman
-Conservative publications
-Subsidized art
-Peking
-Government control
-Constituency
-Status conscious compared to moderate individuals
-Example of House of Representatives
-Middle class attachments
-Midwest
-Respect for education
-Art compared to humanities
-Programs
-Professionals
-Public
-Television
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Aug-01)
Conv. No. 683-7 (cont.)

-Good cinema art
-Example of Laurence Olivier
-Henry V
-Hamlet
-The President’s view
-Biographical
-Historical
-Midnight Cowboy
-Olivier
-William Shakespeare
-Elizabethan England
-Example of Elizabeth Regina
-British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC]
-Movies in the White House
-Definition of humanities
-Movies
-Radio
-History
-Literature
-Biography
-Comedies
-Shakespeare
-Drama in the US
-Ideological bias
-Biographies
-Documentaries
-Orville and Wilbur Wright
-Portrayal of US spirit
-Lorraine Hansberry
-A Raisin in the Sun
-The Young, the Gifted, and the Black
-Sports
-Brian’s Song
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-Brian Piccolo
-Gale Sayers
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Race relations
-Audiences
-Novels
-Biographies
-Education
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Aug-01)
Conv. No. 683-7 (cont.)

-H.G. Wells
-Writings on the French Revolution
-Thomas Carlyle
-Jean Paul Marat
-Georges Danton
-Maximilien Robespierre
-Marat
-Benjamin Franklin
-Charlotte Corday
-Characteristics of revolutionary leaders
-American-British history
-Russian Revolution
-French Revolution
-Napoleon Bonaparte
-Waterloo
-Motion pictures
-Patton
-George S. Patton
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Bernard L. Montgomery
-Omar N. Bradley
-French Revolution
-Edmund Burke
-Carlyle
-Marat, Danton, Robespierre
-American Revolution compared to French Revolution
-Danton
-Robespierre
-Present revolutionary practices
-Wells
-Musicals
-Government sponsored
-Freedom and diversity
-Commercial
-Intellectuals
-Movies
-French Revolution
-Writers
-Burke
-Carlyle
-Wells
-French Revolution compared to World War I
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Aug-01)
Conv. No. 683-7 (cont.)

-Battle of the Somme, 1916
-World War I compared to World War II
-Deaths
-Bastille
-Revisionist historians
-French Revolution
-Intellectuals
-The President’s talk with Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Indira Gandhi’s previous trip to France
-Golda Meir compared to Gandhi
-Intellectuals
-Plato’s Republic
-Shoemakers compared to professors
-Universities
-Academic freedom

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:18 pm.

Books
-Residence
-Wells
-Library
-Russell A. Kirk

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:07 pm.

Intellectuals
-Berman’s book
-Berkeley revolution
-Vietnam War
-Takeover of universities
-Unrest on campuses
-Cambodia
-Kent State
-Separate dorms
-Tear down traditional institutions
-Family
-Community
-Corporation
-The President’s view
-Marxists compared to radicals
-Education
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Aug-01)
Conv. No. 683-7 (cont.)

-Chinese compared to Americans
-Parents dedication
-US
-Desire for education
-Blacks
-Busing
-Inferior education
-Trade groups
-Virtue

Sanchez entered and left at an unknown time between 12:18 pm and 1:07 pm.

-American attitude compared to British and Soviet attitudes
-Winston S. Churchill
-Middle class
-American ideal

Writers
-The President reading from a book
-Carlyle on Marat
-Painting
-Books
-List of ten best suggested by Berman
-History
-British
-Revolution
-Men
-Writers
-Carlyle
-The President reading from a book
-French Revolution
-French Revolution
-Robespierre
-The President reading from a book
-Burke

NEH
-Berman
-Recommendations to the President
-Books
-Movies
-Intellectuals
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Aug-01)
Conv. No. 683-7 (cont.)

-Sidney Hook
-Vietnam War
-Individuals requesting employment
-The administration
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Daniel P. Moynihan
-Berman
-San Diego
-University of California
-Herbert Marcuse
-Production of intellectuals
-Education
-Vietnam
-West Germany
-Garment’s recent visit
-University system
-Berlin
-Professors and students
-Japanese system
-Chinese
-Foreign policy ramifications
-US domestic stability
-Germany
-Japanese studies
-Possible efforts by NEH

Gifts
-Cufflinks

Garment

Lawyers

Berman and Garment left at 1:07 pm.