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Conversation No. 768-22

Date: August 14, 1972
Time: 1:15 pm - 1:44 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Oral Roberts and Wallace B. Henley; the White House photographer was
present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

[Photograph session]

Roberts
-Age
-Popularity
-Radio
-Television
-Views regarding President
-The President’s election in 1968
-1960 election
-Personal history
-Television
-Oral Roberts University
-Methodist Church
-Television appearances
-The President as an example
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
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-Burbank, California
-Roberts’s new television show
-Letters
-Volume
-Views regarding President
-Roberts’s television audience

Media
-Television and radio appearances by Roberts
-Roberts's popularity
-Arbitron Ratings Bureau [ARB]
-Primetime television specials
-Size of audience
-London
-Roberts's style
-Reading level of average US public
-Personal history
-Oklahoma
-Tuberculosis
-Poverty
-Use of television, radio
-The President's television appearances after his trip
to the People’s Republic of China [PRC] and the
Soviet Union
-The President’s style
-Roberts’s view
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Style on television compared with Roberts’s style
-The President's television style
-The President’s television appearances
-Soviet Union trip
-PRC trip
-Roberts’s view
-Roberts’s television style
-The President's television appearances
-PRC trip
-Soviet Union trip
-Roberts’s view
-The President’s image as a leader
-Roberts’s wife [Evelyn (Lutman) Roberts]
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-Roberts’s approach to television
-The President's image
-Roberts’s view
-Effect of the PRC trip and the Soviet Union trip

Concerns of the US public
-Roberts's view
-Reading level of the US public
-Wife and children
-Job
-Taxes
-Inflation
-Oral Roberts University
-Construction costs of dormitories
-Need for reassurance

Television
-William Jennings Bryan
-Abraham Lincoln
-The President’s tone

Roberts
-Conservatism
-Oklahoma
-View of religion
-The President’s view
-Draft evaders

Elimination of the draft
-Effect on Roberts family

The President’s forthcoming television appearances
-The President's image
-Roberts’s view

Oral Roberts University
-Tulsa, Oklahoma
-Endowment
-Special events center [Mabee Center]
-Prayer tower
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-Academic building
-Special events center
-Dewey F. Bartlett
-Basketball
-Speaking events
-Closed circuit television
-Christian Science Monitor
-Prayer tower
-Dormitories
-Chapel
-Age of university
-Size of school
-Dress code
-New York Times
-Special events center
-Possible dedication by the President
-Bartlett
-Roberts’s forthcoming television special
-Graham
-Dedication
-Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
-Mark (Pietrocupo) Anthony
-Possible dedication by the President
-Timing
-Television coverage
-Student body participation
-Students’ appearance
-Political affiliation of the student
body
-Bartlett
-Students’ appearance

Appearance of the population
-The President’s trip to the Soviet Union
-Painting of the Last Supper
-Appearance of the Apostles
-Long hair

Presentation of gifts by the President
-Bible
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-Use in swearing-in ceremonies
-Jewish appointees
-The President’s inscription for Roberts
-Pen

Roberts’s expression of support for the President



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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 23s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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Gifts
-Roberts's wife and children
-Presidential seal
-Cuff links
-Golf balls
-Hope
-Presidential seal
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

Roberts
-The President’s good wishes

Roberts and Henley left at 1:44 pm.