Conversation No. 275-15

Date: September 7, 1971
Time: 3:55 pm - 4:55 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

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

     Stock market
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                                    Tape Subject Log
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                                                             Conv. No. 275-14 (cont.)


        -Status at close of trading
        -17 million shares
              -Dow Jones average
        -Friday's rise in market
              -Anticipation of presidential announcement
                    -Labor Day's speech

George P. Shultz
    -Views
    -Profits

Public
     -Labor Day weekend
     -Television programs
     -Advertisement
          -Effect

Press
        -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
             -Pictures of trip
        -Robert Dole
             -Letter
                   -Publicity
             -Time magazine article
                   -Evaluation of the President's actions
             -White House staff
             -Frank Leonard
             -New ideas
                   -New prosperity
                   -Generation of peace
             -Media
             -Congressmen
             -Approval for Presidential actions
                   -The President's trips
                         -24 cities
                         -15 states
                         -National trust
             -Summer of 1971
             -Writing
             -Parochial schools
             -Senior citizens
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                          Tape Subject Log
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                                                    Conv. No. 275-15 (cont.)


      -Parks
      -International drug traffic
      -War on crime
      -Bureaucracy
      -Workfare
            -Human dignity
            -Peacetime prosperity
      -Environment
      -26th Amendment
            -Signing
      -Dynamic balance between farms and cities
      -Equal rights laws
      -Alliance of generations
      -Veterans
      -Redemption of national spirit
-Effect on public
-Speakers
-Copies of Time article
      -Distribution
      -Clark MacGregor
            -Congress
      -Source
      -Dole
            -Cabinet members
            -Administration spokesmen
-Pictures of the President
-Quotes
      -Washington Post
      -New York Times
      -Time magazine
            -Wilbur D. Mills
            -Michael J. Mansfield
-July
-Economy
      -August
-Quote
      -Author
            -Franklyn C. (“Lyn”) Nofziger
      -American people
            -Spending
-Pictures
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                                       Tape Subject Log
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                                                               Conv. No. 275-15 (cont.)


                -Quality
          -First Monday distribution

     The President's schedule
          -Mrs. Nixon
          -Far West trip
               -John N. Mitchell's advice
               -Flight time
               -San Francisco
               -Oregon
               -Early arrival
                      -Morning
                      -San Francisco
               -Night arrival
               -Problems
                      -Organization
                      -San Jose
                      -Logistics
               -Briefing
               -Public expectations
               -Schedule
                      -Monday
                      -Japanese visit

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:55 pm.

     The President's calendar
          -Location

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:55 pm.

     The President's schedule
          -Far West trip
               -Site of media briefing
               -Montana
                      -Weather
               -Delaware

An unknown woman entered at an unknown time after 3:55 pm.

     Draft of economic speech
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                                      Tape Subject Log
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                                                                Conv. No. 275-15 (cont.)


            -Numbering

The unknown woman left at an unknown time before 4:55 pm.

     Speech writing
          -The President's meeting with Raymond K. Price, Jr.
          -The President's role
          -Haldeman's copy
                -Fifth draft
                       -Delivery of drafts
          -First draft
                -Compared with other drafts
                       -Quality
                -Congressional leaders meeting
          -Price
          -William L. Safire

     Economic briefing
         -Women in government
               -Cabinet wives
         -John B. Connally
         -Anecdote
         -Paul W. McCracken

     Julie Nixon Eisenhower's schedule

     High school event
          -List of possibilities

     Book
            -Price
            -Dorothy L. Sayers, Creed or Chaos?
            -Bookstores
            -Photostatic copy

     Policy

     Jonathan C. Rose
          -California memorandum follow-up
                -100,000 jobs
          -Caspar W. (Cap”) Weinberger
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                                 Tape Subject Log
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                                                          Conv. No. 275-15 (cont.)



Julie Eisenhower
      -Letters

Peter Drucker

Thomas R. Shepard, Jr.
    -Speeches
         -Claremont College
         -Speechwriter

Issues
     -Drugs and crime

President’s schedule
     -Visit by astronauts to Camp David
           -Date of visit
     -Florida
     -Dinner for astronauts
           -Dates
     -Florida
     -California
           -Working weekend
     -Astronauts' schedule
     -The President's trip to Camp David
           -Date

Forthcoming Head of State Visits
     -Indira Gandhi
           -Possible visit to Camp David
     -Josip Broz Tito
     -Henry A. Kissinger
     -Nature of visits
           -State dinner

The President's schedule
     -Florida
     -Camp David
     -Airport
           -Time of arrival
           -The President's schedule
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                                 Tape Subject Log
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                                                          Conv. No. 275-15 (cont.)


     -California
     -Possible changes in trip's schedule
           -Detroit
                 -California
     -Dinner
     -New York
     -Chicago
     -West Coast
           -Time difference
     -Length
     -Telecast
           -Live broadcast
           -Time difference
                 -New York people
                       -Receptions
                       -Telecast
           -Dinner organizers
                 -Reasons
                 -Simultaneous telecast
                       -Chicago
                       -Los Angeles
           -Chicago
           -New York
                 -Dinner
                       -The President's speech
                             -Timing
           -New York
           -Chicago

Ford Foundation
     -Connection with Brookings Institute
     -Problems
     -William D. Ruckelshaus
           -Two unknown men
           -Barry M. Goldwater
     -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
     -Vice President's proposed speech
           -Establishment

Young Americans for Freedom [YAF]
    -William F. Buckley, Jr.
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                                                               Conv. No. 275-15 (cont.)


     -Ronald W. Reagan
           -Telephone
     -Publicity
     -Agnew
     -Letter

[Peter G. Peterson]
      -Economic presentation
           -College circuit

President’s schedule
     -Opening of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
           -Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
           -Media
           -The President's action concerning the Presidential box
           -Kennedy family
                 -Attendance at opening concert
           -Symphony orchestra
           -Good public relations
           -Leonard Bernstein’s Mass
                 -Review
                 -Criticism
                       -Effect on the President's actions
                 -Attendance
                       -Haldeman
                       -White House staff
                       -Cabinet
                 -Preview performance
                       -General public
                       -Congressional preview
                 -Opening performance
                 -Previous night's performance
                       -Audience's reaction
                             -Bernstein's reaction
                 -Joan [Mrs. Edward M.] Kennedy's action
           -Review
                 -Criticism
                       -Architecture
                       -Cost
                       -Delays in construction
                 -Kennedy family
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      -Government contribution
             -Private subscription
-Bernstein’s Mass
      -The President’s attendance
      -Reaction
      -Official opening
             -Review
-Symphony
      -Opera House
      -Alberto Ginastera
-Ballet
-Bernstein's Mass
      -The President's attendance
      -Type
      -Completion
             -Prelude
             -Endings
      -Kennedy family
      -Parts
             -Ballet company
             -Boys' choir
             -Two choruses
             -Chorale
             -Symphony orchestra
                   -Percussion section
      -Latin
      -Hebrew
      -Forms of music
             -Classical
             -Liturgical
             -Rock
             -Pop
             -Country
-First of its kind in Washington, DC
-Cultural importance
-Comparison with University of California, Los Angeles [UCLA] Music Center
      -Public reaction
-Architecture
      -Edward Durrell Stone
      -Airline terminal
-Magazine article
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                                                       Conv. No. 275-15 (cont.)


      -Lyndon B. Johnson Library comparison
      -Evaluation of Kennedy Center, Johnson Library
            -Monuments
            -History
            -Architecture
-Bernstein’s Mass
      -The President’s attendance
-Dedication of John F. Kennedy's bust
      -The President’s attendance
-John Kennedy
      -Arts
-The President's support for the Kennedy Center
-Public opinion on the President
      -Comparison with opinion of Kennedy
-Mass
      -Bernstein
      -Kennedy family
            -Jacqueline Onassis
-Media
      -Newsweek
      -The President's action
            -Jacqueline Onassis
                  -Attendance
                        -Difficulties
-Kissinger
      -Views
      -Gregory Peck
            -Kennedy Center
      -Roger L. Stevens’ invitation
            -Reception
                  -Kennedy people
                  -The President's attendance
-The President's reception
      -Intermission
-Financial aspects
      -Stevens
            -Sell-out performances
                  -Number required
-Opera
-Ballet
      -Big names
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                                     Tape Subject Log
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                                                                 Conv. No. 275-15 (cont.)


                -Private subscription
                -Comparison with other performing centers
                      -UCLA [?]
                      -Financial situation
                -Tickets
                      -Price

Haldeman left at 4:55 pm.