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Start Date: 28-May-1971 11:19 AM

End Date: 28-May-1971 11:32 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Hess, StephenZigler, Edward (Dr.)Cole, Kenneth R., Jr.White House photographer

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 06:16:32

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 06:34:54

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NARA Description:

On May 28, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Stephen Hess, Dr. Edward Zigler, Kenneth R. Cole, Jr., and White House photographer met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:19 am to 11:32 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 505-020 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 505-20

Date: May 28, 1971
Time: 11:19 am - 11:32 am
Location: Oval Office                                                Conv. No. 505-19 (cont.)

The President met with Stephen Hess, Dr. Edward Zigler, and Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.; the
conversation is in progress when the recording begins; the White House photographer was
present at the beginning of the meeting.

     Photo session
          -Arrangements

     White House Conference on Children
          -Report

     Photograph
          -Distribution
          -Copies

The White House photographer left at an unknown time before 11:32 am.

     Presentation to the President
          -Portrait of President by high school student
                -Thank you note


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Presidential library
     -President’s signature

Children’s conference
     -Read
           -Anecdotes
           -Arthur G. (“Art”) Linkletter
     -Children's letters to the President
     -Dr. Zigler
           -White House Conference
                 -National Child Advocacy Center
                       -Office of Child Development
                       -Function

White House correspondence on children
     -Establishment of Children's Concern Center

Linkletter
     -Book
           -Letters from kids

Report
    -Answering childrens' concerns

Responsiveness of government
    -Source of ideas for government
          -States
    -Government
          -Size

President's experience in House of Representatives
     -Letters
     -Visits
            -Value

Importance of public opinion mail
    -Ideas
          -Compared with government papers
          -White House staff opinion
          -Process

The President's appointments
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            -Value

      Cancer program proposal
          -Funds
          -Use

      Children's concerns
           -Amount of attention                                    Conv. No. 505-20 (cont.)
           -Rhetoric
           -Television
           -The President's remarks on first five years of life
                 -Response
                 -Unknown person
                 -Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan
                 -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
                 -Follow-up
           -The right to read
                 -Publicity
                 -Educational funds
                       -National Science Foundation [NSF]

      Follow-up
           -Moynihan
           -Hess
           -Elliot L. Richardson
           -Hess

      Presentation of gifts by the President
           -Golf balls
           -Paperweight
           -Cuff-links
           -Wives
           -Secretaries

      Children's concerns
           -Compared with Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT], Middle East, Vietnam
                 -Henry A. Kissinger
                 -William P. Rogers
           -White House policy

Hess, et. al., left at 11:32 am.
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