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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             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.