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Start Date: 18-Apr-1973 1:03 PM

End Date: 18-Apr-1973 1:17 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Bray, William G.Coover, DarrellFriedersdorf, Max L.White House photographerMembers of the press

Recording Device: Oval Office

900-021.mp3

NARA Description:

On April 18, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, William G. Bray, Darrell Coover, Max L. Friedersdorf, White House photographer, and members of the press met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 1:03 pm and 1:17 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 900-021 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 900-21

Date: April 18, 1973
Time: 1:03 pm - 1:17 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Congressman William G. Bray, Lorin J. Badskey, Darrell Coover, and
Max Friedersdorf. The White House photographer and members of the press were present at the
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                      Tape Subject Log 

                                       (rev. July-2012)

                                                           Conversation No. 900-21 (cont’d)

beginning of the meeting.

     Introductions
           -Kiwanis International convention, 1957
                 -President’s speech
                 -Atlantic City

     Presentation to President
          -Unknown man
                 -Governor
                 -Kiwanis
                 -US Marshall
          -Wood carving

     Arrangements for photograph

     Unknown man’s health

     Extension of Capitol 

          -Cost      

          -Bray’s vote      

                -Gerald R. Ford
          -Hideaway

     Kiwanis
         -Presentation to President
               -Medallion
               -Location
                     -Lakeman, Indiana

     President’s family roots in Indiana
           -Quakers

     Kiwanis
         -Program
               -“Share your life” theme
                    -Service
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              NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                 Tape Subject Log
                                  (rev. July-2012)

                                                     Conversation No. 900-21 (cont’d)

                  -Recreation    

                  -Exploration     

      -Individual’s activity   


Retired people
      -Elderly care       

            -Service in communities      

            -Retirement homes       

      -Prisons      

      -Expansion        


Badskey’s travels
     -Country visits
           -Badskey’s wife
     -US districts

Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions
     -Volunteer services

Bray’s schedule
     -Kiwanis meeting       

           -Washington, DC      

           -Congress members      

     -Return to communities     

           -Weekend trips     

     -Kiwanis culture     


Service clubs
      -Value
      -Support by President
      -Leadership for community
            -Spirit

Kiwanis’s Camelot program
    -Montreal launch
    -Chris Schenkel
           -Inter-financial force [?]
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                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 


                                         Tape Subject Log 

                                          (rev. July-2012)

                                                              Conversation No. 900-21 (cont’d)

            -Mark Spitz        

                  -King of Sports title   

                  -Citizenship criteria   

            -International presence     

                  -Local community support         


      Presentation of gifts by President 

           -Presidential cufflinks        


      Earl L. Butz

Bray et al. left at 1:17 pm.