Conversation No. 484-10

Date: April 21, 1971
Time: 12:35 pm - 12:46 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Richard A. Moore, Antonina P. Uccello, and Mary Lou Grier; the White
House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

     Moore's health

     The President's speeches
          -Welfare speech [at Republican Governor Conference, Williamsburg, Virginia, April
               19, 1971]
          -Meeting with American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE], April 16, 1971
          -Reaction
          -Charles W. Colson
          -Television
               -Timing

     Greetings

     Photographs
          -Moore

     Presentation of plate commemorating the President’s last visit to Hartford, Connecticut

     Statue of Admiral David G. Farragut
          -Majorca
          -Parents
          -Madrid Navy League
          -Farragut’s background
          -Farragut’s quotation, “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead”

     Presentation of gifts by the President
          -Presidential bow pins and paper weights

     Rose Garden

     George H.W. Bush

Ucello and Grier left at 12:41 pm.
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Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 12:35 pm

     Schedule
          -Henry A. Kissinger
               -Meeting with the President

     The President's previous meeting with Graham B. Steenhoven
          -"Meet the Press"
          -Ziegler's forthcoming press briefing with Steenhoven
               -Proposed comments about meeting with President
                      -Steenhoven’s impressions of table team visit to People’s Republic of
                            China [PRC]
                      -Appreciation for role of ping-pong team in opening contacts
                            -Conduct of team
                      -Return visit of People's Republic of China [PRC] table tennis team
                      -Contacts with PRC
                      -Personal impressions of Steenhoven
                      -Private contact with PRC

Ziegler left at an unknown time before 12:46 pm

     The President's meeting with ASNE, April 16, 1971
          -Television coverage
                -Fear of overexposure
                -Networks
                -H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
                -Moore’s opinion
                -Colson
                -Administration spokesmen
                      -William P. Rogers
                      -Melvin R. Laird
                -Overexposure
                      -Lyndon B. Johnson
                -Facts
          -Radio coverage
                -California
                -Soft tone
          -President's approach
          -President's tone

     The President's speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971
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          -Tone

     The President's meeting with ASNE
          -Significance
          -Audience

     The President's speeches
          -Pre-1971 appearance before ASNE [Date unknown]      Conv.No. 484-10 (cont.)
                -Moore's conversation with unknown person
                -Questions and answers
                -Reaction
                -Television
                -David Rockefeller
                -Radio

     Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
          -Judgement
          -Statement on PRC
                -National Security Council [NSC] meeting
                      -United Nations [UN] representation
                      -Trade
          -President's support of Dwight D. Eisenhower
          -Relations with the press
          -Agnew’s statement on PRC
                -President's PRC initiative
                      -State Department
                      -Prospects
                      -Anew’s support
                      -Visit of US ping-pong team
                            -People-to-people exchange

     Schedule

Moore left at 12:46 pm