Conversation: 505-020
Prev: 505-019 Next: 505-021Start Date: Friday, May 28, 1971 3:19 PM
End Date: Friday, May 28, 1971 3:32 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Hess, Stephen; Zigler, Edward (Dr.); Cole, Kenneth R., Jr.; White House photographerRecording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 06:16:32
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 06:34:54
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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