Conversation: 559-021
Prev: 559-020 Next: 559-022Start Date: Tuesday, August 10, 1971 6:59 PM
End Date: Tuesday, August 10, 1971 7:19 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Harvey, Paul (Mrs.); Dent, Harry S.; White House photographerRecording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 03:04:59
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 03:25:42
NARA Description:
On August 10, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Mrs. Paul Harvey, Harry S. Dent, and White House photographer met in the Oval Office of the White House from 2:59 pm to 3:19 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 559-021 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 559-21
Date: August 10, 1971
Time: 2:59 pm - 3:19 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Mr. and Mrs. Paul Harvey, and Harry S. Dent; the White House
photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.
Introductions
Tour
Photograph session
William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Meeting
-Oakland
Political activism
-1963
-Vietnam War
-Civil rights
-Mark Rudd
-Economic factors
-Mario Savio
-Student movement
-Chicago
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 559-21 (cont.)
-Mayor Richard J. Daley
-1968 Democratic convention
Harvey
-Radio show
-Stations
-Television
-College campuses
Support for the President
-Students
Liberal establishment
-East
-Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles
-Elite
-Values
-Pentagon Papers
-Previous administration's actions
-Professors, intellectual leaders, opinion makers, business elite
Support for President
-Sources
-Working people
-Hardhats, police, farmers
-The South
-Elite
-Civil war
-Compared to other regions
-Midwest, East
-Far West
-Orange County, San Diego
-Issues
-National defense
-Ending Vietnam war
-Demonstrators
-Law and order
-Elite
-President’s familiarity
-Washington, DC
-New York
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 559-21 (cont.)
-Leader class
-Middle class, working class
-Values
-Nation's heartland
-Location
-South and Midwest
-New York
-California
-South
-North
-Central Valley
-Opinion makers
-Foreign policy
The media
-Harvey’s audience
-Hardhats
-Chicago Tribune
-Journalism schools
-Columbia University
-Chicago Tribune
-Graham
-Proposed university
Code of conduct
-Leadership
Public attitudes
-Law enforcement
-Vietnam war
-Religion
-Graham
-Norman Vincent Peale
-President's religious affiliation
-Protestants
-Graham
-Eugene Carson Blake
-Roman Catholics
-Progressive churches
-Congregationalists, Presbyterians, Mormons, Fundamentalists, Southern
Baptists
-Working classes
-Leader class
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 559-21 (cont.)
-Youth
-President's leadership
-Supreme Court justices
-Journalism
The media
-Network television
-George Hutton
Presentation of gifts by President
-Cufflinks
-Golf balls
Graham
Harvey's schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger
Mr. & Mrs. Harvey, and Dent left at 3:19 pm.