Conversation No. 451-1

Date:  February 18, 1971
Time:  9:47 am - 9:52 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman

Soviet Union
-European security conference

Economic forecast
-Commerce Department
-Maurice H. Stans
-Efforts
-Ehrlichman=s conversation with Stans

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 9:50 am

-American business
-Cooperation with administration
-Media coverage

Ehrlichman=s schedule

Ehrlichman and Butterfield left at 9:52 am

Conversation No. 451-2

Date:  February 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:52 am and 9:56 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

Call to William L. Safire

Conversation No. 451-3

Date:  February 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:52 am and 9:56 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

Schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:56 am

Conversation No. 451-4

Date:  February 18, 1971
Time:  9:56 am - 10:09 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger

Visit of Emilio Colombo
-Photograph with the President
-Timing
-Aldo Moro
-Political future
-Kissinger=s presence

[The President talked with William L. Safire at an unknown time between 9:56 am and 9:57 am]

[Conversation No. 451-4A]

Forthcoming speech at [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson Foundation
-Changes
-Kissinger=s role
-Wilson
-President=s view
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-World situation

-Kissinger=s role
-Length

[End of telephone conversation]

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 9:57 am

Speech
-Revisions

Ziegler left at an unknown time before 10:05 am

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[National Security]
[Duration:  55s  ]

ITALY

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Arms control
-Opposing views
-Antiballistic Missile [ABM] agreement
-US negotiators
-Kissinger=s talks with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Joseph C. Kraft column
-William P. Rogers and Gerard C. Smith
-The President=s proposals
-Soviet reaction
-Kissinger=s position
-Kraft=s column, 2/18
-Timing
-History

-Effect on elections
-Smith=s view
-AABM only@ agreement

Ziegler entered at 10:05 am

Schedule
-The Vice President
-Lawyers

Vietnam
-Press conference coverage
-Charles W. Colson

Ziegler left at 10:06 am

Arms control
-Soviet Union press
-Kraft column
-Effect of media on United States= position
-Administration reaction
-Ziegler=s role
-Kissinger/Dobrynin meeting
-Vietnam
-Press accounts
-Need for public relations effort
-Laos operation
-US strategy
-US position

Kissinger left at 10:09 am

Conversation No. 451-5

Date:  February 18, 1971 
Time:  10:12 am - 10:30 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson Foundation speech
-Woodrow Wilson Award
-George P. Shultz

John B. Connally
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Conversation concerning George W. Romney [?]
-Event
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Activities

The President=s schedule

Connally=s schedule
-Joseph W. Alsop
-David S. Broder
-Press briefings

Head of State visits
-Briefing for President
-Department of State personnel
-National Security Council [NSC] staff
-Compared to [Forename unknown] Cook

Arms control
-Joseph C. Kraft column
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Antiballistic Missile [ABM] views
-Soviet reaction

Media coverage
-State of the world
-AFace the Nation@ appearance
-Henry A. Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Kissinger=s press activities
-Peter G. Peterson
-Public relations skills
-Connally
-Public relations efforts
-Administration efforts

-Laos and Cambodia
-President=s role
-Alsop article
-Laos decision
-Kissinger
-Peregrine Worsthorne article
-Administration efforts
-Peterson, Connally, Daniel P. (APat@) Moynihan
-Vietnam
-Networks
-Newspapers
-Washington Post
-Press appearances
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Harry S Truman
-President=s previous press conference
-Dan Rather=s comments
-Robert B. Semple, Jr.=s comments
-Preparation

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 10:21 am

Emilio Colombo=s arrival

Butterfield left at 10:22 am

-Preparation
-Questions and issues

Evening at the White House for Prime Minister John M. (AJack@) Lynch
-Approval by the President for reporters to attend
-List

Haldeman left at 10:30 am

Conversation No. 451-6

Date:  February 18, 1971
Time:  10:30 am - 10:36 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Mark I. Goode and Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon

Welcoming ceremony for Italian Prime Minister
-Schedule
-Orchestration
-White House tour
-East Wing
-Works of art
-Charles Willson Peale
-Rembrandt Peale
-George Washington
-Gilbert Stuart

The President, et al. left at 10:36 am

Conversation No. 451-7

Date:  February 18, 1971
Time:  11:13 am - 12:22 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Emilio Colombo, Neil A. Seidenman, and A. Jose De Seabra

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[National Security]
[Duration:  1h 8m 41s  ]

ITALY

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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The President, et al. left at 12:22 pm

Conversation No. 451-25

Date:  February 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:22 pm and 1:09 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men met

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[Non-historical]
[Duration:  5m 40s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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The unknown men left at an unknown time before 1:09 pm

Conversation No. 451-8

Date:  February 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:40 pm and 1:09 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

Call to Mrs. Lieutenant Colonel Ralph D. Albertazzie

Conversation No. 451-9

Date:  February 18, 1971
Time:  1:09 pm - 1:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Lieutenant Colonel Ralph D. Albertazzie

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[Duration:  30s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Conversation No. 451-10

Date:  February 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:10 pm and 1:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez

Location of papers

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:20 pm

Conversation No. 451-11

Date:  February 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:10 pm and 1:20 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

Request

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 1:20 pm

Conversation No. 451-12

Date:  February 18, 1971
Time:  1:20 pm - 2:32 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman

Speech changes

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:20 pm and 1:22 pm]

[Conversation No. 451-12A]

Call to Raymond K. Price, Jr.

[End of telephone conversation]

Dedication of [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
-Dean Francis B. Sayre
-Hubert H. Humphrey

[The President talked with Raymond K. Price, Jr. between 1:22 pm and 1:23 pm]

[Conversation No. 451-12B]

Speech revisions
-Wilson=s speeches in Italy
-Use by the President
-William L. Safire

[End of telephone conversation]

Schedule

Speech delivery
-Wilson
-Preparation

Schedule
-Future events

Boston Globe story
-Quality
-Content
-Possible administration response
-Reaction
-John D. Ehrlichman=s [?] view

Public relations
-John B. Connally

Allen S. Drury
-Trip to California
-Questions submitted to the President
-Clemency
-Schedule
-Interview with the President

J. Edgar Hoover
-Patrick J. Buchanan=s view
-Hoover=s performance
-Polls
-Retirement
-Criticism of Hoover
-George S. McGovern
-Retirement
-General Lewis B. Hershey
-Political impact
-Appointment of new Director
-President=s view

Appointment
-Unknown person
-John A. Volpe
-Announcement

White House Stag dinners
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Number

Schedule
-Unknown woman

Press conference
-Coverage of foreign versus domestic policy
-Preparation
-Television
-Benefits
-Focus on a single area
-Foreign policy press conference
-AGrab bag@ approach
-Preparation

Head of State visit on March 16
-Press coverage
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (APat@) Nixon=s birthday
-Tricia Nixon
-President=s view
-Invitations
-Isabelle Shelton
-Bonnie Angelo

Speech revisions [?]
-Buchanan
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Safire

Unknown man
-Possible interview with the President
-Schedule
-Contract with Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Negotiations

Ziegler entered at 1:42 pm

-Use of Air Force One

Press conferences
-Value
-Preparation
-Haldeman=s view
-Columnists
-Previous press conference, 2/17
-Questions
-Preparation
-Ziegler
-North Vietnam and Laos
-Domestic policy
-Revenue sharing

Buchanan entered at 1:45 pm

-Reaction
-Buchanan=s view
-Preparation
-Requirements
-Time allotment
-American Legion speech
-Use of television
-Problems
-Preparation
-Impact
-Reporting of press conference
-Buchanan=s view
-Ziegler=s view

-Health statements
-Power of Presidency
-Health message
-Announcement
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Format
-Topic selection
-Pros and cons
-Suggestions and options
-Domestic versus foreign policy
-Follow-up questions
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Preparation
-Flexibility
-Frequency and timing
-Reaction
-Robert B. Semple, Jr.
-Peter Lisagor
-James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.
-Drew Pearson
-John F. Osborne
-New Republic
-Ideology of press

Press
-Henry Brandon
-Book
-Influence
-Conversation with President
-Victor Lasky
-Book
-Past reporters
-Joseph W. Alsop
-James B. (AScotty@) Reston
-Walter Lippman
-Arthur Krock
-Roscoe Drummond
-Richard (ADick@) Wilson
-Lieutenant General Vernon A. Walters
-Memory
-Compared with reporters
-Interviews
-Notes

-Unknown reporter
-Tape recorders
-Use
-Compared with notes
-Vietnam
-Kissinger
-Press story
-Winston S. Churchill
-Journalistic experience
-South Africa
-The President=s programs
-Coverage
-President=s view
-Dorothy McCardle
-Frances Lewine
-Criticism
-Crosby S. Noyes
-News report
-CBS
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-Administration response
-Martin Z. Agronsky
-Content

Vietnam
-Joint interview with [unknown man] and Charles H. Percy
-Statement
-Edward M. (ATed@) Kennedy
-Lasky
-Edmund S. Muskie

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[Duration:  1m 6s  ]

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News summary
-Revenue sharing
-President=s notes
-Policy line
-Administration position
-Follow-up

Press conference
-Frequency pattern
-Subjects
-Effects
-Effect of surprise appearance by the President
-Frequency
-Questions
-Focus
-Domestic policy
-Environment
-Administration policy

Democratic criticism of administration
-Muskie
-Kennedy
-McGovern

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[Duration:  5m 14s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Vietnam
-Public relations
-Conservatives
-Administration position
-Laos
-Cambodia

-Alsop
-Kilpatrick
-James L. Buckley
-Charles W. Colson
-American Legion
-Veterans of Foreign Wars
-Veterans= groups
-Vietnam veterans
-Administration efforts

Ziegler and Buchanan left at 2:28 pm

Wilson Center speech
-Schedule

Haldeman=s meeting with unknown man

Haldeman left at 2:32 pm

Conversation No. 451-13

Date:  February 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:32 pm and 3:32 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

Cancellation of meeting
-John D. Ehrlichman and George P. Shultz
-Call from Shultz

Request for Mark I. Goode

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:32 pm

Conversation No. 451-14

Date:  February 18, 1971
Time:  3:32 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator

Call to George P. Shultz

Conversation No. 451-15

Date:  February 18, 1971
Time:  3:32 pm - 3:40 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Mark I. Goode

Briefing for forthcoming media appearance
-Teleprompter
-Use
[The President talked with George P. Shultz at an unknown time between 3:32 pm and 3:38 pm]

[Conversation No. 451-15A]

National economy
-Inflation
-Adjustments
-Briefing
-Prices
-Food
-Compared to other prices
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-News summaries
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Adjustment
-Wholesale Price Index [WPI]
-Food
-Rate of investment

Commerce Department story
-Herbert Stein
-Bureau of Labor Statistics

Schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

The President=s schedule

The President and Goode left at 3:40 pm

Conversation No. 451-16

Date:  February 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:40 pm and 3:52 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service] met

The President=s schedule

The unknown people [Secret Service] left at an unknown time before 3:52 pm

Conversation No. 451-17

Date:  February 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:40 pm and 3:52 pm
Location:  Oval Office

An unknown woman met with an unknown person

[Unintelligible]

The unknown people left at an unknown time before 3:52 pm

Conversation No. 451-18

Date:  February 18, 1971
Time:  3:52 pm - 3:55 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Mark I. Goode

Filming of the President
-Camera shots
-Goode=s view
-Angles
-Ronald H. Walker
-A60 Minutes@ film segment taping
-Morley Safer
-Introduction
-Goode=s view
-Questions
-Camera angles

Forthcoming dinner coverage
-Filming
-Problems
-Chef interview
-Content
-Lucy A. Winchester
-Filming
-Various events during the evening
-Goode=s role

Goode left at 3:55 pm

Conversation No. 451-19

Date:  February 18, 1971
Time:  3:55 pm - 4:52 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with John D. Ehrlichman

[Unintelligible]

Public relations
-Administration efforts
-William P. Rogers
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Commerce Department
-Herbert Stein
-Statements
-Problem
-Need for credibility
-Maurice H. Stans

George P. Shultz entered at an unknown time after 3:55 pm

Commerce Department
-Trade with Soviet Union
-President=s position
-Stans
-News summaries
-Stans
-Peter G. Peterson
-Kissinger
-Ehrlichman=s forthcoming lunch with Rocco C. Siciliano

Department of Commerce
-Stans
-Administration policies
-Commerce Department and Labor Department
-Role

H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 3:55 pm

-Siciliano
-Public relations efforts
-Siciliano=s conversation with Stans
-Results
-Replacement
-James T. Lynn
-Role
-Public relations

-Department of Justice
-John N. Mitchell
-Richard G. Kleindienst

Domestic economic policy
-Forecasting
-Gross National Product [GNP] figures
-Arthur K. Laffer
-Econometrics
-Consumer Price Index [CPI]
-Adjustments
-Unknown writer
-Milton Friedman forecast
-Inflation
-Laffer=s model
-Money supply
-CPI
-Administrations policies
-Publicity
-Figures
-Washington Star
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-Economic trends
-Food prices
-Interest rates
-Mortgage interest rates
-Used car prices
-New car prices
-Trade bill
-Trade adjustment assistance
-Peterson
-Administration=s position on quotas
-Anti-trust
-Trade bill
-Mitchell role
-Administration policy
-Stanley N. Barnes
-Ehrlichman=s conversation
-Herbert Brownell
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Richard W. McLaren
-Mitchell
-John B. Connally

-President=s view
-World-wide applications
-Airlines
-Need for coherent policy
-George J. Stigler, head of Task Force on Anti-Trust
-Policy recommendation
-McLaren
-Mitchell
-Kleindienst
-Role
-The President=s schedule
-Quadriad meeting
-Arthur F. Burns
-Increase money supply/interest rates
-Balance of payment
-Interest rates
-Troika meeting
-Paul W. McCracken
-Peterson
-Possible meeting with Connally
-David M. Kennedy
-Connally
-Balance of payments
-Burns= concerns
-Peterson
-American Enterprise Institute [AEI] statement
-[Forename unknown] Habland [sp?] or Hubler [?]
-Wage and price freeze
-Burns= views
-James D. Hodgson
-Potential problems
-Effect on construction
-Unemployment
-Federal government=s $14 billion in contracts
-Davis-Bacon Act
-Building trade
-Stephen D. Bechtel
-View of Davis-Bacon Act
-Davis-Bacon Act
-Productivity Commission
-Hodgson
-Apprenticeship rules
-Charles W. Colson

-Hubert H. Humphrey=s statements
-George Meany
-Edmund S. Muskie=s statements
-Productivity Commission
-Labor union tactics
-Construction industry
-Wage increases
-Effect on public
-Federal spending
-State and local government tactics
-John A. Volpe
-Effect on employment
-CPI
-Bureau of Labor Statistics
-Announcement
-McCracken
-Administration efforts
-Public relations
-Press briefing
-Trends
-Food prices
-Television statement by the President
-Shultz
-Administration policies
-Public relations
-Statements
-William L. Safire
-Clark MacGregor
-Effect of statement
-Economic stimulus
-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars speech
-White House statement
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Washington Star
-Bureau of Labor Statistics role in public relations

Wilson Center speech
-Meeting with Humphrey
-Revenue sharing

Appointment
-James C. Fletcher
-National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]

Haldeman left at 4:43 pm

CPI
-Connally and balance of payments
-Burns=s role in public relations
-Role

Federal-state/local government relations
-Nelson A. Rockefeller [?]
-Office of Inter-governmental Relations
-Problems
-The Vice President
-Roy Kerderhoff [?]
-Colson
-President=s position
-Conversation with the Vice President
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Samuel W. Yorty
-Warren Gorn [?]
-Carl B. Stokes
-Richard G. Lugar
-Rockefeller
-Daniel P. (APat@) Moynihan
-Davis-Bacon Act
-Administration position
-Statements
-Barber B. Conable, Jr.
-John B. Anderson
-John V. Lindsay
-Funds for New York City
-Problems with revenue sharing
-James H. J. Tate
-New York City problems
-Revenue sharing
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Romney
-Connally
-Wilbur D. Mills

Ehrlichman and Shultz left at 4:52 pm

Conversation No. 451-20

Date:  February 18, 1971
Time:  5:10 pm - 5:14 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

Schedule
-Dedication speech for [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson Center
-Wilson

Butterfield left at 5:14 pm

Conversation No. 451-21

Date:  February 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:14 pm and 5:25 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President rehearsed portions of his remarks for the dedication of the [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

[A transcript of the final version of this speech appears in Public Papers of the Presidents, Richard M. Nixon, 1971, pp. 187-189]

Conversation No. 451-22

Date:  February 18, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:14 pm and 5:25 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull

Schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger

The President and Bull left at 5:25 pm

Conversation No. 451-23

Date:  February 18, 1971
Time:  6:16 pm - 6:37 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Henry A. Kissinger

Vietnam
-Military developments
-Troop deployment
-Tactical situation
-Melvin R. Laird
-President=s view of war
-Presidential election
-Bombing
-Missions
-Khe Sanh
-Laos
-North Vietnamese losses
-South Vietnamese Army
-Effect

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[National Security]
[Duration:  41s  ]

CAMBODIA

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-Troops
-Reserves
-General Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
-Helicopter losses

-Admiral Thomas H. Moorer
-Laos operation
-Communist influence in United States= government
-John W. Gardner
-Morton H. Halperin
-William A. K. (ATony@) Lake
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Halperin
-Role on Kissinger=s staff
-Gardner
-Lyndon B. Johnson=s comment
-Kissinger=s forthcoming luncheon with John Dutton
-Gardner
-Effect of liberal positions on the war
-South Vietnamese military activity
-Laos
-Progress
-Future prospects

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[National Security]
[Duration:  2m 43s  ]

VIETNAM, ITALY

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The Vice President
-Possible foreign trip
-President=s view
-Priority
-Laos operation

Vietnam
-Kissinger=s conversation with Joseph C. Kraft
-President compared with Democrats
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-1968 election
-Danger of radicals on policy
-George C. Wallace
-Ronald W. Reagan

Peace prospects
-Kissinger=s suggestions
-Forthcoming meeting with Le Duc Tho
-Withdrawal
-Cease-fire
-Prospects
-Bombing
-General Nguyen Van Thieu agreement

Kissinger left at 6:37 pm

Conversation No. 451-24

Date:  February 18, 1971
Time:  6:40 pm - 7:27 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

Schedule
-Ronald L. Ziegler and discussion groups
-Henry Salvatori
-Unknown Lieutenant Governor

H. R. (ABob@) Haldeman entered at 6:45 pm

-State dinner
-Entertainment
-Guests

Letters to be signed

Schedule for 2/19

Butterfield left at 6:50 pm

[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars speech
-Coverage of the President=s speech
-Washington, DC press
-Dean Francis B. Sayre=s comments
-Length
-William L. Safire

Public relations
-Speeches
-Benefits of short speeches
-Television
-Richard A. Moore
-Role
-Ziegler
-Television
-Wilson Center speech
-Alvin Snyder
-Herbert G. Klein
-Safire
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-John D. Ehrlichman
-George P. Shultz
-Peter M. Flanigan
-John N. Mitchell
-Peter G. Peterson and Ehrlichman
-Efforts
-John B. Connally
-Importance
-Role
-Speech revision
-State of Union speech
-Press conferences
-The President=s handling
-Franklin D. Roosevelt=s handling
-Safire and Leonard Garment [?]
-Preparation
-Connally
-Press conference preparation

-Moore=s advice
-Speech content
-Anecdotes

Butterfield entered at 7:20 pm

-Speech material
-Politics and the Presidency
-President=s parents

Ziegler entered at 7:21 pm

Schedule
-Dwight L. Chapin

White House State dinner
-Entertainment

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[Duration:  3s  ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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-Schedule

Dwight D. Eisenhower=s speeches

Lyndon B. Johnson=s domestic policy
-Compared to John F. Kennedy
-Democrats
-Daniel P. (APat@) Moynihan
-President=s policy

[Unintelligible]

Speech at Wilson Center
-Ziegler=s analysis
-Press comments
-Dissemination
-Educational television
-Schools
-Content
-Public relations
-Haldeman=s comments
-White House efforts
-President=s instructions

The President, et al. left at 7:27 pm