Conversation No. 559-1

Date:  August 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:52 am and 9:11 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Requested that Henry A. Kissinger come to the Oval Office

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 9:11 am.

Conversation No. 559-2

Date:  August 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:52 am and 9:11 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Henry A. Kissinger's schedule

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 9:11 am.

Conversation No. 559-3

Date:  August 10, 1971
Time:  9:11 am - 10:05 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

President's schedule

-Bill veto
-George P. Shultz
-Harry Bridges meeting
-Council on International Economic Policy [CIEP] meeting
-Peter G. Peterson
-Monetary situation
-Source of leak

Henry A. Kissinger entered at an unknown time after 9:11 am.

-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS] meeting
-Melvin R. Laird
-Japan
-Possible force reduction
-Domestic considerations
-Armed services
-Reorganization

An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time after 9:11 am.

-Budget
-Air Force
-Fighter wings
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-North Pole
-Army
-Condition
-Strategic concept

Democrats
-W. Averell Harriman
-Previous administration

Kissinger left at 9:14 am.

Press
-Washington Post story
-Edward B. Fiske
-White House church services
-Unknown reporter

White House personnel
-Constance M. Stuart
-Rose Mary Woods
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-US Information Agency [USIA]
-Duties
-Forthcoming presidential campaign
-Mrs. Nixon’s schedules
-Mrs. Nixon
-Barbara H. Franklin
-Frederic V. Malek's office
-Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-Duties
-Scheduling
-Press
-Lucy A. Winchester
-Social affairs
-President’s campaign strategy
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Comparison to Herbert G. Klein
-Comparison to Stuart
-Klein
-Relations with press

Public relations
-News summary
-President's public appearances
-[New Hampshire] crowds
-Importance
-Press coverage
-George S. McGovern and Birch E. Bayh, Jr.
-Description
-Crowds
-Importance
-Compared to press coverage
-Press
-Use of adjectives
-Edith Efron's media study
-Press
-New England trip coverage
-New Hampshire
-Local press
-Boston Globe
-The President, Mrs. Nixon and family
-Crowd response
-Photographs
-Unknown girl
-Cynthia Frink
-Mrs. Nixon
-Portland, Maine
-Apollo moonshot
-Boston Globe
-Margaret Chase Smith
-National coverage
-Apollo spaceshot
-Photo coverage
-Jacksonville Journal
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II and Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Youngstown Vindicator
-New York Post
-Washington Star
-Baltimore Sun
-Charles W. Colson
-Unknown man
-Efron
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Background

The President left the room at an unknown time between 9:14 am and 9:28 am.

[Pause]

The President entered the room at an unknown time between 9:14 am and 9:28 am.

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:14 am and 9:28 am.

[Conversation No. 559-3A]

[See Conversation No. 7-82]

[End of telephone conversation]

Efron
-Background
-Port-au-Prince, Dominican Republic
-Look magazine

The President talked with Colson between 9:28 am and 9:30 am.

[Conversation No. 559-3B]

[See Conversation No. 7-83]

[End of telephone conversation]

The press
-Efron
-Background
-Political background
-Media study
-Foundation
-William F. Buckley, Neal Freeman, Lawrence Purdy [?], Ruth Matthews
-J. B. Matthews
-Freeman
-Buchanan
-Hearst Corporation
-King Features
-Publication
-Buchanan
-Endorsement
-Credibility
-Distribution
-Reaction
-White House strategy
-Buchanan
-John A. Scali
-Efron
-Updating
-Distribution of summary
-Kissinger
-Colson
-Public mind
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-Financing and mailing
-Buchanan
-Media
-Accuracy of study
-Efron

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Public relations
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Foreign trip
-Agnew’s reaction
-News summary
-Interview
-Godfrey Sperling, Jr.
-Christian Science Monitor
-Agnew’s reasoning

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People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-James B. Reston articles
-Democrats
-Chou En-lai

National economy
-Leak
-Paul Scott’s article
-Department of the Treasury
-John B. Connally
-Eddie Bernstein
-Republican leadership meeting
-Shultz
-Hugh Scott
-Foreign policy
-Robert P. Griffin
-Automobile industry
-Automobiles
-Possible economic action
-Griffin
-Charles E. Chamberlain
-Connally
-1973
-Wage and price action
-Probability of success
-Consumer confidence
-Leak
-Shultz
-Paul Scott
-Kissinger
-Alexander M. Haig
-Peterson
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Proposed meeting
-Connally
-Connally
-Shultz
-Kissinger
-Public relations
-Road show
-Connally, Peter M. Flanigan, Shultz, Paul W. McCracken, and Colson
-Connally
-International Monetary Fund [IMF]
-Colson’s strategy
-Economy as issue
-Democrats
-Media
-Public perceptions
-Bankers
-Trade deficits
-Administration posture
-Standing pot
-Businessmen
-Haldeman's talk with Julie and David Eisenhower
-Individual compared to national conditions
-Wage and price increases
-Mass hysteria
-Caution
-Comparison to President's foreign policy
-Reaction to critics
-Possible economic action
-Staff briefings
-Colson, Ehrlichman, Peterson
-Ehrlichman
-Shultz
-President's meeting with Connally
-Peterson
-Arthur F. Burns
-Ehrlichman
-Shultz
-Possible leak

Kissinger entered at 9:52 am.

PRC trip
-Reston interview with Chou En-lai
-Post-announcement actions by Chinese
-Reassuring allies
-Sign removal
-Chou En-lai comments
-Deals
-Compared to Soviets
-Harriman
-Arms control
-Comments
-Press coverage
-1969
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]

Arms control
-Antiballistic Missiles [ABMs]
-Gerard C. Smith
-USSR
-Arms Control and Disarmament Agency [ACDA]
-May 20, 1971 agreement
-Congress
-President's Instructions
-Cable
-May 20 agreement

Berlin
-Possible settlement
-Four-Power negotiations
-Announcement
-President’s possible involvement
-West Germany
-Internal politics

Arms control
-Smith
-Proposals
-Effect on Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-James S. Lay, Jr.
-ACDA
-State Department

PRC
-Chou En-lai
-Forthcoming talks with the President
-Reston Article
-Rowland Evans
-Rumania
-View of the President
-USSR

Press
-Evans
-Robert D. Novak
-Politics

President's schedule

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PRC
-Reston article
-Chou En-lai
-Kissinger's talk with Chou En-lai
-Reston
-United Nation [UN]
-The President

Stephen B. Bull entered and left at an unknown time after 9:52 am.

Chou En-lai
-Comments about UN

Arms control
-Gerard Smith

Pakistan
-[Sheik Mujibur Rahman]
-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-Press coverage
-Possible action

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PAKISTAN

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PRC
-Conservatives
-Liberals

Arms control
-Liberals
-SALT
-Harriman
-John F. Kennedy
-Nonproliferation Treaty
-SALT
-Possible agreement
-Timing

President's schedule
-[JCS] meeting
-Location
-David Packard
-Agnew
-Chiefs
-Haig
-Melvin R. Laird

Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:52 am.

JCS meeting
-Cabinet Room
-Briefing books
-Number
-Agnew
-Seating

The President, Haldeman, Kissinger and Bull left at 10:05 am.

Conversation No. 559-24

Date:  August 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:05 am and 11:59 am
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service agent] met.

President’s location
-Cabinet Room

The unknown people [Secret Service agents] left at an unknown time before 11:59.

Conversation No. 559-4

Date:  August 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:05 am and 11:59 am
Location:  Oval Office

An unknown man met with Manolo Sanchez; unknown people [Secret Service agents] were present at the beginning of the meeting.

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President’s location

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The unknown man and Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:59 am.

Conversation No. 559-5

Date:  August 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:05 am and 11:59 am
Location:  Oval Office

An unknown man [Secret Service agent] talked with an unknown person.

[Unintelligible]

Conversation No. 559-6

Date:  August 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:05 am and 11:59 am
Location:  Oval Office

An unknown man [Secret Service agent] talked with an unknown person.

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President’s location
-West wing
-Cabinet Room
-West wing

Conversation No. 559-7

Date:  August 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 11:54 am and 11:59 am
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

President's schedule
-Gifts
-Prime Minister Lon Nol
-Exchange with the President and Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 11:59 am.

Conversation No. 559-8

Date:  August 10, 1971
Time:  11:59 am - 1:04 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Sisowath Sirik Matak and Sophia K. Porson.

Photograph
-President’s 1953 visit to Cambodia
-Location
-Angkor Wat

Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins and members of the press entered at 12:00 pm.

Press photograph

Atkins and the members of the press left at 12:02 pm.

Henry A. Kissinger entered at 12:02 pm.

Interpreter

Sisowath's reception in US
-Los Angeles
-Disneyland

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 12:02 pm.

Refreshment

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:04 pm.

Presentation to President

Cambodia
-People
-1970 invasion

-Media
-Predictions
-Associated Press [AP]
-Population
-Defense of country
-Territory
-Vietnam War
-North Vietnam
-Vietcong
-Cambodian military
-Volunteers
-Defense
-President's 1953 trip
-Norodom Sihanouk
-Neutrality
-Khmer people
-Communist forces
-Sanctuaries
-People
-Morale
-Support for government
-Defense plan
-Dividing line
-North and Northeast
-Population
-North Vietnamese
-People
-Support for government
-Percentage
-Communists
-North Vietnamese
-Percentage
-Large cities
-Phnom Penh
-Population
-Problems
-Water, food, electricity
-Prospects
-Military
-North Vietnamese forces
-Dry and rainy seasons
-Numbers
-Divisions
-Number
-First
-Cambodian action
-Route 4 Operation
-Kompong Som
-South Vietnamese
-Morale of people
-Phnom Penh
-US press
-Confidence
-North Vietnamese
-Territory
-North and Northeast
-Vietnam
-US presence
-Withdrawal
-Concerns
-Cambodia army
-US air support
-South Vietnamese forces
-Cooperation
-Effect on Cambodian population
-Khmer people and government
-Asia
-Nixon Doctrine
-US withdrawal
-People's Republic of China [PRC], Japan, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Vietnam
-Cambodian support
-US relations with PRC
-US-PRC relations
-Universality
-PRC
-Proximity to Cambodia
-President's forthcoming meeting with Chou En-lai and Mao Tse-tung
-Possible effect
-US commitments
-Predictions
-Difficulty
-Position of PRC
-Matak’s experience
-Ambassador to PRC
-Asianization
-Geneva Agreement
-US presence
-Importance
-Air and sea forces
-Compared to ground forces
-US Congress
-View in Southeast Asia
-Japan
-Role
-Compared to PRC
-Cambodian security
-North Vietnam

Stephen B. Bull [?] entered at an unknown time after 12:02 pm.

National Press Club

Bull [?] left at an unknown time before 1:04 pm.

-USSR
-North Vietnam
-PRC
-US military presence
-Naval, air, ground
-Asia
-Defense responsibilities
-US aid
-Withdrawal
-South Vietnam
-US casualties
-US aims
-Asian independence
-Asian rim
-PRC
-Peace
-PRC
-Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Thailand
-Relations with PRC
-US commitments to other nations
-Asian independence
-Peace
-President’s forthcoming talks with PRC
-Possible effect
-Peace
-Melvin R. Laird, William P. Rogers
-Prime minister
-Laird, Rogers
-President’s statement
-President's visit, 1953
-Cambodians
-US military and economics aid
-US Congress
-Chief of State
-Lon Nol
-Communist aggression
-Goals
-Territorial integrity
-Freedom
-Possible postwar settlement
-Geneva Agreement
-PRC, Taiwan
-Matak's National Press Club appearance
-Angkor Wat
-The President and Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

Press conference
-President’s regrets

The President, et al. left at 1:04 pm.

Conversation No. 559-25

Date:  August 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:04 pm and 1:10 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service agents] met.

President’s location

The unknown people [Secret Service agents] left at an unknown time between 1:04 pm and 1:10 pm.

Conversation No. 559-9

Date:  August 10, 1971
Time:  1:10 pm - 1:15 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Aldo F. DiChiara, Cresenzi W. Castaldo, and George T. Bell; the White House photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.
[The recording begins while the conversation is already in progress]

Castaldo's name

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Presentation of gifts
Plaque

Photograph

Expression of support for President

President's schedule
-Convention
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-Dallas
-Knights of Columbus

Parochial schools
-Federal assistance
-Supreme Court

Presentation of gifts
-Cufflinks
-Gold balls
-Presidential seals

DiChiara, et al. left at 1:15 pm.

[Unintelligible]

Conversation No. 559-10

Date:  August 10, 1971
Time:  1:15 pm - 1:16 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

President's schedule
-Jon M. Huntsman

Butterfield left at 1:16 pm.

Conversation No. 559-11

Date:  August 10, 1971
Time:  1:16 pm - 1:17 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with A. Blaine Huntsman and Jon M. Huntsman; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Photograph session

Presentation of gifts
-Golf balls

The Huntsmans left at 1:17 pm.

Conversation No. 559-12

Date:  August 10, 1971
Time:  1:18 pm - 1:30 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

Environment
-Paper
-Maurice H. Stans
-John [D. Ehrlichman]

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 1:18 pm.

Refreshment

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:30 pm.

Environment
-John Woodbridge
-Stans
-Jobs
-Environmentalists

President’s schedule
-Glacier Park
-[Cyclemates]
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Compared to Yellowstone National Park
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Sisowath Sirik Matak
-Tea

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-Edward J. Gurney
-Quote
-Relationship with Administration
-Appointment with the President
-Voting record
-Appointment with the President
-Photograph session

Personnel
-Julie Robinson
-Constance M. Stuart
-Helen Smith
-Salary
-Salary
-Penny Adams
-Relationship with Mrs. Nixon
-Smith

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-Possible action
-Salaries
-Relationship with Mrs. Nixon
-General Services Administration [GSA]
-Stuart
-Lucy A. Winchester
-Adams
-Comparability
-Winchester
-Mrs. Nixon
-Instructions for Haldeman
-Smith
-Adams

President's schedule
-Meeting
-Mrs. Nixon

Haldeman left at 1:30 pm.

Conversation No. 559-13

Date:  August 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:30 pm and 2:31 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Alexander P. Butterfield met with an unknown person [Stephen B. Bull?].

The President's schedule

[Unintelligible]

Butterfield and the unknown person [Bull?] left at an unknown time before 2:31 pm.

Conversation No. 559-14

Date:  August 10, 1971
Time:  2:31 pm - unknown before 2:33 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield and Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
-Paul Harvey
-White House tour
-Harry S. Dent

-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Bill signing

The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 2:31 pm and 2:33 pm.

[Conversation No. 559-14A]

President's schedule
-Agriculture bill
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Council of Economic Advisers [CEA]
-Bill
-George P. Shultz, Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Harvey
-Tour
-Dent
-West wing

[End of telephone conversation]

President's schedule
-Thomas R. Shepard, Jr.

Butterfield and Bull left at an unknown time before 2:33 pm.

Conversation No. 559-15

Date:  August 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:31 pm and 2:33 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 7-84]

Conversation No. 559-16

Date:  August 10, 1971
Time:  2:33 pm - 2:37 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with John B. Connally.

[See Conversation No. 7-85; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]

Conversation No. 559-17

Date:  August 10, 1971
Time:  2:37 pm - unknown before 2:38 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

President's schedule
-George P. Shultz
-Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
-Paul Harvey

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 2:38 pm.

Conversation No. 559-18

Date:  August 10, 1971
Time:  2:38 pm - 2:46 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Kenneth R. Cole, Jr. and George P. Shultz.

Budget
-Bills
-Agriculture
-Labor-Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-Problems
-Obligational authority
-Outlays
-Labor-HEW Bill
-Outlays
-Social services
-Payments to states
-Limits
-Veto
-Health programs
-Hospitals
-Medical programs
-Veto
-William E. Timmons
-Congress
-House and Senate votes
-Conference report
-Health and social services appropriations
-Agriculture
-Obligational authority
-Overage
-Housing and Urban Development [HUD] Sewer and Water Facilities appropriation
-Veto
-Timmons
-House of Representatives
-Conference report
-Frank T. Bow
-Bryce Harlow
-[Clifford M. Hardin]
-John D. Ehrlichman's views
-Vetoes
-Economy
-John B. Connally
-Administration options
-Impounding funds
-Instructions to agencies
-Grants
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Impounding funds
-Legislation
-Harlow
-President's instructions on implementation
-Possible statement
-HUD
-John C. Whitaker
-Environmentalists
-George W. Romney
-HEW
-Social services programs
-Health care
-National Institutes of Health [NIH]

Cole and Shultz left at 2:46 pm.

Conversation No. 559-19

Date:  August 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:46 pm and 2:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

Letter dictation
-Norris Cotton
-President’s trip to New Hampshire

Cotton

White House church service
-New York Times

Conversation No. 559-20

Date:  August 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:46 pm and 2:59 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:59 pm.

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
-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
-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
-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.

Conversation No. 559-22

Date:  August 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:19 and 3:21 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule
-Thomas R. Shepard, Jr.

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 3:21 pm.

Conversation No. 559-23

Date:  August 10, 1971
Time:  3:21 pm - 4:14 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Thomas R. Shepard, Jr. and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Photograph session

Environmental issues
-Air bags

The press
-Journalism seminar
-Columbia University
-Reporters
-Shepard’s comments
-Credibility gap
-Balance
-Story
-Safety laws
-Housewife and airbag
-Possible film

Leader class
-Criticism of US
-Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane [DDT]
-Consumers
-Environmentalism
-US world role
-Racism
-Environmentalism
-Quality of goods
-US world role
-Imperialism

-Motives
-Environmentalism
-Defeatism
-Permissiveness
-Crime
-Drugs

Support for the President
-Paul Harvey
-President's meeting
-Constituencies
-Hardhats, farmers, Southerners, police, firemen, servicemen, Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Antiballistic missiles [ABM]
-Senate
-Vietnam war

Leader class
-View of President
-Compared to Barry M. Goldwater, Eugene J. McCarthy
-President’s familiarity
-Arrogance
-Professors
-Media
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Right wing radicals
-Goldwater, McCarthy
-Communism
-Destruction of authority
-Churches
-President's affiliation
-Quakers
-Peace issue
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham and Norman Vincent Peale
-Roman Catholic Church
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Authority
-Erosion
-Businessmen
-Working classes
-Silent majority
-Size
-Orientation of news media
-New York, Beverly Hills, San Francisco, Chicago
-Shepard
-The system
-Effect on education and religion
-Contempt for society
-Issues
-Race
-Opportunity
-Welfare

Support for the President
-Cabinet
-White House
-Congress
-John B. Connally

Leader class
-President’s fight
-Polls

Public attitudes
-Look magazine mail
-Positive viewpoint
-Smith College
-Shepard's wife and daughter
-Max Salvatori
-Compared to Kissinger
-Intellectuals
-National self-discipline
-Work ethic
-Benjamin Ward Keener of B. F. Goodrich Company
-United Fund Red Cross
-Invitation to Shepard
-Inspirational address
-Citizen action

Leader class
-Catholic War Veterans
-Hardhats
-Meeting with the President
-Reaction
-Businessmen
-James M. Roche
-Shepard’s note
-Public mail
-Businessmen
-Stockholders
-Look magazine
-Editors
-[Forename unknown] Coles
-Problem orientation
-Balance

Public attitudes
-Ralph Nader
-[Arnold] Eric Sevareid
-Immigration
-Foreign view of US
-Bucharest, Belgrade
-1959 US exhibition in Moscow
-Kitchen Debate
-Shepard's meeting President
-Unknown people
-Support for America

Leader class
-Background
-Views
-Guilt
-Racism
-Poverty
-Foreign policy
-Wars
-Blacks
-Social inequality
-Communist system
-Class separation
-Compared to democratic system

Public attitudes
-Polls
-Positive messages
-Responses
-The press
-Problem orientation
-Sense of history
-Salvatori
-Northampton
-US
-USSR
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Hans [Surname unknown]
-Amherst College
-Smith College

Support for the President
-Shepard
-President’s reelection
-President’s speeches

Forthcoming election
-Democratic candidates
-Issues
-National economy
-Foreign policy
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] initiative
-Vietnam
-Law and order
-Inflation
-Unemployment
-Comparison to John F. Kennedy administration

National economy
-Consumers
-Retail sales, housing
-Possible Administration action
-Strength
-Problem
-International competition
-Productivity
-Labor
-Inflation
-Ending Vietnam war
-Vietnam
-Unemployment
-President’s recent press conference
-Trends
-World War II
-Full employment
-Foreign policy
-Unions
-Attitude of businessmen
-Unemployment during Kennedy years
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC], American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC], Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]

Leader class
-Compared to hardhats
-Vietnam
-President’s November 3, 1969 speech
-Mail
-PRC
-Chinese people
-Meeting with Chou En-lai
-Purpose
-Challenge
-Roche
-Ideal role
-Character
-Principle
-Permissiveness
-Issues
-US role
-Compared to USSR
-Defense
-Space
-Compared to Japan
-Steel
-Ken Crawford
-Washington Post column

Shepard’s audience
-Youth
-The President’s role
-Leader class
-Businessmen
-Direction, character, backbone

Presentation of gifts by President
-Golf balls
-Paperweight
-Pen

Shepard and Haldeman left at 4:14 pm.