Hope’s watch
-Gift to President
-Special features
-Lighted dial
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David McI. Kendall
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Vietnam War
-Noyes’s letter to President
-Reason for meeting
-Inaugural address [?]
-President’s thanks
-Reasons for writing
-President’s meeting with John L. McClellan
-Budget, economic aid to Vietnam
-December 1972 bombing
-President’s explanation
-Impact on negotiations
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Ceasefire
-Resumption of talks
-Private message
-Response
-Support for President’s decisions
-Explanation
-McClellan
-Washington Star
-Editorial position
-Pressures on Noyes
-Contrast with Washington Post
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-2010)
-Noyes’s letter
-President’s programs
-Budget
-Need for explanation
-President’s public statements
-Cities
Public relations
-President’s presentation of programs
-Need to show appreciation of problems
-Urban issues
-Appeal to public sentiments
-Dangers
-Mood of Middle America, labor
-Discontent with programs, taxes
-President’s role
-Conflict between poor and middle class
-Mood of antagonism toward social programs
-Press reports on President’s programs
-Misinterpretation
-President’s radio speech on crime and drugs
-State of the Union series
-Timing
-Sunday newspapers
-Veterans’ programs
-Dependent’s benefits
-World War II
-Influence of veterans lobby
-President’s experience in Congress
-Veterans bonus
-Lack of interest in Vietnam Veterans
-Medical care
-Crime program
-President’s convictions
-Capital punishment
-Terrorism
-Sudan
-William P. Rogers’s statement
-Cleo A. Noel, Jr. and George C. Moore
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-2010)
-Sirhan Sirhan
-Hijacking, kidnapping
-Court rulings
-Prison reform
-Lack of publicity
-President’s hard line
-Vindictiveness
-1972 election victory
-Ehrlichman’s role
-Ronald L. Ziegler’s role
-Emphasis
-Nation’s mood
-Reconciliation
-Noyes’s concerns
-Changes since 1968
-Peace abroad
-Divisive nature of political campaigns
-President’s role in setting tone
-Amnesty
-Projection of concern
-President’s concerns
-Cities
-Problems
-Housing, education
-Housing
-Perception compared to reality
-Administration’s progress
-Construction
-Low income units
-Public housing
-Starts
-Number
-Federal credit
-Fannie Mae, Ginny Mae
-Increases
-Perceptions
-Herblock cartoon
-Past failures
-St. Louis, Washington, DC
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-2010)
-Housing projects
-Slums
-Satisfactions
-Downtown
-Ghetto
-Presentation
-President’s concerns, priorities
-Impact on public attitudes
-David Broder
-Article on President’s record
Washington Post
-Need to convey sense of concern
-Housing, food stamps, education
-Racial problems
-Press conference
-Question
-Blacks
-1972 election
-President’s concern
-Disadvantages
-Press coverage
-Focus on rhetoric compared to programs
-Housing
-Racial prejudice
-Education
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Presentation
-Problems in communication
-Wire services, reporters
-Hard news compared to rhetoric
-Primetime TV
-President’s press conference
-Tom Jarriel
-Methods of reaching public
-Gimmicks
-Compassion
-Black church
-President’s public image
-Mean mood
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-2010)
-President’s 1972 election victory
-Vindication
-Need for reconciliation with adversaries
-Problems
-Vindictive image
-Scrooge compared to Santa Claus
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Accomplishments
-Impact on elite’s attitude
-Social responsibility of big business
-President’s public image
-Needs
-Influence on Middle America
-Social conscience
-Archie Bunker types
-Past presidents
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-John F. Kennedy
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Period of normalcy
-Role of press
-TV compared to newspapers
-Reporters
-Difficulties of job
-Issues
-Vietnam War
-Defense, antiballistic missiles [ABM]
-Biases, beliefs
-President’s programs
-Gimmicks
-Projection of concern
-Distortions by press
-Problems of communication
-Press relations
-Beliefs, biases
-President’s attitude
-Difficulties
-President’s programs
-Ehrlichman’s briefings
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-2010)
-Head Start
-Misinformation
-Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
Budget
-San Antonio, Texas and Wyoming
-Administration’s limitations
-John D. Ehrlichman’s briefings
-President’s radio speeches
-Distortion of intent of programs
-Program cuts
-Community Action Programs [CAP]
-Trickle-down effect
-Local government
-Model Cities, CAP
-Budget
-Bureaucracy
-Benefits to poor
-Abolition
-Organization
-Lack of results
-Accountability
-Reports on President’s programs
-Public ignorance
-Lead story
-Head Start, job training
-Civil rights
-Theodore Hesburgh
-School integration
-Record of South
-Compared to North
-Speaking tour
-New Orleans
-President’s role
-Topics
-Compliance, compassion
-South
-George P. Shultz
-President’s role
-Atlanta
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-2010)
-Blacks and White Northern liberals
-Intentions
-Program implementation
-President’s record
-Meetings with leaders
-Arkansas
-Georgia
-Southern strategy
-Interracial makeup
-Compliance
-Successes
-Lack of demagoguery
-Peaceful implementation
-Compared to Little Rock [1954]
-Mississippi
-Press
-Desire for demagoguery
-Racists, “rednecks”
-“Professional blacks”
-Public stand
-Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.
-President’s approach to school integration
-Champion
-Effect on education quality
-Racism
-Interracial marriage
-Compared to John F. Kennedy
-President’s record on Southern school desegregation
-Lack of credit
-Black votes for President
-Washington, DC
-South compared to North
-Speaking tour of South
-Press coverage
-Meetings
-Lack of conflict
-Shultz
-Edward L. Morgan
-White House staff
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-2010)
-Attorneys
-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
[NAACP]
-Press coverage
-Compared to Nicholas Katzenbach
-Parallels with foreign policy
-USSR, PRC breakthroughs
-Middle East, Europe, Japan
-Quiet diplomacy
-President’s meeting with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Summit preparations
-Press relations
-Journalists, liberals
-President’s treatment of blacks
-Contrast with Kennedy, Johnson
-“Uncle Toms”
-Sammy Davis, Jr.
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-Publicity
-Compared to Theodore Roosevelt, Booker T. Washington
-Liberals and “professional blacks”
-Desire for criticism of white
-Communication of support for blacks
-Press
-Failures
-Distortions
-Reasons
-Administration’s need for dramatization of concerns
-Jesus Christ’s teachings
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-2010)
-Harvard intellectual
-President’s public image
-President’s view on enhancement
-Ken Crawford
-Vietnam War
-Credit for President
-Johnson’s place in history
-Vietnam War
-President’s goals
-Vindication of dead and wounded
-US role in world
-Credit for US
-Great Britain
-France
-Economy
Japan
-Lack of nuclear weapons
-Germany
-Potential power
-Lack of nuclear weapons
-Abdication of responsibility
-Focus on urban problems
-Ghettos
-USSR, PRC
-Sense of pride
-Press accounts
-Joseph W. Alsop, other columnists
-Domestic programs
-Need for dramatization of President’s programs
-Impact on nations’ mood
-Impact on black children
-Davis
-Press relations
President’s golf game
-Score in 1958
-Burning Tree Golf Club
-Frequency of games
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-2010)
Gridiron Dinner
-President’s attendance
-White House Correspondents Dinner
-Ziegler
Noyes and Ehrlichman left at 4:34 pm.