Date: July 26, 1972

Time: 12:05 pm – 12:22 pm

Location: Oval Office

The President met with Johnny Cash, William E. Brock III and William E. Timmons. White

House photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of this meeting.

Greetings

Arrangements for photograph

[Photograph session]

-Testimony

-Background

Prison reform

-Cash’s testimony, July 26, 1972

-Marlow W. Cook

-The President’s schedule

-Possible prison visit

-Secret Service

-Compared to the Soviet Union

-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

-Secret Service

-George C. Wallace

Prison reform

-Brock’s schedule

-Tennessee State Prison

-Warden

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-Meeting with prisoners

-Attica Correctional Facility

-Recidivism

-Reduction

-Cash’s conversation with William F. (“Billy”) Graham

-Possible television special

-Concert, speech

Cash

-Schedule

-Dallas [Explo `72]

-Music

-The President’s view

-Glen Campbell

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[June Carter Cash]

[Reba Cash Hancock, Bobbie John]

[June Cash]

-Camp David

Unknown man

John W. Rollins

-Home in Jamaica

-Johnny Cash’s concerts

June Cash, Hancock, and John entered at 12:14 pm.

Oval Office furnishings

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-Arrangements for photograph

-Flags

-President’s

-Presidential seal

-Armed services

-[Photograph session]

-Walter H. Annenberg’s gift

-Steuben glass

-Item from the People’s Republic of China [PRC]

-Music box

-Gift from Prime Minister of Australia

-Forthcoming presidential library

-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s crewel work

-1968 election

Johnny Cash’s work

Presentation of gifts by the President

-Cufflinks, bow pins, ash tray

Johnny Cash’s schedule

-Los Angeles

-Nashville

Families of Cash, Hancock, and John

-Gifts

Oval Office furnishings

-Painting of the White House by British artist

-Potomac River

-White House renovation

-Theodore Roosevelt

-Truman Balcony

[General conversation]

-Photographs

-Unknown Nixonette

Cash, et al. left at 12:22 pm.