820–11

Conversation No. 820-11

Date: December 12, 1972
Time: 11:17 am - 11:53 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with W. Clement Stone, Douglas K. Kinsey, and Leonard Garment.

Greetings
-1972 election
-Congratulations

Seating arrangements

The President’s schedule
-Stone’s first meeting with the President
-Meeting with Stone, Kinsey and Garment
-Agenda
-[Meeting with J. Willard Marriott]
-1973 Inauguration license plate

National Center for Voluntary Action [NCVA]
-Reports for the President
-Stone’s role
-Business administration
-Staff
-Washington, DC
-Support
-Financial pledges
-George W. Romney’s interest
-Romney’s meeting with the President
-Press relations

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 11:17 am.

Refreshments
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NCVA
-Materials
-Synopsis
-Length
-Centers
-Number
-Location
-Local action
-Citizens participation
-Washington, DC
-Goals
-Compared to motherhood
-Criticism as old-fashioned, nebulous
-Leaders
-Stone
-Robert H. Finch
-Mrs. Joyce Black
-Leo Perlis of American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial
Organizations [AFL-CIO]
-Private sector
-Need for support
-ACTION grant
-Board of Directors
-Chairmanship
-Romney
-Romney
-National Urban Coalition [NUC]
-Lenore (LaFount) Romney
-NCVA’s tax exempt status
-Section 501.3 (c) of Internal Revenue Code
-Urban Coalition
-Prospects
-Television [TV] advertisements
-Effectiveness
-Football players
-Drug abuse campaign, 1971
-Willie Wood
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-Black youth
-Jim Plunkett
-Mexican-American youth
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Stone’s conversation with son [Norman C. Stone]
-New York Jets game
-Plunkett
-Joe Schmidt
-Motivation
-Reorganization
-Report for the President
-Synopsis
-Plans for future
-George Romney’s participation
-Meeting with George Romney and Edwin N. Etherington
-NUC
-Staff
-Projects
-Number
-Rubella program
-Post-election periods
-Motivations
-Organization compared to goal or man
-Goals
-Adolph Hitler and Nazi Party
-Benito Mussolini and Fascists
-Reading, food, Christmas baskets
-Drug abuse
-1968 campaign
-Self-motivation compared to government assistance
-Initiative
-Character building
-Self-interest, altruistic interest
-George Romney
-Idealism
-Christmas baskets
-Communication of principles
-Mental health
-Prevention
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-Schools
-Mental illness
-Character building
-Studying
-Prisoners rehabilitation
-Recidivism
-States’ role
-Teachers
-Teenage drug abusers and alcoholics
-George Romney
-Idealism
-Volunteerism
-Individual and community decision making
-Knowledge
-Mental illness
-Studying
-Communications
-Administration assistance
-The President’s role
-Timing
-George Romney’s involvement
-Staff
-Board of Directors

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:17 am.

The President’s schedule
-License plate presentation
-Location
-Oval Office

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:45 am.

Volunteerism
-Women
-Frustrations
-Careers, marriages, home making
-Alcohol abuse
-TV ads
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-Football
-Lenore Romney
-Mrs. Nixon
-Tricia Nixon Cox and Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Jobs
-TV ads
-Football players
-Local campaign
-Timing
-Disadvantages groups
-Blacks
-Mexican-Americans
-Whites
-Race issues
-Need to deemphasize
-Plunkett
-Mexican-Americans
-NUC
-M. Carl Holman
-Balance
-Motivation

NCVA
-Programs
-The President’s view
-Clement Stone’s energy and resources
-Competition with ACTION
-National Student Volunteer program
-ACTION
-The President’s view and instructions
-“Boondoggle”
-Budget

Garment’s schedule
-Meeting with Stone and Kinsey

White House gifts

Garment’s schedule
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-Meeting with Stone and Kinsey

Kinsey and Garment left at 11:45 am.

Ambassadorship to Great Britain
-Maurice H. Stans
-Conversation with Clement Stone in 1968
-Request for good government
-Press relations
-British and US speculation
-Walter H. Annenberg
-Plans
-Honor
-Philanthropy
-Great Britain
-Phillip’s [Prince of England] invitation to Court of St. James
-Fundraising
-Anna Freud Centre
-Computers
-The Burden Neurological Institute, University of Bristol,
England
-Brain specialists
-Mental health
-Boys’ Clubs
-International Council of Educators for Teaching Convention
-Press relations
-British, US strength
-Parliament
-Conservative and Labor Party inquiries of Clement Stone
-Britain
-Labor influence
-Press relations
-Annenberg’s tenure
-1973
-European Security Conference, July
-US-Soviet Union summit
-Common market
-1968 and 1972 campaigns
-The President’s conversation with Stans
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-Press relations
-Government positions
-Timing
-Volunteer activities
-Nonpolitical nature
-1974 campaigns
-NCVA
-Government positions
-Timing
-Annenberg

1972 campaign
-Stone’s son-in-law, David E. Bradshaw
-Work with Charles W. Colson
-The President’s meeting with Stone at Camp David
-Possible meeting
-The President’s winning percentage

Christmas greetings

Stone left at 11:53 am.