335–14

Conversation No. 335-14

Date: May 3, 1972
Time: 2:30-2:40 pm.
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with John K. Andrews, Jr.

Greetings

Eulogy for J. Edgar Hoover
-Length
-The President’s view
-Hoover
-Recognition
-Appreciation for Hoover
-Hoover's greatness
-Relationship with President
-Reference
-Amount of emphasis
-Hoover's greatness
-Addition
-References
-Winston S. Churchill
-Deletions
-References to the President's relationship with Hoover
-Other remarks by columnists and other speakers
-Length
-Law and order, permissiveness
-References to children
-Deletions
-Transition
-Conclusion
-Law and order in US
-Deletion
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-01)
Conv. No. 335-14 (cont.)

-Draft of eulogy
-Deletions
-Delivery
-Whitney M. Young funeral
-Opportunity for President

Attacks on Hoover
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs
-The President’s vew
-Dr. Benjamin Spock
-Jerry Rubin
-New York Times

Hoover
-President's relationship
-House Un-American Activities Committee
-The President’s view
-Civil liberties
-World War II
-Roscoe Drummond's comments
-Franklin D. Roosevelt's request
-Position on Communist Party
-Comments of Drummond
-The President’s view
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
-The President’s view
-Effect on US respect for law

Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-New director
-Delay
-Reasons

Eulogy
-Draft
-Return to President
-Time
-Changes
-Additions
-President's relationship with Hoover
-Draft
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-01)
Conv. No. 335-14 (cont.)

-Time
-President's relationship with Hoover

Andrews left at 2:40 pm.