Date: May 26, 1971
Time: 3:35 pm - 4:10 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Raymond K. Price, Jr. and John K. Andrews, Jr.
President’s forthcoming speech
-President’s marks on draft
-Audience
-Length
-Vietnam
-United States’ position in world
-A background statement
-Vietnam
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-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR], Middle East, People’s Republic of
China [PRC]
-Vietnam
-President’s revisions of draft
-Graduates
-Possible service in war
-Vietnam
-Dwight D. Eisenhower Conv. No. 253-22 (cont.)
-Vietnam, World Wars I and II
-Peace
-President’s Birmingham, Alabama speech
-Duty and honor
-Graduates’ grandfathers
-Superpowers
-PRC
-Europe
-Middle East
-US position in world
-Peace
-US strength
-President’s Alabama speech
-Arms limitation
-Purpose
-Mutual, unilateral
-USSR, Asia, Israel
-Middle East
-Israel
-Length
-Tone
-Vietnam, USSR, PRC
-US military, economic, and moral strength
-Graduates’ contribution to US
-20th Century wars
-US goals
-World Wars I and II, Korean War, Vietnam War
-US responsibilities
-Consequences of denial
-Neo-isolationists
-President’s conversations with world leaders
-Neo-isolationists
-Consequences of denial
-Pride
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-Challenge to graduates
-War casualties
-US today
-Survival
-Burden for US
-Draft
-President’s revisions
-Vietnam Conv. No. 253-22 (cont.)
-War
-Arms control
-Eisenhower
-Peacetime vs. wartime service
-Honor, responsibility
-Army
-Public opinion
-Problems
-Insubordination
J. Edgar Hoover
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 3:35 pm
President’s schedule
-Meeting with Hoover, John N. Mitchell
-Location
-Possible photograph
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 4:01 pm
President’s speech
-Forthcoming draft
-President’s review
-Price’s and Andrews’ work
Ronald L. Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 3:55 pm
President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Hoover
-Location
-Photograph
-Mitchell
-John B. Connally
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-Location
President’s speech
-Work by Price and Andrews
Andrews
Price and Andrews left at 4:01 pm Conv. No. 253-22 (cont.)
President’s schedule
Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 4:02 pm
-Press ladies’ shower for Tricia Nixon
-Time
-Hoover
Butterfield left at 4:04 pm
A statement concerning New York, New York police shooting
-President’s letters to families
-Charles W. Colson
-President’s November 1970 directive to Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Possible scholarship fund
-Vietnam
-President’s forthcoming meeting