332–39

Conversation No. 332-39

Date: April 25, 1972
Time: 1:15 pm - 1:33 pm
Location: Old Executive Office Building

The President met with Winston Lord and John K. Andrews, Jr.

The President's speech
-Revisions by Lord and Andrews
-Evaluation of work
-Henry A. Kissinger's review
-Copy
-Further revisions

Lord [?]
-Education
-Career choices
-Teaching career
-Work in White House
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-Mother
-Law school
-Law school
-Value
-Training
-Discipline
-Value
-Stock and bond issues
-Kissinger

The President's speech
-Review
-Conclusion
-Madame Nguyen Thi Bihn
-Bombing
-Intensity
-Tehran

The President read his speech draft.

[A transcript of the speech in its final form appears in Public Papers of the Presidents,
1972, pp. 553-554.]

[End of speech rehearsal]

The President's speech
-Revisions
-Changes in wording
-Discussion of People's Republic of China [PRC] and Soviet trips
-South Vietnamese performance
-Insertion of passage
-Conclusion
-US goals in Vietnam
-Peace with honor
-Cambodia speech
-Election year risks
-Office of the President

The President talked with an unknown person [Kissinger?] at an unknown time between 1:15
and 1:33 pm.

[Conversation No. 332-39A]
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The President's speech
-Meeting with the President
-Time
-Draft
-Typing

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's speech
-Conclusion
-Wording
-End of war
-Imminence
-Revisions
-Length
-Cambodia speech
-Kent State University
-Election year
-Risks
-Soviets
-The President's determination
-North Vietnamese miscalculations
-Work of Lord and Andrews

Lord and Andrews left at 1:33 pm.