398–1

Conversation No. 397-25/398-1

Date: January 19, 1973
Time: Unknown between 3:07 pm and 4:10 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Raymond K. Price, Jr.; the recording began at an unknown time while
the meeting was in progress.

[An unknown portion of the conversation was not recorded at this time while the tape was
changed.]

President's Inaugural speech
-Content and wording
-Revisions
-Last paragraph
-Sense of responsibility
-Public understanding
-Omitted lines [?]
-President’s suggestions
-Overlong sentence
-Government's role
-Quotability
-First paragraph
-Conclusion
-1969 Inaugural speech
-Text
-Reading copies
-Price’s suggestions
-Revisions
-Hallowing references
-Previous presidents
-Reliance references
-Appeal to deity
-Appeal to American people
-Future of US
-Typing of draft
-Length
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Conversation No. 397-25/398-1 (cont’d)

-John F. Kennedy
-Central theme
-Sense of responsibility
-President’s views [?]
-Revisions
-Length
-Final draft
-Delivery
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Hugh Scott

Price left at 4:10 pm.