419–18

Conversation No. 419-18

Date: March 14, 1973
Time: Unknown between 8:59 am and 9:25 am
Location: Executive Office Building

The President dictated a letter to Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis.

Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Capt. Jeremiah A. Denton, Jr.
-Remarks
-Letter to President
-Meeting with President
-Admiration by President
-Ordeal in prison
-Suffering
-Solitary confinement
-Book
-Concern for moral state of US
-deterioration
-Letters
-Theme
-Peace

Contact with someone [?]

Denton
-Article in Reader’s Digest
-Respectability
-Praise for POWs
-John D. Ehrlichman
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Sept-2010)
Conversation No. 419-18 (cont’d)




Government spending
-Publicity
-Historical examples
-Philadelphia magazine article
-Washington Post article
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
-Distribution
-Congress
-Public reaction
-Antidote

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