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464–10
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Fred Fassen
  • Foster J. Pratt
  • Arthur Schuettner
  • Raymond Ast
  • Emily T. Barhydt
  • Louis Blueth
  • Charles C. Fichtner
  • Florence Krieger
  • Leslie O. Long
  • A. O. Mathias
  • William J. Powell
  • Willie C. Ray
  • Jayne B. Spain
  • J. Cecil Sandberg
  • Lola Tilly
  • Jennie S. Wilmot
  • Emma Woodward
  • Bernard E. Nash
  • Dorothy Crippen
  • Cyril Brickfield
  • Lloyd Wright
  • Charles Thomas
  • Bernard S. Van Rensselaer
  • George T. Bell
  • Robert H. Finch
  • White House photographer
March 9, 1971
Conversation No. 464-10

Date: March 9, 1971
Time: 12:03 pm - 12:23 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Fred Fassen, Foster J. Pratt, Arthur Schuettner, Raymond Ast, Emily T.
Barhydt, Dr. Louis Blueth, Dr. Charles C. Fichtner, George E. Gilbert, Dr. Robert C. Gillingham,
H. Benjamin Hendler, Florence Krieger, Leslie O. Long, A. O. Mathias, William J. Powell, Carl
R. Quast, Willie C. Ray, Jacob B. Spiegel, J. Cecil Sandberg, H. A. Tiller, Dr. Lola Tilly, Jennie
S. Wilmot, Emma Woodward, Bernard E. Nash, Dorothy Crippen, Cyril Brickfield, Lloyd
Wright, Charles Thomas, Bernard S. Van Rensselaer, John B. Martin, George T. Bell, and
Robert H. Finch; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting

Introductions of members of the American Association of Retired Persons

[General conversation]

Welcome

Oval Office
-Previous visits by members
-Decorations
-Presidential seal carpet
-Color
-Portraits of George Washington
-John Mills
-Rembrandt Peale

Portraits
-Cabinet Room
-Theodore (“Teddy”) Roosevelt
-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
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-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-East Room
-George and Martha Washington portraits
-Dining Room
-Abraham Lincoln

Problems of aging
-Martin’s arrangement of meeting
-Importance

Problems of youth
-President’s meetings with astronauts
-Astronauts’ visits to colleges and universities
-Importance

Problems of aging
-Medical care
-Retirement
-Solutions
-Communication
-Compared with youth
-Importance of aged

Administration concerns
-Social Security
-Welfare reform
-Quality of life for aging
-President’s experience
-Mother and father

Aged
-Importance
-Programs
-Needs
-Importance
-Message to youth
-Medical care
-President’s support
-White House Conference on Aging
-Importance
-Youth
-White Conference on Aging
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-Follow-up on recommendations
-Administration
-Congress
-Importance
-Minorities in US

Presidential gifts
-Pins Conv. No. 464-10 (cont.)
-Cufflinks
-Key rings

President’s thoughts of aging

[General conversation]

Fassen, et al. left at 12:23 pm
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