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File scanned from the National Security Adviser's Memoranda of Conversation Collection at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
MEMORANDUM
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION
PARTICIPANTS:
President Nixon
Amb. Vincent Mavoungou, Ambassador of Gabon
Lawrence Gussman, New York entrepreneur
Mark L. Wolf, lawyer, Surrey, Karasik & Morse
Howard Rusk, Jr., Director of the Albert
Schweitzer Foundation Fund Raising Drive
Brent Scowcroft, Deputy Assistant to the President
for National Security Affairs
Alec Toumayan (State Department Interpreter)
DATE AND TIME:
Monday, February 11, 1974
12:00 noon
PLACE:
The Oval Office
President: I have been to Gabon but I didn't get to visit the hospital.
Mavoungou: I grew up there.
President: We had to go in by boat -- there was no plane.
Gussman: I want to thank you, Mr. President, for the support you
have given to obtaining the appropriation for the Schweitzer Hospital.
President: This is from the American people. It's the taxpayers'
money.
Gussman: This bust of Schweitzer is for you.
President: Leo Cherne, I understand.
Mavoungou: It brings out Schweitzer's strength.
President: Please express our best wishes to President Bongo,
our sympathy, and our help to the extent we can give it.
(Cufflinks are given out.)
FORD
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Rusk: My father extends his best wishes to you.
President: He is a remarkable man. He has done many wonderful
things. Tell him to keep it up.
Where did you go to school?
Wolf: Harvard Law School. I was in the same class with Ed Cox.
President: He went with Cravath. Your work is more interesting.
THE WHITE HOUSE
(162)
WASHINGTON
February 8, 1974
MEETING WITH DELEGATION
FROM ALBERT SCHWEITZER HOSPITAL COMMITTEE
Monday, February 11, 1974
12:00 noon (10 minutes)
The Oval Office
From: Henry A. Kissinger K
I.
PURPOSE
To permit the Committee to express appreciation to you for your
support in obtaining a $1 million appropriation for the Hospital, located
in Lambarene, Gabon, in the Foreign Assistance Appropriations Legis-
lation for Fiscal Year 1974.
II.
BACKGROUND, PARTICIPANTS, PRESS PLAN
A. Background
You serve as an Honorary Co-Chairman of the Albert Schweitzer
Hospital International Fund Drive. The Congressional appropriation for
the Hospital is a significant contribution to the Hospital's work. The prin-
cipal Co-Chairman of the Hospital Committee, Mr. Lawrence Gussman,
has asked that you meet with a small delegation from the Committee so
they might thank you for your support. He wishes to present to you per-
sonally a Certificate of Appreciation. A small, engraved bust of Schweitzer
will also be received for you in advance of the meeting.
As the people of Gabon will be beneficiaries of the appropriation,
we believe it is appropriate for the Ambassador from Gabon, Vincent
Mavoungou, to be present. Ambassador Mavoungou presented his cre-
dentials to you July 26, 1973. The Ambassador, who does not speak
English, will be provided an interpreter. You met with the President
of Gabon, Albert Bernard Bongo, in the Oval Office August 2, 1973.
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B. Participants
Vincent Mavoungou, Gabonese Ambassador
Lawrence Gussman, New York entrepreneur.
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Durke Giblin, Chief Executive Officer,
Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical, Inc.
Howard Rusk, Jr., Director of the Albert Schweitzer
Foundation Fund Raising Drive.
Brent Scowcroft.
Alec Toumayan (State Department Interpreter).
C. Press Plan
Press photo opportunity.
III. TALKING POINTS
1. It is a pleasure for me to serve as Honorary Co-Chairman of
the Schweitzer Hospital International Fund Drive. I am gratified that
Congress has joined me in supporting the Hospital by providing a
grant-in-aid of one million dollars for the Hospital in the fiscal 1974
Foreign Assistance Appropriations Legislation.
2. I am delighted that this appropriation will be used to assist
in the construction of a new wing for the Hospital dedicated to the
treatment of leprosy victims.
3. Mr. Ambassador, I am pleased that you could join us today.
The public and private U.S. assistance to the Hospital is a demon-
stration of the close and friendly relations that exist between our
two countries. It was a great pleasure for me to meet your President
in August and we had a most useful conversation. Please send him
my personal regards.
4. The Albert Schweitzer Hospital Committee must be proud of
its accomplishments and of the privilege of being able to assist this
important African institution. I have appreciated the opportunity to
be associated with you in this important work.
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