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TALKING POINTS
for
--Events in Indochina are moving rapidly.
--Americans need to understand what is taking place
and why, and the implications of these events for our
foreign policy and world position.
--The President plans an early statement. That,
together with my March 26 press conference, will serve
as policy guidance.
--I want each of you -- and your deputies -- to
help take our views to the country over the next two
weeks. We need to eatablish a broad context in which
the Congress can consider our Indochina aid requests
when it reconvenes on April 7.
--Public Affairs will organize the details of such
a
program. It will call on all of you for help. I want
you to participate, even to the extent of making changes
in. your present calendars.
FORD
own" P.
,
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