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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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