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OCR Page 1 of 6THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN.
MEETING WITH THE AMERICAN FIELD SERVICE STUDENTS
THE WHITE HOUSE
Tuesday, July 22, 1969
The President:
At 10:55 a. m. you will be escorted from your office to the Diplomatic
Entrance of the Residence and out onto the driveway where you will be
met by Mr. Arthur Howe, Jr., President of the American Field
Service, and Mrs. George Romney, who requested this appointment
for the American Field Service students to meet with you.
You will then proceed to the single stand-up microphone which will be
positioned on the South Lawn about 10 feet from the edge of the driveway.
You will make brief remarks to the more than 3000 students.
NOTE: Suggested remarks are attached.
PRESS NOTE: There will be full press coverage.
At the conclusion of your remarks, you will be escorted along the drive-
way and up the path to your office. It is estimated that your participation
will be of 10-15 minutes duration.
BACKGROUND
There will be 3, 040 students from sixty countries. They have all
just finished a year's study in the United States and they are here
in Washington for two days of meetings and sightseeing prior to
their return to their individual countries.
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While in Washington, the students are being housed in private homes
and are using Georgetown University facilities for their meetings.
The AFS had its beginning with the Volunteer Ambulance Corps in
World War I. In 1947 it initiated its scholarship program directed
primarily at students on a secondary level. Because of the program's
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success, all AFS activities are now devoted to this teenage group of
students. Presently, there are two facets to the program: One which
brings foreign students to the United States for a year and another
which sends American students abroad.
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