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western union Télegram NO. WDS.- CL. OF SVC. PD. OR COLL. CASH NO. CHARGE TO THE ACCOUNT OF THIS MESSAGE WILL BE SENT PRESS OVER NIGHT AS A TELEGRAM UNLESS IT IS DPR NPR TELEGRAM OTHERWISE INDICATED. Send the following message, subject to the Telegraph Company's conditions, rules and regulations, which are on file with regulatory authorities. Pool repott- AFI flight from Akron to Ottumway The president left the Holiday Inn at 8:47. "About 10 Yippies were across the street shouting "1,2,3,4, etc.' Herb Klein with the president. They drove to apartment building where Publisher John Knight lives, and emerged 75 minutes later. The place is called The Blair House. Coming out, he said, "I ate more than I have in a xxxx month for breakfast that is." Nixon stooned and chatted with repoters before he got in his car. Said he was "particular y impressed' with the crowds. He said he had alot of friends in the area and they must have all been out. "I guess they just wanted to see another football fan," he said. Then he recalled how he was stationed in Cttumwa, Ia., as a Lt. J.G., during the early years of WII. He requ sted sea duty, he said, but Yes sent to ttumwa instead, and found "a farm use in the middle of a corn field. Seven months later, when he fnally got his orders to go, t., sea, there was a naval air station there at the site of the airnort where he anded today. Nixon will spend the rest of the week-end at Camp David, Ziegler told uson the lane. He is due back in at Andrews t about 4:35 p.m. Before Nixon got on the plane, he shook hands end e changed small talk with a long line (25 or 30) of local political figures and businessmen, includ ng John Andrews, state committeeman. aldo beckman [7/31/71]