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RICHARD NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY
DOCUMENT WITHDRAWAL RECORD
DOCUMENT
DOCUMENT
SUBJECT/TITLE OR CORRESPONDENTS
DATE
RESTRICTION
NUMBER
TYPE
1
Phone call
Re: call to Bob Newbrand recommended
05/19/1970
D
recommend
by Dwight L. Chapin, 1 p.
ation to
President
2
Phone call
Re: Call to Jerry Warren recommended
ND
D
recommend
by Ronald Ziegler, 1 p.
ation to
President
3
Phone call
Recommended by Bryce n. Harlow, 1 p.
02/20/1970
D
recommend
ation to
President
4
Memo
To High Sloan fr. Walter R. Tkach, M.D.
02/17/1970
D
5
Memo
To Dwight L. Chapin fr. Bryce Harlow, 1
02/13/1970
D
p.
6
Memo
To Dwight L. Chapin fr. Bryce Harlow, 1
02/30/1970
D
p.
7
Phone call
Fr. Dwight L. Chapin, 1 p.
05/14/1970
D
recommend
ation to
President
COLLECTION TITLE
BOX NUMBER
WHSF: SMOF: Stephen B. Bull
1
FOLDER TITLE
Phone Calls Submitted to President [1970-1973] [1 of 3]
PRMPA RESTRICTION CODES:
A. Release would violate a Federal statute or Agency Policy.
E. Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
B. National security classified information.
financial information.
C. Pending or approved claim that release would violate an individual's
F. Release would disclose investigatory information compiled for law
rights. (CONTESTED MATERIALS)
enforcement purposes.
D. Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of privacy
G. Withdrawn and return private and personal material.
or a libel of a living person.
H. Withdrawn and returned non-historical material.
NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION
*U.S. GPO; 1989-235-084/00024
NA 14021 (4-85)
RICHARD NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY
DOCUMENT WITHDRAWAL RECORD
DOCUMENT
DOCUMENT
SUBJECT/TITLE OR CORRESPONDENTS
DATE
RESTRICTION
NUMBER
TYPE
8
Phone call
Re: call to Kenneth R. Cole,
06/22/1971
D
recommend
recommended by Stephen Bull, 2 copies
ation to
President
9
Phone call
Re: call to adm. Lewis Strauss
02/11/1971
D
recommend
recommended by Rose Mary Woods, 1 p.
ation to
President
10
Phone call
Re: call to Judge Thurmond Clark
06/08/1970
D
recommend
recommended by Dwight L. Chapin. 1
ation to
President
carbon, 2 attachments (4 pp.)
11
Memo
To Steve Bull fr Dwight L Chapin re Bob
05/25/1970
D (Phone
Hope Birthday call
No.)
12
Form
"Presidential Telephone Calls: List of
n.d.
H
People to be Called...", 3 copies
13
Form
"Telephone Call Recommendations", 8
n.d.
H
copies
N-1/7
Memo
Memo from Timmons to RN
05/19/1970
C (Nixon)
Reintegrated from Contested Files
07/05/2006
COLLECTION TITLE
BOX NUMBER
WHSF: SMOF: Stephen B. Bull
1
FOLDER TITLE
Phone Calls Submitted to President [1970-1973] [1 of 3]
PRMPA RESTRICTION CODES:
A. Release would violate a Federal statute or Agency Policy.
E. Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
B. National security classified information.
financial information.
C. Pending or approved claim that release would violate an individual's
F. Release would disclose investigatory information compiled for law
rights.(CONTESTED MATERIALS)
enforcement purposes.
D. Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of privacy
G. Withdrawn and return private and personal material.
or a libel of a living person.
H. Withdrawn and returned non-historical material.
NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION
*U.S. GPO, 1989-235-084/00024
NA 14021 (4-85)
RICHARD NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY
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DOCUMENT
DOCUMENT
SUBJECT/TITLE OR CORRESPONDENTS
DATE
RESTRICTION
NUMBER
TYPE
N-2/8
Memo
Telcon recommendation from Bull & Odle
03/31/1970
C (Nixon)
Reintegrated from Contested Files
07/05/2006
N-3/9
Memo
From Chapin to Bull and Sloan
03/31/1970
C (Nixon)
Reintegrated from Contested Files
07/05/2006
N -4/10
Memo
From Timmons to Chapin Reintegrated
01/25/1972
C (Nixon)
from Contested Files 07/05/2006
N-5/211
Letter
From Parents & Spouses of Soldiers KIA
n.d.
(Nixon)
in Vietnam to RN Reintegrated from
Contested Files 07/05/2006
N-6/11
Index
Names of Parents of Soldiers KIA writing
n.d.
C (Nixon)
to RN Reintegrated from Contested
Files 07/05/2006
N-7/212
Letter
From Parents of Soldiers KIA in Vietnam
n.d.
C (Nixon)
to Pres Nixon Reintegrated from
Contested Files 07/05/2006
N-8/213
Letter
From spouse of soldier KIA in Vietnam to
n.d.
C (Nixon)
RN Reintegrated from Contested Files
07/05/2006
COLLECTION TITLE
BOX NUMBER
WHSF: SMOF: Stephen B. Bull
1
FOLDER TITLE
Phone Calls Submitted to President [1970-1973] [1 of 3]
PRMPA RESTRICTION CODES:
A. Release would violate a Federal statute or Agency Policy.
E. Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
B. National security classified information.
financial information.
C. Pending or approved claim that release would violate an individual's
F. Release would disclose investigatory information compiled for law
rights.(CONTESTED MATERIALS)
enforcement purposes.
D. Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of privacy
G. Withdrawn and return private and personal material.
or a libel of a living person.
H. Withdrawn and returned non-historical material.
NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION
*U.S. GPO; 1989-235-084/00024
NA 14021 (4-85)
RICHARD NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY
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RESTRICTION
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TYPE
N-9/214
Letter
From spouse of soldier KIA in Vietnam to
n.d.
C (Nixon)
RN Reintegrated from Contested Files
07/05/2006
N-10/215
Letter
Parent of soldier KIA in Vietnam to Pres.
04/30/1970
C (Nixon)
Nixon Reintegrated from Contested
Files 07/05/2006
N-11/216
Letter
Parent of soldier KIA in Vietnam to Pres.
05/01/1970
C (Nixon)
Nixon Reintegrated from Contested
Files 07/05/2006
N-12/217
Letter
Parent of soldier KIA in Vietnam to Pres.
05/01/1970
C (Nixon)
Nixon Reintegrated from Contested
Files 07/05/2006
N-13/218
Letter
Parent of soldier KIA in Vietnam to Pres.
05/01/1970
(Nixon)
Nixon Reintegrated from Contested
Files 07/05/2006
N 14/219
Letter
Parent of soldier KIA in Vietnam to Pres.
n.d.
€ (Nixon)
Nixon Reintegrated from Contested
Files 07/05/2006
N-15/220
Letter
Parent of soldier KIA in Vietnam to Pres.
n.d.
G (Nixon)
Nixon OPENED 01/2010
COLLECTION TITLE
BOX NUMBER
WHSF: SMOF: Stephen B. Bull
1
FOLDER TITLE
Phone Calls Submitted to President [1970-1973] [1 of 3]
PRMPA RESTRICTION CODES:
A. Release would violate a Federal statute or Agency Policy.
E. Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
B. National security classified information.
financial information.
C. Pending or approved claim that release would violate an individual's
F. Release would disclose investigatory information compiled for law
rights. (CONTESTED MATERIALS)
enforcement purposes.
D. Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of privacy
G. Withdrawn and return private and personal material.
or a libel of a living person.
H. Withdrawn and returned non-historical material.
NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION
*U.S. GPO; 1989-235-084/00024
NA 14021 (4-85)
RICHARD NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY
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DOCUMENT
SUBJECT/TITLE OR CORRESPONDENTS
DATE
RESTRICTION
NUMBER
TYPE
N-16/221
Letter
Parent of soldier KIA in Vietnam to Pres.
n.d.
C (Nixon)
Nixon Reintegrated from Contested
Files 07/05/2006
N-17/222
Letter
Parent of soldier KIA in Vietnam to Pres.
n.d.
C (Nixon)
Nixon Reintegrated from Contested
Files 07/05/2006
N-18/223
Letter
Parent of soldier KIA in Vietnam to Pres.
n.d.
C (Nixon)
Nixon Reintegrated from Contested
Files 07/05/2006
N 19/224
Letter
Parent of soldier KIA in Vietnam to Pres.
n.d.
C (Nixon)
Nixon Reintegrated from Contested
Files 07/05/2006
N-20/225
Letter
Parent of soldier KIA in Vietnam to Pres.
n.d.
C (Nixon)
Nixon Reintegrated from Contested
Files 07/05/2006
N 20/226
Letter
Parent of soldier KIA in Vietnam to Pres.
n.d.
C (Nixon)
Nixon Reintegrated from Contested
Files 07/05/2006
N21
Letter
Parent of soldier KIA in Vietnam to Pres.
n.d.
C (Nixon)
Nixon Reintegrated from Contested
Files 07/05/2006
COLLECTION TITLE
BOX NUMBER
WHSF: SMOF: Stephen B. Bull
1
FOLDER TITLE
Phone Calls Submitted to President [1970-1973] [1 of 3]
PRMPA RESTRICTION CODES:
A. Release would violate a Federal statute or Agency Policy.
E. Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
B. National security classified information.
financial information.
C. Pending or approved claim that release would violate an individual's
F. Release would disclose investigatory information compiled for law
rights.(CONTESTED MATERIALS)
enforcement purposes.
D. Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of privacy
G. Withdrawn and return private and personal material.
or a libel of a living person.
H. Withdrawn and returned non-historical material.
NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION
*U.S. GPO; 1989-235-084/00024
NA 14021 (4-85)
RICHARD NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY
DOCUMENT WITHDRAWAL RECORD
DOCUMENT
DOCUMENT
SUBJECT/TITLE OR CORRESPONDENTS
DATE
RESTRICTION
NUMBER
TYPE
N-22/227
Letter
Parent of soldier KIA in Vietnam to Pres.
04/06/1970
C (Nixon)
Nixon Reintegrated from Contested
Files 07/05/2006
COLLECTION TITLE
BOX NUMBER
WHSF: SMOF: Stephen B. Bull
1
FOLDER TITLE
Phone Calls Submitted to President [1970-1973] [1 of 3]
PRMPA RESTRICTION CODES:
A. Release would violate a Federal statute or Agency Policy.
E. Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
B. National security classified information.
financial information.
C. Pending or approved claim that release would violate an individual's
F. Release would disclose investigatory information compiled for law
rights.(CONTESTED MATERIALS)
enforcement purposes.
D. Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of privacy
G. Withdrawn and return private and personal material.
or a libel of a living person.
H. Withdrawn and returned non-historical material.
NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION
*U.S. GPO; 1989-235-084/00024
NA 14021 (4-85)
May 18, 1973
FOR:
DAVID PARKER
FROM:
STEPHEN BULL
RE:
Presidential Telephone Call Recommendations
The President returned the telephone call folder to me this morning
noting that, although he was the one requesting the calls, he did not
plan to make any until after the Soviet Summit.
cc:
Gen. A. Haig
TELEPHONE CALL RECOMMENDATION
TO:
Former President Lyndon B. Johnson
BACKGROUND
Former President Johnson suffered a heart attack during the pre-dawn
hours on Friday, April 7. He and Mrs. Johnson had come from
Gov. Buford Ellington's funeral in Tennessee the previous day and were
staying with their daughter and son-in-law, Lynda and Chuck Robb, at
their home in Charlottesville, Virginia. He was taken to the University
of Virginia Medical Center on April 7th where he remained for one week.
After his condition had improved sufficiently, he was taken to Brooke Army
Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. He was released on Wednesday,
April 26, and flew to the LBJ Ranch where he is now resting comfortably.
Former President and Mrs. Johnson had been invited to the Connally dinner
on Sunday, April 30, but will not be able to attend because of the former
President's condition.
TALKING POINTS
1.
I just wanted to let you know how happy I am that you're at home
and feeling better.
2.
Most other men would still be in the hospital, but it's clear that you
were just too much for the illness.
3.
I think that must be a trait of Southern statesmen. I remember a story
I read about Thomas Hart Benton. One day a constituent asked Benton
his age and the Senator replied, "According to the calendar my age is
seventy-four, but when anything is to be done I am thirty-five years
old, sir. "
4.
Neither of us is 35 anymore, but as someone who appreciates your
wise counsel, I'm glad you're as tenacious as you were when you
were 35.
TELEPHONE CALL RECOMMENDATION
TO:
MR. ELMER BOBST
- Thursday
December 16, 1971
RECOMMENDED BY:
ROSE WOODS
PURPOSE:
To congratulate Elmer Bobst on his
87th birthday on Thursday, December 16.
Note:
Two years ago you had a
birthday party dinner for Elmer
in the State Dining Room on his
85th birthday.
To: Steve Bull
RECOMMENDED TELEPHONE CALL
TO:
C. G. "Bebe" Rebozo
- call was made at
RECOMMENDED BY:
Stephen Bull
approx 9 pm, Nov Nov17. 17.
PURPOSE:
To congratulate him on his 59th birthday.
TALKING POINTS:
1.
In addition to being the anniversary
of your birth, it is the anniversary of
some other significant occasions:
(a)
It is the 171st anniversary of
the first convening of Congress
in Washington, D. C. That's
when our problems started.
(b)
On this date 90 years ago
Samuel Gompers organized the
Federation of Organized Trade
and Labor Unions, the forerunner
of the AF of L. The descendants
of this group are meeting in your
"backyard" (Miami) right now
and causing us reason to want
to forget this date.
I will leave to you the significance of
your sharing an anniversary with these
aforementioned two groups.
2.
I have a special gift for you which
should help you improve your golf
game. (Yesterday George Grassmuck
gave you a weighted golf ball that
wobbles and suggested that it would be
an appropriate gift for Bebe.)
t
November 17, 1971
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
TELEPHONE CALL TO
REP. OTTO PASSMAN AT
DRUG CONFERENCE IN
MONROE, LOUISIANA
Monday, October 4, 1971
11:15 A.M.
(Eastern Standard Time)
THE PRESIDENT:
BACKGROUND
The week of October 3rd is Drug Abuse Prevention Week. A large
drug education seminar, to be attended by approximately 21, 000 high
school and college students, parents, teachers, public officials and
medical people will be held in theMonroe Civic Center in Louisiana.
The entire Conference will be carried live on local TV, and State-wide
on six radio stations. It will also be video-taped for prime time TV
State-wide broadcast on Wednesday, October 6.
Congressman Passman, who will be the Master of Ceremonies for
this Conference, will open the program at 11:00 a. m., EST (Louisiana
time). The program will begin with a prayer, Pledge of Allegiance,
and the introduction of 30 stage guests. At that point, they will be
expecting a telephone call from the President that will be amplified to
the entire 21, 000 attendees. This will be a two-way telephone conversa-
tion with Congressman Passman, both ends of the conversation being
amplified. The phone call will be to Congressman Passman who will be
at the podium, and initially you will speak with him. When he picks up
the telephone at the podium and indicates that it is the President calling,
he expects that there will be extended applause and that you should not
make any further remarks until the applause has finally stopped. He has
requested that you begin the conversation by acknowledging the following
guests who will be present:
Gov. John J. McKeithen
Former Gov. James A. Noe
District Attorney Robert Kostelka (Chairman of Conference)
Mayor Jack Howard of Monroe
Mayor Bert Hatten of West Monroe
John Ingersoll, Director of BNDD (who will be delivering
the keynote address to the Conference)
Telephone Call to Rep. Otto
- 2 -
Passman at Drug Conference
in Monroe, Louisiana
Monday, October 4, 1971
After these introductions, you would move into the text that has been
prepared (attached). You can conclude this amplified telephone conversation
in an informal manner by expressing your appreciation for having the
opportunity to talk to such a group on such an important subject, and wish
the Conference success.
SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
11:15 a. m.
A Key Biscayne White House telephone operator
(EST)
will ring you when the point in the program has
been reached for your amplified telephone call
to Louisiana.
After you have indicated to the telephone operator
that you are ready to speak to Congressman Passman,
the line will be opened and will be amplified from that
point on.
Congressman Passman will acknowledge to the
audience that it is the President calling and
applause can be expected.
After the applause has ceased, Congressman Passman
will ask you to proceed with your message.
You should open with the informal acknowledgment
of the principal platform guests noted in the "Background"
section, and then read from the prepared text.
11:20 a. m.
Text concludes.
You conclude the conversation in an informal manner
by wishing the Conference attendees well.
11:21 a.m.
Telephone conversation concludes.
Press Plan:
This telephone conversation will be carried live over the TV and radio
stations in Louisiana.
Stephen Bull
RECOMMENDED TELEPHONE CALL
TO:
SEN. BOB DOLE
RECOMMENDED BY:
William Timmons
BACKGROUND:
Sen. Dole is in San Diego attending
meetings with the Convention Committee.
On Tuesday, August 17, he will depart
for a 10-day tour of Vietnam. He has never
visited there before and is going independently,
financing the trip personally. Prior to his
departure, he wanted to "check out" with you
and will probably raise the following three
points:
1. Comment and congratulate you on the
economic policy speech.
2. Give you a progress report on the
Convention Committee meetings.
3. Inquire as to whether you have any
specific instructions or guidance for
his Vietnam trip.
TALKING POINTS:
1.
Express appreciation for Senator Dole's continued help and
support on the economic issue.
2.
Express your continuing interest in the developments of plans
for the 1972 Convention.
3.
Wish him well on his trip to Vietnam.
August 16, 1971
PLEPHONE CALL RECOMMENDATION
TO:
APOLLO 15 ASTRONAUTS
SATURDAY, AUGUST 7 - 5:45 P.M. (Approximate)
RECOMMENDED BY:
WILLIAM ANDERS (NASA)
BACKGROUND:
The Apolle 15 mission, which began on July 26th, will terminate at
4:46 p.m. EDT when the command module "Endeavor" splashes down
in the Pacific. At that time the three Astronauts, Col. David Scott,
Lt. Col. James Irwin, and Maj. Alfred Worden will be picked up by heli-
copter and carried to a ship. The ship will vary according to the distance
of the splashdown from the ship.
Upon arrival the astronauts will be given a physical examination, and then
will spend the night on the ship. On Sunday, August 8, they will helicopter
to Hickham Field and then fly directly to Houston where they will undergo
a two-week debriefing. There will be no quarantine in this mission as
there have been in past missions.
The optimum time for a telephone call from you would be as close as
possible to the arrival of the astronauts aboard the ship after splashdown.
This would be a private telephone call just like the one you placed to the
astronauts on Sunday, July 25, prior to their departure on the mission.
TALKING POINTS:
1. This mission demonstrates the coming of age in the exploration of
the Moon. As Col. Scott said as he set foot on the Moon: "Man
must explore and this is exploration at its greatest".
2. In addition to the dramatic activities witnessed all over the world,
the scientific achievements will greatly enhance our ability to
understand the formation not only of our own planet but of our solar
system as well. The data that was gathered on the Apollo 15 mission
exceeded the aggregate total of all data gathered on all 14 of the
earlier Apollo missions.
- 2 -
3. All Americans are proud of your achievements and are relieved
that you have returned safely.
4. Notes in a Lighter Vein:
(a)
As the lunar module, the Falcon, lifted off the
Meon, the astronauts played a tape recording of
the Air Force Song that was audible over radio
and television. You assume that the equal time
provisions will be demanded by the other Services.
(b)
Comment on the dramatic demonstration of
Gallilee's law of gravity, when Col. Scott
dropped a feather and a hammer simultaneously
and they landed on the surface of the Moon
simultaneously.
August 6, 1971
Stephen Bull
RECOMMENDED TELEPHONE CALL
TO:
John W. Rollins, Sr.
RECOMMENDED BY: Harry S. Dent and Tom Evans (Colson concurs)
PURPOSE:
To acknowledge John Rollins' participation in
the November 9 RNC Fund Raising Dinner project.
BACKGROUND:
Tom Evans of the RNC has requested that you
telephone John Rollins while he is staying at
the La Costa Country Club here in California
this week. Attempts are being made to get
Rollins to serve as Chairman of the Fund Raising
Dinner project but to date he has been reluctant
to do SO. The purpose of your call would be one
of subtle persuasion in which you would acknowledge
and express your pleasure in hearing that John
Rollins "is playing a major role in the November 9
dinner project". Tom Evans emphasizes that
the call should not be one that openly attempts
to persuade Rollins to take the job as Chairman.
TALKING POINTS:
1.
Express pleasure that Rollins will be playing
the major role in the November 9 fund raiser
which will be nationwide, linked with closed
circuit television.
2.
Note that you had hoped to visit with him
personally while you were here in San Clemente,
but that your staff had scheduled you rather
tightly.
3.
Rollins has set up polling operation in
Delaware. It's a good idea. Keep us
advised through Harry Dent.
July 15, 1971
(No letter has been sent. )
July 13, 1971
ADMINISTRATIVELY CONFIDENTIAL
MEMORANDUM FOR:
ALEX BUTTERFIELD
DWIGHT CHAPIN
FROM:
L. HIGBY
SUBJECT:
John Rollins Telephone
Call or Visit
Tom Evans of the RNC called Bob last evening to request a
phone call be made by the President to John Pollins. The
RNC is trying to get Rollins to Chair the November 9th RNC
Fund Raising Dinner project.
Rollins has indicated his interest in this, but has not
really decided to do it, indicating to Evans that "Tom
sometimes you just need to talk to the President about
things like this.
Rollins will be spending the week at the La Costa Country
Club here in California, and Evans would either like to
have the President call Rollins or prederably have Rollins
come up and see the President for five minutes.
Evans indicated that the call should not be one that
attempts to persuade Rollins that he ought to take the job,
but merely a call that says to him, "John, I understand
that you are going to be playing a major role in the November
9th Dinner project, and I want you to know how great I think
that is.
Obviously, Evans has not thought this whole thing through
completely in terms of whether the call or the visit would
be best or what should be said in either case, so you will
want to get back to him for details.
ec. Mr. Haldeman
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS PROJECT
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removal.
NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS SERVICE
NLN Form 101 (6-79)
RECOMMENDED TELEPHONE CALL
Call not
TO:
Harry S. Truman
made -
RECOMMENDED BY:
Ray Price
Telegram seat
PURPOSE:
To wish HST happy birthday on his 87th
birthday on May 8.
BACKGROUND:
HST prefers to celebrate quiet birth-
days at home with his wife, Bess. He
will not attend the big party in his
honor in Kansas City.
He has made a strong recovery from a
siege he suffered in January. Vice
President Agnew visited him in the hos. -
pital at that time. HST does have some
arthritis, and he seldom goes outside
anymore.
RN visited HST on March 21, 1969.
This March HST was visited by Earl
Warren, former Treasury Secretary
John Snyder and Averell Harriman.
TALKING POINTS:
Postmaster Blount will visit HST at
home on his birthday. Blount will be
in Independence to issue the first 8¢
stamp, which commemorates Missouri's
150 years of statehood.
March 5, 1971 was the 25th anniversary
of Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech and
a special ceremony marked by the un-
veiling of a Churchill statue, is to be
held in Fulton on May 16. Churchill was
introduced by Truman at Fulton in 1946.
NOTE: Call should be made on May 8.
MEMORANDUM FOR
THE PRESIDENT
RE:
Kelephone Call to William Allen and the Beeing Employees
March 25, 1971
4:30 P.M.
BACKGROUND
Arrangements have been made for you to speak directly to the Boeing
employees at the Wichita, Kansas, and Seattle, Washington, Beeing
Aircraft plants. This will be effected by your placing a telephone call
to Mr. William Allen, President of the Boeing Aircraft company, which
will be amplified over a leudspeaker system to the plants in the two cities.
A suggested text for your message is attached.
SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
4:28
Mr. Allen will be piped into the company loudspeakers
in the two cities and announce that be is expecting a call
from the President of the United States, and that the
President has requested that it be piped over the loud-
speaker system to all of the company workers.
4:30 p.m. P.
Bill Allen will be on the telephone.
You begin the conversation with words to the
following effect:
"Bill: Although I am telephoning calling you on the phone,
I understand that our conversation is being carried
to the workers in your two great plants in Wichita
and Seattle and I would like to share with them my
thoughts at this time."
You then proceed with the suggested text.
4:32 p.m.
Your statement concludes.
Mr. Allen will say "Thank you Mr. President".
There will be no further telephone conversation.
TELEPHONE CALL RECOMMENDATION
TO:
William Casey
RECOMMENDED BY:
William Safire
PURPOSE:
Congratulate William Casey on his confirmation
as Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission
(confirmation was by a voice vote).
TALKING POINTS:
1. Offer your congratulations on Mr. Casey's confirmation.
2. The Committee hearings were a tough fight during which some
unfair aspersions were cast upon his character. He had the
courage to withstand the glare of publicity, siink the situation
out, and ultimately viadicate himself as evidenced by his
confirmation today.
March 25, 1971
RECOMMENDED TELEPHONE CALL
TO:
Ronald Walker
Col. Verne Coffey
RECOMMENDED BY:
H. R. Haldeman
PURPOSE:
To acknowledge the outstanding advance work
down on the Whitney Young funeral.
TALKING POINTS:
1.
In a very tactful and unassuming manner, guidance was
given to the Urban League officials and members of the
Whitney Young family in making preparations for the
burial service in Lexington.
2.
Without the assistance of the advance team, the service
could not have been performed with the dignity that
ultimately was the result of their efforts.
3.
Efforts such as were demonstrated in this event are
recognized and are typical of the fine work that you
have been doing on these Presidential events.
March 17, 1971
TELEPHONE CALL
TO:
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau
This morning at appreximately 8:45 a. m. EST you attempted to
place a call to Prime Minister Trudeau but the operators were
unable to complete the telephone call. Presumably, you were
calling to congratulate the Prime Minister on his marriage about
which you read in the news summary this morning.
The Prime Minister is now aware that you attempted to call him
and we have learned through his aides that he would very much
appreciate hearing from you and is standing by awaiting your
telephone sall. His office, which has called two or three times
today, advises that 6:00 p.m. m. is as ideal time for the Prime Minister.
He is honeymeening in British Columbia, a three-hour time difference,
so it will be 3:00 p.m. his time.
March 5, 1971
ELEPHONE CALL RECOMME DATION
TO:
Gov. John Bell Williams of Mississippi
BACKGROUND:
This afternoon you declared a major disaster for the State of Mississippi
which was struck by a series of tornadoes in five mid-western counties
of the State. As of this evening the death toll has reached 73, there
have been hundreds of injuries, and there is extensive damage to public
and private property.
TALKING POINTS:
1. You are sending General Lincoln to meet with Governor Williams
tomorrow morning at 8:00 a. m. in Jackson, Mississippi.
Gen. Lincoln carries with him your extreme concern for the situation
in Mississippi.
2. As indicated in your telegram to the Governor, the Office of
Emergency Preparedness will coordinate Federal disaster assistance
efforts, the coordinating officer being a Mr. William H. Helloway.
3. You hope that the Governor will extend your despest sympathy to
those who are affected by these tragie sterms.
February 22, 1971
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&LEPHONE CALL TO APOLLO CREW
Tuesday, February 9, 1971 - 5:30 P.M. (Approx.)
After Remarks to Freedoms Foundation
BACKGROUND
At 4:01 p.m. today the crew of the Apollo 14 mission will splash down
900 miles south of Samoa in the South Pacific, thus ending a nine-day
journey that took them a quarter of a million miles to the moon and back
again. The spaceship that carried them from earth to within 60 miles of
the moon was named the Kitty Hawk, and the lunar module the Antares.
The two astronauts who were actually on the moon's surface were:
Capt. Alan B. Shepard (USN) - "Al"
Cmdr. Edgar D. Mitchell (USN) - "Ed"
Major Stuart A. Roosa (USA) ("Stu") was the astronaut who remained
aboard the Kitty Hawk orbiting the moon while the other two men were
down on the lunar surface.
After the splashdown, it will take approximately one hour for the
astronauts to be returned to the USS New Orleans, Upon their arrival
on the ship, they will then move down to the mobile quarantine facility
(MQF) where they will remove their pressurized suits, various physical
sensory devices, and probably call their wives. About one-half hour
will be required between the astronauts arrival on the ship and the time
when they could receive a telephone call from you in the MQF. When
you call, this will be a private conversation.
SUGGESTED TALKING POINTS
1. Express your pride in the personal and scientific achievements of
the Apollo 14 mission.
2. In accordance with existing policy, you may wish to mention that
Commander Edgar Mitchell will soon become Captain Mitchell, and
Major Stuart Roosa will become Lt. Colonel Roosa.
(Note: Capt. Alan Shepard will not be promoted to Admiral as a
result of this mission.)
Highlight2of Moon Landing Mission
HOUSTON, Jan. 31 Here are the
THURSDAY
on the moon. He walks around the
highlights of Apollo 14, America's
1:48 A.M.-The spaceship swings be-
lem, getting accustomed to moving in
fourth moon landing mission. Because
hind the moon and loses radio contact
the gravity-less atmosphere of the
of the 40-minute launch delay at Cape
with earth for 32 minutes. Just before,
moon.
Kennedy today, the times for Monday,
the crew gets the go-no go signal from
9:37 A.M.-Mitchell follows Shepard
Tuesday and Wednesday are approxi-
mission control in Houston, giving
out of the lem and onto the moon.
mate.
them permission to swing into orbit
They begin their first moonwalk, to
However, course corrections during
around the moon.
last four hours and to be televised in
the astronaut's long coast to the vicin-
2:01 A.M.-The Apollo 14 astronauts
color, all told. Shepard will walk about
ity of the moon are expected to make
fire their main engines in a braking
3,000 feet, Mitchell 2,500 feet. They
up the lost time in order to accomplish
maneuver for 6 minutes and 7 seconds.
will set up scientific experiments, col-
the lunar orbital maneuver at the
The craft is slowed by 2,986 feet a sec-
lect rock samples, put up an American
scheduled 2:01 Thursday, Feb. 4.
I
ond, placing Kitty Hawk in an egg-
flag and set off small explosions on the
All times are Eastern Standard.
shaped orbit around the moon that
moon's surface so scientists can study
MONDAY
ranges from 196 miles to 66 miles
the vibrations.
8:03 A.M.Pollowing a schedule that
above the lunar surface.
12:38 P.M.-Unless their moonwalk
has them working at night and sleep-
2:31 A.M.-The top part of the Sat-
is extended for another 45 minutes,
ing during the day, Apollo 14 Astro-
urn rocket smashes in the moon 258
Shepard and Mitchell return to An-
nauts Alan B. Shepard Jr., Stuart A.
miles south of the Fra Mauro landing
tares and prepare to enter it.
Roosa and Edgar D. Mitchell begin a
site to create an artificial moonquake
1:08 P.M-They reenter the lem.
10-hour sleep period.
to be measured by scientists here
After changing from their bulky moon
6:03 P.M. - They wake up, and a
4:08 A.M.-The Apollo 14 spaceship
suits and stowing and describing the
half-hour later begin eating. At this
begins its second turn around the
samples they brought back, Shepard
point they are more than 116,000 miles
moon
and Mitchell eat.
from earth, or about half the distance
6:14 A.M.-At the beginning of the
3:58 P.M.-They begin a 10-hour
to the moon.
third orbit, command module Pilot
rest period that Roosa started a few
10:29 P.M.-The astronauts fire the
Roosa fires the spaceship's main en-
minutes earlier.
main engine of their spacecraft Kitty
gines in another braking maneuver, to
SATURDAY
Hawk to put them on a course. for
slow it down by 207 feet per second
1:15 A.M.-Roosa wakes up. Shepard
their Fra Mauro landing site on the
and drop it into an orbit that ranges
and Mitchell, still on the moon, wake
moon. This course change means that
from 67 miles to about 11 miles above
up at 1:48 a.m. They eat and get ready
the moon.
for their second moonwalk.
they will no longer be able to swing
around the moon and return safely to
11:50 P.M.-With Shepard and
5:51 A.M.-Shepard steps to the
earth without firing their engines.
Mitchell at the controls, the lem An-
moon for the second time, followed by
tares undocks from the command mod-
Mitchell five minutes later. This walk
TUESDAY
ule Kitty Hawk and moves away in its
will total more than 1½ miles and will
8:23 A.M.-Now into their long coast
own orbit.
take them to the 330-foot-high cone
through space to the moon, the astro-
FRIDAY
crater, which scientists feel contains
nauts begin a 10-hour rest period.
1:09 A.M.-Roosa fires the command
rocks dating to the creation of the
WEDNESDAY
ship's máin engine for four minutes to
solar system. The astronauts will pull
1:23 A.M.-The astronauts take an
speed it up by 73 feet per second and
a rickshaw-like cart on the walk. Be
hour for dinner.
put it in an almost circular orbit, 63
cause of the distance involved, they
4:01 A.M.-If needed, the astronauts
miles by 75 miles above the moon.
will only be seen on television walking
will make a routine mid-course correc-
4:05 A.M.-Shepard and Mitchell
away from the lem and returning.
tion.
fire the lunar mòdule descent in a
9:12 A.M.-The crew returns to the
4:13 A.M.-The astronauts prepare
three-phase burn to take it out of orbit
lem site.
to inspect their lunar module Antares
and start the journey to the moon's
9:51 A.M.-Shepard and Mitchell
for the first time.
surface.
will get back in the lem. The walk may
5:08 A.M.-A 45-minute telecast be-
4:16-A.M.-Antares touches down on
be extended another 45 minutes, pro
"gins showing Mitchell entering the lem
the lunar surface, the third manned
viding the astronauts are in good phys
at 5:28 a.m., followed by Shepard five
spacecraft to do so. For the next four
ical shape and have enough oxyger
minutes later.
hours and 54 minutes, Shepard and
and water to last.
7:23 A.M.-Shepard and Mitchell re-
Mitchell inspect the lem, eat, describe
11:23 A.M.-After cleaning up the
turn to the command module.
the view from their window and get
lem cabin and throwing out-excess ma
8:23 A.M.-The crew eats, followed
ready to step on the MOON for the
terial, shepard and Mitchell eat.
by a nine-hour rest period that begins
first time.
1:47 P.M.-They ignite the ascen
at 9:23 a.m. and ends at 6:23 p.m. The
9:10 A.M.-Shepard, America's first
stage of their lunar module from the
crew eats breakfast after awakening.
man in space, steps out of the lem
moon's surface and go into an orbit 1
9:01 P.M.-A fourth mid-course
hatch and releases a color television
miles by 59 miles around the moor
correction is scheduled, if needed.
camera that will record his first steps
seven minutes later.
PRESERVATION COPY
DOCKING
LATCHES
(12)
CAPTURE
LATCHES
COMMAND
(3)
MODULE
PROBE
LM DOCKING
DROGUE
DOCKING SYSTEM
United Press International
Apollo 14 astronauts succeeded in docking their com-
Stuart Roosa said, "We're just not getting the capture
mand ship with the lunar lander, overcoming a prob-
latches for some reason." However, Roosa later pulled
lem that would have forced cancellation of their landing
back the probe used to guide the Appolo command ship
on the moon. At first when the attempted docking failed
into proper position and steered it in himself.
2:32 P.M.-Mitchell and Shepard
8:37 P.M.-Roosa fires the main en-
again with very little to do during the
speed up Antares into a 70-mile-by-51-
gines of Kitty Hawk for two minutes
day except for another course change,
mile orbit to catch up with the com-
and 27 seconds to blast out of moon
if needed, at 5:49 p.m.
mand module Kitty Hawk.
orbit and head back to earth.
11:23 P.M.-Crew begins their last
3:13 P.M.-The two spaceships sight
11:23 P.M.-The crew begins a 10-
rest period aboard the spacecraft
each other and prepare to dock.
hour rest period.
Kitty Hawk.
3:33 P.M.-With television cameras
SUNDAY
TUESDAY
relaying the rendezvous maneuvers
9:23 A.M.-They wake up partway
7:23 A.M.-The crew wakes up early
back to earth, the lunar module docks
during their long coast towards splash-
on splashdown day.
with the command ship. Mitchell and
down with nothing much to do during
12:49 P.M.-The astronauts have one
Shepard, carrying their moon samples,
the day except a. possible course
last chance to correct their course for
move from the lem into the command
correction. If needed, it will be at 1:38
landing
module.
p.m.
3:34 P.M.-The command module
5:46 P.M.-The crew jettisons the
7:53 P.M.-For their last television
separates from its service module and
lunar module, sending it crashing into
show of the mission, the Apollo 14
is turned around with, its heat shield
the moon at a spot 30 miles west of the
crew will demonstrate how the zero
pointed down for entry into the earth's
Fra Mauro landing site.
gravity of their spacecraft affects engi-
atmosphere.
7:43 P.M.-The lem hits the moon 30
neering and biological processes. The
3:47 P.M.-The command ship enters
miles west of the Fra Mauro landing
telecast will last 30 minutes.
the earth's atmosphere traveling at
site, with the impact recorded by and
11:23 P.M.-Astronauts begin 10
36,170 feet per second-almost 24,000
beamed back to earth, by seismome-
hour rest.
miles an hour.
ters at both the Apollo 12 and Apollo
MONDAY
4:01 P.M.-Splashdown, in the South
14 landing sites.
9:23 A.M.-Astronauts wake up,
Pacific, 900 miles south of Samoa.
PRESERVA
COPY
APOLLO 14 TELEPHONE CALL
BACKCROUND
The Apoilo 14 lunar crew of Capt. Alan B. Shepard (USN) and
Cmdr. Edgar D. Mitchell (USN) landed on the lunar surface at
approximately 4:16 a. m. EST this morning. Since that time
they have been making preparations for their "extra vehicular
activities" (moon walking). The other Astronaut, Major Stuart A.
Roosa, is up in the spaceship "Kitty Hawk".
The moon walking was to begin at 9:10 a. m. EST this morning but,
because of technical problems, has been delayed about 50 minutes.
Capt. Shepard stepped out on the lunar surface at approximately
9:50 and live color pictures are now being transmitted to earth.
He will be joined in approximately 25 minutes by Cmdr. Mitchell.
It is proposed that you call Mr. Donald "Deke" Slayton, Director of
Flight Crew Operations, and express to him your best wishes to the
Apollo 14 mission crew. At an appropriate time Deke Slayton will
transmit your message to the Astronauts on the lunar surface.
When he tells them of your call to him, he will be on live television.
Talking Points:
All of you at mission control, and everyone associated with Apollo 14,
ought to be very proud--and I'm sure you are. All the rest of us are
proud of you. I hope you will tell all those on the ground how proud
I am of the part they've played.
When you have an opportunity, I hope you will pass along my greetings
to the Astronauts themselves and tell them I wish them well. They've
done a great job, they are doing a great job, and they' got millions
of people down here who in their thoughts are walking with them.
Whenever I am travelling abroad, I get a special thrill out of seeing our
flag flying in other lands as a symbol of friendship and cooperation--
but even that can't quite compare with seeing it on the moon, and knowing
that it flies there in the same spirit and that it's been carried by men of
such spirit, such courage, backed by a team of such skill and dedication.
DEX TO:
LARRY HIGBY, KEY BISCAYNE, FLA.
FROM:
STEPHEN BULL
PRESIDENTIAL TELEPHONE CALL RECOMMENDATION
TO:
VICE PRESIDENT AGNEW
REASON:
The Vice President's Birthday, Monday,
November 9, 1970. (Age - 52)
SITUATION ROOM
WHITE HOUSE
deyed
70 NOV 9 PM 2:58
TALKING POINTS:
1.
Congratulate the Vice President upon his successful efforts
throughout the 1970 campaign.
2.
Comment upon the luncheon meeting he will have on Wednesday
in New York with the New York Daily News Editorial Board.
You will recall that you met with this group on Tuesday,
September 15.
3.
The Vice President will be the principal speaker at a D.C.
Republican fund-raiser on Thursday, November 12. This
dinner is in the Vice President's honor and he will be intro-
duced by Martha Mitchell. Reportedly, some surprises are
in store.
4.
November 9 marks the following anniversaries:
(a)
98th Anniversary of the Boston fire, the most
devastating in the city's history.
(b)
The 52nd Anniversary of the announcement of
abdication by Kaiser Wilhelm.
(c)
5th Anniversary of the eastern blackout.
Also, today is:
Hero Day in the Republic of Indonesia.
Youth Appreciation Week which recognizes the
great majority of young people who are leading
constructive lives in the home, school, church
and community.
DEX TO:
LARRY HIGBY, KEY BISCAYNE, FLA.
FROM:
STEPHEN BULL
PRESIDENTIAL PHONE CALL RECOMMENDATION
TO:
VICE PRESIDENT AGNEW
REASON:
The Vice President's Birthday, Monday,
November 9, 1970. (Age - 52)
TALKING POINTS:
1.
Happy Birthday To You.
2.
Happy Birthday To You.
3.
Happy Birthday, Dear Spiro. *
Option: Dear Ted
4.
Happy Birthday To You.
J
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Date: 9/8
TO: It
FROM: Dwight L. Chapin
Please handle.
Please see me.
Other:
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letter Commendation plue a
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TELEPHONE CALL RECOMMENDATION
TO:
Bill Shoemaker, Jockey
RECOMMENDED BY: Dwight L. Chapin
BACKGROUND:
Yesterday, September 7, Jockey Bill Shoemaker scored his 6, 033rd
victory at Belmont Race Track. This figure betters by one the
world record for victories set in 1966 by Johnny Longden at Santa Anita.
TALKING POINTS:
1.
Congratulate Willie Shoemaker upon his record-breaking victory.
2. Make mention that you are glad that he could attend the State Dinner
for Diaz Ordaz in San Diego.
DATE:
Sept. 8, 1970
T"LEPHONE CALL RECOMMENTATION
TO:
Mr. Vince Lombardi
RECOMMENDED BY:
John Ehrlichman
BACKGROUND
Mr. Vince Lombardi is in the hospital suffering from terminal cancer.
The pregnosis is that be has approximately one month to live. Although
the general public is unaware of this fact, Mr. Lembardi himself recog-
nises that his condition is terminal. Understandably, his condition has
affected him psychologically and he is reportedly extremely downcast.
An earlier suggestion that you pay a personal visit to Mr. Lombardi in
the hospital was rejected by his physicians because of his poor physical
and psychological state.
The switchboard line to Mr. Lombardi's room has been disconsected
to prevent incoming calls. However, the line can be made operative
for your call if prior notice is given.
TALKING POINTS
1. Vince, you came to Green Bay as a coach and left as a legend
and that is what you are new--a legendary figure in the sports
world.
2. The Lombardi team has always been more than a champion--it has
been a symbol of excellence. Your great team showed American
youngsters that hard work, discipline, and sacrifice aren't old-fashioned.
For doing this, the Nation owes you a debt of gratitude.
3. I know 1 speak for all Americans when I tell you that, for years to
come, when Americans want to describe a certain kind of brilliance,
a certain kind of excellence, all they will have to say is "It's the
Lombardi touch".
August 10, 1970
MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
August 7, 1970
MEMORANDUM FOR MR. DWIGHT CHAPIN
FROM: STANLEY H. BEAR, M.D.
SHB
We have contacted Mr. Vince Lombardi's attending physicians
and they feel it would be appropriate for him to receive a
telephone call from the President. They mentioned that
the telephone switchboard line to Mr. Lombardi's room
has been disconnected to prevent any incoming calls. If
prior arrangements are made with Dr. Coffey (625-7108)
or Dr. Meluzo (625-7243), his telephone line will be made
operative if the President desired to make a call.
MR. CHAPIN
Do you have this information
Should we prepare the telephone
sheet ?
ASK Trad
Nell
MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
JULY 31, 1970
FOR DWIGHT CHAPIN
RE:
PRESIDENTIAL TELEPHONE CALLS
Recently we received a memorandum from your
office regarding possible telephone call
suggestions for the President. Mr. Ehrlichman
feels that it would be a good idea for the
President to call Vince Lombardi. In that you
have recently received some additional information
on Mr. Lombardi's condition, I think it would be
most appropriate for your office to prepare the
talking paper for the President.
Many thanks.
Tod Hullin
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
August
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CONFIDENTIAL
MEMO TO H. R. HALDEMAN
FROM:
Mort Allin
No phone the w/c
I have been informed by an attorney with
Edward Bennett Williams that Vince
Lombardi only has a month or so to live.
If there is any interest in a Presidential
visit, this information may be of use.
CONFIDENTIAL
DETERMINED TO BE AN
ADMINISTRATIVE MARKING
E.O. 12065, Section 6-102
By mathell NARS, Date 12/17/79
MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
June 22, 1970
Monday - 11:00 a. m.
MEMORANDUM FOR MR. STEPHEN H. B. BULL
FROM:
Dwight L. Chapin
The President wishes to make some phone calls to some of the
VIPs who wired him after his economy speech. John Brown
will give you the telegrams from VIPS who did wire the President.
Will you please prepare phone call sheets from these ? You
should work through Chuck Colson to make sure that the President
are genuine VIPs and important enough to receive a Presidential
phone call.
CC:
Mr. Brown
Mr. Colson
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TELEPHONE CALL RECOMMENDATION
TO:
Flight Captain/Date Hupe (pronounced "Hasp" (rhymes with
"leep"))
RECOMMENDED BY:
D.
Chapia
BACKGROUND:
According to a telegram sent to you this merning by Mr. Charles
Ruffing. Captain Dale Hupe, the wounded pilot of the TWA Jet which
was bijacked yesterday, is as old friend of yours from World War II
days. He was a Marine Corps Captain who flow in your organization,
MA-25.
According to the latest news reports, Captain Hupe is in good condition
at Fairfax Hospital after undergoing exploratory surgery following the
sheeting on the airplane.
TALKING POINTS:
1. Tell him how pleased you are that he is recovering satisfactorily.
2. Comment upon his courage and composure under the trying
circumstances of the hijacking.
3. Make mention of your previous friendship during World War II.
June 6, 1970
May 25, 1970
FOR:
ELISKA HASEK
FROM:
STEPHEN BULL
We expect the President to call Mr. and Mrs. Bob Hope on the
26th of May on the occasion of a birthday party to be given for them
by their son Tony (see attached telephone recommendation). How-
ever, in the event that the President does not call, we have been
requested to have a telegram prepared and ready to be sent out at
a moment's notice. Would you please submit the telegram to
Dwight Chapin who will hold it until it is needed.
cc:
D. Chapin
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MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
To
May 25, 1970
Monday - 9:00 a.m.
MEMORANDUM FOR MR. H. R. HALDEMAN
FROM:
Dwight L. Chapin
RE:
Birthday Party for Mr. and Mrs. Bob Hope
Tony Hope, son of Bob Hope, called to invite the President and
Mrs. Nixon to a birthday dinner for his mother and father. on
Tuesday, May 26, at 7:00 p.m. in Malibu. He said the Bennys,
Crosbys, and Firestones would be among the thirty guests.
Do you want to check the President to see if he wishes to call
Bob tomorrow evening (probably around 10:30 or 11:00 p.m.
EDT)? If not, we will move forward in getting up an appropriate
telegram.
President will call Hopes get me a phone call sheet
Have telegram prepared in case he doesn't
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TELEPHONE CALL RECOMMENDATION
TO:
Mr. and ... Bob Hope
RECOMMENDED BY: Dwight L. Chapin
BACKGROUND:
Teny Hope is having a birthday party for bis parents, Delores and
Bob Hope, whose birthdays are on the 27th and 29th of May, res-
postively. Among the 30 people present at the party will be the
Goldwaters, the Bennys and the Creebys. Cocktails will be served
prior to diaser and the mest appropriate time for you to telephone
would be between 10:30 and 11:30 p.m. EDT, or anytime after the
Secharte dinner.
TALKING POINTS:
1. Mention that you understand that this is the first time since
Bob and Deleres have been married that a party has been given
for them.
2. Tonight both of you will blow out the candles on a birthday cake,
but nothing will extinguish the warmth that, through your mutual
efforts, has been put into the hearts of servicemen all over the
world.
3. Billy Graham and Hebe Lewis have told me you are going to help
with the 4th of July activity which is planned is Washington, D.C.
I approciate your public support of the event and I hope you can be
in Washington on the 4th.
4. The Vice President asked that I sead along to you a present that
will contribute immensurably to your lengevity -- his premise not
to play gelf with you anymere -- let alone tennis!
May 26, 1970
May 25, 1970
MEMO
TO:
BEVERLY COLE
CHIEF TELEPHONE OPERATOR
FROM:
STEPHEN BULL
Since the President is expected to be in
Key Biscayne over Memorial Day week-end,
this would be the exact same setup as we had
planned for Armed Forces Day.
May 25, 1970
MEMORANDUM FOR:
H. R. HALDEMAN
VIA:
DWIGHT L. CHAPIN
FROM:
STEPHEN BULL
The attached booklet contains the same telephone calls that were
submitted to the President for Armed Forces Day week-end.
All of the calls would be appropriate for Memorial Day and, with
the exception of the cover sheet in which "Memerial Day" has been
substituted for "Armed Forces Day", no other changes have been
made. The telephone operators still have the phone numbers and
the Press Office has the background material and is equipped to
generate publicity should the President choose to make any of
these calls.
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SUGGESTED ARMED FORCES DAY
TELEPHONE CALLS
Contained in this book are three general categories of telephone
calls that might be appropriate for you to make during Armed Forces
Day week-end. The categories are as follows:
Category I
Families of servicemen killed in Vietnam.
Category II
Letters of support for your Cambodian decision from
people who have sons serving, or who have been killed,
in Vietnam.
Category III
Miscellaneous:
1. Mother with son in Vietnam.
2. Wounded serviceman in Army Hospital.
3. Mother of three servicemen.
The first section of this book is an index of each call, by category.
The background material relating to each call is located at the tab
designated in the index. The information includes a retyped copy
of the letter that was written to you and, where applicable, your
written response. The White House switchboard has the telephone
numbers for each call recipient on hand and will be prepared to
place the call upon your request.
Jeve May 20,
FOR:
WILLIAM TIMMONS
FROM:
STEPHEN BULL
Cynent/c 1970
RE:
Suggested Telephone Call by the President
to Senator McClellan
Yesterday you sent over to the President a suggested telephone call
to Senator McClellan. The basis of this call was a transcript of the
interview on the Today Show with Senator McClellan and Senator Cooper.
Dwight asked that I redo this telephone recommendation and return it
to you for two purposes:
1. For your approval.
2. As an example of the format which is most likely to result in the
President making the phone call.
Although it may be helpful for the President to have the total transcript
of the interview, we have to recognise that he has neither the time nor
the inclination to read through it in its entirety. Consequently, it is
necessary that we summarise for him, like I did in the background,
and list these salient points which he can use as information and
talking points.
If the telephone recommendation that 1 prepared is satisfactory, please
initial it and return it so that it can be submitted to the President.
Thank you.
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TELEPHONE CALL RECOMMENDATION
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Senator John McClellan
RECOMMENDED BY:
William E. Timmons
PURPOSE:
To commend Senator McClellan on his superb performance
on the Today Show where he appeared with Senator Cooper
on Tuesday, May 19.
BACKGROUND
Senators Cooper and McClellan appeared on the Today Show and participated
in a discussion of the Cooper-Church Amendment. Senator McClellan
clearly deminated the interview and made the following significant points
in opposition to the Amendment:
1.
The Amendment implies distruct and lack of confidence in the
President and would amount to an official consure.
2. The President is Constitutionally obligated to protect the U.S. treeps.
You are recognising this obligation by destroying these sanctuaries
contiguous to the battlefield and pesing a real threat to U.S. treeps
as they withdraw according to your planned program of disengagement.
You should be applauded rather than condemned for your actions.
3. In view of the existance of the Toakin Gulf Resolution you were acting
with the consent and approval of the Congress.
TALKING POINTS
1. Commend Senator McClellan on his defense of the Presidency
and your position.
2. Express appreciation for his recognition that this entire matter
is non-partisan in nature.
3. You might note that you are aware that, over a year ago, Senator
McClellan recommended Judge Blackmus for appointment to the
Supreme Court.
May 20, 1970
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
May 19, 1970
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
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From: William E. Timmons
Attached is the transcript from The Today Show, Tuesday,
May 19. It is an interview with Senators John Sherman
Cooper and John McClellan.
McClellan gives a superb defense of your powers and
the Cambodian operations. Believing McClellan
deserves a pat on the back, I recommend you consider
telephoning him to express your appreciation for his
remarks. He would be grateful for the recognition
and it would fortify the Senator to continue the
battle.
Also worth noting is Senator Cooper's acknowledgement
that the President "has the Constitutional power to
protect our troops wherever they are. "
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SENATORS COOPER AND McCLELLAN INTERVIEWED
HUGH DOWNS: The Senate is considering several resolutions
to put limits on the President's freedom to engage in military
operations in Southeast Asia. The first one to be voted on will
be the Cooper-Church Amendment, sponsored by Republican Senator
John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky and Democratic Senator Frank Church
of Idaho.
We've asked two senators this morning to discuss that
amendment, which would deny funds for any American operations in
Cambodia after June the thirtieth. In favor of it, its co-sponsor,
Senator Cooper of Kentucky; and opposed to it, Senator John McClellan
of Arkansas.
They're in our Washington studio now with "Today" Washington
editor, Bill Monroe.
Gentlemen.
BILL MONROE: Thank you, Hugh.
Senator Cooper, exactly what does your amendment do, and
why do you feel it's needed?
SENATOR JOHN SHERMAN COOPER (R-Ky.): The amendment is
designed to prevent the engagement of the United States in a war
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in Cambodia for the Cambodian government, and also to prevent
the expansion of the Vietnamese War into Cambodia. That's its
purpose.
And we accomplish that purpose, if it's accepted, by denying
funds to keep our forces longer in Cambodia and prevent any funds
from being used to engage us in a new war in Cambodia. We think
we have that constitutional authority because this could become
a new war. And in a new war, the President should come to the
Congress for its consent. We have no obligation at all to defend
Cambodia.
MONROE: Senator McClellan, what is your basic objection
to the Cooper-Church Amendment?
SENATOR JOHN McCLELLAN (D-Ark.): Well, first, let me
say that any comment I make is in due deference to the sponsors
and to anyone who is supporting this amendment. I do not question
their good faith, their integrity, or what they think is their
objective.
But I simply think that the President of our country deserves
better treatment and greater respect than to have inflicted upon
him the public rebuke and implications that I think are clearly
implicit in this amendment. The implication that it is premised
in large measure on distrust and conveys a lack of confidence
in the President of the United States as our commander-in-chief,
I think, 1s inescapable and irrefutable.
And I also think that to adopt this resolution in view
of the timing of it and the climate of circumstances in which
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it is being offered would be tantamount to an official censure
of the President of the United States by the United States Senate.
And I think that its enactment would be so interpreted, not only
by the enemy, but by many other governments throughout the world.
MONROE: Senator Cooper.
SENATOR COOPER: Again, I respect the motives and intention
of my good friend, Senator McClellan. May I say our sponsors
are not only Senator Church and myself, but Senator Aiken, the
ranking Republican, and Senator Mansfield, the Majority Leader.
I would take an opposite viewpoint from Senator McClellan.
In fact, our amendment goes along with what the President has
said. He said we'll have all our forces out by July 1st. He
has said I do not intend to engage in a new war in Cambodia.
He said I intend to get out of Vietnam, and he has a program for
that. And we support all of those proposals OF his.
We have not attempted to tell him what he can do except
what he has agreed upon. But we have relied upon our own constitu-
tional authority -- and we have that authority, no matter what
the President has -- to keep this country out of a new war in
Cambodia.
I'll mention one other thing. There's been a complaint
that we infringe on his powers, or limit his powers, to protect
the troops. I would say the President of the United States has
the constitutional power to protect our troops wherever they are.
What we're saying: you should not use that constitutional power
to protect the troops to engage US in a new war, which instead
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of protecting our, troops would place them in greater danger.
MONROE: Senator McClellan, what about the status of the
Church-Cooper Amendment as simply requiring to be done what the
President has said he would do?
SENATOR McCLELLAN: I think that emphasizes what I just
said: the distrust and the lack of confidence in the President.
And I don't think he deserves that treatment.
I think he's kept his word. He has reduced the personnel,
our troops, in Vietnam in the fifteen, sixteen months he's been
in office. He has reduced them by twenty-one percent. He has
reduced the casualties thirty-seven percent. He has promised,
and I believe 11 keep his promise.
This challenges his promise as being truthful and trustworth
I believe he'll keep his promise to bring another hundred and
fifty thousand out by this time next year or before.
I just can't see it. And with respect to these sanctuaries:
when you establish, or attempt to establish, a sanctuary contiguous
to the battlefield, it must become a target 17 we're going to
protect our troops. And I commend the President highly for having
taken the action he has, because it has been successful in the
capture of equipment and in disrupting the operations of the enemy.
And to that extent, it saved many, many American lives.
MONROE: Senator Cooper, is there a rebuke to the President,
an expression of lack of trust in your amendment?
SENATOR COOPER: Well, I would have to be very honest.
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I suppose any amendment or resolution that's adopted could be
considered by some as a challenge to the President.
But we've been very careful to direct this amendment to
the powers of the Congress, not attempt to challengé the President's
powers except to say, which we have the right to say, you can't
engage in a new war without the consent of the Congress.
And I've supported President Nixon's Vietnamization program.
And I agree he's reversed the policies of the past administration.
He's getting us out of war. I don't see anything wrong in our
country, in the Congress taking a step to insure that we are coming
out of war. That's a matter which is troubling the American people
and troubles all of us, and troubles President Nixon.
MONROE: Senator McClellan, what about this amendment
as an assertion of the Senate's right to have a say in these matters?
SENATOR McCLELLAN: It has a right to-say so. But it
can't abrogate the power of the President under the Constitution
to protect American troops as commander-in-chief. And that's
what he's doing.
I don't want to see -- we're retreating. You can use
other words that will be a little kinder. But actually, we're
retreating -- or call it disengaging -- our forces from Vietnam.
Hell as we retreat, I don't want another Dunkirk to happen to
our troops as they come out. And that's what this ammunition,
and that's what these supplies and these sanctuaries are there
for -- for that purpose, SO that they can win a decisive victory
as we depart.
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And I just don't want to see our troops slaughtered.
And, again, I think it will help. I think it will help to prevent
a wholesale massacre of South Vietnamese by getting this equipment
out of there.
MONROE: Senator McClellan and Senator Cooper, we will.
continue our interview in just a moment.
Right now, back to Hugh in New York.
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MONROE: We're talking with Senators Cooper of Kentucky
and McClellan of Arkansas.
Senator Cooper, is there some possibility that a compromise
might be reached between your position, the position of you and
Senator Church, and the position of the Administration?
SENATOR COOPER: I would think SO. And that would bring
into question what Senator McClellan has just said.
Yes, if the Administration would s'ay that we are proposing
what it has proposed -- that is, the withdrawal of troops from
Cambodia by July 1st, that we're not going into war in Cambodia
(and the President has said that) - - that there's the possibility
of compromise.
And that's why I come to this point of protecting our
troops. We don't challenge that. The President's got that power.
We could put in our amendment, if they would prefer, that -- we
can't give the President that power; he has it -- but we could
say that, of course, he has the power to protect our troops as
we withdraw from Cambodia.
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Now that would fit the statements of both, the purposes
of both. And as far as it becoming a challenge to the President
in trying to condemn, which we're not trying to do, I think it
could bring the President's office, the Executive and the Congress
into harmony.
And that's what you have to do in many of these cases.
You can't stake out exactly the constitutional position. But
when you come into a crush or a clash, both sides have to accommodate
themselves. And I think it would be good for the President, the
Congress, and the country.
MONROE: Senator McClellan, do you see a possibility of
a compromise?
SENATOR McLELLAN: Well, I'm not in the councils either
of the opposition -- either the sponsors or the administration.
I really do not know.
But since it is conceded that the President has the power
to protect our troops, I insist that the action in Cambodia, the
invasion into these sanctuaries and destroying their potential
there to make war, is not only a protection OF the troops: but
the commander-in-chief would be derelict in meeting his responsibi-
lity if he didn't undertake to destroy them in veiw of their conti-
guity to the battlefield.
And I think he should be applauded and not condemned.
He has said that he doesn't want a war. I don't think he wants
a war. Who can say the President wants a war in Cambodia? My,
my, my. We're trying to get out; he's trying to get out. He's
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demonstrated that.
And the compromise: I don't know what can be done. But
I don't think you can take away from the President that power;
and I think 11 exercise it. I hope he will in trying to get
our troops out, that he'll fully protect them.
MONROE: Senator Cooper, is there an element in this amend-
ment that says in effect that the President really had no business
going into Cambodia in the first place?
SENATOR COOPER: I would not say 50 as far as the terms
run. We haven't sanctioned it by the terms of the amendment;
we have not condemned it.
I would agree that the President has authority to clean
out sanctuaries, to protect the troops. If we look at this operation
as a purely military operation without its being in Indochina,
it probably would be a classic military operation. But you have
to consider the fact, the political fact, that if you move these
sanctuaries with a new flank, you have to get the next sanctuary.
You can move all the way into China (?). And we shouldn't do
that. We should get out.
MONROE: Senator McClellan, do you feel that to some extent
this is a division between those who are critical of the whole
Cambodia operation and perhaps the whole Vietnamese operation?
SENATOR McCLELLAN: If we didn't move into Cambodia (?),
we wouldn't have this resolution. That's the purpose of it.
It objects to it. It's an official objection, an affirmative
action objecting to what the President's done to protect our troops,
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as I see it. I don't see how you can construe it in any other
way.
He has already captured enough ammunition over there to
kill every American soldier in Vietnam twenty times over. Now,
that can't be shot at (sic).
MONROE: In connection with this -- the resolution as
an assertion of the Senate's right to have a say in foreign affairs --
do you have a feeling the President should have consulted the
Senate before going into Cambodia?
SENATOR McCLELLAN: For the first thing - - the first thing,
let us not forget that we have the Tonkin Resolution which authorized
the President to take the very action he's taken. And until that
is repealed, the President was acting with the consent and approval
of the Congress.
MONROE: Do you agree with that, Senator Cooper?
SENATOR COOPER: The President had previously told the
Foreign Relations Committee through Secretary Rogers that they
didn't rely on the Tonkin Bay Resolution at all and they were
perfectly willing to have it repealed. That was about a month
before this action was taken.
I think he took this action, as he said, upon the proposition
of protecting the troops.
What we're just simply saying, don't use this to go in
and stay in Cambodia and to get involved in a new war without
coming to Congress. It's simple. I think that It would meet
the purposes the President expressed. It would assure the country
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that the Congress has a parallel responsibility and is using it.
And that's what we're trying to do.
MONROE: I believe we have a question from Hugh in New
York.
DOWNS: Yes, Bill.
I'd like to ask Senator McClellan, suppose that one day
we had a president in office less wise than President Nixon.
Would you advocate any restraints on the discretionary powers
of a president as commander-in-chief?
SENATOR McCLELLAN: Well, the constitutional restraints
that are already there. He cannot declare war. And the Congress
can. It has the power to withhold funds.
But in this critical situation -- in this critical situation
when the President's doing everything he can to get us out --
what the opposition says it wants; what the sponsors of these
resolutions and amendments say they want --' when he's doing everything
and he's demonstrated that he's keeping his word, he ought to
have our support and our sympathy, and not our condemnation.
MONROE: Senator Cooper, where does the President's (sic)
right to declare war fit into this situation?
SENATOR COOPER: The President hasn't any power to declare
war. He has по power
MONROE: Congress. Congress's right.
SENATOR COOPER:
per se to involve us in war. He
has such powers as commander-in-chief. In truth, he takes actions
which bring us into war.
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That's the very thing that we're trying to avoid: such
action that would involve in us in a new war. That infringes
on the constitutional power of the Congress. We're simply trying
to assert that. It's not only good for the assertion of the congres-
sional power; it's good to help the President to get out of Vietnam
and to end this war in Vietnam.
MONROE: Thank, you very much, Senator John Sherman Cooper
OF Kentucky, Senator John McClellan of Arkansas.
Now, back to Hugh in New York.
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May 12, 1970
FOR:
BEVERLY COLE
CHIEF TELEPHONE OPERATOR
FROM:
STEPHEN BULL
Over Armed Forces Day week-end the President is planning on making
a number of telephone calls, mainly to families of servicemen who have
been killed or wounded in Vietnam. Following is a list of the names
and addresses of the people we expect him to call:
Mrs. Sally Hardes, 560 North Kingsley Drive, Los Angeles, Calif.
Mr. and Mrs. Themas B. Bewley, 80 Oakleigh Drive, Brunswick, Ohio
Mr. and Mrs. Heary T. Crosby, 1250 Arnold Ave., Greenville, Miss.
Mrs. Ronald A. Neubauer, 14325 S.W. 288 St., Leisure City, Fla.
Mr. E. R. Godsey, 703 North 9th St., Humboldt, Kansas
Mrs. Mildred C. Gero, 560 E. Providencia Ave., Burbank, Calif.
Mrs. Emily J. Savage, 6050 East 10th St., Indianapolis, Indiana
Mrs. Sally Ward, 25 W 215 Fairmeadow, Naperville, Illinois
Mrs. David Ruffner, 4718 Falcon Street, Rockville, Maryland
Mrs. Marilynn Liddell, 1111 Parkwood Ave., Park Ridge, Illinois
Mr. Paul L. Dowd, 215 Manhasset Woods Rd., Manhasset, N. Y.
Mrs. Ann S. Russell, 8540 Mt. Zephyr Dr., Alexandris, Virginia
Mr. Benjamin Hagan, Mandeville, Louisiana 626-7236
Mrs. Roe M. Powell, 860 Gainsborough Dr., Pasadena, California
Mrs. John J. McGrath, 23 Lincoln Court, Rockville Centre, N. Y.
Mrs. Lois Webb, 1003 W. Norberry, Lancaster, California
Mrs. Stella Vacar Lacusky, New Read - Box 29, North Jackson, Ohio
Lt. Timothy P. O'Conner, Orthopedic Ward, Brooke Army Medical
Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas
Mrs. Jane D. King. 201 Ridge Road, North Arlington, N.J.
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I would suggest that you begin immediately to obtain the telephone
numbers so that the calls may be put through expeditiously. When
the President is given the list of suggested calls on Thursday, he
will be advised that "the White House switchbeard has the telephone
numbers for each call recipient and will be prepared to place the
call upon your request". Since I enjoy working here, I hope that
events of this week-end will prove that statement to be true.
It is requested that you supply the Signal Beard in Key Biscayne with
the names and telephone numbers in the event that the President
should place these calls from Key Biscayne.
If there are any problems, please let me know.
Thank you.
May 12, 1970
FOR:
BEVERLY COLE
CHIEF TELEPHONE OPERATOR
FROM:
STEPHEN BULL
Over Armed Forces Day week-and the President is planning on making
a number of telephone calls, mainly to families of servicemen who have
been killed or wounded in Vistnam. Following is a list of the names
and addresses of the people we expect him to calls
Mrs. Sally Hardes, 560 North Kingsley Drive, Les Angeles, Calif.
Mr. and Mrs. Themas B. Bowley, so Oakleigh Drive, Branswick, Ohio
Mr. and Mrs. Menry T. Creaby, 1250 Arneld Ave., Greenville, Miss.
Mrs. Renald A. Newbauer, 14325 S.W. 288 St., Leisure City, Fla.
Mr. E. R. Godsey, 703 North 9th St., Humboldt, Kansas
Mrs. Mildred c. Gere, 560 E. Providencia Ave., Burbank, Calif.
Mrs. Emily J. Savage, 6050 East 10th St., Indianapolis, Indiana
Mrs. Sally Ward, 25 W 215 Fairmeadow, Maperville, Illinois
Mrs. David Ruffner, 4718 Falcom Street, Reckville, Maryland
Mrs. Marilynn Liddell, 1111 Parkwood Ave., Park Ridge, Illinois
Mr. Paul L. Dowd, 215 Manhaseet Woods Rd., Manhasset, N. Y.
Mrs. Ass S. Russell, 8540 Mt. Zephyr Dr., Alexandria, Virginia
Mr. Benjamin Hagan, Mandoville, Louisiana 626-7236
Mrs. Roo M. Pewell, 860 Guinsborough Dr., Pasadena, California
Mrs. John J. McGrath, 23 Lincoln Court, Reckville Centre, M. Y.
Mrs. Leis Webb, 1093 W. Norberry, Laneaster, California
Mrs. Stella Vacar Laeusky, New Road - Box 29, North Jackson, Ohio
Lt. Timethy P. O'Couner, Orthopedic Ward, Brooke Army Medical
Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas
Mrs. Jame D. King, 201 Ridge Read, North Arlington, N.J.
I would suggest that you begin immediately to obtain the telephone
members so that the calls may be put through expeditionsly. When
the President is given the list of suggested calls on Thursday, he
will be advised that "the White House switchboard has the telephone
numbers for each call recipient and will be prepared to place the
call upon your request". Since I enjoy working here, I hope that
events of this week-end will prove that statement to be true.
It is requested that you supply the Signal Board in Key Biscayne with
the names and telephone members in the event that the President
should place those calls from Key Biscayne.
If there are any problems, please let me know.
Thank you.
TELEPHONE CALL
(To nade on May
TO:
President Harry Trumas
Call made 5/8/70
PURPOSE: To congratulate him on his 86th Birthday.
BACKGROUND:
You visited President Truman on March 21, 1969 and presented him
with the old White House plane,
Mr. Truman was been on May 8, 1884 in Lamar, Missouri.
He has previously celebrated his birthday in interesting ways:
a.
1945 - 61st Birthday # 4 weeks after becoming President
he announced the end of the war in Europe (VE Day).
is
1966 - soth Birthday . addressed a regular session of the
U.S. Senate.
TALKING POINTS:
1. If you were in Independence, Missouri, you would play "Happy
Birthday" for him on the plano you presented to him last year.
2. Give recognition to President Truman's reputation as a man who
made tough decisions even when is meant public criticism.
The sign that used to sit on Mr. Truman's desk - "The back stops
here" - and the other phrase for which he was known - "If you
can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen" - are particularly
meaningful to you now. His philosophy has been a source of
encouragement to you during this past week.
NOTE:
The Dester's office reports that Mr. Truman is in good
health and his spirite are high.
May 7. 1970
(Huebner) JK
May 6, 1970
Suggested Talking Points for Truman Phone Call
1. It was just thirteen and a half months ago (on March 21, 1969) that
President Nixon called on President Truman in Independence, Missouri
and presented him with the old White House piano. Comment: "If I
were there, I'd sit down and play Happy Birthday on the piano we pre-
sented to you last year. 11
2. Piano-oriented comments: e.g., "I'm enjoying the job -- but I
don't get much time for piano playing. Is that how you found it? 11
3. Truman -- now 86 -- was born at 4:00 p.m., May 8, 1884, in
Lamar, Missouri.
4. Truman has celebrated past birthdays in some interesting ways.
On his 61st birthday in 1945, just four weeks after he became Presi-
dent, he addressed the nation to announce the end of the war in Europe
(V-E Day). "Isn't that some birthday present? 11 he wrote to his mother
and sister. It was only the night before that the Trumans had moved
from Blair House to the White House. Possible comment: "I guess
the end of a long war is the nicest birthday present a President could
get. 11
5. On his 80th birthday in 1964, Truman became the first former
Chief Executive to address a regular session of the U. S. Senate.
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6. This is also the anniversary of the Nixons' visit to Lima, Peru
in 1958.
7. Truman was a man who made tough decisions even when it meant
public criticism. The sign on his desk read: "The buck stops here. "
And -- of course - - he is known for the phrase: "If you can't stand
the heat, get out of the kitchen. " Comment: "I know what you meant
by that comment - - - and your example is a source of encouragement
to me. 11
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TELEPHONE CALL
Call not made.
Orig. to C.F.
TO:
Governor Warren Knowles of Wisconsin
PURPOSE:
To thank him for his support of your Cambodia speech.
(Text of the telegram containing his public statement
is attached.)
His statement made the following points:
1. Your decisive decision calculated to assist in U.S. withdrawal
and is in best interests of country.
2.
President deserving of the opportunity to demenstrate the wisdom
of his decision without "devisive eritisism from these who de not
bear the burden of responsibility".
DATE: May 5, 1970
TEXT OF TELEG M TO PRESIDENT FROM WALLEN P. KNOWLES,
GOVERNOR OF WISCONSIN, MAY 1, 1970
I HAVE TODAY ISSUED THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT CONCERNING
THE PRESIDENT'S DECISION REGARDING CAMBODIA AND THE
VIETNAM WAR:
PRESIDENT NIXON, AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, HAS FACED THE
MOST CRITICAL AND DIFFICULT DECISION OF HIS LIFE. BASED
UPON HIS OWN JUDGMENT AND THE RESOURCES OF THE SECRE-
TARIES OF THE THREE MILITARY SERVICES, THE SECRETARY OF
STATE, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, AND EXPERTS THROUGHOUT
THE U.S. FOREIGN SERVICE, HE HAS RESPONDED TO THE ISSUE
WITH DECISIVE ACTION.
THE PRESIDENT MADE CLEAR THAT THIS DECISION IS CALCULATED
TO ASSIST IN REMOVING THE 400, AMERICANS WHO ARE STILL IN
VIETNAM AND 15 NOT INTENDED TO EXPAND OR PROLONG U.S.
INVOLVEMENT IN SOUTHEAST ASIA. IT IS OBVIOUS THAT THE
PRESIDENT EXAMINED THE ALTERNATIVES AVAILABLE TO HIM
AND CHOSE THE COURSE OF ACTION HE IS CONVINGED IS IN THE
LONG-RANGE BEST INTEREST OF OUR NATION AND OF THE CAUSE
OF PEACE.
PRESIDENT NIXON AND OUR SERVICEMEN ON THE FIRING-LINE
DESERVE THE UNITED SUPPORT AND PRAYERS OF ALL AMERICANS.
PRESIDENT NIXON SHOULD BE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO
DEMONSTRATE THE WISDOM OF HIS DECISION WITHOUT DIVISIVE
CRITICISM FROM THOSE WHO DO NOT BEAR THE BURDEN OF
RESPONSIBILITY. I AM APPALLED BY THOSE INDIVIDUALS NOT
HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE RESULTS, WHO NEVERTHELESS
RUSH IN SELF-SERVING FASHION TO MAKE IRRESPONSIBLE ATTACKS
ON THE PRESIDENT. I BELIEVE THAT WHEN CITIZENS, OPERATING
UNDER DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES GIVE A MAN THE RESPONSIBILITY
FOR EXECUTIVE DECISION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, THOSE CITIZENS
SHOULD STAND BY HIM IN TIMES OF DIFFICULTY AND DANGER.
I BELIEVE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WILL STAND BY PRESIDENT NIXON
AND WILL GIVE HIM THE CHANGE TO SUCCEED.
TELEPHONE CALL
To:
The Apolle 13 Astromate:
2:00 P.M. EST (Appreximate)
Capt. James Lovell
Mr. Fred Haise
Mr. John Swigert
BACKGROUND
After the splashdown of the Astremants, which is expected to be at
approximately 1:00 p.m., EST, they will be carried by helicopter
to the recevery ship, the Iwo Jima. After the Astrenauts have gone
below deek and spoken with their families, a call will be placed from
you to the Astremauts. On behalf of the Nation you will welcome the
Astronants back (suggested talking points are attached).
In addition, you may wish to make the following points:
1.
You are inviting their families to join you in Houston on Saturday
morning to pay tribute to the men and whenen of NASA who have
contributed be much and who have been se instrumental in the
safe return of our three Astremants.
2.
Upon the completion of the ceremenies, Mrs. Levell and Mrs. Haise
will join you and Mrs. Nixen in flying to Henolulu to give the
Astrenants an official welcome home.
Friday, april , 1970
TELEPHONE CALLS TO FAMILIES OF ASTRONAUTS
Mrs. James Lovell (Marilyn)
Mrs. Fred Haise (Mary)
Dr. and Mrs. J. Leonard Swigert (Parents)
After it has been determined that the Astronauts have returned safely,
you will place calls to the wives of the two married Astronauts and the
parents of the one bachelor. Attached are some suggested talking points
prepared by Jim Keogh. Additionally, following is some personal
information relating to each of the families.
Capt. James Lovell
Wife: Marilyn - 4 Children: Barbara (16), James (15),
Susan (11), Jeffrey (4)
Capt. Jim Lovell flew on Apollo 8 with Frank Borman and Bill Anders.
Fred Haise
Wife: Mary - 3 Children: Mary (14), Frederick (11), Stephen (8)
Expecting fourth child in June.
Fred Haise is an ex NASA test pilot. No previous flights but was on
the backup crew for Apollo 8 and Apollo 11.
John Leonard Swigert
Parents: Dr. and Mrs. J. Leonard Swigert (Denver, Colorado).
Bachelor.
It is reported that Mrs. Swigert took the entire experience very hard.
Jack Swigert has no previous space flight experience. He graduated from
University of Colorado in 1953 and was Captain of '52-'53 - Football Team.
He will be piloting the spacecraft during reentry and splashdown.
(Safire) JK
April 17, 1970
Suggested Remarks for 'Phone Call to Astronauts Wives
We've just seen what the quiet courage of your husbands can
mean in a crisis; but your own quiet courage was an example to every
woman in the world.
The strain on everyone was enormous - - but the strain on you was
the greatest of all.
I want you to know how proud your husbands have made us all feel,
and your own faith and confidence was a source of strength to everyone.
CONVERSATIONAL OPENERS
Well, you're going to see your husbands a lot sooner than was
planned -- that's one plus in the situation, isn't it?
I hope you have the heat turned up in the house
Did your husband prepare you, over the years, for the possibility
of moments like these past few days
SIGN OFF: The nation is grateful to your husband, and we're especially
proud of his judgment in the selection of a partner. Your reaction was in-
spiring, and all of this shows what courage and training -- and a lot of
silent prayers -- can do. We'll be seeing you soon.
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(Safire) JK
April 17, 1970
Suggested Remarks for 'Phone Call to Astronauts Wives
We've just seen what the quiet courage of your husbands can
mean in a crisis; but your own quiet courage was an example to every
woman in the world.
The strain on everyone was enormous -- but the strain on you was
the greatest of all.
I want you to know how proud your husbands have made us all feel,
and your own faith and confidence was a source of strength to everyone.
CONVERSATIONAL OPENERS
Well, you're going to see your husbands a lot sooner than was
planned - - that's one plus in the situation, isn't it?
I hope you have the heat turned up in the house
Did your husband prepare you, over the years, for the possibility
of moments like these past few days
SIGN OFF: The nation is grateful to your husband, and we're especially
proud of his judgment in the selection of a partner. Your reaction was in-
spiring, and all of this shows what courage and training -- and a lot of
silent prayers -- can do. We'll be seeing you soon.
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TELEPHONE CALLS TO FAMILIES or ASTRONAUTS
Mrs. James Lovell (Marilyn)
Mrs. Fred Naise (Mary)
Dr. and Mrs. J. Leonard Swigert (Parents)
After it has been determined that the Astronauts have returned safely,
you will place calls to the wives of the two married Astronants and the
parents of the one bachelor. Attached are some suggested talking points
prepared by Jim Keegh, Additionally, following is some personal
information relating to each of the families.
Capt. James Levell
Wife: Marilyn - 4 Children: Barbara (16), James (15),
Susan (11), Jeffrey (4)
Capt. Jim Levell flow on Apollo 8 with Frank Borman and Bill Anders.
Fred Haise
Wife: Mary . 3 Children: Mary (14), Frederick (11), Stephen (8)
Expecting fearth child in June.
Fred Halse is an on NASA test pilet. No previous flights but was on
the backup crew for Apelle 8 and Apello 11.
John Leonard Swigert
Parents: Dr. and Mrs. J. Leanard Swigert (Deaver, Colorado).
Bacheler.
It is reported that Mrs. Swigert took the entire experience very hard.
Jack Swigert has ao previous space flight experience, He graduated from
University of Colorado in 1953 and was Captain of '52-'53 Feetball Team.
He will be piloting the spacecraft during reentry and splashdown.
Apollo 13 Crew Notes
Commander: Captain James Lovell, USN. (42)
"Jim", or more intimately "Shakey", flew on Gemini 7 and 12,
and Apollo 8, man's first flight to the moon, with Frank Borman
(retiring from USAF/NASA in June) and Bill Anders (Executive Secretary
of the National Aeronautics and Space Council). Holds spaceflight time
record of 572 hours.
Wife: Marilyn. Four children.
Interested in navigation and sailing. Special Consultant to the
President for physical fitness. Will make lunar landing into rough
Fra Mauro region of moon. Might be jokingly cautioned not to
"cage the platform" (lock the inertial guidance system) as he
inadvertently did on Apollo 8.
Command Module Pilot (from Back Up Crew): Mr. John Swigert. (38)
"Jack". No previous spaceflight. Replaced Mattingly. Bachelor.
Friendly, social. Enjoys sports and hunting. Captain of 1952 University
of Colorado football team. Of German extraction. Will be alone in
lunar orbit while Lovell and Haise are on lunar surface. Will also "fly"
spacecraft during reentry.
Lunar Module Pilot: Fred Haise (pronounced Haze). (36)
"Fred" or "Fredo". No previous flight, backup Apollo 8 and 11.
Ex-NASA test pilot. Wife: "Mary" - expecting in June; 3 children.
Enjoys flying and camping with family. Will be making detailed
geologic observations on lunar surface.
Replaced Command Module Pilot: LCDR Kenneth Mattingly. (34)
"Ken". Bachelor. No previous flight. Backup for Apollo 11.
Intense, hard working. Not many outside interests since heavily
motivated to training for flight. Did fine work in design and man-testing
of PLSS (Portable Life Support System) - lunar surface back pack. Will
most likely recycle to later Apollo flight with CDR John Young and
Lt. Col. Charles Duke, who feels very bad about exposing Mattingly to
measles.
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Miscellaneous Spacecraft Call Signs:
Command Module
Lunar Module
Lift Off: Saturday - 2:13 p.m.
Landing: Wednesday - 9:55 p.m.
1st Lunar Exploration: Thursday - 2:29 a.m.
Splashdown: Pacific - Tuesday (21st) - 3:17 p.m.
Quarantine for 18 days.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE COUNCIL
WASHINGTON 20502
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
April 10, 1970
MEMORANDUM FOR
Mr. Stephen Bull
Subject: President's Call to Apollo 13 Crew
The NASA has made the difficult decision to launch Apollo 13 as
scheduled, Saturday P. M. This has required substituting Backup
Command Module Pilot, Mr. John Swigert, for prime crewman,
LCDR Kenneth Mattingly, USN. Mattingly was found to have no
immunity to German measles after having been exposed by Lt.
Col. Charles Duke, Backup Lunar Module Pilot.
The FRG has shown great interest in participating with us in the
development of our future manned space shuttle. This reusable
vehicle would greatly reduce the cost of space operations. This
cooperation would be a natural evolvement of our present arrange-
ments on the Highly Elliptical Orbiting Satellite (HEOS) to be built
by the FRG and launched by the U. S. On this basis, it may not
be inappropriate for Mr. Brandt to wish the Apollo 13 crew well
as representatives of all men from the planet Earth.
I have discussed the timing of the President's call with Colonel
Thomas Stafford, Chief of the Astronaut Office. He presently can
see no pre-launch schedule conflicts for the 1945-2045 period,
though the training requirements to develop the vital teamwork
required among the reconstituted prime crew has become most
critical. I recommend you plan for the above time, and I will
continue to keep you advised of developments.
I am attaching some food for thought for the President's call. More
detailed information can be found in the official NASA biographies
(attached). I have included information on Mattingly should it be
considered appropriate to pass him condolences.
6'ill
William A. Anders
Time 1945-2015 (7:45-8:15)
A/C 305 - 867-5099
NASA COOD. - COL STAFFORD
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Apollo 13 Crew Notes
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Commander: Captain James Lovell, USN. (42)
"Jim", or more intimately "Shakey", flew on Gemini 7 and 12,
and Apollo 8, man's first flight to the moon, with Frank Borman
(retiring from USAF/NASA in June) and Bill Anders (Executive Secretary
of the National Aeronautics and Space Council). Holds spaceflight time
record of 572 hours.
Wife: Marilyn. Four children.
Interested in navigation and sailing. Special Consultant to the
President for physical fitness. Will make lunar landing into rough
Frau Maro region of moon. Might be jokingly cautioned not to
"cage the platform" (lock the inertial guidance system) as he
inadvertently did on Apollo 8.
Command Module Pilot (from Back Up Crew): Mr. John Swigert. (38)
"Jack". No previous spaceflight. Replaced Mattingly. Bachelor.
Friendly, social. Enjoys sports and hunting. Captain of 1952 University
of California football team. Of German extraction. Will be alone in
lunar orbit while Lovell and Haise are on lunar surface. Will also "fly"
spacecraft during reentry.
Lunar Module Pilot: Fred Haise (pronounced Haze). (36)
"Fred" or "Fredo". No previous flight, backup Apollo 8 and 11.
Ex-NASA test pilot. Wife: "Mary" - expecting in June; 3 children.
Enjoys flying and camping with family. Will be making detailed
geologic observations on lunar surface.
Replaced Command Module Pilot: LCDR Kenneth Mattingly. (34)
"Ken". Bachelor. No previous flight. Backup for Apollo 11.
Intense, hard working. Not many outside interests since heavily
motivated to training for flight. Did fine work in design and man-testing
of PLSS (Portable Life Support System) - lunar surface back pack. Will
most likely recycle to later Apollo flight with CDR John Young and
Lt. Col. Charles Duke, who feels very bad about exposing Mattingly to
measles.
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Miscellaneous Spacecraft Call Signs:
Command Module
Lunar Module
Lift Off: Saturday - 2:13 p.m.
Landing: Wednesday - 9:55 p.m.
1st Lunar Exploration: Thursday - 2:29 a.m.
Splashdown: Pacific - Tuesday (21st) - 3:17 p.m.
Quarantine for 18 days.
TELEPHONE CALL RECOMMENDATION
TO:
APOLLO 13 CREW
RECOMMENDED BY:
DWEGHT L. CHAPIN
BACKGROUND:
The lift-eff of the Apollo 13 Mission is scheduled for 2:15 p.m. on
Saturday, April 11. Chanceller Brandt will be in attendance. The
Mission will last 10 days. The spleshdown will take place on Tuesday,
April 21, following which the Astronauts will be quarantined for a
period of 18 days.
The entire Mission came very close to being postponed because
Lt. Commander Kenneth Mattingly was exposed to German Measles.
At the last minute be was replaced by John Swigert, a member of the
backup crew.
It is recommended that you call between 7:30 and 8:00 p.m. from the
Residence. During this time the three Astronauts will he having dinner.
Following is personal information relating to each of the Astronauts:
Commander: Captain James (Jim) Lovell, U.S. Navy - (Age 42)
Known among friends as "Shakey". Married: 4 children.
Interested in navigation and sailing. Special Consultant to the
President for physical filness. Will make lunar landing into
rough From Mare region of Meen. Might be jokingly cautioned
not to "cage the platform" (lock the inertial guidance system) as
he inadvertently did on Apello 8. Flow - Gemini 7 and 12 and
Apelle 8, man's first flight to the Moon, with Frank Borman and
Bill Anders. Holds spaceflight time reserd of 572 hours.
Command Module Pilet (from Backup Crew): John Swigert . (Age 38)
Known as "Jask", Bachelor. Friendly, sociable. Enjoys sports and
hunting. Captain of 1952 University of California feetball team.
No previous spaceflight experience. Will be alone in lunar orbit while
Lovell and Maine are as lumar surface. WILL also "Sy" spececraft during
reentry. Most importantly, he in the last-minute substitute for
Lt. Commander Mattingly.
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Lumar Medule Pilot: Fred Holse (prensuased "hase") - (Age 36)
Known as "Fred" or "Fredo". Married: 3 children. Enjoys flying
and camping with family. Ex-NASA test pilot. No previous flight
experience, but was a backup for Apolle 8 and 11. Will be making
detailed geologie observations on lumar surface.
It is being recommended that between sow and the return of the
Apello 13 Mission you place a telephone call to LA. Commander
Kenneth Maltingly, the Astronaut who is being replaced because of
expesure to German Measles. The purpose of this call will be to
offer consolation to the disappointed Astronaut.
April 10, 1970
(Price)
April 17, 1970
Suggested Citation - - Medal of Freedom for Each
Of the Apollo XIII Astronauts
Character
Adversity brings out the mattle of a man. Confronted suddenly
and unexpectedly with grave peril in the far reaches of space, he
demonstrated a calm courage and quiet heroism that stand as an
example to men everywhere. His safe return is a triumph of the
human spirit -- of those special qualities of man himself we rely on
whe: machines fail, and that we rely on also for those things that
machines cannot do.
F om the start, the exploration of space has been hazardous
adventure. The voyage of Apollo XIII dramatized its risks. The men
of Apollo XIII, by their poise and skill under the most intense kind
of pressure, epitomized the character that accepts danger and sur-
mounts it. Theirs is the spirit that built America. With gratitude
and admiration, America salutes their spirit and their achievement.
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(Price)
April 17, 1970
Suggested Citation -- Medal of Freedom for Each-of-
The Apollo XIII Mission Operations Team
We often speak of scientific "miracles" -- forgetting that these are
not miraculous happenings at all, but rather the product of hard work,
long hours and disciplined intelligence.
The men and women of the Apollo XIII mission operations team
performed such a miracle, transforming potential tragedy into one of the
most dramatic rescues of all time. Years of intense preparation made
this rescue possible. The skill, coordination and performance under
pressure of the mission operations team made it happen. Three brave
astronauts are alive and on Earth because of their dedication, and because
at the critical moments the people of that team were wise enough and self-
possessed enough to make the right decisions. Their extraordinary feat
is a tribute to man's ingenuity, to his resourcefulness and to his courage.
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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20546
BIOGRAPHICAL DATA
NAME: James Arthur Lovell, Jr. (Captain, USN)
NASA Astronaut
BIRTHPLACE AND DATE: Born March 25, 1928, in Cleveland, Ohio.
His mother, Mrs. Blanche Lovell, resides at Edgewater
Beach, Florida.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Blond hair; blue eyes; height: 5 feet
11 inches; weight: 170 pounds.
EDUCATION: Graduated from Juneau High School, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin; attended the University of Wisconsin for
2 years, then received a Bachelor of Science degree
from the United States Naval Academy in 1952; presented
an Honorary Doctorate from Illinois Wesleyan University
in 1969.
MARITAL STATUS: Married to the former Marilyn Gerlach of
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Gerlach, are residents of Milwaukee.
CHILDREN: Barbara L., October 13, 1953; James A., February
15, 1955; Susan K., July 14, 1958; Jeffrey C.,
January 14, 1966.
RECREATIONAL INTERESTS: His hobbies are golf, swimming,
handball, and tennis.
ORGANIZATIONS: Member of the Society of Experimental Test
Pilots and the Explorers Club.
SPECIAL HONORS: Awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal,
two NASA Exceptional Service Medals, the Navy Astronaut
Wings, the Navy Distinguished Service Medal, and two
Navy Distinguished Flying Crosses; recipient of the
1967 FAI De Laval and Gold Space Medals (Athens, Greece),
the American Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award,
the City of New York Gold Medal in 1969, the City of
Houston Medal for Valor in 1969, the National Geographic
Society's Hubbard Medal in 1969, the National Academy
of Television Arts and Sciences Special Trustees Award
in 1969, and the Institute of Navigation Award in 1969.
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Co-recipient of the American Astronautical Society Flight
Achievement Awards in 1966 and 1968, the Harmon Inter-
national Trophy in 1966 and 1967, the Robert H. Goddard
Memorial Trophy in 1969, the H. H. Arnold Trophy for
1969, the General Thomas D. White USAF Space Trophy for
1968, the Robert J. Collier Trophy for 1968, and the
1969 Henry G. Bennett Distinguished Service Award.
EXPERIENCE: Lovell, a Navy Captain, received flight training
following graduation from Annapolis in 1952.
He has had numerous naval aviator assignments including
a 4-year tour as a test pilot at the Naval Air Test
Center, Patuxent River, Maryland. While there he served
as program manager for the F4H weapon system evaluation.
A graduate of the Aviation Safety School of the Univer-
sity of Southern California, he also served as a flight
instructor and safety engineer with Fighter Squadron
101 at the Naval Air Station, Oceana, Virginia.
He has logged more than 4,407 hours flying time--more than
3,000 hours in jet aircraft.
CURRENT ASSIGNMENT: Captain Lovell was selected as an astronaut
by NASA in September 1962. He has since served as back-
up pilot for the Gemini 4 flight and backup command pilot
for the Gemini 9 flight.
On December 4, 1965, he and Command pilot Frank Borman were
launched into space on the history-making Gemini 7 mission.
The flight lasted 330 hours and 35 minutes, during which
the following space firsts were accomplished: longest
manned space flight; first rendezvous of two manned
maneuverable spacecraft, as Gemini 7 was joined in orbit
by Gemini 6; and longest multi-manned space flight. It
was also on this flight that numerous technical and
medical experiments were completed successfully.
The Gemini 12 mission, with Lovell and pilot Edwin Aldrin,
began on November 11, 1966. This 4-day, 59-revolution
flight brought the Gemini Program to a successful close.
Major accomplishements of the 94-hour 35-minute flight
included a third-revolution rendezvous with the previously
launched Agena (using for the first time backup onboard
computations due to radar failure); a tethered station-
keeping exercise, retrieval of a micrometeorite experi-
ment package from the spacecraft exterior; an evaluation
of the use of body restraints specially designed for
completing work tasks outside of the spacecraft; and
completion of numerous photographic experiments, high-
lights of which are the first pictures taken from space
of an eclipse of the sun.
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Gemini 12 ended with retrofire at the beginning of the
60th revolution, followed by the second consecutive
fully automatic controlled reentry of a spacecraft,
and a landing in the Atlantic within 2 1/2 miles of
the USS WASP.
As a result of his participation in the Gemini 7 and 12
flights, Lovell logged 425 hours and 10 minutes in space.
Aldrin established a new EVA record by completing 5 1/2
hours outside the spacecraft during two standup EVAs and
one umbilical EVA.
Lovell served as command module pilot for the epic six-
day journey of Apollo 8--man's maiden voyage to the moon
--December 21-27, 1968. Apollo 8 was the first manned
spacecraft to be lifted into near-earth orbit by a
7 1/2-million pound thrust Saturn V launch vehicle,
and all events in the flight plan occurred as scheduled
with unbelievable accuracy.
A "go" for the translunar injection burn was given midway
through the second near-earth orbit, and the restart of
the S-IVB third stage to effect this maneuver increased
the spacecraft's velocity to place it on an intercept
course with the moon. Lovell and fellow crew members,
Frank Borman (spacecraft commander) and William A.
Anders (lunar module pilot), piloted their spacecraft
some 223,000 miles to become the first humans to leave
the earth's influence; and upon reaching the moon on
December 24, they performed the first critical maneuver
to place Apollo 8 into a 60 by 168 nautical miles lunar
orbit.
Two revolutions later, the crew executed a second maneuver
using the spacecraft's 20,500-pound thrust service module
propulsion system to achieve a circular lunar orbit of
60 nautical miles. During their ten revolutions of the
moon, the crew conducted live television transmissions of
the lunar surface and performed such tasks as landmark
and Apollo landing site tracking, vertical stereo photo-
graphy and stereo navigation photography, and sextant
navigation using lunar landmarks and stars. At the end
of the tenth lunar orbit, they executed a transearth
injection burn which placed Apollo 8 on a proper
trajectory for the return to earth.
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The final leg of the trip required only 58 hours, as
compared to the 69 hours used to travel to the moon,
and Apollo 8 came to a successful conclusion on Dec-
ember 27, 1968. Splashdown occurred at an estimated
5,000 yeards from the USS YORKTOWN, following the
successful negotiation of a critical 28-mile high
reentry corridor at speeds close to 25,000 miles per
hour.
Captain Lovell has since served as the backup spacecraft
commander for the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission. He
has completed three space flights and holds the U.S.
Astronaut record for time in space with a total of
572 hours and 10 minutes.
SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT: In addition to his regular duties as an
astronaut, Captain Lovell continues to serve as Special
Consultant to the President's Council on Physical
Fitness and Sports--an assignment he has held since
June 1967.
CURRENT SALARY: $1,717.28 per month.
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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20546
BIOGRAPHICAL DATA
NAME: Fred Wallace Haise, Jr. (Mr.)
NASA Astronaut
BIRTHPLACE AND DATE: Born in Biloxi, Miss., on Nov. 14, 1933;
his mother, Mrs. Fred W. Haise, Sr., resides in Biloxi.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Brown hair; brown eyes; height: 5 feet
9 1/2 inches; weight: 150 pounds.
EDUCATION: Graduated from Biloxi High School, Biloxi, Miss.;
attended Perkinston Junior College (Association of Arts);
received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors in
Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma
in 1959.
MARITAL STATUS: Married to the former Mary Griffin Grant of
Biloxi, Miss. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William J.
Grant, Jr., reside in Biloxi.
CHILDREN: Mary M., January 25, 1956; Frederick T., May 13, 1958;
Stephen W., June 30, 1961.
ORGANIZATIONS: Member of the Society of Experimental Test
Pilots, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Gamma Tau, and Phi Theta
Kappa.
SPECIAL HONORS: Recipient of the A. B. Honts Trophy as the
outstanding graduate of class 64A from the Aerospace
Research Pilot School in 1964; awarded the American
Defense Ribbon and the Society of Experimental Test
Pilots Ray E. Tenhoff Award for 1966.
EXPERIENCE: Haise was a research pilot at the NASA Flight
Research Center at Edwards, Calif., before coming to
Houston and the Manned Spacecraft Center; and from
September 1959 to March 1963, he was a research pilot
at the NASA Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio.
During this time, he authored the following papers which
have been published: a NASA TND, entitled "An Evaluation
of the Flying Qualities of Seven General-Aviation Air-
craft;" NASA TND 3380, "Use of Aircraft for Zero Gravity
Environment, May 1966;" SAE Business Aircraft Conference
Paper, entitled "An Evaluation of General-Aviation Air-
craft Flying Qualities," March 30-April 1, 1966; and a
paper delivered at the tenth symposium of the Society of
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Experimental Test Pilots, entitled "A Quantitative/
Qualitative Handling Qualities Evaluation of Seven
General-Aviation Aircraft," 1966.
He was the Aerospace Research Pilots School's out-
standing graduate of Class 64A and served with the
U.S. Air Force from October 1961 to August 1962 as a
tactical fighter pilot and as Chief of the 164th
Standardization-Evaluation Flight of the 164th Tactical
Fighter Squadron at Mansfield, Ohio. From March 1957
to September 1959, he was a fighter-interceptor pilot
with the 185th Fighter Interceptor Squadron in the Okla-
homa Air National Guard.
He also served as a tactics and all weather flight
instructor in the U.S. Navy Advanced Training Command
at NAAS Kingsville, Texas, and was assigned as a U.S.
Marine Corps fighter pilot to VMF-533 and 114 at MCAS
Cherry Point, N.C., from March 1954 to September 1956.
His military career began in October 1952 as a Naval
Aviation Cadet at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola,
Fla.
He has accumulated 5,800 hours flying time, including
3,000 hours in jets.
CURRENT ASSIGNMENT: Mr. Haise is one of the 19 astronauts
selected by NASA in April 1966. He served as backup
lunar module pilot for the Apollo 8 and 11 missions.
CURRENT SALARY: $1,698.00 per month.
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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
MANNED SPACECRAFT CENTER
HOUSTON,
TEXAS
NAME: John Leonard Swigert, Jr. (Mr.)
NASA Astronaut
BIRTHPLACE AND DATE: Born in Denver, Colorado, on August 30, 1931; he is the
son of Dr. and Mrs. J. Leonard Swigert who reside in Denver.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Blond hair; blue eyes; height: 5 feet 11 1/2 inches;
weight: 180 pounds.
EDUCATION: Attended Blessed Sacrament School, Regis High School, and East High
School in Denver, Colorado; received a Bachelor of Science degree in
Mechanical Engineering from the University of Colorado in 1953, a Master
of Science degree in Aerospace Science from the Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute in 1965, and a Master of Business Administration degree from
the University of Hartford in 1967.
MARITAL STATUS: Single.
OTHER ACTIVITIES: An avid sports enthusiast, he enjoys handball, bowling,
water skiing, swimming, basketball, and golf. His hobbies include
photography.
ORGANIZATIONS: Associate Fellow of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots;
Member of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the Quiet
Birdmen, Phi Gamma Delta, Pi Tau Sigma, and Sigma Tau.
SPECIAL HONORS: Co-recipient of the AIAA Octave Chanute Award for 1966 for his
participation in demonstrating the Rogallo Wing as a feasible land
landing system for returning space vehicles and astronauts.
EXPERIENCE: Swigert held a position as engineering test pilot for North American
Aviation, Inc., being = joining NASA. He was also an engineering
test pilot for Prat and Whitney from 1957 to 1964.
He served with the Air Force from 1953 to 1956 and, upon graduation from
the Pilot Training Program and Gunnery School at Nellis Air Force Base,
Nevada, was assigned as a fighter pilot in Japan and Korea. After
completing his tour of active duty in the military service, he served as
a jet fighter pilot with the Massachusetts Air National Guard from
September 1957 to March 1960 and was a member of the Connecticut Air
National Guard from April 1960 to October 1965.
He has a total of ,478 hours flight time 259 hours in jet aircraft.
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CURRENT ASSIGNMENT: Mr. Swigert is one of the 19 astronauts selected by NASA
in April 1966. He is currently involved in training for future manned
space flights and is assigned as a member of the astronaut support crew
for the first manned Apollo flight.
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JULY 1968
MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
procedures
WASHINGTON
file
April 15, 1970
Wednesday - 10:30 a. m.
MEMORANDUM FOR MR. STEPHEN B. BULL
FROM:
Dwight L. Chaping
RE:
Telephone Call Procedure
There should be no question in your mind at all regarding the
telephone call procedure. All telephone calls going to the
President must go to Bob Haldeman. They should come to
our office first. This includes all calls. If Alex, John Brown,
Larry Higby, or anyone else receives a telephone call request
sheet, it should be routed through us so that the staffing can be
checked. Otherwise, there is no sense in us being involved at
all.
The problem is not with the procedure -- or at least it shouldn't
be.
The problem as you insinuate is the origination of calls
getting
staff people to have the interest and working out a system by which
we cultivate calls from staff personnel. Supposedly, Chuck Colson
is doing some work with the contact portion of the telephone call
program. I am working, and we have had some success so far,
on drumming up calls to outstanding citizens, heroes, the
Astronauts, and others who deserve special Presidential recogni-
tion and from which there will be some press or public relations
value in a call from the President.
I will review this whole process once again with Bob. However,
you should realize that the mystical person who ultimately reviews,
approves, and finally submits the call to the President is Bob
Haldeman.
CC:
Alex Butterfield
Larry Higby
MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
April 14, 1970
FOR:
DWIGHT L. CHAPIN
FROM:
STEPHEN BULL
its
RE:
Telephone Call Procedure
Alex and I, and probably you, are totally confused with regard to the
manner in which telephone calls are to be submitted. At one point it
was my understanding that the Appointments Office would operatethe
Presidential telephone call procedure. At a later stage the procedure
was to be incorporated into a much larger contact program. Then,
about two months ago, the Appointments Office was relieved of the
contact program, including the telephone call portion.
Now we find ourselves in the position of having no telephone call
program. This is greatly the result of a general lack of staff interest,
as you pointed out today, in the President making telephone calls.
"General" lack of interest doesn't mean complete lack, since people
occasionally still submit phone calls either to (a) you, (b) me, (c) Alex,
(d) John Brown, (e) Larry Higby, (f) all of the above, (g) none of the
above, When I receive a call I exercise my standard procedure by
typing on a little yellow sheet of paper so that my handwriting cannot
be identified "Dwight Chapin" and then surreptitiously dropping it on
your desk and pretending that I never saw it in the first place.
I am not sure what the other people do, but I think that it all comes
out to the same thing: the call recommendation is passed on to someone
else, and some mystical person ultimately reviews, approves, and
finally submits the call recommendation to the President.
Perhaps it might be beneficial to all concerned for us to inject a bit of
organization into our procedure.
cc:
A. Butterfield
L. Higby
TELEPHONE CALL RECOMMENDATION
TO:
APOLLO 13 CREW
RECOMMENDED BY: DWIGHT L. CHAPIN
BACKGROUND:
The lift-off of the Apelle 13 Mission is scheduled for 2:15 p.m. on
Saturday, April 11. Chanceller Brandt will be in attendance. The
Mission will last 10 days. The splashdown will take place on Tuesday,
April 21, following which the Actronants will be quarantized for a
period of 18 days.
The entire Mission came very close to being pertponed because
Lt. Commander Kenneth Mattingly was exposed to German Measles.
At the last minute be was replaced by John Swigest, a member of the
backup crew.
It is recommended that you call between 7:30 and 8:00 p.m. m. from the
Residence. During this time the three Astronauts will be having dinner.
Following is personal information relating to each of the Astremauts:
Commender: Cantain James (Jim) Levell. U.S. Navy - (Age 42)
Known among friends as "Shahay". Married: 4 children.
Interested in navigation and sailing. Special Consultant to the
President for physical fitness. Will make Inner landing into
rough From Mare region of Meen. Might be jokingly cautioned
not to "enge the platform" (lock the inertial guidance system) as
he instructoutly did on Apelle 8. Flow on Genini 7 and 12 and
Apells 8. mas's first flight to the Meen, with Frank Borman and
Bill Anders. Holds spaceflight time record of 572 hours.
Command Module Pilet (from Backup Crew): John Swigert - (Age 38)
Known as "Jack". Bacheler. Friendly, sociable. Enjoys sports and
hunting, Captain of 1952 University of California feetball team.
No provious spaceflight experience. Will be alone in luner orbit while
Levell and Helse are on luner surface. Will also "fiy" spaceraft during
resentry. Most importantly, be is the last-minute substitute for
Lt. Commander Mattingly.
Act April 11, 1970
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Lumar Medule Pilet: Fred Helse (pronounced "hase") - (Age 36)
Known as "Fred" or "Frede". Married: 3 children. Enjoys flying
and camping with family. Ex-NASA test pilot. No previous flight
experience, but was a backup for Apolle 8 and 11. Will be making
detailed goologic observations on Innur surface.
It is being recommended that between now and the return of the
Apoile 13 Mission you place a telephone call to Lt. Commander
Kennath Mattingly, the Astrenaut who is being replaced because of
exposure to German Measles. The purpose of this call will be to
offer consolation to the disappointed Astronent.
April 10, 1970
April 9. 1970
3:45 P.M.
FOR:
DWIGHT LF CHAPIN
FROM:
STEPHEN BULL
As per your suggestion, a telephone call recommendation will be
prepared for the President to call the Apollo XIII Astronants on
Friday evening. As you probably heard, it is highly probable that
Lt. Com. Thomas K. Mattingly, the Medule Commander, will be
replaced because of expesure to German Measles. His replacement
will be a civilian, Mr. John L. Swigert, Jr. Other members of the
team are James A. Levell, Jr. (Apelle VIII) and Mr. Fred Naise, a
civilian.
The probability exists for a two-month postponsment of the entire trip.
In the meantime, after matters solidify, a telephone call recommends-
tion will be submitted temorrow morning. Cel. Anders of NASC is
providing some personal data.
The ideal time to make the call would be between 7:45 and 8:15 p.m.
Friday ovening. This pretty well correspends to the time when
Chanceller Brandt will be present. The President might wish to consider
having Brandt participate in the telephone call. Brandt speaks fluent
English. This is merely a question for consideration, however, and
AI Haig's "gut" reaction is negative, If Brandt is not to participate, we
should make the call before be arrives for the dinner, Also, if
Mattingly is replaced and the flight goos, it would be a nice gesture
for the President to call Mattingly as well as the other Astronauts on
the mission.
In short, you don't get your phone request until the morning.
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NATIONAL MOLIVBISINING
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20546
U.S.A.
April 7, 1970
OFFICE OF THE ADMINISTRATOR
MEMORANDUM to Honorable Peter Flanigan
The White House
Steve Plan
The President may want to consider a telephone
call to the Apollo 13 crew Friday evening on
the eve of their mission to the Moon.
Payment
We will be happy to cooperate.
Jan Scur Juliah Scheer
Assistant Administrator
for Public Affairs
CC:
Mr. Dwight Chapin
The White House
April 16, 1970
FOR:
MRS. NIXON
TELEPHONE CALLS
TO:
(1) Mr. and Mrs. John Swigert, Sr.
(Sea - John)
(2) Mrs. Fred W. Haise, Jr. (Mary Haise)
(Wife of Fred Halee)
(3) Mrs. James Levell (Marilyn)
(Wife of James Levell)
TALKING POINTS:
1. Calling to let you knew that our thoughts are with you and
your (son) (bushand).
2. The men are doing such a good job and we know you must have
a great deal of faith in their abilities and these of their NASA
colleagues.
3. Everyone in the Country is thinking of you and we know everything
will work out fine.
T"LEPHONE CALL RECOMMENT ATION
TO:
Mrs. Merriman Smith (Gally - pronounced "gaily")
RECOMMENDED BY:
Ren Ziegler
TALKING POINTS:
1. Tell her that you consider Smitty's death a personal less and
that as a mark of silent respect the flag at the White House is
flying at half mest as a tribute to Mr. Smith. You would like
to present this flag to her at a later date.
2. You feel that Mrs. Smith's decision to establish a memorial
fund to honor the journalistic excellence exemplified by
Merriman Smith is most appropriate (see Tab A).
3. Make general remarks of condelence.
EXCERPT FROM UPI TICKER 85
The White House Correspendents Association assounced today the
establishment of a Memorial Fund to honor the journalistic excellence
exemplified by Merriman Smith, the UPI Correspendent who died
yesterday.
The Association's Executive Committee, acting in accord with wishes
of Smith's widow and son, said contributions may be sent to the
"Merriman Smith Memorial Fund", White House Correspondents
Association, 1029 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20004.
Mrs. Smith suggested that the correspondent's friends make contribu-
tiens to the Fund instead of sending flowers to the services which will
be held semetime later this week.
The purpose of the fund will be to make an annual award appropriately
"homoring that excellence in Washington reporting for which Merriman
Smith steed: outstanding skill, scrupulous objectivity, swiftness and
honesty".
Smith was the Dean of the White House Press Corps and twice had
been President of its Association.
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April 7, 1970
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Enclosed are two tear sheets about Mr. Robert Mitchell.
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One is the visit to Vietnam and the other is the phone
call made by the President.
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Sincerely,
Here are the results
Bernice Reck
Bernice Reck,
of that phone call
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you suggested.
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Talks to president
If the President of the United States calls and you're not home,
just call him back. That's what Robert Mitchell, Sr., 5809 36th
Ave., did Saturday.
Mitchell, whose story of a trip to Vietnam to visit the spot
where his son was killed appeared in Wednesday's edition of the
4,
Kenosha News, received a phone call about 4 p.m. Saturday from
1- the President.
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Although he wasn't home at the time, a number was left for him
1.
to return the call. At 5 p.m. he put through the call and spoke
0, with President Nixon for about three minutes.
Mitchell said "the President was very cordial and congratulated
er me on the trip. He went on to ask about the new Milwaukee
ch, Brewers."
The main purpose of Mitchell's trip was to finish making a film
IW- which his son had started while stationed in Vietnam. As reported
rs, in the earlier story, his luggage and film did not arrive when he
ng did.
y) Saturday, Mitchell traveled to O'Hare Airport and retrieved his
rs. luggage and the film, which has been sent for processing. He said
is, that since the story appeared, he has received numerous phone
en calls complimenting him on the trip but he says he never
expected to hear from the President.
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