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MEMORANDUM THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON October 4, 1972 MEMORANDUM FOR: FROM: RAY PRICE THE PRESIDENT Rusy SUBJECT: Radio Speeches Attached are drafts of the first batch of four. These are not in final form, and have not gotten through all the checking and clearance procedures -- but I think that they' re well enough along to give you a pretty good idea of them, and that any one of them could be put in final shape for use this weekend. They are: 1) Paternalism (Safire) -- a rather philosophical defense of the wisdom of the people against the claims of the elitists. 2) Crime and Drugs (Andrews) - -- progress against crime, and what we're doing about drugs. 3) The Spending Ceiling and Budget Discipline (McDonald) -- why we've got to check spending, and why we need the ceiling to do it. 4) Completing the Structure of Peace (Huebner) -- the unfinished agenda in foreign affairs. Of these, I think the best candidate for this weekend (because of its timeliness) is the spending ceiling. The one on foreign policy needs more work, and I think it would be better not to bump it up so closely against McGovern's TV address on Vietnam Tuesday night. Crime/Drugs and Paternalism are, I think, pretty close to the mark, but they're ones that could go pretty much any time. Attachments.