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THE WHITE HOUSE
THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN
WASHINGTON
December 9, 1970
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
Patrick Buchanan
SUBJECT:
Opening Question
From a member of my staff who lunched today with a member
of the press corps who indicated that the opening question this
time goes to UPI, (Helen Thomas) who is primed to ask RN
about Vietnam. If that is the case, suggest RN take that
occasion to deliver a longer than normal answer hitting all
those issues about to arise, including the prisoners.
The following is a suggested response:
"I'm glad you opened with that question. There are some
things I would like to say, to you and the country, about Vietnam,
about that operation to save our men in the North, and why it
was undertaken.
If you look at books, the plays, the television shows, the
songs, the poems, the sculpture, the paintings in American
culture, you do not see the tremendous concern about our POWs,
concerns that millions in this country feel. Our official policy has
always stressed that concern -- but the Communist world sees
no reflection of that concern in American culture -- which raises a
question in itself. A people reflect what they think about, what
they are concerned about, in the books they read, the plays they
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