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THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN FILMED STATEMENT UPON SUBMISSION OF HEALTH MESSAGE Thursday, February 18, 1971 3:30 P.M. The Family Theatre THE PRESIDENT: BACKGROUND On Thursday at Noon your Health Message will be submitted to Congress. To give greater news emphasis to this Message, you have been scheduled to make a one-minute statement that will be filmed by the three networks, UPI Telenews, and a White House reel photographer. Your statement will be delivered from a seated position behind a desk in the Family Theatre, and you will read the statement from a teleprompter. SEQUENCE OF EVENTS 3:30 p.m. You proceed to Family Theatre where the desk, camera crews, and teleprompter will be positioned. You deliver your one-minute statement (text of statement attached). 3:35 p.m. You return to your office. see inside Stephen Bull Bull