Date: March 9, 1973

Time: Unknown between 3:53 pm and 11:59 pm

Location: Oval Office

Unknown people met.

Arrangements for recording

-Schedule

The President entered at 4:40 pm.

Recording arrangements

The President made a video recording of his highlights from “Radio Address About the State of

the Union Message on Law Enforcement and Drug Abuse Prevention” between 4:40 pm and

4:43 pm.

Federal criminal code

-Revision

-Penalties

-Drugs

-Capital punishment

-Hijacking, kidnapping, terrorists

-Maximum penalties

-Drug pushers

Marijuana

-Criminalization

Announcement

-Arrival of helicopter

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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log

(rev. July-2010)

John T. Downey

-Release

-President’s call to William Downey

-Incarceration in People’s Republic of China [PRC] compared to Vietnam

-Downey’s release date

-Vietnam prisoners of war [POWs] release date

-Delay

Church service

-Invitation

The President left at 4:43 pm. Unknown people remained.

[General conversation]

Protestants compared to Catholics

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Offer of assistance

Gear

The recording was cut off at an unknown time before 11:59 pm.