Date: March 22, 1973
Time: 12:35 pm – 12:47 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with William J. (“Jack”) Edwards, Oliver Delchamps, Jr., A. A. Wood,
William J. Hearin, Jr., Albert Weiskopf, and Richard K. Cook. The White House photographer
was present at the beginning of the meeting.
Introductions
-Edwards
-Mobile, Alabama
-Alabama delegation
-Delchamps
-Wood
-Hearin
-Newspaper publishing
-Mobile Press Register
-Republican Congress member
-Press coverage
-1972 campaign
-Editorials
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-Weiskopf
-Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce
Photographs
-Arrangements
Tennessee Tombigbee River project
-Commemorative coins
-Claude Whistler
-Budget deficit
-Map of river system
-Pride in President
-Chamber of commerce
-Delchamps’s business
-Publicity
-Mobile
-Dedication
-President’s visit
-George C. Wallace
-Photographs
Wallace
-Recovery
-Difficulties
-Last meeting with President
-Governors’ dinner
-Wife
-Mobile
-Lieutenant governor
Southern republicans
-John C. Stennis
-Trent Lott
-Mississippi
Stennis
-President’s calls during convalescence
-Frequency
-Recovery from wounds
-Strength
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Southern Congress members
-Support for national security issue, Vietnam
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Support for President’s policies
-Sense of pride
-Patriotism
-Denigration
-Mobile
-Capt. Jeremiah A. Denton, Jr.
POWs
-Dinner
-Wives
-Location
-Entertainment
-Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
-Denton
-Religion
-Qualities, attitude
-Solitary confinement
-Denton, Col. Robinson Risner
-Sense of strength
-Meat prices
Vietnam settlement
-President’s policies
-Congress
-Silence
-resolution
Edwards
-Career in Congress
-Leadership position
-Unknown people
-Death
Gifts
-Presidential seal
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-Photographs
-Copies
-Publication
-Copies
-Production
Basketball game
Alabama
-Support for President
Edwards’s career in Congress
-Possible run for Senate
Wilbur D. Mills
-Trade [?]
-President’s telephone call
-News summary
-President’s meeting with George P. Shultz
-Shultz’s meeting with Mills
Edwards et al., left at 12:47 pm.