Date: March 30, 1973
Time: 11:30 am – 11:39 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Donald E. Johnson and James H. Cavanaugh. The White House
photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.
Veteran affairs
-Public relations [PR]
-Bureaucracy
-Veterans organizations
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-Problem
-Problems
-Public statements
-President’s speech
-March 29, 1973
-Johnson’s report
-Work with Vietnam veterans
-Vietnam veterans
-Compared with draft dodgers and exiles, students
-Canada, Sweden
-Benefits
-Lower-level income veterans
-Doctors, lawyers
-Motivation
-Physical injuries
-Emotional injuries
-Mental injuries
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Suffering
-Capt. Jeremiah A. Denton, Jr.
-Airplane landing
-Meetings with President
-Wives
-Impressiveness
-Col. Robinson Risner
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-Solitary confinement
-Communist captors
-Meals
-Reading
-Communist propaganda
-Torture
-Radio broadcasts
-Problems
-Psychological problems
-Veterans Administration {VA]
-Response
-Social problems
-Public response to homecoming
-Divorce rates
-Figures
-POWs
-Veterans
-Compared with national divorce rates
-Standards
-POWs
-Retention in military
-Missing in action [MIA]
-Notification of families
-Defense Department declaration
-Killed in action [KIA]
-Former POWs
-World War II
-Korean War
-Rapport
-Negotiations with North Vietnam
-December 1972 bombing
-President’s support
-Work with international groups
-Full accounting
VA
-Reorganization
-President’s guidelines
-Frank W. Naylor, Jr.
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-Work with VA
-Committee to Re-Elect the President [CRP]
-Vietnam veteran
-Problem with bureaucracy
-Size
-Need to disperse
-State legislators compared with national legislators
-Competence, corruption
-Iowa
-Washington, DC
-Impact of mistakes
-Vietnam veteran relocation
-California
-Florida
-Congressional relations [?]
-William J. B. Dorn [?]
-Johnson
-Work with Congress
-Cavanaugh
-Strategy
-VFW
-Work with veterans groups
-Support of President
-Family
Herbert C. Hoover Library
-Dinner
-100th anniversary of Hoover
Johnson and Cavanaugh left at 11:39 am.
Henry A. Kissinger met with Stephen B. Bull [?].
Cabinet Room
The President entered at 11:42 am.
President’s schedule
-Meeting with Ambassador Lakshmi K. Jha
Bull left at 11:42 am.
-Topics for discussion
US-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] relations
-Jewish immigration
-Anatoliy F. Dobrynin’s message
-Suspension of a tax
-Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson’s reaction
-Assurance
-Helmut (“Hal”) Sonnenfeldt
-George P. Shultz
-Jewish groups
-Opposition to US-USSR relations
-Kissinger
-Jackson
-American people
-Vote
-Anticommunism
-Desire for peace
-Jewish interests compared with US interests
-Yekaterina Frutseva
-1959 visit
-Youth
-Leonid I. Brezhnev’s visit to US
-Dates
-Andrei A. Gromyko’s attendance of security conference
-Alternative dates
-Kissinger’s meeting with Dobrynin
-Brezhnev’s age
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