Conversation No. 887-14

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.