Conversation No. 335-14

Date: May 3, 1972
Time: 2:30-2:40 pm.
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with John K. Andrews, Jr.

     Greetings

     Eulogy for J. Edgar Hoover
          -Length
          -The President’s view
                -Hoover
                     -Recognition
          -Appreciation for Hoover
          -Hoover's greatness
          -Relationship with President
                -Reference
                     -Amount of emphasis
          -Hoover's greatness
                -Addition
                -References
                     -Winston S. Churchill
          -Deletions
          -References to the President's relationship with Hoover
                -Other remarks by columnists and other speakers
          -Length
          -Law and order, permissiveness
          -References to children
                -Deletions
                -Transition
          -Conclusion
                -Law and order in US
                     -Deletion
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                NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                  Tape Subject Log
                                    (rev. Nov-01)
                                                       Conv. No. 335-14 (cont.)

     -Draft of eulogy
          -Deletions
     -Delivery
          -Whitney M. Young funeral
     -Opportunity for President

Attacks on Hoover
     -[Thomas] Hale Boggs
           -The President’s vew
     -Dr. Benjamin Spock
     -Jerry Rubin
     -New York Times

Hoover
    -President's relationship
          -House Un-American Activities Committee
          -The President’s view
    -Civil liberties
          -World War II
                -Roscoe Drummond's comments
                -Franklin D. Roosevelt's request
          -Position on Communist Party
                -Comments of Drummond
    -The President’s view
    -Lyndon B. Johnson
    -Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
          -The President’s view
          -Effect on US respect for law

Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
     -New director
          -Delay
                -Reasons

Eulogy
     -Draft
          -Return to President
               -Time
     -Changes
          -Additions
               -President's relationship with Hoover
     -Draft
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                      NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. Nov-01)
                                                         Conv. No. 335-14 (cont.)

                -Time
          -President's relationship with Hoover

Andrews left at 2:40 pm.