Date: December 28, 1972

Time: 3:14 pm and 3:25 pm

Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Raymond K. Price, Jr.

[See Conversation No. 380-32]

1973 Inaugural speech

-The President’s reading of book

-The President’s memorandum to Price

-Length

-The President’s view

-Price’s draft

-Vermont Royster’s view

-Theme

-Format

-Listing of accomplishments

-Theme

-Bicentennial

-Renewal

-Book

-Past Inaugural speeches

-Theodore (“Teddy”) Roosevelt

-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson

-Length

-William H. Taft

-Herbert C. Hoover

-Warren G. Harding

-33-

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-[John] Calvin Coolidge

-Compared to Sate of the Union speeches

-Length

-Tone

-Theme

-“Faith in America”

-1972 campaign

-Vietnam

-Current developments

-Peace issue

-Tone

-Timing of drafts

-The President’s schedule

-Camp David invitation to Price

-Advantages

-Theme

-Responsibility

-Price’s view

-Fashion

-Foreign policy

-Leadership for free world

-Economic policy

-Work

-Interpersonal relations

-1960s

-Royster’s view

-Jingoism

-Price’s draft

-Survival through crises

-Spirit

-Vietnam

-Cities

-Generations

-Race

-Previous Inaugural speeches

-Harry S. Truman

-The President’s recollection

-Democrats’, Republicans’ reaction

-Length

-Brevity

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-The President’s view

-Previous Inaugural speeches

-Roosevelt

-Franklin D. Roosevelt