635-12

Conversation No. 635-12

Date: December 10, 1971
Time: 12:03 pm - 12:15 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull, John H. Chafee, Adm. Thomas H. Moorer, Adm. Elmo
R. Zumwalt, Gen. John D. Ryan, Gen. William C. Westmoreland, Gen. and Mrs. Leonard F.
Chapman, Jr., Mrs, R.D. Crutcher, Captain J.H. Blichfeldt, SGM Joseph Dailey, John W.
Warner, Lt. Gen. and Mrs. Lewis J. Fields, Gen. and Mrs. Raymond G. Davis, Lt. Gen. William
J. Van Ryzin, Lt. Gen. and Mrs. John Chaisson, Col. and Mrs. David Twomey, Col. Richard
Schulz, Col. Gerald Thomas, Com. C.J. Wages, Major Joseph Felter, GySgt. William Weigh,
George P. Shultz, Lt. Col. Vernon C. Coffey, and Brig. Gen. James D. Hughes; the White House
photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Instructions

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:14 pm.

[General conversation]

Introductions

[Photograph session]

Award presentation
-Distinguished Service Medal
-Gen. Leonard F. Chapman, Jr.
-Reminiscences from the President
-Marine Corps career
-Mrs. Chapman
-Sons
-Vietnam
-Citation
-Chapman's remarks
-Sgt. Maj. Dailey
-Families

[General conversation]

The President talked with Stephen B. Bull between 12:14 pm and 12:15 pm.
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Conv. No. 635-12 (cont.)



[Conversation No. 635-12A]

[See Conversation No. 16-78]

[End of telephone conversation]

Bull and Alexander P. Butterfield entered and Chafee, et al. left at 12:15 pm.

The President’s schedule
-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

Bull and Butterfield left at 12:15 pm.