February 10, 1969

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The President's day began at Key Biscayne, Florida

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• Trans-Pacific Route Investigation (5 Weekly Comp. Pres. Doc. 250, February 10, 1969)
  Memorandum From Robert Ellsworth, Assistant to the President, to Interested Parties.

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• Directives to Executive Agencies and Advisers (5 Weekly Comp. Pres. Doc. 250, February 10, 1969)
  Announcement of Fifth Group in Series of Directives Implementing Task Force Recommendations and Other Proposals.

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• President's Handwriting, Box 1, President's Handwriting, February 1969
  • Memo; Rose Mary Woods to The President re: South American tour. February 10, 1969. 1 pg.

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• White House Press Conferences, Box 55
  • News Conference #40 at the White House (Key Biscayne, Florida) with Ron Ziegler, February 10, 1969, 11:40 A.M. EST. 5 pgs.

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• Transcript of diary entry (PDF)
  Monday, February 10.
  
  Morning free - left Key Biscayne at 2:30. Kissinger and Rogers and I met with President on plane home. Planning details of trip.
  
  President outlined his procedure for briefing. Wants first a long meeting with Assistant Secretary for Europe, then individual sessions with each country desk man.
  
  Wanted to be sure we adequately told our story regarding Santa Barbara oil problem - how President stepped in and acted.
  
  Big laugh when President asked Kissinger "What is the situation over there with this damned monetary crap?"
  
  I had dinner with Chapin, and long talk regarding personal problem of getting on top of this and leading a real life.
• Handwritten diary entry (JPG)

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• President's Daily Brief of 10 February 1969 (Morning) [consult link for visuals and extent of redactions]
  The President's Daily Brief
  
  10 February 1969
  (Morning)
  19
  Top Secret
  
  [redacted]
  
  I. MAJOR PROBLEMS
  
  MIDDLE EAST
  Israeli officials continue to express their concern [redacted] publicly over an alleged buildup of Arab terrorists in southern Lebanon. [redacted] apparently in the hope that their warning of, retaliation in the event of terrorist attacks will be passed on to Beirut.
  
  The Lebanese Government maintains that it is doing its best to block the terrorists coming in from Syria and Jordan. Beirut claims, however, that because of the difficult terrain considerably more forces than are available would be required to round up those on Lebanese soil.
  
  * * *
  
  The Soviets apparently are preparing defenses for the Aswan Dam [redacted] Some 300
  Soviet military engineering corps personnel reportedly arrived in Egypt early in December to work on the fortifications as well as to construct an early warning system on the Red Sea coast.
  
  [redacted] In early November, the Soviet ambassador was said to have remarked that the Aswan Dam was "the apple of the Soviet eye" and that the Russians meant to protect it even if it meant Soviet personnel had to man the defenses.
  
  EUROPE
  The new East German restrictions on the travel of West German officials to West Berlin will have little practical effect on the meeting in the city of the Federal Assembly on 5 March. In effect, the ban means only that participants will have to travel by air, something most of them were probably going to do in any case, since the East Germans can prevent access by land at any time.
  
  The prohibition against the transit of assembly members is about the strongest action the East Germans can take by themselves without incurring the risk of retaliation. We have no indication that the Soviets will sanction East German harassment of flights to West Berlin, although we do believe that yesterday's move was coordinated with the Russians. The announcement of the restrictions probably is intended to set the stage for a massive East German propaganda war of nerves against the Federal Assembly meeting, against the sanctioning of this meeting by the Western Allies, and, against alleged "misuse" of air corridors to the city.
  
  [redacted]
  
  VIETNAM
  
  [redacted]
  
  * * *
  
  [redacted]
  
  * * *
  
  The ground war fighting remained relatively light over the weekend. Communist activity was highlighted by several terrorist and sapper incidents in Saigon and a number of rocket and mortar attacks on allied positions in various areas of the country.
  
  II. OTHER IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS
  
  NIGERIA
  [redacted]
• President's Daily Brief of 10 February 1969 (Afternoon) [consult link for visuals and extent of redactions]
  The President's Daily Brief
  
  10 February 1969
  (Afternoon)
  17
  Top Secret
  
  LATE NOTES FOR THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF OF
  10 FEBRUARY 1969
  
  [redacted]
  
  11 February 1969
  
  LATE NOTES FOR THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF OF
  10 FEBRUARY 1969
  
  I. MAJOR PROBLEMS
  
  MIDDLE EAST
  There is nothing of significance to report.
  
  EUROPE
  There is nothing of significance to report.
  
  SOVIET AFFAIRS
  There is nothing of significance to report.
  
  VIETNAM
  There is nothing of significance to report.
  
  II. OTHER IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS
  [redacted]
  
  I. MAJOR PROBLEMS
  
  MIDDLE EAST
  There is nothing of significance to report.
  
  EUROPE
  [redacted]
  
  SOVIET AFFAIRS
  [redacted]
  
  * * *
  
  The US-Ambassador in Belgrade_has been told by a high-level Yugoslav Foreign Office official that Rumania is no longer under pressure from Moscow to hold Warsaw Pact maneuvers this spring because of continuing Soviet involvement in Czechoslovakia. The soviet Ambassador in Bucharest is said to have told his Yugoslav colleague that no maneuvers would be held in Rumania, until the end of the year.
  
  The Rumanians also told the Yugoslavs that they believe developments in Czechoslovakia will cause the Moscow Conference of World Communist Parties, scheduled for this spring, to be postponed. If and when the conference is held, the Rumanians will attend but the Yugoslavs will not.
  
  * * *
  
  The arrival in East Berlin yesterday of Soviet Marshal Ivan Yakubovsky, supreme commander of the Warsaw Pact, probably heralds a meeting of Pact military representatives. [redacted]
  
  Only one new infiltration group has been noted en route to South Vietnam so far this month. This lack of activity continues the downward trend which began several weeks ago. [redacted] The decline of infiltration at this time of year--partly because of poor weather conditions--is not without precedent. The pattern of infiltration and the numbers involved in the past three months are
  almost identical with those; for the same period last year. If the similarity continues to hold, we would expect the February total to be about the same as last year [redacted]
  
  * * *
  
  The tactical military situation in South Vietnam remains unchanged. Only limited and small-scale ground action was reported.
  
  II, OTHER IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS
  
  PERU
  Members of the coterie around Velasco have once again made it clear that the Peruvians are convinced the US will not apply sanctions in the dispute over the expropriation of the International Petroleum Company. Secure in this assumption, they are even taking in stride the fact that trade negotiations with the Soviets are not going well. The negotiators from Moscow reportedly are interested mostly in selling trucks and mining equipment, which the Peruvians do not want. The Soviets have shown no interest in buying Peruvian minerals or sugar.
  
  BRAZIL
  The military are pushing ahead with the "sanitizing" of Brazil. Nearly a fifth of the members of the national legislature have now been purged, and five state legislatures have been closed. The Brazilian National Security Council has also approved the establishment of a military-police commission to investigate "subversive or counterevolutionary acts." This could be a vehicle for making harassment of the government's real and fancied opponents less haphazard than it has been so far.
  
  President Costa e Silva. may be opposed to all this, but we are almost certain he lacks the power to reverse the trend.
  
  Communist Chinese Activity
  [redacted]
  
  TURKEY
  The Annex today deals with problems in US-Turkish relations.
  
  COMMUNIST CHINA
  The Chinese are putting new emphasis on the improvement of air defense and logistic capabilities in southern Yunnan Province. Satellite photography of late January shows work well along on extension of the runway at Ssumao airfield to accommodate jet fighters. When the new concrete runway is completed, Ssu-mao will become the fourth jet fighter field in the border area. China's
  air defenses will then be extended to cover all of the Vietnam and Laotian frontier.
  
  At the same time, engineer units are developing a large military logistic base in the southern Yunnan salient. Of 800 barracks and storage facilities identified by aerial photography within five miles of the Laotian border, about 700 are new. These structures are not far from a Chinese road construction project under way for several months in Communist-held parts of northern Laos.
  
  This activity on both sides of the border will make it easier for the Chinese to support Laotian Communist forces in remote parts of northern Laos, as they have been doing for some years.
  
  LAOS
  Unusually heavy US airstrikes are being targeted against North Vietnamese positions surrounding Thateng in support of the government's efforts to bring in reinforcements and vital supplies by helicopter. A number of friendly guerrilla teams will move overland to harass the Communists. The airstrikes may initially. prove effective, but prospects for lifting the three-month siege are not good. Even with the arrival of the relief force, government forces are heavily outnumbered.
  
  In north Laos, Communist terrorists withdrew today from Muong Soui after killing one US military attache and wounding another. This attack seems more illustrative of the sporadic terrorism the Communists manage to carry out in Laos than indicative of a concerted Communist effort against government forces at Muong Soui.
  
  ANNEX
  
  TURKEY
  SIGNIFICANCE: Turkey has great strategic importance for the us--both because substantial American investment and prestige is committed there and because it is the southeastern anchor of NATO. During the past two decades, the US has given Turkey over $5 billion in economic and military aid, and has trained and equipped the bulk of its military establishment which totals about half a million men. US installations in Turkey are of major importance to our mutual defense effort. Through them we have been able to stage strategic forces and from them we have monitored Soviet missile and space developments. Nonetheless, and despite the accumulation over the years of substantial goodwill in Turkey, the US faces complex problems in its relations with Turkey, of which anti-American incidents of recent months are but surface manifestations. Many of these problems really stem from the underlying frustration and xenophobia of a people which is still about 45-percent illiterate, over 70 percent dependent on agriculture, and
  with some 42 percent under the age of 15.
  
  * * *
  
  American prestige and influence in Turkey reached its zenith in the mid-fifties. The 1960 military revolution was the major turning point. The forces of rebellion were aroused by the government's increasing repressiveness, and fostered by the mounting frustration of the political opposition. Some of this animosity toward the ancien-regime rubbed off on the US. In the postrevolution period, the
  Turks began to reappraise their foreign relations, and this reappraisal has been accelerated by new frustrations growing out of the persistent Cyprus dispute.
  
  For the past two years, the US and Turkey have been mutually reviewing in detail the fifty-four agreements which undergird our bilateral relations. Many of these were concluded during the heyday of the pre-1960 Bayar-Menderes administration and never received parliamentary ratification. Major differences have now been reconciled, and hopefully a new consolidated agreement will be ready for signature within a few months. A considerable domestic storm could develop, however, if as now seems quite likely, the government decides not to put the agreement through the formal parliamentary ratification.
  
  The revolution of 1960, largely a reaction to Menderes' tight control, ushered in a period of activity by the long-dormant political left, which has increasingly plagued both the conservative government of Prime Minister Demirel and Americans in Turkey. For the first time in modern Turkish history, socialism and communism became accepted topics for discussion and debate. The Communist Party per se remains banned, but the self-styled Marxist Turkish Labor Party (TLP) was organized and gained limited parliamentary representation. The TLP has attracted many known and suspected Communists and has launched a coordinated program of action and propaganda aimed at undermining the government, driving the American military presence from Turkey, and pulling Turkey out of NATO.
  
  Leftist extremism has also fostered the emergence of an extreme right which will almost certainly lead to further polarization, especially among the volatile youth. The rightists have organized a group of youth "commandos" as mobile shock "troops" to counter leftist activities. Clashes have already occurred between these two extremist factions in an atmosphere of increasing violence and instability.
  
  In the last five years Cyprus has become a major factor in US-Turkish relations. It has periodically raised the spectre of Turkish military intervention, war between Greece and Turkey, and irreparable damage to the entire southeast flank of NATO. The Turks have several times planned to restore Turkish honor and protect the Turkish Cypriot community by military intervention. Many Turks blame the US for repeatedly forestalling them.
  
  The US also faces the problem of sharply cutting economic and military aid without endangering the already substantial investment in Turkey. Largely under American tutelage, the Turks have made significant strides in economic development and have projected current and future plans on anticipated foreign assistance. They feel they have an even firmer US commitment to support the Turkish military establishment, which is largely committed to NATO.
  
  Other problems include Turkish labor disputes involving US military installations, and the continuing jockeying for position between the US and the USSR at the Turkish Straits. The first invites direct confrontation with the militant left; the latter raises the possibility of renewed Soviet efforts to alter the Montreux Convention.
  
  Turkish-American relations have indeed entered a potentially delicate period of transition. Friendship for the US remains widespread, but the Turks are taking a close look at the forces at work in NATO, in East-West relations, and in US-Turkish bilateral relations.

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Vol. XXIV, Middle East Region and Arabian Peninsula, 1969-1972; Jordan, September 1970

Middle East Region

• 4. Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger) to President Nixon, Washington, February 10, 1969

  Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, NSC Institutional Files (H-Files), Box H–141, National Security Study Memoranda, NSSM 30. Secret; Exdis. Printed from an uninitialed copy.

Vol. E-5, Part 1, Documents on Sub-Saharan Africa, 1969-1972

Nigerian Civil War

• 35. Paper Prepared by the NSC Interdepartmental Group for Africa , Washington, February 10, 1969

  This background paper discussed the Biafran War, the minority problem, genocide, relief, involvement of other powers, and the U.S. role. A two-page appendix covers the congressional aspects of Nigeria/Biafra relief.
  
  Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, NSC Institutional Files (H-Files), Box H–20, NSC Meeting, Biafra, Strategic Policy Issues 2/14/69. Secret.

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Roll WHPO-0239 Photographer: Knudsen, Robert L. | Color or B&W: B&W

• Frame(s): WHPO-0239-05-08, President Nixon's desk area in the Oval Office room interior. 2/10/1969, Washington, D.C. White House, Oval Office. none.
• Frame(s): WHPO-0239-09-10, President Nixon's desk and sofa seating area in the Oval Office room interior. 2/10/1969, Washington, D.C. White House, Oval Office. none.
• Frame(s): WHPO-0239-11, 14-15, President Nixon's sofa seating area near the Oval Office fireplace. A painting of George Washington hangs over the mantel, and a grandfather clock stands by the window. 2/10/1969, Washington, D.C. White House, Oval Office. none.
• Frame(s): WHPO-0239-12-13, President Nixon's sofa seating area near the Oval Office fireplace. A portrait painting of George Washington hangs over the mantel. 2/10/1969, Washington, D.C. White House, Oval Office. none.

Roll WHPO-0242 Photographer: Kightlinger, Jack | Color or B&W: B&W

• Frame(s): WHPO-0242-03, 08-15, Special Presidential Assistant Robert (Bob) J. Brown and unidentified disaster relief officials gather for a briefing meeting concerning tour of tornado hit area Hazlehurst, Mississippi and in Laurel, Mississippi where a butane gas explosion occurred from a train wreck. 2/10/1969, Hazlehurst and Laurel, Mississippi Special Presidential Assistant Robert (Bob) J. Brown, unidentified Washington and unidentified officials.
• Frame(s): WHPO-0242-04-07, Four unidentified disaster relief or Mississippi officials. 2/10/1969, Hazlehurst and Laurel, Mississippi Unidentified officials.
• Frame(s): WHPO-0242-16-17, Missing houses and building debris in a fatal tornado hit disaster area of Hazlehurst, Mississippi. 2/10/1969, Hazlehurst and Laurel, Mississippi
• Frame(s): WHPO-0242-18-32, Special Presidential Assistant Robert (Bob) J. Brown and Washington or Mississippi officials tour a blown apart house in one of two disaster areas in Mississippi: Hazlehurst which was hit by a tornado; and Laurel, where houses were destroyed by a butane gas explosion resulting from a train wreck. 2/10/1969, Hazlehurst and Laurel, Mississippi Special Presidential Assistant Robert J. Brown, unidentified Washington or Mississippi officials.

Roll WHPO-0243 Photographer: Kightlinger, Jack | Color or B&W: B&W

• Frame(s): WHPO-0243-02A-07A, Special Presidential Assistant Robert (Bob) J. Brown and unidentified disaster relief officials inspect the interior of one of three parked trailer homes in one of two unidentified disaster areas in Mississippi: Hazlehurst, which was hit by a tornado that killed 29 over a 40 mile path; and Laurel, where houses were destroyed by a butane gas tank car explosion following a train wreck. 2/10/1969, Hazlehurst and Laurel, Mississippi unidentified location. Special Presidential Assistant Robert J. Brown, unidentified Washington and Mississippi officials.
• Frame(s): WHPO-0243-08A-15A, Special Presidential Assistant Robert (Bob) J. Brown and unidentified disaster relief officials speak at a church in one of two disaster areas in Mississippi: Hazlehurst, which was hit by a tornado that killed 29 over a 40 mile path; and Laurel, where houses were destroyed by a butane gas tank car explosion following a train wreck. 2/10/1969, Hazlehurst and Laurel, Mississippi unidentified church. Special Presidential Assistant Robert J. Brown, unidentified Washington and Mississippi officials.
• Frame(s): WHPO-0243-19A-25A, Special Presidential Assistant Robert (Bob) J. Brown speaking with unidentified disaster relief officials at the Laurel, Mississippi Housing Authority Central Office. 2/10/1969, Hazlehurst and Laurel, Mississippi Laurel Housing Authority Office Building. Special Presidential Assistant Robert J. Brown, unidentified Washington and Mississippi officials.
• Frame(s): WHPO-0243-26A-28A, Special Presidential Assistant Robert (Bob) J. Brown speaking with unidentified disaster relief officials at the Laurel, Mississippi Housing Authority Central Office. 2/10/1969, Hazlehurst and Laurel, Mississippi unidentified home. Special Presidential Assistant Robert J. Brown, unidentified Washington and Mississippi officials.

Roll WHPO-0244 Photographer: Kightlinger, Jack | Color or B&W: B&W

• Frame(s): WHPO-0244-05A-13A, Special Presidential Assistant Robert (Bob) J. Brown speaking with unidentified disaster relief officials at (possibly) the Laurel, Mississippi Housing Authority Central Office. 2/10/1969, Hazlehurst and Laurel, Mississippi Laurel Housing Authority Office Building. Special Presidential Assistant Robert J. Brown, unidentified Washington and Mississippi officials.

Roll WHPO-0245 Photographer: Kightlinger, Jack | Color or B&W: B&W

• Frame(s): WHPO-0245-02A-06A, 09A-10A, Presidential Assistant Robert J. Brown speaking at a church while visiting one of two disaster areas in Mississippi, Hazlehurst, which was hit by a tornado; and Laurel, where houses were destroyed by a butane gas tank car explosion following a train wreck. 2/10/1969, Hazlehurst and Laurel, Mississippi unidentified church. Special Presidential Assistant Robert J. Brown, unidentified Washington and Mississippi officials.
• Frame(s): WHPO-0245-11A-12A, Presidential Assistant Robert J. Brown with an indentified woman, after speaking in a church while visiting one of two disaster areas in Mississippi, Hazlehurst, which was hit by a tornado; and Laurel, where houses were destroyed by a butane gas tank car explosion following a train wreck. 2/10/1969, Hazlehurst and Laurel, Mississippi unidentified church. Special Presidential Assistant Robert J. Brown, unidentified Washington and Mississippi officials.
• Frame(s): WHPO-0245-13A, 15A, 19A-32A, Unidentified officials meeting before touring two disaster areas in Mississippi, Hazlehurst, which was hit by a tornado; and Laurel, where houses were destroyed by a butane gas tank car explosion following a train wreck. 2/10/1969, Hazlehurst and Laurel, Mississippi unidentified office meeting room. Special Presidential Assistant Robert J. Brown, unidentified Washington and Mississippi officials.
• Frame(s): WHPO-0245-33A-35A, Special Presidential Assistant Robert (Bob) J. Brown speaking with unidentified man near a home that was destroyed in a disaster area in Mississippi, Hazlehurst, which was hit by a tornado; and Laurel, where houses were destroyed by a butane gas tank car explosion following a train wreck. Building debris scattered. 2/10/1969, Hazlehurst and Laurel, Mississippi Laurel Housing Authority Office Building. Special Presidential Assistant Robert J. Brown, unidentified Washington and Mississippi officials.

Roll WHPO-0246 Photographer: Kightlinger, Jack | Color or B&W: B&W

• Frame(s): WHPO-0246-03-09, Special Presidential Assistant Robert (Bob) J. Brown speaking with an unidentified officials at the airport tarmac, before touring destroyed homes and a derailed train, in the Laurel, Mississippi disaster area where houses were destroyed by a butane gas tank rail car explosion following a train wreck. Building debris is seen scattered throughout the devastated area. 2/10/1969, Laurel, Mississippi Airport near Laurel, Mississippi. Special Presidential Assistant Robert J. Brown, unidentified Washington and Mississippi officials.
• Frame(s): WHPO-0246-10, Special Presidential Assistant Robert (Bob) J. Brown speaking with unidentified officials at the Laurel Housing Authority building before touring destroyed homes and a derailed train, in the Laurel, Mississippi disaster area where houses were destroyed by a butane gas tank rail car explosion following a train wreck. Building debris is seen scattered throughout the devastated area. 2/10/1969, Laurel, Mississippi Laurel Housing Authority Office Building. Special Presidential Assistant Robert J. Brown, unidentified Washington and Mississippi officials.
• Frame(s): WHPO-0246-11-20, 25, Special Presidential Assistant Robert (Bob) J. Brown speaking with unidentified officials touring destroyed homes and a derailed train, in the Laurel, Mississippi disaster area where houses were destroyed by a butane gas tank rail car explosion following a train wreck. Building debris is seen scattered throughout the devastated area. 2/10/1969, Laurel, Mississippi disaster area. Special Presidential Assistant Robert J. Brown, unidentified Washington and Mississippi officials.
• Frame(s): WHPO-0246-21-24, 26, Special Presidential Assistant Robert (Bob) J. Brown speaking with unidentified residents near destroyed homes and a derailed train, in the Laurel, Mississippi disaster area where houses were destroyed by a butane gas tank rail car explosion following a train wreck. Building debris is seen scattered throughout the devastated area. 2/10/1969, Laurel, Mississippi disaster area. Special Presidential Assistant Robert J. Brown, unidentified Washington and Mississippi officials.
• Frame(s): WHPO-0246-27-28, Special Presidential Assistant Robert (Bob) J. Brown speaking with unidentified officials near destroyed homes and a derailed train, in the Laurel, Mississippi disaster area where houses were destroyed by a butane gas tank rail car explosion following a train wreck. Building debris is seen scattered throughout the devastated area. 2/10/1969, Laurel, Mississippi disaster area. Special Presidential Assistant Robert J. Brown, unidentified Washington and Mississippi officials.
• Frame(s): WHPO-0246-29-30, An unidentified child playing with debris, near destroyed homes and a derailed train, in the Laurel, Mississippi disaster area where houses were destroyed by a butane gas tank rail car explosion following a train wreck. Building debris is seen scattered throughout the devastated area. 2/10/1969, Laurel, Mississippi disaster area. unidentified child.
• Frame(s): WHPO-0246-31-34, Special Presidential Assistant Robert (Bob) J. Brown speaking with unidentified workers repairing underground pipes or pipeline near Laurel, Mississippi disaster area where houses were destroyed by a butane gas tank rail car explosion following a train wreck. Building debris is seen scattered throughout the devastated area. 2/10/1969, Laurel, Mississippi disaster area. Special Presidential Assistant Robert J. Brown, unidentified Washington and Mississippi officials.

Roll WHPO-0247 Photographer: Kightlinger, Jack | Color or B&W: B&W

• Frame(s): WHPO-0247-04-06, Special Presidential Assistant Robert (Bob) J. Brown speaking with an unidentified officials at the airport tarmac, before touring destroyed homes and a derailed train, in the Laurel, Mississippi disaster area where houses were destroyed by a butane gas tank rail car explosion following a train wreck. Building debris is seen scattered throughout the devastated area. 2/10/1969, Laurel, Mississippi Airport near Laurel, Mississippi. Special Presidential Assistant Robert J. Brown, unidentified Washington and Mississippi officials.
• Frame(s): WHPO-0247-07-10, Special Presidential Assistant Robert (Bob) J. Brown speaking with unidentified officials at the Laurel Housing Authority building before touring destroyed homes and a derailed train, in the Laurel, Mississippi disaster area where houses were destroyed by a butane gas tank rail car explosion following a train wreck. Building debris is seen scattered throughout the devastated area. 2/10/1969, Laurel, Mississippi Laurel Housing Authority Office Building. Special Presidential Assistant Robert J. Brown, unidentified Washington and Mississippi officials.
• Frame(s): WHPO-0247-11, 13-14, 16-17, 20-21, Special Presidential Assistant Robert (Bob) J. Brown speaking with unidentified residents near destroyed homes and a derailed train, in the Laurel, Mississippi disaster area where houses were destroyed by a butane gas tank rail car explosion following a train wreck. Building debris is seen scattered throughout the devastated area. 2/10/1969, Laurel, Mississippi disaster area. Special Presidential Assistant Robert J. Brown, unidentified Washington and Mississippi officials.
• Frame(s): WHPO-0247-25-26, Special Presidential Assistant Robert (Bob) J. Brown speaking with unidentified officials touring destroyed homes and a derailed train, in the Laurel, Mississippi disaster area where houses were destroyed by a butane gas tank rail car explosion following a train wreck. Building debris is seen scattered throughout the devastated area. 2/10/1969, Laurel, Mississippi disaster area. Special Presidential Assistant Robert J. Brown, unidentified Washington and Mississippi officials.
• Frame(s): WHPO-0247-28-29, Special Presidential Assistant Robert (Bob) J. Brown speaking with unidentified workers repairing underground pipes or pipeline near Laurel, Mississippi disaster area where houses were destroyed by a butane gas tank rail car explosion following a train wreck. Building debris is seen scattered throughout the devastated area. 2/10/1969, Laurel, Mississippi disaster area. Special Presidential Assistant Robert J. Brown, unidentified Washington and Mississippi officials.
• Frame(s): WHPO-0247-30-32, Special Presidential Assistant Robert (Bob) J. Brown and unidentified disaster relief officials near one of three parked trailer homes in Laurel or Hazlehurst, Mississippi, where houses were destroyed by a butane gas tank car explosion following a train wreck. Sign on top of trailer reads "Magnolia.". 2/10/1969, Hazlehurst or Laurel, Mississippi unidentified location. Special Presidential Assistant Robert J. Brown, unidentified Washington and Mississippi officials.

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• WHCA-SR-B-007
  Remarks in administering oath of office to appointees of the Post Office Dept. (2/10/1969)
  
  Runtime: 16:00
  
  Original Format: 1/4-inch reel-to-reel audiotape. Original source type: Original.

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