H: The Democratic nominee, we're going to have to brief him.

P: Yes sir. Brief him [unintelligible]. We don't [unintelligible].

H: Oh no. Tell him what we want him to know. I don't think you ought to brief him.

P: Me? Oh hell no!

H: [Unintelligible] you would have been if Johnson called you in--

P: Johnson was out of office.

H: That's the point--he was.

P: Eisenhower, Eisenhower did not brief Kennedy.

H: And wouldn't be proper anyway [unintelligible] because you're too [unintelligible]

P: [Unintelligible] same thing that Eisenhower did. Course Eisenhower [unintelligible]

[Phone rings]

P: Ya. Ah, I'll call him tomorrow.

H: [Unintelligible] sure, that you want to.

P: No, I just simply think that we provide for [unintelligible] from the appropriate authorities [unintelligible] of course not, and I don't think we ought to let Kissinger brief--I'd just have Helms [unintelligible]

H: Before the public eye--the focus of attention is on the negatives of the administration. It's an interesting point, Buchanan, in response to the response to his attack--