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P: I don't want to go near the damned place until Tuesday. I don't want to be near it. I've got the arrival planned [unintelligible] my arrival of, ah--

H: Now we're going to do, unless you have some objection, we should do your arrival at Miami International, not at Homestead.

P: Yes, I agree.

H: Ah, we can crank up a hell of an arrival thing.

P: All right.

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P: [Unintelligible] is for you, ah, and perhaps Colson probably [inaudible].

P: I was thumbing through the, ah, last chapters of [unintelligible], Warm up to it, and it makes, ah, fascinating reading. Also reminds you of a hell of a lot of things that happened in the campaign--press you know, election coverage, the [unintelligible], etc., etc.

H: Yeah.

P: So on and so on. I want you to reread it, and I want Colson to read it, and anybody else.

H: O.K.

P: And anybody else in the campaign. Get copies of the book and give it to each of them. Say I want them to read it and have it in mind. Give it to whoever you can, O.K.?

H: Sure will.

P: Actually, the book reads awfully well-have to look at history. I want to talk to you more about that later in terms of what it tells us about how our campaign should be run, O.K.?

H: O.K. In other words, [unintelligible] the media and so forth--

P: To a great extent, is responsible to what happened to Humphrey both in '68. If that's true, it did not apply in 1960. The media was just as bad [unintelligible] two weeks. In 1960 we ran--

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