H: It was a dead heat.

P: All the way through the campaign and it never changed, clearly. It may be--it may be that our--as you read this on how [unintelligible] our campaign was--how much television, you know. We didn't have [unintelligible] at all. It may be that our 60 campaign [unintelligible] was extremely much more effective and it may be too, that we misjudged the [unintelligible]. You read it through and [unintelligible] see what I mean. I mean, it's it's--even realize that '68 was much better organized. It may be we did a better job in '60. It just may be. It may tell us something. Anyway would you check it over?

H: Yep.

P: [Unintelligible] check another thing--get back? Convention?

H: He was, I'm not sure if he still is.

P: Could find out from him what chapters of the book he worked on. Ah, I don't want coverage of the heartattack thing. I did most of the dictating on the last two but I've been curious [unintelligible]. But could you find out which chapters he worked on. Also find out where Moscow is--what's become of him--what's he's doing 10 years. Say hello to him [unintelligible] might find it useful [unintelligible] future, despite the [unintelligible]. You'll find this extremely interesting. Read [unintelligible].

H: Read that a number of times [unintelligible] different context--

P: Ah, I would say another thing--Bud Brown [unintelligible] did you read it? [Unintelligible] candidates. I don't know who all you discussed that with. Maybe it's not been handled at a high enough level. Who did you discuss that with? [Unintelligible]

H: MacGregor and Mitchell. MacGregor and Mitchell, that's all.

P: Yep. [Unintelligible] I don't mind the time--the problem that I have with it is that I do not want to have pictures with candidates that are running with Democrats--or against Democrats that may either be [unintelligible] or might be for us. On the other hand, all sophisticated Democratic candidates you understand--the damned candidates [unintelligible] they gotta get a picture with the president. The way to have the pictures with the candidate--this would be a very clever thing, is to call both Democrats--the good Southern Democrats and those few like [unintelligible], who did have a picture with me, see, and then call them up and say look [unintelligible] came on and they took a picture and maybe [unintelligible] president. Wants you to know that if you would like a picture, if you would like to come down to the office, you know, you can have a picture taken that you are welcome to use. How does that sound to you as a [unintelligible]? Let me say this. I'm not--I'm not--I think that getting to the candidates out there that are very busy and so forth may help us a bit. If the candidates run too far behind you, it drags you too much.

P: All right, fine, I understand it all. We won't second-guess Mitchell and the rest. Thank God it wasn't Colson.

P: The arts, you know--they're Jews, they're left wing--in other words, stay away.

P: Yeah. Another point I was going to mention to you, Bob, is the situation with regard to the girls. I was talking to Pat last night. Tricia and I were talking, and she mentioned--Tricia said that apparently when she was in Allentown there were 20 or 30 thugs--labor thugs out booing.

H: Hmmm.

P: And when she went to Boston to present some art--her Chinese things to the art gallery there--two the [unintelligible] from the press were pretty vicious. What I mean is they came through the line and one refused to shake. One was not with the press. Refused to shake hands, so forth and so on. Tricia [unintelligible] very personal point, [unintelligible] good brain in that head. She said first she couldn't believe that the event that they do locally [unintelligible] understand. You know she does the Boys' Club, the Art Gallery [unintelligible]. She says the important thing is to find this type of [unintelligible] to go into the damn town [unintelligible] do television, which of course, they do. [Unintelligible] she says why [unintelligible] control the place. She says in other words, go in and do the Republican group. Now, sure isn't [unintelligible] to say you did the Republican group, as it is the Allentown Bullies Club? But that's the paper story. The point is, I think Parker has to get a little more thinking in depth, or is it Codus now who will do this?