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October 29, 1972
REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT
SURROGATE BRIEFING
EOB BRIEFING ROOM
11:05 A.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: This meeting, as you know, has been
called as the final wrap-up meeting for all of our surrogates
prior to your going out to the country in this last week of
the campaign.
Let me say something first with regard to what you
have done already. As I look over this room, and as I look at
the list of people who are here, and as I have read your sched-
ules, I know how much you have done. Sometimes you rather
wonder, I suppose, whether you are getting through. I must
say that when you read the Washington Post you wonder, and
when you see the national networks, few of you ever break into
the national networks.
However, what is important for all of us to realize
is that what determines an election is, of course, what happens
in each State and each local community. The appearances that
you make in these States, in the local communities, have
a massive impact there. Go back and read your clippings there.
See what the TV and radio is there. That is what really matters
a great deal.
I want to say, too, that I am very appreciative of
what you have done. I am very proud of what you have done.
I know that to go out and be heckled from time to time, or
wondering why you aren't getting the play, must bother a few
of you. I must say that I have had so much of it through the
years it just goes off my back; it doesn't bother me any more.
I am sure, George, that some of you that have been
out a little, that you realize that when they don't pay atten-
tion to you, that is when to worry. When they do pay attention
to you, that means you are getting through, and so you are
getting through. You have done a splendid job. The work of
the surrogates in this campaign, when it is all written in the
future, will be one of the very, very positive points that will
be emphasized by those political scientists who will try to
find out how it all happened.
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