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    "ocrText": "The original documents are located in Box 1, folder \"American Indian Movement\" of the\nBradley H. Patterson Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.\nCopyright Notice\nThe copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of\nphotocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Gerald Ford donated to the United\nStates of America his copyrights in all of his unpublished writings in National Archives collections.\nWorks prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public\ndomain. The copyrights to materials written by other individuals or organizations are presumed to\nremain with them. If you think any of the information displayed in the PDF is subject to a valid\ncopyright claim, please contact the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.\nDigitized from Box 1 of the Bradley H. Patterson Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nJanuary 30 [1976]\nTed -\nI don t mean to stick any fingers in\nyour current' business, but if it seems helpful\nto you might mention one point about this problem\nof Indian militancy:\nGarment's and my experience with 5 ye ars\nof that crap indicated that the \"setting of a\ndeadline\" tends to play very much into Indian\nhands. Deadlines heighten tension and heightened\ntension means heightened press play and that\nis the name of the game for the militants.\nSome of them are real paranoids and\nactually live off the idea of threat, tension,\npitched battle and \"dying at the last assault\".\nMany times I have had them shout to me at\none conference table or another' You know, Mr.\nPatterson, we are going to die tonight; you know\nthat, don t you?\" Martyddom at the last assault,\nwith the mêdia looking on, is in a peverse way\nsort of the ultimate triumph.\nSetting any \"hours certain\" of \"time past\nwhich\" tends to inflate all of these developments;\nthe tears of the softie sympathizers grow hotter,\nthe Brandos weep louder, the television crews\naccumulate, the national news nets antitipate,\nand the stage is set for apocalypse:- all of which\nis precisely what the militant leaders want and\nneed in order to keep their flock together and\nhiped up. Neglect and boredom and lack of\npublicity are the antitheses of this.\nI am not saying that law enforcement\nshould be too long delayed -- but just that if\nit is to be used, one simply has to \"move in\"\nwithout making a lot of announcements ahead of\ntime or Getting \"deadlines\". Add presumably after\nnegotiations fail.\nFORD LIBRARY 078839\nCourts set deadlines and that's why we\nat Wounded Knee avoided getting into the Court\ntrack; we should avoid setting our own for the\nreasons indicated.\nFree advice from the armchair\nSaid"
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