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MR. ACHESON:
Yes, that was very bad.
VOICE:
You
a real dilemma here, because the press conference has
become a very powerful weapon
.
It is one of the
real devices which the President has, and Department heads have,
MR. ACHESON:
Well, if they all together decided that they were going to do it, and
the President gave instructions to do it, in what I think is the right
way, there would be a squawk about it, there would be all sorts of
editorials written about the freedom of the press, and the right to
THINAN,
G ADMIN A
question, and censorship, and a lot of nonsense, but it wouldn't last
U.S.
long, they would get over it.
VOICE:
I am not suggesting that the pattern on procedure and the rules can't
be changed, but just saying that the press conference is so valuable
now, that this is really something new in our whole constitutional setup,
and it is one of the most important weapon S of the Administration
I
do think you are quite right that the thing could be modified: diffèrent
men could use different patterns, as far as that goes.
MR. ACHESON:
I think the whole thing needs to be trimmed down to size. It is
perfectly absurd that everybody has a press conference. A friend of
mine went out to give a seminar at Washington University in St. Louis.
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