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    "ocrText": "JmH\nMEMORANDUM\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\ntie\nWASHINGTON\n21\nSeptember 24, 1971\nMEMORANDUM TO:\nSTAFF SECRETARY\nFROM:\nJOHN ANDREWS\nSUBJECT:\nColor Report on President's\nReception for Auto Racing\nFigures Sept. 21\nIf you have a Big Ear, it's going to reverberate like crazy when you\nstand next to an Indy race car that is firing up its big mill. This is\nbut one of many lessons your reporter learned in covering the auto\nracing reception on the South Drive and in the State Dining Room\nTuesday afternoon.\nFull White House press was on the scene for the outdoor events, but\nI did glean two little items about the famous racing Petty's, father\nand son, of Randleman, N. C. Young Richard, currectly NASCAR's\nbrightest star, was standing next to his monster blue super-modified\nDodge in the drive as the assembled speed merchants awaited the\nPresident's arrival. Another guest sidled up to him: \"Gonna take\nthe President for a ride? 11 Petty: \"Don't know whether to take him,\nor just put him in and let him spin it around the drive himself. 11 A\nfew yards away, Chicago Tribune reporter Aldo Beckman was found\nchuckling over the discomfiture he'd caused Richard's father, Lee\nPetty, himself a stock car champion of years ago. In jest, Beckman\nhad asked the elder Petty how large a campaign contribution the\nracing organizations had promised for 1972 in return for the honor\ndone them today. The poor man knit his brows seriously, paled a\nbit, then made a quick excuse and fled.\nOnce inside, the President made some felicitous and enthusiastic\nremarks to his guests I will not detail them here as the wires and\nracing press were on hand. Then the receiving line queued up, the\nchief eavesdropper eased into his post behind the Chief Executive,\nand it was \"Gentlemen, start your anecdotes. 11 The Ear was a little"
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