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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
September 21, 1971
THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN
MEMORANDUM TO THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
Patrick J. Buchanan
PRELIMINARY THOUGHTS ON THE FORUM
A) An hour on the tube is a long time. Therefore necessary it seems to
me to lighten up the show; thus have included some humor lines and some
politics. Would recommend automatically not ruling out political questions
as inappropriate; but handling some of them light, others in a customary
fashion. For instance, RN could reply to the Muskie Economic Program
either, "I wasn't aware he had one, !! or "I think I'll leave that one to
Wilbur Mills. 11
B) Tone might be somewhere right around that of the Editors Session --
should not be the "formal" press conference setting for a full hour.
C) Book is written with material in it which provides RN the opportunity
to run away with 20-40 second "monologues" on the points he wants to make.
President should not confine himself to the question in moving out, staking
positions. Further, we should mix up the responses, the short ones and
the longer ones. Also, the effort should be made to keep the show moving
along - - and very long responses almost ruled out, except perhaps one or
two.
D) ANTICIPATE a better mixture of questions than at a press conference.
If they have a "reviewing" board for the Q and A, one can be fairly sure
it will strive for variety; will not zero in as the national press might, all
evening, on one issue, like Vietnam, or one area, like foreign policy.
Thus, much harder to predict the questions, since the off-beat question,
written up, may well be chosen by the panel to give it the appearance of
variety and spontaneity.
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