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REEL 3 - 7/22/53 - Page ( (KR) MR. BUNDY: I think to clear t he Secretary's point about the pre SS conference, it is important to see what he is trying to do here, but not to read it (unless you want to). VOICE: I think there is a real/ difference between the kind of thing Paul mentions, where the y really will stuly a document on the Marshall Plan and write their storiesv Their usual technique on press conferences; but I think they look at our press conferences as something of a game in which you may get a statement which is controversal, which will lead to other stories . (interruption), to make a dasher (?) on the press conference to Senator Knowland or Taft, or somebody else, and say that the S cretary af State e has just said thi s, what do you think about that ? And I think they are always playing for a daub le run when they are interrogating you or the President at the press conferences. It is rather different when they are handling a major thing like the white book of Marshall's VOICE : I suppose this document though is more or less in the same category as a major presentation. MR. FESS: How long before you show the press conference and al low publication B.THUMAND and di stribute copies of (it (?)) . E ADMIN VOICE: Are they given out the day before? At your meeting (interruption)