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JANUARY 17, 1972 THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN Weekend news summary points up a number of possibilities and problems. 1. HHH is clearly drawing the line between himself and Muskie for the Florida Primary on both the issue of bussing and the shuttle HHH opposes the Richmond decision; he is praising the "neighborhood school concept:" he is expressing public support for the shuttle, while Muskie openly opposes the latter. Further, ESM was raked over the coals yesterday in a waffling performance, in an interview with the likes of Broder, Novak and Johnny Apple. The mre people made familiar with that performance of Muskie's, the more the word gets around about how weak it was the greater the difficulties Mr. Muskie has with his "Trust Muskie" message. The opportunity is present for us to be silent on the Rich- mond decision, while the Democrats divide on it but HHH has come out squarely against it. Surely, this will be one of the first domestic questions the President is asked at an up-coming press con- ference. With HHH taking a psa position, it may be difficult for us to hold off taking one. We are getting it from left and right now on Peking. What is the cost of the trip in terms of alienated allies? Is Peking worth it? What are we giving away? This is an increasing theme. Also, both McGrogry and Bberdorfer express a certain streak of bit- terness at the top heavy tv representation going to Peking, and the relative shortage of writing press. We are going to get more snide pieces here one can be certain of that. We apparently restored the food stamp aid we were cutting. Clearly, in retrospect, we did not make the case at all for the