January 10, 1971

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The President's day began at San Clemente, California

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  Sunday, January 10.
  
  The President is still at San Clemente, I'm still at Palm Springs. He was very pleased with the first efforts of Ray Price's new writer, who had taken a stab at the Nebraska speech. He wants to keep pushing Ray to get a couple more like him.
  
  He discussed the RNC. Mitchell's plans are set and the President has approved them. He wants to set up a women's organization outside the Republican thing, as well as Pat Hitt as Women's Chairman of the Committee. He wants to be sure that we go through the committee and knock out all the special-type personnel: the Jewish, ethnics, and so on. Then reorganize and put the responsibility for these on someone else. The ethnics, he feels, must be organized outside the Committee, also youth, under some sort of nonpartisan lead. He's concerned about settling the Finch problem and giving Bob a real franchise, because he can do a lot in the area of inspiration and expanding our reach. Mitchell can organize, but can't expand. He felt we should put off the Mitchell talk, which he was pushing to have John come out here and do this week, until after the State of the Union now, and then go down to Florida after Camp David and have a good long talk. He wants to keep everything loose until then, but get a plan fully developed so that it can be reviewed with him. And then he can forget about the whole political structure.
  
  He asked again about any further thoughts on the PR thing. He's especially concerned with who's going to head it up and how we organize. He feels that Klein should move on the One Man Band project city-by-city, to work on all the major papers and televisions separate from White House operations; and this will create an even further void which Ziegler and Klein don't fill (Klein a little more than Ron), but his point is that Ron's got to stick to hard news. Someone else is going to handle the color. You can't give it out in a briefing. We can use Ron like one of the other players, but we can't use him to orchestrate the whole thing. It is a concern, for instance, that Ron didn't see the value of the Catalina trip because the reporters weren't interested in it. He also was pretty upset with how Ron had handled the birthday picture, because he had told him he was going to have a pool of six press people and then he had the whole press corps out there, with a line drawn that they couldn't cross, which was written up in the story. He wants to be sure-- He had some reaction to some of the columns that appeared in the Sunday papers and wants some reaction taken care of on those. He feels we need to do much more on getting our line out, re: what the President does, not what the staff does. He was very pleased with the David Lawrence piece on the news conference, which he felt went right to the heart of the effectiveness of it. It’d had a dramatic effect shaking the intellectuals, and that we can build now from that.
  
  He did some checking on what we were doing to promote the polls and wanted to be sure that was moving ahead rapidly. He talked to Mitchell and got plans worked out generally with him, and called me later in the day. He’s now agreed that maybe the TV coverage of the beach walk was pretty good. He feels we should put a freeze on the L.A. Times and start playing to the Examiner, and the Copley papers and California television in the same fashion as our strategy with the New York Times.
  
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  Audio Cassette 03, Side A.
  Duration: 51 seconds
  
  He then apparently got into a flap late in the day with the problem of the Drowns staying on. They had come for the birthday dinner last night, spent the night, and they’re still there late tonight. As a result of this, the President has concluded that we have to go back to Washington tomorrow morning and has apparently issued orders to that effect to Rose. I had been out to a movie and got this word when I got back. We’ll try and put it back together tomorrow morning but as of now it looks like the trip is pretty well ended. It’s really too bad because there doesn’t seem to be any way to give him the freedom even of his own house.
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  End of January 10.
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• WHCA-SR-H-319
  Remarks by James Keogh to CBS correspondent Robert Pierpoint. (1/10/1971, Washington, D.C.)
  
  Runtime: 10:00
  
  Production credits: Audio feed supplied by "VTR"; Recorded by LRR (initials of WHCA engineer)
  
  Original Format: 1/4-inch reel-to-reel audiotape. Original source type: Original.
• WHCA-SR-H-320
  Press briefing by Gerald Warren and James Finch. (1/10/1971, Press Lobby, White House)
  
  Runtime: 31:00:00
  
  Keywords: Press conferences, news conferences, interviews, media
  
  Production credits: Audio feed supplied by WHCA; Recorded by LRR (initials of WHCA engineer)
  
  Original Format: 1/4-inch reel-to-reel audiotape. Original source type: Original.

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• WHCA-4078
  "Issues And Answers" Year in Review Special. Special Show: A year in Review with Prominent ABC Commentators
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  Runtime: 1:00
• WHCA-4079
  NBC News Special: "Projection 71".
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  Runtime: 1:30
• WHCA-4089
  Weekly News Summary, Tape I.
  ALL NETWORKS
  Runtime: 1:00
  
  2. Brinkley: Secretary of Defense Laird in Vietnam observing Vietnam and Cambodian situation. Time Code Start: 03:02. Keywords: military, cabinet, advisors, travel, trips, Vietnam War. Network: NBC.

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