I can only characterize the meetings by saying that, as was the previous case when I have met with the President, our discussions were not only candid and frank but, above all, they were constructive.
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Communication
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He needs to be not only articulate, as he is, as he has just demonstrated, and tenacious, as he obviously will be, but he also has to be a magician.
Communication by satellite is a tool--one of the most promising which mankind has had thus far--to attain this end.
Does that make it clear to anybody and everybody, including all the foreign press that may want to pick it up?
FOR 25 years Armed Forces Radio has been a voice from home.
We will give you information on them as soon as we can.
We welcome this 'mail explosion,' for it is a sure sign of our national prosperity.
Our people will report to you as much as they can after those meetings.
They were always confused and I found out that after I got through explaining it, I was confused.
I know the people are eager and anxious to hear from you.
I have given instructions for the prompt publication of this report to the American people and to the world.
All of this traffic in and out of Chicago proves, as it has since the beginning of this country, that Chicago occupies a most important and vital strategic area in the United States, where all the lines of communication cross.
I would assume they would be available to the press as soon as that leave is over.
Mr. Nixon's message is another indication of the fact that he would rather debate with mimeograph machines and telegrams than face to face.
I would prefer not to talk about it at this moment.
I still entertain the hope that direct communications between us may serve the cause of peace.
I think I brought it up because of the fact I didn't know it until several weeks later.