Р

I'd like a little consomme.

Want some consomme?

M

P

I'd love some. So it was just absolutely great. We had some of the people down from the Committee where we could spend a couple of days, you know, with quiet and so

Yeah (unintelligible) sort of busy these days. Try and get the weather, damn it, if any of you know any prayers, say them (unintelligible) weather. Let's get that weather cleared

up. The bastards have never been bombed like they're going

to be bombed this time, but you've got to have weather.

Р

Huh! It isn't bad. The Air Force isn't worth a I mean,

bombing runs all the time and they couldn't see a thing.

But they were doing a different type of bombing then.

M

P

M

Strategic bombing and all that -- nevertheless it's a

miserable business.

Are the Navy pilots as bad?

P

Oh they're better, but they're all under this one command.
It's all screwed up. We just aren't going to talk about it.

The weather will clear up. It's bound to. When they do,
they'll hit something

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and, they're a lot of brave guys

you've got to say. After all that POW (unintelligible) that

poor who got shot down. They're over there starving on that

damned rice. It's all right, we'll give 'em hell.

what are your reflections on the present thing. Why don't we start with what I told the staff to get the hell off of the ITT

and then get on to politics which is more interesting, not

think what we have to face is that it will be investigated by
(unintelligible) election as you get closer to the election of
course it's extremely, I think that -- I think you might adopt
the practice -- I think you might consider adopting the practice
that after the Democratic Convention the Republicans will

boycott all investigating committees on the grounds that they
are politically motivated. How would that be?

M

I would think I would go beyond investigative committees.

I'd go to some of the others where you have a facade

Harassing.

Of substance, but

(Unintelligible). It's a good idea.

Yeah we're going to boycott anything that we think is

politically motivated.

These people are disgracing (unintelligible).

And ah, Republicans just walk off and say it's just politically

motivated.

Well, at least ITT got 'em confused.

I would say it's quite confusing. Some of the more enlightened newspaper people are beginning to write to the effect that the Democrats got to come up with something more than they've come up with or the monkey's going to be on their back.

Manolo, who do you think (unintelligible). .

MS

I don't think so, sir.

M

You happen to be right, Manolo. I was just telling

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M

You know this little girl this Lichtman -- the secretary?

You know where she had her press conference don't you did

you notice that? Down in the law office of the Democrat

M

Yeah, but the press conference was held in the law office of

this (unintelligible) District, Democrat Chairman, and yet
there wasn't anything in the newspapers about it or why it
just so happened.

HorP (Unintelligible).

M

Most of the 'Shakers'are, that's for sure.

P

What is your view about the convention about all the scares

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and cries I hear about the 250,000 naked kids that are going

to be coming?

M

P

Well, Bob and I have just gone over this and I've had a meeting

M

And so forth, ah, it seems to me there are three factors

number two the ITT Sheraton business with the television

on the hotel all through the Convention; and thirdly, and
equally, if not more important, is the fact that the site
selection committee and the people that went out there to
look at that thing did a God damned poor job. Its come to
the point where it's going to cost between 2.4 and 2.5 million
to put that thing together. In addition to that, there's

H

M

That's if we just get the convention hall apparently?
No, no, this is the whole thing, this is the whole thing.

H

I see, all the hotels and stuff involved.

M

Yeah everything; in addition to that there has to be nine

hundred odd thousand dollars of insulation in that arena out

there, and in addition to that there's a

Р

Who, (unintelligible) this, Wilson (unintelligible).

M

No, I think a lot of our people closer to us than that were at

fault in not recognizing the limitations of these facilities.

M

In addition to that you have your building trades labor contract coming up on June 1, out there for negotiations, and they can put the pressure on your pay board or the rest of it. So, in

view of that we have thought of the potential of changing the site.

We can get out of there