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"A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right."

"This President is going to lead us out of this recovery."

"Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?"

"The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive."

"One of your tasks is to separate the "personal" from the "substantive." The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong."

"When asked for your views, by the press or others, remember that what they really want to know is the President's views."

"The President had every reason to believe that the text presented to him was sound... These 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the president."

"I feel very proud, even though they didn't elect me, to be President of the Argentines."

"Apparently, the image of our president is as offensive to MTV as it is to me."
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"Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be."

"I think that our primary concern is that the membership in our industry become active. I'm not talking about the candidates being active. I'm talking about the few hundred thousand people who work in the industry around the United States."

"I believe Johnson understood that the reason was Vietnam. I also believe that he felt that if there was a way to communicate the real issues in Vietnam, that the reasons would be answered or understood. But there was just no way to communicate."

"You tend to meet on a more regular basis with people in your industry, and reality being what it is, you tend to meet with them at the particular level that you occupy; so that develops a fraternity relationship."

"I was through as a manager. I did become involved late in the 1968 campaign at the national scene at the last minute. But I was through as a manager, and I've stayed through, incidentally."

"We had an interesting thing at that first dinner. It was prior to the availability of several new hotels in Los Angeles, and we were more or less committed to the old Ambassador Hotel that has the famous Coconut Grove."

"Paul Newman's an old friend of ours out of Cleveland, Ohio. He used to sit around our house. He's the only man I've ever known to drink a case of beer all by himself. That's talent in a way."

"That room was not available, and the only other room had been booked for a Jewish bar mitzvah. I called the father and told him I needed the room and I would pay him to move the bar mitzvah to an adjoining room which was smaller."
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