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-The Carter Administration will Egg be isolated from the people or the press. Regular news conferences will be scheduled. rho Carter Administration will be accessible to the people and will undertake numerous programs to facilitate communication between the Chief Executive and the

people. (People's Day, Goals for America, etc.)

Outline Pragmatic Strategygggr Winning Deﬂecratic Nomination.

It is our hepe that your being the first to announce will result in your receiving a disproportionate amount of press coverage initially. Your being covered on a continuing basis and being treated as a serious, viable candidate depends to a large extent on your being able to convince the working press that you can - in fact - win the Democratic nomination. Consequently, one of the major features of your announcement stateaent should be to list in a general fashion how and why Jimmy Carter plans to win

the nomination. Some of your obvious assets and advantages nreg

-You will be a full time candidate, not bothered with other duties and responsibilities. Probably the Only candidate who can commit full time to the campaign.

-You are a nonincumbent running at a time in our country's