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 Pirst. there are the direct personal invitations that you receive from a specific candidate to be the speaker at the traditional fundraieing dinner. Just the fact that a candidate had selected you as the person that they would like to have speak is sufficient enough reason to give such invitations serious consideration. Steve chandler, Knox Pitts and myself have developed a good system for checking such invitations out and recommend that you forward all such future invitations immediately to Steve. we have also devel— oped a model schedule and can try in a circumSpect way to encourage campaigns to make full use of your time by holding a press con- ference. having a reception prior to the dinner, etc. Your re- cent trip to South Carolina started out simply as a speech to a group in Myrtle. By the time Steve was through making suggestions, they had a good half-day worked out which resulted in good press. exposure to a lot of good peeple and a large number of good names for our files. Also, I saw Jenrette at our South Carolina work- shop and he was genuinely elated over the boost you gave his cam- paign. So, lets carefully screen each invitation and with careful planning we can turn a second class invitation into a first class

opportunity. -.

Secondly, we are trying to take full advantage of other out-of-

state trips that you have scheduled to obtain favorable news

coverage and pessibly involve you in some good Congressional can-