European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 10, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes january 1981 James Kilpatrick tips for Reagan on press sessions in this i Between time in washing when theres mighty Little hard news to be we in stained wretches of the press have to make do with soft one of the main objects of speculation is what about us mow will Ronald Reagan Deal with the press the matter is of primary interest to the Washington detestable but it has a larger interest to the Reagan administration and to the country As a government is Only in part the Art of it is chiefly an exercise in the Art of comm the president who can sell his ideas to other to his own country men and to the Congress is Likely to Suc the president who it is easy in to Cata Logue reasons for Carter s disappoint ing presidency he came to town As an out and he remained an outsider to the he never developed cohesive support on Capitol his programs were Overly he constantly ran into bad he just want and in my Carters inability to communicate effectively with the people and with Congress rank near the top of the there is a touch of irony in no president Ever strove harder than Jimmy Carter to meet with the press or to get his ideas in Jody the president had a superlative press Secretary Proba Bly the Best since Steve Early in the Days of the White House press office has functioned just about flawlessly these past four some of the Carter figures Are impress by the time he leaves car Ter will have held nearly 600 month record sessions with the included in that number Are 59 full blown news 58 meetings with out town 28 meetings with foreign and scores of informal sessions with one or More Domestic in he made himself available for 67 gatherings for and of course he had dozens of radio and to addresses to the in Small Carter could be most his larger efforts rarely Suc it it just us to be better to tithe part of this was owing but truly to forensic habits he could not he had a Way of popping his eyes for like Lyndon Johnson at his Carter could get soupy his sentences would Trail off you came to expect a let us Pray at the his style improved Over the but he still tended to put his prepositional phrases in the in he did not Reagan should do he has the physical the actors sense of articulation and the image of a mans Man Matt Dillon born in his televised addresses to the the gentleman promises to come across but most of a presidents communications Are filtered through the permeable membranes of the Washington our name is for we Are some 700 correspondents Are accredited to the White More than reporters Are members of the various galleries on Ca Pitol other hundreds of journalists and publicists swarm about the he will be speaking to us and through my Hope is that Reagan will follow Carters High there ought to be a half hour full blown news conference every two by adhering to a regular much of the desperate and unseemly jumping up and Down of correspondents might be once a week the president might be urged to meet with regional Trade association or members of the foreign occasional one Orone interviews with network correspondents and print correspondents would add a useful it seems to we would seek some americanized version of the parliamentary question when members of the Reagan Cabinet would make them selves available in the Well of the House or Senate in a free Orall All this is we of the press expect to be that is one of our we Are a presidents his his conduits to the we Are also his at a respectable arms length we ought to get along c Universal press Syndicate John Roche demos Battle against Haig int intelligent perhaps because i was a poker player Long before i got into i take for granted the proposition loser As i watch the i have the strange feeling few of the stars realize the same proposition applies to it seems taken for granted that Ronald Regan should appoint a Black Panther to replace Eleanor Norton at the equal Opportunity and Ken Galbraith should be his obvious Choice for the hard fact is that we democrats backed the worst president since James Buchanan Warren Harding had a Superb Secretary of state in Charles Evans Hughes and paid the one can expect withdrawal symptoms on losing Power i kept waiting for the phone to ring but the bitter Dawn must be instead of acting As though the election haunt we should Send the shoe with the shot through it to the Jagt my near where there is a collection of Bullet riddled in we should not engage in catastrophe in secretly promoting the notion the worse for the better for i believe in not and suggest the american people make the same after one of the main reasons Carter took a Bath in a swimming Pool was the perception of him As a scr Tab humourless dirty which brings us to the impending Effort to Lynch Al various Liberal demo Are promising to turn the confirmation hearings before the Senate foreign relations committee into a rerun of i columns comments i and leaving aside the fact that most americans  care less about the Christmas bombing of Hanoi and the 1969 bugging of a clutch of officials and journalists by Nixon and and that after four years of look Back on Nixon with some what precisely was Haigs role first lets dispose of Vietnam except for such Hanoi Hawks As Jane and a Crew of publicists who find it impossible to admit they were Ever the holocaust in Indochina since we left has patently demonstrated the morality of fighting Barbari whether our intervention was Wise or prudent is a different argument unfortunately there Are a lot of barbarians in the world and we cant alone in Juks the Walls of world after it was attorney general Robert Kenne not Captain Alexander who in 1962 announced in Saigon we would remain and fight until we Anthony Lewis has been raising quite a dust storm about Haigs when Kissin Gers Deputy at the National Security coun in giving the Fri a list of miscellaneous characters who were to be bugged on National Security if in 1969 colonel Haig had known what he knew by and had clout instead of being the new boy on the he would probably have read the told Henry he was out of his tree to Bug these and Kissinger would have come to his in the bugging was but it was not done on Haigs initiative and under the omnibus crime act of completely senators John Mcclellan and the later sainted Sam Eryin had included in that measure a provision giving the president unfettered authority to Bug in National Security matters when in his judgment National Security was at the president could order bugs without court president Johnson opposed the Liberal senators tried to modify and we had worked out an elaborate scenario when the Bill went to conference with the House judiciary chairman Emmanuel Celler would deep six then on june Bobby Kennedy was murdered and in a legislative the Senate ver Sion passed the president Johnson reluctantly signed noting specifically that this measure could result in producing a nation of thus when Haig delivered the list to Edgar he was simply a Messen Ger obeying the joint mandate of the presi Dent and the Congress of the United later the same principle applied at the presidents tie ordered the attorney general to fire watergate special prosecutor Archibald maybe he thought it a Good maybe he didst but nobody had elected him i hardly know i know what a splendid Job he did in the collapsing months of the Nixon adm Nistra in a period when Nixon was checking his do tag every six hours to find out who he Haig maintained continuity and preserved the integrity of the he should make a first rate Secretary of c King features Syndicate the opinions expressed in the columns and on this Page represent those of the authors and Are in no Way to be considered As representing the views of the stars and stripes or the United states