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anywhere from 400 to 10,000 people, but he didn't want to hear the simplest thing about how to behave effectively in front of a television camera, and was, for some reason or another, like a child who has a resistance to this particular kind of activity. He also never cared whether the speech was going to be before 400 people or 4,000 people or 40 million people. He didn't realize that really there should be a little more thought and effort and skill put in, and there's very little that you have to know, if you have a good speech and you're a great public character: you have to look into the camera and pretend you're talking to the people who are looking at you. But he would look away from the camera and he wouldn't do the simplest things that would engage people, as far as television appearances go, and he still doesn't. I've never been able to reach him on it and neither has anybody else. He has no natural feeling for this. He somehow or another resists the fact that it's a mechanical device between him and people. It's just a block that he has.

And yet I saw him a week ago, I think, on “Meet the Press,” and he was very effective.

Yes, I saw him on it too, and he could be better. He doesn't look directly into the camera; he doesn't smile; he doesn't see that the lighting of his face is properly done, or doesn't get people to see that it's done. He has a very difficult face to photograph. The lighting should be carefully