Preview: Larry Tonight, Presser Tomorrow
Thursday, July 06, 2006 - 04:18 PM
From the WH Pool today. All bolding our own. More on this tomorrow at 11 am.
Q Why a news conference in Chicago tomorrow? What's that about?
MR. SNOW: Keeping you happy. (Laughter.)
Q He can do that here.
MR. SNOW: No, it's -- you know, the President actually -- the President, you may recall, where was -- was it Laredo? Was it Laredo? I'm trying to remember which of the stops where --
Q Laredo.
MR. SNOW: -- he did a press conference there. The President likes going into a place -- and I think you're going to see a little bit more of this -- likes to go in and spend a little bit of time there, talk to local leaders, also build some events around a central theme -- in this case, it's the economy and also the competitiveness initiative. And one of the other things is to do a press availability, and this will be a press availability, obviously, for local and national press.
Q Tony, I just want to clarify that. Local reporters and national --
MR. SNOW: Yes.
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Q Will the President have anything new and pithy to say on Larry King tonight in the prepared statement of sorts? And will he be returning to the White House from Chicago, or going to Camp David?
MR. SNOW: You mean is he going to say, thank you, Larry, and pull out a sheet and clear his throat and deliver a statement?
Q Well, the President, although perhaps not as well-spoken as you, is capable of speaking --
MR. SNOW: Yes. No, he's not going to do a prepared statement. I mean, I think this is keyed off the President's birthday, and obviously, Larry will ask whatever he wants. But as somebody who had done interviews of this sort and been in the business, look, the last thing any interviewer wants is for somebody to come on and just recite stuff. And so you're going to have the President and the First Lady --
Q I didn't mean that -- sometimes a question is a means to come up with, if you will, a prepared answer. Even though it doesn't sound like one. I'm just asking --
MR. SNOW: Well, far be it for me -- (laughter.) I don't know. I don't have any clue.
Q What's he going to do, though?
MR. SNOW: Talk to the President. I think the President is going to this because he wants to do an interview with Larry King -- he and the First Lady are going to talk to Larry King. And so now what we're doing is providing a wonderful commercial for Mr. King's broadcast.
We still have North Korea -- Connie, do you have a North Korea question?
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