Meeting, August 1967

~We should also reach some understanding about how each of us should
conduct himself or herself in relation to the press on what is
happening in the Committee and sub-committees. Your thoughtful
comments on this can be very important to our future success.
This is one point that can't be postponed. We have told the news
people that there will be a news conference in this building when
this meeting adjourns by 11:00 a.m. They would no doubt have been
here anyway. What we do then will probably set the pattern for the
future.
Now, I have done a lot of talking, but have been able only to
describe very generally the sizable amount of work that has already
been done. If anyone has any question or comment on any general
subject, I suggest you raise it now. We can consider each of the
eight points I have just reviewed to be sure we have agreement in
those areas, and in our method of working with the public press.
Despite what we may have thought in the past, we learned the week
of July 23 how little real listening has been taking place between
some important groups here in Detroit. If this is true for our city,
it is likely to be true as well for this Committee.
Anyone reading the list of members of this Committee will recognize
that distinctly different viewpoints and situations are represented
here. If wise decisions and positive action is to come from our work
together, each of us will need to listen sensitively to the others and
Icarn from what we hear.