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Unofficial record-keeper of the presidency

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    Power Player of the Week: CBS White House correspondent Mark Knoller

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President does something like told a press conference or -- to Camp David or even go for a round of golf.

There's someone in the White House keeping count of exactly how many times he's done -- but it isn't some White House official now what's our power player of the.

He's the numbers really help tell what the storied.

India an important way I'm gonna call on mark -- workforce more -- -- president -- the numbers CBS White House correspondent Mark Knoller is talking about.

Our meticulous records he keeps on almost everything the president does I think we're exaggerating.

I keep logs are a number of speeches state code could use a teleprompter.

How long did those -- on any company where did -- go happening times.

As you've been there before.

Over flights on Air Force One number of flights -- -- -- one.

We squeezed into knoller is -- Booth in the press room for a story showed us his file on each of the 114.

Rounds of golf.

President Obama who fly.

REIT blog what they did he plays how long did he play it who was at the foursome.

What -- -- the golf game to get what time did today and you love this stuff dungeon at least now I just got an aspect of the presidency.

That pretty much all -- I'm done I like that.

And -- does owning his colleagues in the press -- come to him to find out how many news conference as the president has house.

And when national security advisor Tom -- Lund was briefing reporters on the economic summit last year he deferred to know what.

It's always a risky to do this with this presidential -- Mark Miller in the room and I'll do this anyway right at the risk of being at the risk of hitting corrected immediately.

How do you feel being the unofficial.

Records keeper of the presidency.

Well it certainly wasn't what I set out to do rub but unofficial.

I -- some artificial colors started his record keeping a couple of years into the Clinton administration.

When he noticed the president kept going to California.

I tried going back to reconstruct.

How many -- -- -- to California and it took all day.

So knoller started keeping his own records.

He spends sixty to ninety minutes at the end of each day logging every presidential activities.

The presidents have noticed when -- reported George W.

Bush had spent more than a year at his Texas ranch -- came off at a White House Christmas.

-- -- come up to shake his head and he says the Laura.

This is the guy who tells everybody how all of that we go to the right edge and if we got there -- -- -- the evening he tells it as a full play.

And I corrected it -- touted as hopeful that way everything good let you do that gets it had the obsessive.

Okay I'm obsessed with what my job well they're going to -- you've got me I -- I.

Miller has been covering presidents since Gerald Ford at age sixty he's never -- But he has no regrets is this job is this group is it is this your -- sure.

It's my life I'm able to go to this place exactly on -- -- And I I find that very satisfied.

Dollar isn't sure what he'll do what -- files once he leaves the White House date but -- like to find some think tank that wants them and it also like to write a book.

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