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campaign, and he'd made great friends of the working press. He saw them every day and was on good terms with them. He thought he had handled the press very well indeed and he was very proud of his skill in “handling the press.” He said, “Sure, I'll see the press at a regular press conference.” That was real news, and it still further augmented the Washington staff of reporters from different distant papers.

Then more than ever before they began asking Cabinet officers, and other administrative officers, for interviews. My intention at the beginning was to give an interview to anybody who asked for it, within the limits of time, which was what we had done in New York. If any newspaper man was writing a story, or had an idea, and would ask to interview you, you saw him. When you had something very important that you wanted to give out and wanted to explain to the press before it was printed, so that it would be clearly understood and not just put out as government gobbledigook, you would assemble a press conference. That wouldn't consist of more than five or six reporters - somebody from the Time, somebody form the Tribune, somebody from the Evening Post, somebody from the Sun, or whatever else there was. There were just five or six papers. You telephoned and they sent a reputable, experienced reporter. He was just a good, ordinary reporter. They were the people that you