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All newspapers had been like that before Hearst. The only papers that are left that are not purely Hearst type are the New York Times and the New York Herald-Tribune. Even in the Tribune and the Times you see elements of the Hearst influence in a greater reporting of news about individuals, for really no purpose.

However, as I got to questioning these young “boys” of the press, instead of gentlemen of the press, from Akron and Oshkosh and various places, I realized that they had probably read more of that type of newspaper in their youth than they had of the solid, substantial dailies of the eastern metropolitan communities. That's what they thought their readers wanted.

There were a great many other things that came out about the press in these press conferences. I finally succumbed and had press conferences. I now think it was a bad idea and I would advise anybody else not to have press conferences, just as I would have advised President Eisenhower not to have them. He started out not intending to and the wretches pressured him so that he didn't stick to what he knew was a right and proper decision. One of the worst things that Roosevelt did was to introduce the press into the affairs of government. They acted on Eisenhower as though they had a right. Well, they have no right.