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disagreeable old cuss because he won't answer, or else has to say things that are said without consideration and ought not to be said.

This is what makes Senator Joseph McCarthy. He will give a conference. They'll print what he says. Right away it's news and McCarthy's name is in every newspaper in the country. It gives him bad ideas. I think it was the publicity that he got after he had been in Washington a couple of years, one day gave off something, and then got publicity, that led him on to improper political behavior. It's a real hazard in itself.

I saw this developing in their interviews with the President. At first they always let him think he'd won the battle. They'd thank him so sincerely and be very jolly about it. And they liked him personally. But gradually it was used against him. They could ask him questions that were not proper for him to answer, or to which he was led to make an evasive answer, or where he was led to lead them off the track. That's what he tried to do - turn them off the track. That's your only protection if you're up against a battery of reporters who ask you improper questions. Nobody dares turn on them and say, “It is none of your damn business.” which is what you ought to say to them. But you don't dare do it because they get after you and they threaten you with the power of the press. I've had them say, “If you don't