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come across with this, by George you'll be sorry at what you read in the paper.” I've had them say that to me. Bob Allen said that to me once.

I really don't know much about Drew Pearson and Allen. Allen appeared in person, but Pearson never did. He always worked through his legmen.

Anyhow, what I got out of this whole press conference situation was this. I was interested in the quality of the men who formed the working press. The Department of Labor perhaps attracted more of the advanced economic thinker type than would some of the other departments, although I think I saw the state of mind and the economic attitudes in some of the questioning they did in other departments.

I got the impression before I'd been in Washington a year that a very large number of the working press, and this the younger group particularly - the older ones starting to disappear, with hardly any middle aged men left - had a Marxian outlook and analysis of everything that happened. These were men recently out of college and school. Where they picked it up, I don't know. I think that many of them were entirely innocent of what it was, but their thinking would be based upon a Marxian analysis of any situation. They would ask you why you did a certain thing, why you were going to recommend legislation for unemployment insurance -