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example of that sort of thing. The magazines were full of that kind of thing. They'd pick up something said to a newspaper person in response to his loaded question, would print it in a column and half column, and on it went.

I wish I had gone into a regular system of denying everything that was incorrect, but I didn't, and I guess nobody does. You suffer the consequences. That's all. I sometimes think that the working press deliberately makes you suffer the consequence. You can't exclude anybody from these press conferences. If you're going to have a press conference, you've got to let anybody in who wants to come. Of course, some of the most ridiculous characters arrive.

However, in these press conferences I gave I spotted that there were two people who came from the Daily Worker. They always came to one of my conferences. They were treated just like any other members of the press like the newspaper reporters. They were smarter than the average newspaper people, who were not too smart. They would often plant a question with one of the other men. I think they caught on quickly that I had caught on to them, that I had spotted them, had asked who they were and what paper they came from. When they thought that they were going to be too much spotted, they would plant questions with other people.

The result was that I came to the conclusion that a