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give. He might need some information coming from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. I can't think of anything else, but we, of course, are glad to furnish that to any public official.” Well, they don't print that. That isn't news. Then they go out grumbling. “We never get anything out of her. She's the damndest person. She won't tell you anything. You can never get a story out of her.”

I'm even thinking of writing an article on this business of the “rights” of the press, because that's a brand new idea that's sprung up.

I don't think Mr. Truman catered to the press particularly. He just accepted that they had to come in because they had been coming in while Roosevelt was President, and that, of courses, was a period of twelve years. They'd been coming in all the time and that's a long time. He just accepted it. He began to make them more comfortable. They needled him to make them more comfortable, to provide chairs for them. Roosevelt used to let them stand up. That's a very sensible thing. I've learned that the best thing to do is to keep them standing. They don't stay so long. It's like all kinds of public hearings and things. Don't provide seats for them and they won't stay so long They get more uncomfortable. But they got seats out of Mr. Truman and they settled down for the afternoon. They would