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each desk. One time when I was away somebody agreed to let them each have the telephones. They wanted about eight or ten desks so that they could have eight or ten people be there all the time.

The rest of the Cabinet gave in much more readily. They all said, “We have to have the press.” I was the only one who really thought that it was wrong. What I see that has developed now, and began developing then, was this sense that it was their inalienable right, part of the constitutional form of government, to have an irresponsible group of people who can't be impeached, who haven't any legal responsibilities, in on everything, and that “They are the people.” They are not the people. They are not the people at all. They don't form public policy. The owners of the papers form public opinion as they think they want to form it. It isn't these fellows who get access to the public knowledge who form that opinion.

In many ways I don't think it was peculiar that a fellow like William Remington thought that he was not doing anything unusual or wrong when he gave some information to Elizabeth Bentley who represented herself as a newspaper reporter. Remington was very young, very green, a half-baked type, I think, but he lived in an atmosphere where high