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deep-seated revolutionary significance, but that it is just what it says it is. The people at least read that.

Any editor can write whatever he wants about it. That's his privilege. He bought the press and he can write an editorial in which he can say anything. But these young men and women have no right to come in and cross-examine a President when in public office. I once had an English public officer sitting next to me during one of these press conferences. I think this had to do with a release on the figures for employment for a particular month and the change that had occurred in employment and cost of living both over a three-month period, one quarter. This man sat with me. I had given them this release, so they didn't need to do much more than take and ask a question or two and go. But they didn't do that. They settled down and they studied it. Then they began to question me. They stayed the usual time, about three quarters of an hour.

Afterwards this Englishman said to me, “I've never seen anything like it. I can't imagine a public officer being submitted to this kind of thing. It's a cross between an oral examination for a doctor's thesis in economics and a cross-examination of an accused criminal before the courts, or of an evasive and unfriendly witness.” He said it was a combination of all those elements, and indeed it was. They