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elements in news reporting from Washington, but they don't go to press conferences. You don't see them except by special arrangement. They, of course, let these anybodies go out and they are the first to scream about any limitations, although Lippmann Knows that there should be limitations on the rights of the press. Lippmann is really able to think philosophically.

I think somebody is going to take down the press some day. I think if Eisenhower had not seen them except once in a long while, but the news had been given out when necessary, from the White House the way it always was before, it would have helped. The President's opinion about various things is not to be asked. When he ventures it, that's news. He hands it to you because that's what he thinks and then that's news, but you don't cross-question him about it and pin him down to see if he has a smart out or hasn't.

They're now (June1953) writing that Eisenhower has lost his touch with the press, that he doesn't know how to answer them, or else they'll say, “Well, he did a brilliant job this afternoon,” by which they mean that he outsmarted them, which is not what he could have to be about. If he hadn't given in to them, then the others would gradually have dropped it. I, of course, recognize that news is a valuable commodity and that these people think that they're selling