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    "ocrText": "11:23 AM\nTOM CORCORAN to LOWELL MELLETT (continued)\nTC - There's a third one out.\nLM - TOM, I don't think there would be a damned bit of nourishment in\nit. THURMAN (ARNOLD?) has been talking about it and said if he\nhad the time to do it he thought he'd sue on his own, but instead\nof that he's going to write them a letter if he can g et time to\ndo that.\nTC - Well, but what good will writing a letter do?\nLM - Nothing. Just make him feel better, I suppose.\nTC - Now this is what I'm thinking about. I suspect that Mr. (TOM)\nSTOKES will open up again on top of these articles.\nLM - Yeah.\nTC - And my statute of limitations is kinda running on STOKES. Do you\nthink--I'm talking very frankly now--that it would at least have\nthe effect of stopping some more of it if I filed, even though I\ncouldn't actually recover damages.\nI.M - That very readily might have that effect, if--stopping not only\nSTOKES, but others who just toss it in casually when they're\nthinking about you in some other connection. It might very well\nhave that. I don't know how much you would get out of a libel suit,\nand as for any actual damage it is doing you, you know better than\nI do whether it is. The two I read, of course, were all rehashes.\nI didn't find anything new being added, and all obviously full of\nfeeling--intentionally, feeling has been thrown into it, and, in\nother words, the bias is pretty clear on through so that the average\nreader who reads very far in it--I don't believe anybody who fails\nto find anything new will read very long. I think the effect on\nthe average reader is, \"What the hell, this is old stuff\" and it\nstill indicates--some people. probably still regard it as pretty good\nadvertising for TOM G. CORCORAN. Quite seriously, OM--just a\nmatter of business\nThey continue this discussion and agree it would be well to bring\nsuit, possibly in New York.\n12:05 PM\nTOM CORCORAN to secretary of WILL CLAYTON, State Department. CORCORAN\nsaid, \"Mr. CLAYTON's secretary? (Answer was yes) I have a message\nto\ngive him (CLAYTON) which I was asked not to give over the telephone\nconcerning Mr. JOSEPH RAVENSKY (phonetic), a friend of his in New York.\nI have just come back from New York. Could I have three seconds? That's\nall it takes me today. The secretary said CLAYTON is at a meeting out of\nthe building, may be back in about one-half hour. He is leaving by plane\nfor New York City at 1:30 PM. CORCORAN asked, \"May I just ride down with\nhim to the plane? I can fit my time.\" The secretary will call TOM as\nsoon as CLAYTON returns. CORCORAN said, \"I think it's something he wants\nto hear.\"\n12:20 PM\nTOM CORCORAN to DONALD RUSSELL, State Department, saying he had talked\nwith \"his nibs\" (LEO CROWLEY) out in Chicago. CORCORAN then said, \"He\ntold me that he was very pleased about that and to tell you that he thought\nthat not only would it please him but if it pleased you it would also"
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