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    "ocrText": "7/16/53 - 18\nwith any group except as their guest and therefore I was not in a position of making\nchoices-they made their oun choices-wand, if I looked at it and liked it, I went; and\nif I looked at it and didn't like it, I wouldn't accept the invitation; but I wasn't\nresponsible, they were. Here's one that Blair Moody got up. Those present were Blair\nMoody's Detrit News; Marquis Childs; Raymond Brant, St. Louis Post Despatch; Bert\na\nAndrews, N. y.Herald Tribune; Paul Leech (2) Chicago Daily News; Roscoe Drummond,\nChristian Science Monitor; Ernest Lindley, Newsweeks Richard Wilson, Des Moines Register;\nCharles Lucey (3), Scripps-Howard; Frederick Collins, Providence Journal; Arthur\nsigvester, Newark Evening News: Jay Hayden, Detroit News; Phelps dams, New York Suny\nBarnet\nK\nPeter Edson, N.E.A.; Bamand N over , Denver Post; and Walter Buel of the Cleveland\nPlain Dealer. There will be two additional men not yet named, one from the Washington\nPost and one from the Star. scotty Reston has had to cancel out the dinner because he's\ndue in Chicago tomorrow to make a speech.\" We had that dinner in which we sat around\nand had a pleasant time, had drinks together, and then they'd ask me if I wanted to\nopen up anything, and I usually didn't. I'd say \"You fellows open it up...\" and\nthen\nthey would ask questions and I would discuss them. I was always very careful not to\nsay anything that was either going to tempt them by being a newsy item or say\nanything, if published, would be embarrassing to me. On the afternoon of April 19, that's\na month later\nQ. I'd like to ask a question. You said earlier, about 2 weels ago, if I remember,\nthe British correspondents were completely frank, and had different attitudes toward the\nAmerican press, even within this limited framework - did you have serious breaches of\nconfidence? Or are these things you're gong to bring up anyway, later.\nDA. Well, I never wanted to find out, because when I was Under Secretary, there\nwas a situation which they themselves explained perfectly frankly to me, in which the\n3 news INS AND UP--had gotten into a row because once somebody broke an\noff-the-record commitment. After that, no one of them was willing to trust the other\ntwo.\nThey\ncame\nto\nme\nand\nsaid\nnow\nplease\ndon't\ndo\nany\noff-the-recrod\nbusiness\nwith"
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