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    "ocrText": "7/16/53 - 19\nus...we'd love to hear it, it would be wonderful. But you just can't trust us because\nwe can't trust ourselves, and therefore something really juicy-- we have to break it,\nbecause each one of us thinks the other two will, and they were very frank about that.\nAlso, you got into this sort of a difficulty. Aside from that particular thing, it was\nnot often that somebody would breach a confidence and say \"Acheson said this.\" But you\nget a very shrewd, able man--ceotty Reston is one of then-who has got 3/4 of a story\nbut he hasn't 1di got the thing which is necessary to put it together. Now ** you tell\nhe\nhim the missing thing on off-the-record basis and he will print the story which/otherwise\nwouldn't print. Perhaps not using the point that you made, so perfectly\n?\nhonorable with you, I'm on to you\nhe's got all the rest of it, and then you give him\n.\nSo it's dangerous in that way. And these people are\nunder a good deal of competition. The introduction of the by-line very widely, in\nAmerican journalism has put pressure on these fellows to get their own particular story\nin, with their name on it.\nQ.\nDon't\nthey\npreserve\ntechnical\nintegrity\nby\nusing\nwhat\nyou've\ntold\nthem\noff-the-\nsomebody\nrecord as basis for questions which they will ask/at the British Embassy or somewhere\nelse, and get it from them and they can say, \"We didn't get it from you, we got from\nBritish\nthe\nDA. It's a very very tricky thing, too. On April 19, 1949 there was a memorandum\nin my book: \"Following is the list of newspapermen who met with the Secretary and Mr.\nWebb at the\nHotel, Tuesday, April 19, 1949 at 5:15.\" They been trying to get\nme to go to dinner and I couldn't for some reason or other, so they said, will you come\nby for half an hour or so. \"Tom Reynolds of the Chicago Sun; Eddie\n, Assoc.\nUnited\nPress; Ned Roberts, Press; John Rightman (?), INS; Jack Horner, Washington Star;\nMurray Marter (?) Washington Post; Bert Huland (?), New York Times; Dick Stokes, St.Louis\nPost Dispatch; Fitzhugh Turner, N. Y.Herlad Tribune; Delos (?) Vandenventer, New York Post;\nJohn O'Brien, Phila. Inquirery Harold Gilpatrick, San Francisco Chronicle.\" Well, that\nI used to do quite regularly.\nQ. All the way through"
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