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...hand, and then threw me completely off my intellectual rails by asking: 'Does your family come from St. Louis?' I told him it didn't, but his remark got things down to the very human level. We talked for three hours and ten minutes-the longest interview Eliot has ever given a journalist...
During an interview with a Dutch Exchange Control official, Sherry noticed that the man kept eyeing a copy of TIME that Sherry had with him. Finally he handed it to the official, who promptly sat back and began to read it, remarking that TIME used to be his favorite magazine when he was able to subscribe to it. Sherry had to "ahem" twice before the interview continued...
...turned again. The New York Herald Tribune's Carl Levin asked whether the interview represented "a softening of your attitude." No, the President said. Then he paused, squared his shoulders, and told the assembled reporters that they could like it or lump it. The President was his own free agent, he said. He would see whom he pleased, when he pleased, and say what he pleased to anybody he pleased, and he was not to be censored by them or anybody else. He didn't like their attitude this morning and they ought to cool...
...white-hot moment, nobody said a word. Then radio's elderly (68) Earl Godwin, who seldom raises his voice to dispute the President, replied: "Sir . . . these gentlemen feel [that the Krock interview] is a reflection on every bureau chief and reporter in Washington." Retorted Truman: It was nothing of the kind. Another reporter wondered whether the President had intended to omit the "damn" in "say what he pleases." Said the President: Yes, but he would put it in if they wanted him to. When the President tried to change the subject again, Doris Fleeson, whose syndicated column appears...
...more beaten them cleanly at their own game. In a left-handed way, sulking Newshen Fleeson gave him his due. Said she: "I take off my hat to Arthur Krock. He kicks Truman's teeth out 364 days a year, and on the 365th he gets an exclusive interview from [Truman's] own bleeding mouth...