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...Arthur M. Schleinger Jr. describes in A Thousand Days Reston recommended that the Times not publish a story Tad Szule filed from Miami in 1961 reporting that a landing on Cuba seemed imminent. "Reston counselled against publication: either the story would alter Castro, in which case the Times would be responsible for casualties on the beach, or else the expidition would be cancelled in which case the Times would be responsible for grave interference with national policy...
...Reston was offered the job of Editor of the Washington Post, which would have put him in charge of the Post's editorial page. He told Krock about the offer, and in order to keep Reston with the Times, Krock stepped down as bureau chief and gave Reston...
...Reston began to step back just a little, to discuss process as well as product. Where his 1944 Pulitzer came for finding out what the government was working on, his second, in 1956, came for figuring out how the government was working. He won the prize for a series of articles on the functioning of the executive branch during President Eisenhower's illness...
This is not to say that Reston has ever really entered the realm of the abstract. His columns are almost always tied to current events. He will sometimes call a dozen people to produce a single sentence. And facing a 7 p.m. deadline, he often does not sit down at his typewriter until 4. Late one afternoon, when asked when he was going to start writing. Reston replied that he wasn't an intellectual and did not need to sit around thinking. He was waiting, he said, turning back to the ticker, to see what the news...
...large extent Reston works the way he does because he likes to. He writes best under pressure, and has a terrible time with magazine articles until just before the deadline. He gets very impatient with theories according to one Times man, and "really has a terror of being out of touch...