Word: interview
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Newsman Barnet Nover this week brought off the dream assignment of every capital reporter: the first exclusive interview with President Harry Truman. An old friend of the President's, Nover is also the new Washington bureau chief of the Denver Post...
...interview added two footnotes to presidential history. The first was Harry Truman's answer to Russian protests after Winston Churchill's historic speech at Fulton, Mo. The President, said Nover, sat down and penned a personal note to Stalin with his own hand. He offered to send the battleship Missouri to bring Stalin to the U.S., promised to accompany him to the University of Missouri at Columbia (20 miles from Fulton) for "exactly the same kind of reception, the same opportunity to speak his mind." Stalin's answer, as usual: "Nyet...
...receive all these congratulations? . . . The time was when whatever I said, the masses followed. But today I am a lone voice in India." In November, a TIME correspondent went to see him. Gandhi said: "Can you squat?" The reporter squatted. Gandhi at one point in the interview said: "Three hundred years is as nothing." He returned to the present: "The fear haunts me that India must yet go through a deeper blood bath." The government which he had dominated came closer & closer to open war on Pakistan. Only Gandhi's fast last month checked the drift toward open hostilities...
...private interview at the State House yesterday, Barnes repeatedly observed that the bill applies only to people who plot violent overthrow of the government--an observation he used as a basis for whitewashing University personnel and for discounting expected attacks...
During the three-hour interview, a noisy, chugging sound persisted from the bathroom off Petrillo's office, and the desk buzzer that swings open his office door wouldn't work. These annoyances finally burned him up. "Seme days everything goes wrong!" he shouted. "You can't get the damn plumbers here. They don't fix the buzzer...