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...real trouble with the Russians, the President told Krock, is that they are still suffering from a complex of fear and inferiority where the U.S. is concerned. If a campaign had not been in progress in 1948, he would have sent Chief Justice Vinson to try to straighten out Stalin and the other Russian leaders on this and on our real intentions. Maybe that will be the thing to do some time. But in nothing must we show any sign of weakness, because there is none in our attitude...
...sort of global Fair Deal that Harry Truman placed his firmest hopes for the ultimate barrier to Communist expansion. The globe shows vast areas inhabited by hundreds of millions of people who want to improve their lot, he told Krock, and this can be done with...
When President Franklin D. Roosevelt broke an unwritten White House rule and gave New York Timesman Arthur Krock an exclusive interview in 1937, the Washington press corps sizzled with rage at such "favoritism." F.D.R. promptly apologized (his head was "on the block," he said), and most of the newsmen forgave him. Last week Timesman Krock, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his first White House beat,*set White House regulars sizzling again with another exclusive presidential interview (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). But Harry Truman had no apologies. At his weekly press conference the next day, correspondents in the first row, close...
...head back in a characteristic little mannerism, which both announces that he is ready for a fresh question and helps his astigmatic eyes spot the next questioner through his glasses. He spotted a fellow Missourian, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's able Raymond Brandt. Brandt asked whether the Krock interview had been authorized in that form. It had been, said the President...
...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...