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and didn't want to be, it's not that easy to get your views across. He didn't order people to do things. He would try to persuade them. I think that may be one of the reasons he wrote those endless memoranda and that's one of the reasons the books written quote him at such length, i.e., he kept a written record by definition practically because he tended to express himself always on paper. He also expressed himself vocally.

Q:

Let's go through some other key figures of the period. What about Larsen, do you recall his stand?

Heiskell:

No. Larsen was not particularly political as I remember him, no. In fact, I know he was not and he never was, not even to his last days. He tended to be apolitical and more of a peace-maker than an arguer. C.D. Jackson was, of course, of the same stripe as mine and pretty soon he took off and went to work for the government in the forerunner of what later became OWI.

Q:

Again, just on this question of isolationism, who else sticks out? For example, where would Longwell be?

Heiskell:

I'm not sure where Longwell was. Longwell had a way of hopping around from day to day, and John Billings just played it straight down the line, down the middle.

Q:

Meaning?





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