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Ongoing?

--was going on for a year! I remember that we finally said--he said: “I think we got to go in print about this matter.” And I agreed with him that he should.

All I'm trying to say is that he wouldn't just blithely go off and do this and let me discover it when I open the magazine!

I see. I see. Okay, let's talk about this for a moment. Let's just use this example. I take it the editorial you're talking about--did it ask for the Nixon resignation, or it was just critical?

It was damning. It was as violent as you could be against the President of the United States.

And had one of you been pushing in that previous year more towards coming out earlier and the other one saying, “Hold off?” Do you recall that in that period of time?

Well, over a period of a year or two, there was a complex interplay in the--Jim Shepley[?] was also involved in this. Jim Shepley had worked for Nixon at one point, I think. Inevitably one's political views and one's background play a role. He was much more protective of the President than were Donovan or myself. Although, in fact, Donovan was a Republican and I was a Republican, it would have been difficult to know it. So there was a friction with