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with Doubleday. [laughter] One of my great successes.

Who else did I know in those days?

What about--did you have anything to do--this is later on--with the MacArthur memoirs?

Oh, God, Yes. Well, before that I also had--somewhere along there--I guess MacArthur and [Omar Nelson] Bradley, yes.

Henry [Luce] was a great admirer of MacArthur. And he had seen MacArthur, and thought that he had an agreement to get MacArthur to write his memoirs. So it was turned over to me, and I met with MacArthur's aide, Major General Something Whitney--a creep. And I mean a creep. It turned out that MacArthur had not agreed to write his memoirs. He had agreed that his “recollections” or something would be written by the creep, Major General Whitney, and whoever else could help. Well, if there was one thing Whitney was not, he was not a writer. So he would try to write something, then we would have to get it rewritten by--I forget who. Was it Ernie Haverman? I forget; I can check it probably. I think even at one point, he rewrote one of the few pages that MacArthur actually had written.

You weren't involved in the financial negotiations?

Yes, I was, but I forget what they were.

I think there was some reference to MacArthur being paid a million dollars. It seemed like a lot.