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It seemed like a lot. Well, you know, these prices started escalating. And still are.

Was there enthusiasm for the MacArthur memoirs from more than Luce?

There was a large question mark hanging over the whole project: first, of course, because it was MacArthur, and then, of course, the question mark got vastly enlarged when it turned out that he wasn't really going to do the thing. In fact, I have a suspicion--well, we all had a suspicion--that quite a lot of the writing was done by MacArthur, but he wasn't going to put his name to it.

You mean, because he didn't think it was good enough?

No, he was “above” writing his own autobiography, way above that. I mean, you know, MacArthur was above everything. And therefore he was also above writing an autobiography. Churchill might have, but not MacArthur. So it had to be done by somebody else. But I've never been quite sure, and obviously have no way of checking to find out whether--once or twice, I caught his handwriting on the corrections. So he obviously was paying attention to them. They were not very good.

Then we had Omar Bradley, who was the most gentle, sweet person in the world. We'd arranged to do something with him. And I