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Do you think that just meant he checked the grammar, or he was really a copy editor, or?

He checked--

But you don't think he did more writing than one would think?

No, no. Literally, you know. Churchill's working methods were extraordinary. He had a big staff, he had two or three secretaries in a row every day. He would dictate in the car. It would go straight into galley. He would then correct from galley, sometimes dictating and sometimes by hand--a very expensive method of doing things but he always did things in a big way.

Yes. Okay. Let's go back. What about Stalin's daughter? Did you get involved?

No. Svetlana?

Yes.

No.

Okay. What about Khrushchev? Do you have any memories of that?

No, that was essentially a Strobe Talbot enterprise. Strobe Talbot was a brilliant young man--worked for us, still does;