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But he did this because of his convictions.

Yes, because of the importance of the picture and the concept of the need for long-range planes: long-range fighters to accompany long-range bombers, to promote Seversky's concept of the importance of air power in winning the war.

After that, we introduced Seversky to a number of publishers of newspapers and people in television and radio, and he got a number of interviews and important opportunities to express his views that way.

This had been highly pleasing to him, I imagine.

Yes, it was pleasing, but he really was a crusader, a zealot, if I ever knew one, and he used every opportunity with the greatest of zeal.

But your efforts more or less telescoped his opportunities, didn't they?

Yes, and they did help them and I think they made him have the feeling that he wasn't alone, among layman and the outer world. He had a tremendous number of friends, of course, in the Air Force who found it politically unwise to speak or to openly espouse his ideas to politicians and to laymen and to the President. We tried very hard to get him to the President, and