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to put in the page. I felt since nothing else, and this certainly was a consideration which I have to acknowledge, since nothing else seemed so overwhelmingly important, there was nothing else I wanted to lead with, it seemed to me, I had this piece on Brazil which seemed worth doing. I could have picked the little piece on Glenn's withdrawal from the senatorial race. To me, this was too trivial to be-I did think for a while of possibly making the New York legislature piece the lead. We had a lot on the New York legislature recently, and we had leads on the New York legislature two or three times within the past week, the legislature having just adjourned, and I just felt that I would bury this thing a little bit by not making what might have been the more obvious lead, by making Brazil the lead instead of the New York legislature.

The other piece that crossed my mind in planning the page last evening was the piece we had on city planning, which I thought was an exceedingly good piece. This would have been an offbeat piece too, to have run as a lead, and I could have used that as a lead, and you might have asked the same question.

This is a kind of thought process I have to go through every day in determining what ought to be the lead. Not every day, because many days there are clear leads. But the three that I considered last night as possible leads all appeared on the page this morning-of course, there's other material too. I don't run everything every day that I have in hand, but the New York city planning piece, the New York legislature piece, and the Brazil piece, all of which I seriously considered last night, none of which was a hot news story, none of which was an obvious lead, and an argument for each could have been made.