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overriding one without any real question, although it would, of course, be discussed. If I as an editor really disagreed with that decision-and I wouldn't anticipate that at all-I would simply take a leave of absence or not be on hand during the time when we supported that candidate. But the question of political candidacies is so special that this does not represent the kind of issue that I was talking about before, where on a question of public policy where the publisher on the one side and the editor on the other have different views-and particularly where the publisher, as in the instance cited, wishes to change a previously stated view on the editorial page-a real problem can be created.

We worked this one out, I think, quite well. I might add that in discussing this with two or three of my most intimate colleagues on the editorial board, they all agreed that my position was correct. This does not refer to the substance of the issue of the supersonic plane, but my position that the publisher really didn't have the right to simply come in roughshod and force through a change in the editorial policy or even the establishment of an editorial position with which I as the editor fully disagreed; and I was not only right to resist this, which I did and did successfully, as it turned out, but that the publisher was wrong to really try to interfere to this degree, even though technically we all recognized that he is the last and final authority in the paper. It almost seems as if this can be an insoluble problem, and yet it does work out, and I expect that it will work out as long as both people, which happens to be the case, are reasonable people, both trying to reach the ultimate end of the best public policy and with no ulterior motives and no axes to grind as far as the effort to reach that policy goes. And since we both are in that position, I think that there probably won't be any insuperable clashes.