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don't really see why he should. So I have added another little gimmick to this in an effort to keep him fully apprised of what's going to come. In editorials or proposed editorials that are in the classifications I have just mentioned, I stamp it with a particular type of stamp so that when he gets it, either in galley form or even in the Xerox form that we also send to him, he sees this as a warning flag. This particular type of stamp means to him that Oakes says, “Please be sure to read this copy even if you don't read anything else that comes up to you today, because I want you to know about this before we publish it.” This is the system rather than any formal set of personal consultation. Of course we are on the phone back and forth very freely all the time, too.

He comes in with editorial suggestions?

He very seldom comes in with editorial suggestions, but he has been doing it more than his predecessor. Sometimes the editorial suggestions are very good. For example, growing out of a conversation at the table one day during which I was talking about some Latin American problems, he suggested that he thought it would be a good idea to have a big piece on the general problem of the United States and Latin America rather than specific pieces, and I felt that this wasn't a bad idea. We put this together, although we had said everything in various other places at previous times. We did put it all together in one rather large piece, which we published. It came out quite well. This was really due directly to the publisher's suggestion, and I was very glad to have it. I try to accept whatever suggestions he makes on given editorials to the degree that I can, but I don't feel bound to accept them, and I don't always accept them. And in nine hundred ninety-nine cases out of