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Oh, yes. The very nature of a newspaper operation is that situations change frequently. We're not writing books, remember. I don't say that in any invidious sense at all. But we're not writing books, we're writing a daily commentary. And although I want that commentary to be as profound and as far-seeing as it's possible to be, it's still basically a commentary on the world about us and not the world as it might be some years from now. I don't want to suggest that we're forgetful of the future. One of the things that I'm trying hardest to avoid is superficiality on the page and glibness. But it is true that an editorial page in a daily newspaper has to be keyed much more closely to the events of the day than otherwise.

I don't think I phrased that correctly. I don't mean that you would be writing that editorial, that second editorial.

But how can you even be planning editorials more than a few weeks in advance when you're dealing with the day's news? You never know what is going to happen. But we do have a certain philosophy.

This is what I'm trying to get at.

The paper has a certain philosophy. I would certainly say that the Times and the page has a philosophy. It doesn't shift with every prevailing wind. This is the only basis on which an editor and publisher can get onto a basic understanding that is a satisfactory one; that is, because they both think in long terms in the same way. We both have the same long-term goals and the same basic philosophic views. Mr. Dryfoos and I did. Punch and I