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Charles A. Dana was in charge, you know. Greeley took the rap.

Sure. Sure. So I don't think I'm complaining, but I'm just mentioning this, because this happened to me a few times. We were in total agreement really on virtually every aspect of virtually every position, whether it was Vietnam or labor policy - which (labor) incidentally, I certainly relied on him for much more than on my own intuition. That was his specialty, of course. And he was a good rapid writer, and had, I felt, excellent judgment. Maybe I felt he had excellent judgment because we virtually always agreed. I got into trouble sometimes with some of his phrases. I got into trouble with the publishers a few times. The Vietnam editorial we spoke about earlier is one case in point, but by no means the only one. Later, on the Dan Schorr case, I was in Cincinnati when we ran an editorial that had a pretty rough phrase in it about Schorr and the CIA [Central Intelligence Agency] question, you know, which I probably would not have -

You don't happen to remember the phrase itself?

No, I really don't. I might have let it through at the time, but I mean, in any case, we got in a lot of hot water about that.

But that's not even worth stressing. The fact is that Raskin was an absolute stalwart during all those years, and was a marvelous associate to have.

Would he pick the topics and shape the page in your absence?