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publisher and for that matter, the news executives, the managing editor
6,A courtesy on my part; there was no necessity to show the managing editor.
And I believe that this attitude, perhaps even subconsciously on Rosenthal's part, did color the relationship, uneasy relationship, let's say, that we had during really virtually all of my tenure as editor of the editorial page. He really didn't like the idea of a strong editorial page. He actually said it once or twice. I was going through on the principle that we should have a strong editorial page, and I feel that there was a real undercurrent of hostility that went right through, and of course, my position was, as some of the other material that's already been entered in this history would indicate, that the editorializing that we (New York Times) shouldn't be doing was being done in the news columns, which of course was a point which Rosenthal didn't accept at all. In other words, he felt that it was absolutely
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