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With regret only in this sense, that I had wanted him, this indicates how I felt about Abe Rosenthal, I had asked him, I guess maybe a couple of years before, I don't remember when, but I had certainly very definitely asked and tried to get him to become a member of the editorial board of the Times. And he wouldn't do it at that time. This was some years before. Because I think he would have done it if I'd been able to promise him a column on foreign affairs, which I was not able to do. I had no control over columns, and in any case, we already had one, but Abe, I think, if I'd been able to give him a column would have come to the editorial board. I had great respect for him.

That grew, as a matter of fact, out of his very excellent job as correspondent in India. Obviously I thought very highly of him and was perfectly friendly with him. And I never had any run-in with him at all, and it kind of surprised me when I did, because I have received, in later years, one or two extremely bitter and angry memoranda from Rosenthal, and it was obvious by that time that he didn't care very much for me and for my views. So I guess that our relations have, shall we put it mildly, cooled off, in those later years, beginning in the mid- to later sixties. But all through this period - fine.

And as far as I'm concerned, I never really had any feeling antipathetic to Abe, except, when I got, as I did get, some extremely angry and almost, in my view, almost psychotic kinds of notes from him. One in particular that I've never forgotten. It just left me absolutely shaken. And then I, of course -

Is that the one about the stridency of the page or something like that?