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Yes.

I think we should have written another editorial. If we didn't --

Maybe you did.

-- the day after that announcement, saying that it's obviously an untrue prediction, although if it were true, it would be a highly desirable [chuckling] state of affairs. But I should have had sense enough --

Maybe you did.

-- that this probably wasn't going to happen. I don't ever, ever over-attribute the influence of the Times editorial page. I don't claim that we're responsible for this or that. But I do think, knowing about Jack Kennedy's extreme attention to the press generally and to the New York Times in particular, there's no question that he and his closest associates paid a lot of attention to what we said. I know that from a lot of personal reasons.

What are some of the other experiences -- you mean --

Well, sure. I mean, I never could meet or see Kennedy without his knowing precisely what the Times had said, an editorial on any subject, any important subject that had concerned the administration. He was very conscious of what we said. So was Lyndon Johnson, also. But I think Lyndon was less inclined to take our advice because he felt so much more defensive than Jack Kennedy. I think Jack Kennedy, because we had