Greetings

Franklin Roosevelt, opening his first press conference of 1945, wished newsmen a happy New Year--all of them, that is, except a very small minority.

Everyone was sure that the minority included the representatives of the Patterson-McCormick papers (Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News, Washington Times-Herald). That very day, Eleanor ("Cissie") Patterson's Times-Herald had printed a grisly spread: a page of photographs of American fighting dead, accompanied by a 1940 quotation from Franklin Roosevelt: "... I shall say it again and again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars."

Next day, George DeWitt was no longer the Times-Herald's managing editor. Washington heard that he had told Cissie Patterson, "either that layout goes, or I go." The layout stayed.

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