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as the company spokesman, which was maybe not quite common­place. Now, you had another factor here too. George Hatch who by then in charge of the stations. Hatch was then and is now a liberal Democrat. I don't doubt but what we gave Adlai Stevenson at least as good a break as we gave Eisen­hower during the campaign. We maybe when Henry Wallace was running for president on a third party ticket we, I remember Wallace carne to town, we interviewed Wallace, which maybe the other stations did or did not do. L: What do you think, you know, in those days, in terms of a perspective you had, how well do you fit into the atmos­phere of Salt Lake itself. Which is more conservative. How would you describe your role somehow. J: Oh, I always thought of myself as this more cultured, more sophisticated, more liberal guy from New York than most of the people I worked. I would try to educate them as it were. They may or may not have tried to educate me. Most of the people in a newspaper at any rate are caught up in the hour to hour stuff that's happening at the police sta­tion, happening at City Hall and not given, and me too, not really given to thinking in philosophical terms about if this group comes into office it's going to have thus and so effect on society. I had, I guess I was much more aware of those things maybe than my coworkers. But you didn't push in a newspaper at least, a radio station. You tak€ some pride in trying to be balanced but philosophically I was always well considered the company liberal. Or the