An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set. The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
Golf is a fine relief from the tensions of office, but we are a little tired of holding the bag. A hungry man is not a free man. Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation. The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions. I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility .