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Mr Whetstone, is this the first convention in America that you have ever covered? Yes, it is. It's the first time I've I've been here for the convention. I've been here for the 52 and 56 campaigns, but I missed the actual choice of the party nominees. Well,

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I'd like to ask your impression of how we go about selecting a nominee for the president and vice president of the United States. Well, I think one's first impression is a good deal of confusion. It's very different from the kind of where we go about it.

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We choose our political leaders within the parliamentary party, which is a very limited number of people choose the leader and there's no public fuss or no, no commotion about it. It it is really much more of a smoke filled room business in England. And you have

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over here, of course, the the whole spectacle of the arena where the delegates milling around and the gallery indistinguishable from the delegates and the Mhm. Choice by acclamation when it would seem to an innocent observer, that the chairman can't know whether it's the delegates acclaiming or

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the or the gallery, which has nothing to do with the convention. All this side of it makes a very confusing impression on a visitor. The fact is that one feels, to some extent what is going on on the floor and the delegates hasn't a great deal

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to do with the actual political bargaining which produces the nominee, all the whistling and banner waving And demonstrations. This extraordinary demonstration for Stevenson which lasted some 20 minutes and so on. The noise. The, uh, the speeches to delegates who seem not to be paying any attention.

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In fact, so bad was the acoustics and all that. Most of the speeches couldn't be heard. That side of it seems rather a mysterious way about going about choosing the best man. But okay, I think myself that the it is the only way If you are

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going to have a choice by a great Continental Federation and choice of a new leader, I can't think of any better way, a better way which is consistent with democracy than than than the one that you have.