Mr. Surrey. I would much rather have the letter. I don't recall exactly what it does say, sir.
The Chairman. Did you write it yourself, or did somebody write it for you?
Mr. Surrey. I wrote it myself.
The Chairman. You don't remember what you wrote?
Mr. Surrey. No; not as per specific words, I do not.
Representative Boggs. Well, not specific words. The sense.
Mr. Surrey. You picked the specific word "muzzling" out of it.
Representative Boggs. You used that word; I didn't use it. "Muzzle" when you refer to a bipartisan Commission, established by the President of the United States, with a mandate to obtain the truth, is a rather serious word. I didn't use it—you used it.
Mr. Surrey. Based on some past experience that I have had—I was in Oxford, Miss., with General Walker. Based on past experience of the newspaper reports I heard coming out of national news media on that incident, which I saw with my own eyes, I could not believe any longer things which I read in the newspaper.
Now, the local paper there—and I was not privileged to read the local papers at the time—may have had some of the truth that went on there. But there certainly wasn't a good deal of it coming out in the national news media.