"He is very sorry that you take exception to his methods and words, but from his experience of many years he has discovered that in order to make the public at large pay attention to his arguments he has to jar them out of their indifference or dislike. Nothing that he has said, however, has been a 'lie', as you term his remarks about Macmillan and Gaitskell (whose name, by the way you mispell), and other Heads of State."