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The men whose lives were endangered shuddered and held their peace, but Seattle Post-Intelligencer Publisher John Boettiger, son-in-law of the President, next day let go a full broadside against Secretary Knox. That incident, said he, "culminates a long series of incidents of officiousness, stupid regulations and a lack of cooperation, which would seem to indicate that the United States Navy ... is trying deliberately to alienate the American press. . . . Since Mr. Knox became Secretary, and as a result of his woefully misguided orders affecting the press, the popularity of the Navy has diminished dangerously. It is ironical that Mr. Knox, a newspaperman, should thus betray the American Navy and the American press."