And I had got it direct from the treasurer at a function at which any politician or pressman in Canberra could have seen him talking to me in a corner."Myers rang his editor the next day and told him that he had the front-page lead for the following day's paper."I'm writing a budget story today It wasn't even the second story on page one," he says."You had to go down to the third story, under the picture, to find what the Herald had done with it."See the story below, as it was published (bordered in red).Myers says his disappointment and anger were mixed with bewilderment because he did not understand what had happened.And the answer, when he got it, was unimaginable."My budget story had been too good," he writes."It was such an important story that Lou [his editor] had shown it to Angus McLachlan, who had shown it to Rupert Henderson, who didn't believe that the depreciation allowance could have been rejected."But if his editors in Sydney could not bring themselves to fully believe his story, the reaction was very different in Canberra.Prime Minister Robert Menzies was furious about it.Apparently some of the elements in Myers' story hadn't even gone to cabinet yet, and that meant that only six people knew about them — Menzies and Fadden, Roland Wilson (the head of Treasury), and three others.And the next morning, a Saturday, Myers got a phone call from Fadden.Fadden was staying at the Hotel Canberra (now the Hyatt Hotel Canberra) and wanted Myers to come over for a quick chat.Myers drove his car over